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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
ST. JOHNS CHURCH ARMY.
Treasurer's Report Shows a Good
Financial Condition.

These notes appear this week in the
st. Johns Church Bulletin
1.-THE annual scratch games of the Iron
Cross will be held on the guild field Sat-
urday, July 5, at 2:30 r. M. All members
of the Guild are invited to take part. Spe-
cial effort has been taken by the athletic
committee to make these the most sue
cessful games ever held on these grounds.
1.-THE specially arranged SO yard handi-
cap will be one Of the many exciting fea-
lures of the afternoon. All are invited 10
attend.
nThe Mems Guild still meets every
Wednesday night In the guild room in the
basement of the church. Strangers are all
ways welcome and will always find some
gentleman of the church present. smolS-
ing is allowed. and there are games n
magazines. Come md get acquainted,
The treasurer's report of the United
States Church Army shows that the re-
ceipts from May n to June II, are 1858.
There Is d balance OF $l9.37 on hand. The
attendance for the month has been LIS.
Thirty-nine calls I'VE been made.
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REWARD ST. PHRIgks NEW HALL
Men Are Now at Work
Tearing Down the Booths
and Stands.

The Rev. Father T.. c. M. Carroll OF st.
Patrickss Catholic Church, gave orders
this morning for the clearing of Bramhall
Park, opposite the church on Bramhall
avenue, preparatory to the erection Of the
new parish building. Several men were
put to work tearing down the booths.
stands and platforms. This pretty park.
purchased about three years ago, will no
more be the scene of such merry making
as took place at the annual garden
parties.
Plans for the parish hall and clubhouse
have been completed by Architect Jere-
miah ORourke. of Newark, who is also
the architect of the Diocesan Cathedral,
now being built in Newark. The plans
have been altered several times by Father
Carroll, with the Bishops permission. He
has studied numerous schoolhouse plans,
even taking a trip to Chicago for the pur-
pose of familiarizing himself with the
various styles of architecture. He has
had the plans of rhe building which IS
soon to grace the big site opposite st.
Patrick's stately church, drawn precisely
as he wanted them, and the building, as
described by the rector a few months ago,
will be a model in every respect.
There will be few embellishments on the
exterior, for Father Carroll has come to
the conclusion that such fancy work
would be a sheer waste of money. He
has, instead, decided to use the funds in
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
HOW 70 EXCEL
DR.. Bennitt's Advice to High
School Graduates
Yesterday.
BACCALAUREATE WE'LL ATTENDED
Must Have Stability Of
Character, Says the
Preacher.
BACCALAUREATE WE'LL ATTENDED

New gowns and bright faces were in
evidence yesterday morning at Grace
Church, Van Worst. when the Rev. George
$. Bennitt preached the b-accalaureafe
sermon to the High School graduates,
taking his text from a portion Of
Jacobs last advice to his twelve sons. as
found in the forty-ninth chapter OF
Genesis. fourth verse, when he turns to
Rheuben with the warning, unstable as
water, tho shalt not excel"
The sweet girl graduates. that is those
of them who managed to set Alright the
last ribbon and place the last pin of the
new gown in time, met in the hall OF the
High School building and marched chat
tering together in the direction of Erie
and Second street. where they were
ushered to the very front of the church.
Mr.. Bennitt, after tracing the history
of Reuben, with his instability of char
acter. said: punishable as water, thou
shall not excel These words separated
from the history with which they are
connected might very vel be termed a
proverb. The men who excel are the men
Of decision and stability. Water is a ht
smile of instability. 1t is never still.
never deeply moved, and it always runs
down hill. SO it is with the unstable man.
His life is without credit and without
law"
1.-THE unstable man will not excel as a
Christian. To excel requires hard work.
We must have ~unwavering stability. I'M
stability is the name of a mighty river
bearing thousands of men to perdition-
The unstable Christian hears the Word
today and the world tomorrow"
Then after speaking upon the duties of
a Christian, DR.. Bennitt concluded, there
are those who have lone all these things
and are still not half in earnest. They are
led astray first by one thing, then an
other. They make religion a pastime, not
a duty. Business men must attend to their
business whether they care to or not
They must make sacrifices and deny
themselves many pleasures if they would
excel, and so it is with religion"
DR.. Bernitt then congratulated the
graduates. and after explaining the mean
ing of the word baccalaureate said,
Your life is now to receive its crown of
laurel. May your life be ever green. Sta
biIity of character formed now is the bud
that shall open in you to perfect and
beautiful manhood and womanlood, but
beware of the frosts. Time is fastening
on and every one of US is fastening with
it. Your fathers and mothers must pass
away and you must spring up to take
their places.
young men. your responsibility is daily
increasing. Young women. your in
fuence is becoming daily more and more.
You are the props upon which he world
and more particularly the Church of God
must lean"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
July. 1899

Mrs. John A. Logan writes in Frank
Lesfie's Popular Monthly for July a
charming and sympathetic personal
sketch OF Mrs. Mckinley, THE Gracious
Lady Of the White House" The number
also contains a thrilling interesting arti-
Gle. entitled Fighting Fire" by Hugh
Bonner, late chief of the Metropolitan
Fire Department of New York City. Ma
jor Adolph G. Studer, who~was for many
years a United States Consul-General in
Eastern Asia, gives a clear and we'll in
formed account Of the actual condition
and resources Of the Philippine Islands.
Rollin Lynde Hartt writes delightfully."-
about the Girl Graduates" of Smith Col
lege, Of whom Clifton johnson furnishes
some captivating pictures. THE Outdoor
Woman. by Mary Sargent Hopkins, and
ssCharmey,'' by ]. NJ. Erwin, are season
able summer contributions; while Art
and the Pinhole in Photography" by II.
p. Powell Rees, is an illustrated paper
full of interest to both professional and
amateur devotees Of the camera. IN adj
ditlon to Egerton Castles romantic serial.
April Bloom. this July number give
four complete short stories. by Clifford
Howard, Lew V~anderpoole, Louise Dur
ham Goldsberry and Larkin g. Mead, re-
spectively. The poems and sMarginaliass
anecdotes are dainty and vlvacious.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY
of New Jersey.
Between Lena Kern ct al. compliments. and
Joseph Berg ct al, defendants.
Or Bill for Partition and Decree for Sale.
Henry ]. Melosh. Solicitor for Compliments.
By virtue of a decree Of the Court of Cham
Gerry of New Jersey, made in the above stated
cause, bearing date the fifth day Of June.
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, /. John 5;
McMaster, one Of the Special Masters of said
Court, will expose for sale and sell at public
vendue, to the highest bidder. on Wednesday,
July 18th, 1889, at two o'clock in the afternoons,
on the premises hereinafter described
All those two certain lots, pieces or parcels
OF land, with the buildings thereon erected.
situate, lying and being in Jersey City dor-
merly Bergen1. in the County Of Hudson and
on a certain map, entitled Map of property
of z. b. Wakeman, Vim. White, B. Vet
terlein, i, p. G 9d,a, and q others, At In a0ntle en
N. j., March LIST, 1852 filed in the office OF
the Clerk NOW Registerl of Hudson County
by the numbers seyenty-three (79 and seventy
five G5). and which taken together are thus
described
Beginning at the southeaster1y corner Of
Monticello and Bowden tnow Belmont ave-
nues; thence easterly along the s~outherly side
of Belmont avenue one hundred and two and
three-tenths .C02. 81 feet; thence southerly and
at right angles to Belmont avenue forty-nine
and two-tenths Ns.2) feet: thence westerly and
nine (99} feet to the easterly side of Month
cello avenue: and thence n~ortherly along the
said easterIy side of Monticello avenue dfty-
nine and fye-tenths (59.5) feet to the s~outherly
side OF Belmont avenue. the place of begin
ming. Being the same premises conveyed to
Paul Berg and Maria K. Berg, his wife, by
Ferdinand Heintze and wife by deed dated
March 10th, 1882. and recorded in the Hudson
County Registers office, in Liber $50 Of Deeds
for the said County, on pages 253. &C., inciud-
ing the inchoate right of curtesy. Of the COM
plaiaant, Jacob Kern, husband of Lena Kern.
aforesaid, and the inchoate right Of dover Of
Mary Berg, wife of the said defendant. Joseph
Berg, and the inchoate right OF dover OF me
defendant, Sarah Berg. wife of the said Henry
Berg, and also the inchoate right of dover
Of the defendant, Elise Berg, wife OF the said
August Berg. In the said premises. together
with all and singular the hereditaments and
appurtenances to the said premises belonging
or in anywise appertainfng.
Dated June 18th, 1899.
JOHN S. McMASTER.
SneciaI Master in Chancery OF New Jersey,
/ Exchange Place,
Jersey City. N ].
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

Many of the able editors throughout the
State are asking annoying questions about
the queer proceedings in which the Essex
county lawyers have of late been in
dulging. With hardly an exception, the
Republican members of the bar exerted
themselves to secure the disbarment OF
Frank NJ. MdDermit, while they have
equally exerted themselves to save from
a similar fate Major Carl Lentz- The
purpose of these inquisitive editors seems
to be to show that motives of politics and
not Justice have actuated in this course
such highly upright, fair-minded and
noble of the Republican party
as Cortlandt Parker and Chan. Riker.
They say Mr.. McDermit is a Democrat,
an aggressive Democrat, one who by his
pen and tongue has lone much for the
Democratic party and correspondingiy
damaged the Republican party, and the
suspicion is that he was for this reason
found entitled to no consideration at the
hands of Republicans. On the otner
Major Lentz is a dyed-in-the-wool no COM
promise Republican, who, by methods
peculiar unto himself. has enabled his
party to maintain its clutch on the public
crib and the favored ones among its mem
bers to grow fat and Independent at the
expense of the people. He must, there
fore, be kept in high standing as an hon
ored member of the bar at no matter
what cost.
1t is hard to imagine such h~igh-minded
citizens as ''Chan." Riker giving way to
any such promptings as these and it is
plainly evident that only professional Ill
nature of editors could have put u in
furious ideas into their heads.
However, If Democrats did such things,
they would nave a queer look.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

ton, insures property, invests money for
its clients and makes loans on bonds and
mortgages.
Nor is that all, the Real Estate and
Trust Company dives deeply in corporate
matters. 1t furnishes facilities for or
ganization and in these days of aggre-
cation of capital into one big concern it
is a matter of great Importance that hat
peculiar branch of fnanciering should be
handled by competent people. In trust
matters the company does a very large
business keeping trust funds in a separate
depository. All such funds, rents, etc,
are kept in separate books of account,
and by this means securing to the COM
pany's clientele the greatest safeguards.
In this line also the company guarantees
the legality of all acts, and acts as
registrar and transfer agent of stocks and
bonds and trustees of corporate mort
cages.
1t will therefore be seen how wide and
diversified is the business of the COM
pany, and yet however much it Families,
so perfect is the method and system of
the Office, carried out by a force of ex-
perienced assistants, that its transactions
are open for inspection.
At the head of this ompany is Mr..
Frank Stevens. whose reputation in mat
tiers of real estate is deservedly far-spread.
Many very large transactions have been
arranged by him. He is identified with
the Title Guarantee and Trust Company,
being chairman of its finance committee.
director Of a gas company and many
other corporations.
Mr.. James G. Young, the Vice President
of the Real Estate Trusts Company, was
born and brought up in Jersey City, n
educated in the grammar schools of this
city. Mr.. Young is also President of the
Registrar and Transfer Company, Presi-
dent of the Continental Investment Com
pany, President Of the United States
Electric Lighting Company, located at
Washington, D. c.; Director of the Amer
lean Schoo Furniture Company, of the
Chicle Company, and the Riker Electric
Vehicle Company.
1t will thus be seen that the Real Es-
tate Trusts Company's affairs are in the
hands of men eminently fitted for their
positions.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26


nails, offenses in this line was pefpetrated
last week in an article in which the
writer. with a blunted sense of the fitness
OF things such as one would expect to ind
in a Borneo head hunter. gloatingly de-
picted the secret sorrow Of n poor
young lady in such detail that she can
be easily identified by all who know her
and thus her misfortunes made a matter
of common gossip. to her infinite humilia-
ton.
In this way. the Journals charity is
made bitter indeed to those who avail
themselves of it. Why do not Colonel
Phelps and Mr.. Dear look up that text
about letting your left hand know what
your right hand is doing? -
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
Phenomenal Growth Of the.
Real Estate Trusts Com
pany In a Short
Period.
NEED OF LARGER QUARTERS
Who the Men Are Whose
Enterprise Has Achieved
Success.

The Real Estate Trusts Company OF
New Jersey, the home office building of
which is at No. IS Montgomery street, is
one of these corporations in this city
which has made remarkable strides with
in a comparatively brief space of time,
and all because brains and enterprise
have been mixed with the capital behind
1T. Its growth has only lately n~ecessi-
tated larger quarters, and to this end the
entire building has been taken for office
room and from roof to floor renovated
and fitted up in the most up-to-date
style.
The chief business of the company con-
Germs real estate and securities, and this
includes purchasing and selling property,
the care of the same, appraising its value.
making advances on it and everything
pertaining to its care. In addition to
this the company conducts sales at auc-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

fitting up the interior in a thoroughly up
to-date manner The plans have been
published exclusively in The News"
The architect and surveyor will be on
hand either this afternoon or tomorrow
to look over the site. The surveyor will
make s~oundings to determine whether the
ground is rocky or not.
On the condition of the ground will de-
pend the depth of the basement. In case
Of rocks being found the basement will be
but a few feet below the street level.
Ground has been broken for the build
ing. City Collector Robert Davis. as told
in THE News" had the honor of turning
the first sDadeful of earth a few weeks
ago at the garden party. For this privi-
lege he paid $500, when he purchased the
gold plated spade.
The cost of the building has not yet
been determined. Father Carroll said
that it would probably reach siOo, 900.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
FIFTEENTH BIRTHDAY
Lafayette Methodist Church
Celebrates It's Ami
versary.

The interior of the Lafayette Methodist
Church. on Pacific avenue, was beauti-
fully decorated yesterday morning when
the opening services, in celebration of the
fifteenth anniversary of the breaking OF
ground for the present church. began.
The church was filled to overhowing.
Palms, cut flowers and potted plants were
scattered throughout the entire lecture
room. Dozens of American flags added
much to the picturesqueness of the scene.
These were tastefully draped about the
pulpit platform and choir loft. j.
The programme of music rendered was
excellent. Bishop Edward G. Andrews, of
the Methodist Church. preached the
morning sermon. He is an interesting
speaker and his discourse on the building
up of churches was appropriate to the
occasion. The congregation showed its
appreciation of his eloquent address.
The song service and platform meeting
at three o'clock. was also entertaining.
Several former pastors of the church, who
were mentioned in sThe News OF Sat-
nrday night, were present. Each re-
sponded with short addresses. The pas
tor, the Rev. w. s. Robinson. DID,, also
contributed to the services with a short
and appropriate speech.
The anniversary sermon was delivered
in the evening by the Rev. w. Z. Hoag-
land. a former pastor, o Of Emory
Methodist Church on Belmont avenue. Ife
talked mainly of the history OF the
church. 1t was founded by Robert Alli-
son in 1863. in the rude wooden chapel on
Wilton street. This building was erected
from e. portion of an old boat taken from
the Hudson River. He traced the history
Of the church through all its years, the
majority Of which have been successful.
He was proud, he said, 70 see his old
charge in such a prosperous condition,
and hoped that its fortune would be still
brighter than It's past or present.
There will be a platform melting this
evening, at which a number OF prominent
pastors and laymen of this n other
cities will participate.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
HoBokEN's BAccALAUREATE
Archdeacon Jenvey Gave Good Adj
vice To ths High School Graduates

The students Of the Hoboken High
School attended services at st. PauTs
Episcopal Church last evening and list
ened to the Rev. Archdeacon William r.
Jenvey preach the baccalaureate sermon.
He said the young people should keep be-
fore them a fixed resolve to attain some
definite object in life. He told them that
the secret of a successful career is in
keeping one ideal in view and in trying to
conform as near to it as possible.
Nothing could be attained, he said, with
out t~enacity of purpose. The graduates
of the High School will hold their COM
mencement exercises tomorrow at the
Lyric Theatre.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM CHAN
Gerry of New Jersey.
Between William C. Cudlipp and wife,
-complainants, and Emily J.. DeLong ct al,
defendants.
On bill for partition and decree for sale.
BY virtue of a decree of the Court OF
Chancery of New Jersey. made in the
above cause, on the twelfth day of May,
eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, direct
ises mentioned and described in said de-
cree for sale, I, William G. e. See, Spe-
cial Master in Chancery of New Jersey,
shall sell at public vendue, to the highest
june. 1895, at two o'clock in the after
noon, upon the premises hereinafter de-
scribed, all the following lands and prem
ises, being the same described in said de-
Ali that iot of lane situate in Jersey
City, County of Hudson, State. of New
Jersey, beginning at a point on the north
eriy side Of Bay street, distant one hun
dred and twenty-five feet westerly from
streets: thence northe-ly parallel with
Grove street one hundred feet. thence
westerly parallel with Bay street twenty
five feet: thence southerly parallel with
Grove street one hundred feet to Bay
street: thence easterly along the north
erly side of Bay street twenty-five feet
to the point of beginning. Being the
same premises conveyed to Charles 3.
wife. by deed recorded in Hudson County
Registers office, in Book = OF Deeds, at
page 1856, &c.
Together with all and singular the here
ditaments and appurtenances to said
Dated May 18th. 1899.
WILLIAM G. e. SEE.
Special Master in Chancery of New Jer-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
WORK ON GROVE STREET.
Residents are Greatly Pleased With
the New Depression.

The appearance of Grove street since
the second denression has been made is
much improved. The incline that was the
subject of SO much adverse criticism is
not nearly as bad as 1t was In the begin
ming. The residents are pleased to think
that the street will not be as badly de-
faced as it was thought. This morning
the Saturday squad of workmen were re-
laying the racks of the trolley line.
The men are pushing the work as rapidly
as possible. 1t is hoped by the North
Hudson Company that the street will be
ready for traffic inside of a week.
AS soon as Grove street is completed
and ready for use, the Erie Railroad au-
thorities will lower Tenth and Eleventh
streets to meet the new grade of Grove
street. Work on the depression from now
on will be conducted night and day until
it is completed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26

CORPORATION NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day
Board of Street and Water Commissioners by
Patrick Rooney and others for the
IMPROVEMENT OF ECOND STREET,
between Brunswick street and Merseies street.
Said Improvement to be made conformabiy
to the provisions Of Chapter z7 OF the Laws
of 1895, and in the following manner. includ-
ing all intersections -
To have the street for the full width thereof
graded to the established grade by excarating
or filling the same to the established grade.
TO have new 20-inch curb set on each side
thereof.
To have the present curb reset and new
20-inch curb set where necessary
To have the cutters on each side paved
with stone paving to a width of sc inches.
To have new blue stone tagging, four feet
wide, laid on each sidewalk
To have the present tagging relaid and new
tagging laid where necessary.
To have new bridge stone c~rosswalks laid.
relaid and new bridge stone laid where neees-
sary.
sary to provide for the flow Of the surfacs
water and to complete the Improvement IN q
good and substantial manner.
Notice is also given that on the 10Th day
of June, 1899, the Commissioners of Assess
ments filed in the office of the Clerk of the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners
their preliminary map for said Improvement,
showing the probable total cost of the con-
templated Improvement and the probable
amount to be assessed on property speeiaiiv
benefited thereby. and the same is now open
TO public inspection in the office Of the Clerk
Vi Cdl4 80
Notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
of are included IN said assessment, namely:-
SECOND STREET.
from Brunswick street to MerseIes street.
MERSELES REF
on the east side from Second street to points
about so feet north and south thereof.
COLGATE STREET,
from Second street to points about 80 feet
north and south thereof.
BRUNSWICK STREET,
on the west side from Second street to points
about % feet north and 50 feet south thereof.
And that in accordance with the provisions
of the Act above cited the 9th day Of June.
1899, at 2 o'clock p. NJ. and the Assembly
Chamber of the City Hall, are hereby fixed
as the time and place when and where the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners will
meet to hear all parties interested in said APP
p1ication and all remonstrances against the
said proposed Improvement that may be pre-
scented in writing
By order Of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-26
HURT BY BOYS PISTOL.
Four Year Old Receives Blank Dis
charge in His Face

Pretty little Harry Tillerman, four
years DID, Of No. 127 Brunswick street.
met with a painful accident about 500
o'clock last night. He and several other
children were playing and romping about
the corner Of Newark avenue and Cole
street. Harry's father looked on. The
little fellow brushed up against an UNI
known boy who was firing off a blank
cartridge pistol. Harry caught the con-
tents in the side OF his face. He was
attended by DIR. Mclaughlin. who stated
that the wound was not serious. The boy
who fired the pistol ran away when he
saw what he had done.