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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
CAUGHT BY 4 GIRL.
Desperate Thief Chased by
Miss Mahoney and Hand
ed Over to Police.

An exciting chase occurred In the
Horseshoe yesterday afternoon, when a
young woman captured the man who had
robbed an apartment house and stolen j
quantity Of Jewelry. The act Of the
young woman was a daring n as the
man she pursued and placed in the
hands OF the police is a desperate char
acter. He is William Adams, 80 years
old, of No. 712 Twelfth street, Philadel-
phia. Adams has but one arm. He is
well known to the police by his alias,
"One Armed BILL"
Miss Hannah Barry, who lives at No.
627 Henderson street, left her apartments
to bring her cousin, Miss Josephine
Mahony, home with her. When she and
Miss Mahoney reached her apartments
they were surprised to see Adams at
work on the lock of a stand in the par
lor.
Miss Barry uttered an exclamation,
which caused the man to desist from
his work and run for the door. As he
passed Miss Barry she grabbed him by
the coat tail and held on for dear life
He struggled but she had a firm hold
The. thief made for the stairs, dragging
Miss Barry after him.. She only let go
when in danger of being hurled down
the steep stairs. Miss Barry be-
moaned the fact that she could not fol-
low him. Miss Maloney lost no time in
talking but set after the thief.
Down Henderson street he ran to Sew
enteenth street, with Miss Mahoney after
him. He went through Seventeenth
street to Grove street. At Grove street
Miss Mahoney caught up with him and
held him until Policeman Nolan took pos
session of him.
Adams struggled to get away from No
Ian and his fair captor, but he was handi-
capped by having but one arm. When
searched in the Seventh street station a
pair of opera glasses, several valuable
pins and a quantity of other jewelry,
which Miss Barry identified as belonging
to her, was found in his possession.
Adams was arrafgned before Police
Justice Nevin and held in 81, 090 bail for
trial
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
HUDSON COUNTY ORPHANS. counr.

In the matter of the sale Of lands of Alice
Tierney. deceased. for the payment of her
debts.
Ry virtue of an order entered in the above
stated matter, on the seventh day of April.
a, d. 1899, 1 shall sell. at public vendue, on
the premises. on
the first day of June. A. D. 1899,
al q o'clock in the afternoon. all the following
described land and premises, with the APP
nirtenances, being the same described in said
order, that is to say
All that tract or parcel of land and prem
lees situated and being in the Borough Of
EAST Newark, Hudson County, New Jersey. de-
scribed as
Reginning on the northerly side of Soaring
street or avenue, at a point therein distant
aasterlv one hundred and seventy-ffve feet from
the corner Of the same and Passaic avenue. as
she same are laid out on a map of-the Scar
ing property, made out by r. Dunn, surveyor.
March. 1860, and filed in the County Clerks
nffice of Hudson County, and from thence run
ming north twenty degrees and ten minutes
EAST ninety-fve feet; thence south sixty-nine
degrees and fifty minutes east Twenty-Five
feet. thence south twenty degrees and ten
minutes west ninetv-ffve feet to the line OF
Soaring avenue aforesaid; thence along the
same north sixty-nine degrees and fifty min
nfes west twenty-five feet to the place pr be-
ginning, and being lot No So on the aforesaid
map.
Daseu seApA s. F. WALSH,
Administrator.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05

Notice is hereby given that the Commits
sioners of Assessments for Jersey City, N. j.,
will meet at their office. Room T. CITY Hail,
Of May. 1899, at $50 o'clock A. M, TO APP
praise and determine the value OF the real
estate to be taken and the damages tnat may
be- sustained by reason of the opening and
extension of Clerk street, from its present
southerly terminus to Wilkinson avenue, IN
accordance with petition presented 10 .ne
Board of Street and Water Commissioners
June 1st. 1898.
The real estate to be taken for said WIDEN
ing may be described as foilows:-
The street to be so feet wide, the centre
line thereof beginning at a point in the centre
line of Clerk street, as now opened saiu pom
being distant 2H feet rs inches. measured
along the centre line of Clerk street as now
opened; southerly, from the southerly line OF
MYRTLE avenue; thence running from said point
of beginning in a southerly direction along the
centre line of Clerk street, if produced south
erly, a distance of 10S feet 53s inches, 10 a
point in the northerly line OF WILKINSON ave-
nue.. distant 7I9 feet SIS inches, measured west
erly along the northerly line Of Wilkinson ave
nue., from the intersection OF the nortnerIy
line of wilkinson avenue with the westerly
line of Jersey City and Bergen Point Plank
Road, as shown on map OF % VIA SITES anu
rs lots at Bay View, Hudson County New
All the land within the lines of the foregoing
description being required for the opening ana
extension of Clerk street as AFORESAID, as VIII
more fully appear by reference to the resolu-
ton in regard to the same, adopteo py tne
April izln, 1893, dnH On
the Clerk of said Board,
At which time and place said Commission
ers of Assessments will hear an parties inter-
ested, who desire to be heard before them, on
the value of the real estate to be taken, and
the damage which any owner or owners OF
nav sustain by reason of said opening and
extension.
The above proceedings are under the pro-
,;s,ons of Chapter 2Ss of the Laws of 1895.
Dated Jersey City, May 5th, 1899.
JAMES ~ DAVIS.
EDWARD BARR.
CORNELIUS J. CRONAN,
commissioners of Assessments.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
FRIDAY. MAY 5. 1899.
This paper Is Democratic in principles
and is Independent an its Uielcs on all tocG
questions.


According to this mornings Tribune
Mr.. q. w. wooiley is not a gutter in
politics. He knows a good thing When
he gets it. and with the aid and support
of his good friend, Col. Sam Dickin-
son, he proposes to hold on to his pres
ent snap to the last possible moment.
Mr.. Woolley has not Jared i'll as a
political leader in the last five years 1t
is approximately that time since he came
to the front as Deputy Dictator OF the
G.. o. p. in this county, and in the in
terval. he has been City Clerk for two
years at ten or twelve thousand a year,
Clerk to the Board of Freeholders and
Deputy Postmaster, the last named po-
sition being the one which he now oc-
cupies, with about. three years tenure OF
office ahead of him..
Mr.. Woolley is quite right not to let
20 what he has. He will want other
offices in the future, and it will be odd
If the machine cannot always find some
thing for its deputy BOSS between ~
Federal, state. County and City govern
ments. TO assure himself, however, OF
the pick of what is going, he must main
tain his position in the party, he must
continue to make himself useful to the
real boss, and there is no other way
in which he can do this SO well as by
continuing to act as chairman of a body
in which all attempts at free speech
and independent action have to be quick
~ and emphatically squelched by the UNI
compromising exercise of parliament
airy law,
If Mr.. woolley let go of the Repubii-
can County Committee Craftsmanship,
othello's occupation would be gone, and
that would mean suicide, you know.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
DEMATo HELD FOR GRAND JURY

John Demato. a junkman, g twenty
three years. of No. 40 Fifth street, was
charged with breaking into the stable
owned by John Ryan. at No. S4 Sixth
street. on the 18th of June, 1888. Two sets
OF harness and a saddle were stolen.
Ryan found his harness and saddle in the
harness shop owned by Joseph Catouchi,
at No. 4a2 Third street, on the oath of
March, this year. where they had been
left for repairs by Demato A warrant
was sworn out and Patrolman Dooley ar
rested Demato last night. The prisoner
was a~rraigned this morning before Police
Justice Nevin In the First Criminal o
and was held In $500 bail to await the
action Of the Grand Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
PREPARING FOR THE MONUMENT.

DR.. L. J. Gordon, Commissioner E.
Datz and Contractor William Robertson,
Jr., were very busy this morning mark
ing out in front of the City Hall the
lines for the foundation of the Soldiers
and Sailors Monument, to be unveiled on
May 30. Mayor Hoos watched the pro-
~ceedings. Some of the ~bystanders rashly
ventured the remark that piling would
be necessary for the foundation, where
upon Mr.. Robertson remarked that the
foundation would be of ~concpete and ee-
ment and would bear twenty times the
weight of the statue.
"What is the weight of the statue? %
the architect was asked, but that indi-
vidual shook his head and talked OF
something else.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
HOBOKEN LOOP.
Report Of Engineer Harrison
on the Extension--Causes
of Delay.

Chief Engineer Harrison submitted to
the Freeholders yesterday the Following
report on the present condition of the eA-
tension of the Weehawken loop OF TIE
Boulevard into the city of Hoboken:--
81 would remind your Board OF what
is well known to the members who were
also members of the last Board, but is
NOT generally known to the public, that
tho,,gh rhe bids were received and the
contracts awarded for this work early
in the summer of 1898, the contracts
were not executed, or if executed the con-
tractors were not allowed to
work until all arrangements had been
closed between the county and the rah-
road ompanes with reference TO the VIA
duct crossing of the railroad tracks,
thus it will be seen by the dates hereaf-
tor given that very little work was
done before the winter.
.sThe contract for grading, curbing
and having was executed by the eontrac-
tor the Palisade Construction Company,
.1uIy IL. 1898, but was not executed by the
county until late in September, and was
presented to the Board at the October
meeting, 1888.
1.-THE contract allowed for ninety work
ing DAVIS for completion. The contractor
commenced actual work on September Is,
1903 though some little work was done
bv him. without orders, before the con-
tract was executed, between August 20
and that date. Between the time of the
commencement and the period when the
weather interfered with any work OF
this class there were about fortv-ffve
working days. The earliest date this
wear when work could be reasonably
prosecuted was about April 1, and there
have been about twenty-five days in
Anrfl which will be charged against the
contractor in which he built the Fifteenth
| street culvert, filled up the old water
course between Fifteenth and Sixteenth
streets and is now finishing the setting
of curbs and grading the roadway and
rebuilding basins north of the viaduct-
II am assured by the contractor that
he will complete the work within the
time called for, though he also makes
a claim for additional time by reason
Of the. changing of the plan and position
Of the Fifteenth street culverts
ssThe contract for the viaduct was made
"a Messrs. Mcclure & Hall. and was exc
cuted October 6, 1888. The time limit was
ninety working days, but the contractors
could not their work or order
material until the agreement between the
county and the railroad had been con-
summated, as upon that agreement de-
pended certain arrangements for details
and plans for connecting the work of
the contractor with the work Of the rail-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05

AN ORDINANCE REDESIGNATING GER
tain streets in Jersey City.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City, by
the Board of Street and Water Commission
ers. for and on behalf OF the munieapanty o.
following streets be and are hereby redesig-
mated. as follows:-
Hicks street to Laidlaw avenue.
Meadow place to Ann street.
Cherry Lane and Jay street to Van Winkle
avenue.
Richards place to Senate place.
Van Reypen place and Idaho place to Van
Reypen street
Henry place to Jackson avenue.
Bonner avenue to. Baldwin avenue
Marsh street to Bright street
Pike street to Golden street
Bostwick place to Nevin street.
Duncan Court to Calhoun street.
West Side eoart to Anollo street.
Sea View Terrace TO Mill Road.
Wescott avenue to Clifton place.
Prescott Court and Prescott place to Pres
Van Worst place to Holland street.
Clark place to Maxwell street.
Arlington place to Minerva street.
Bay View Terrace TO Marcus street.
Noble street. Columbia place and Winfield
avenue to Lembeck avenue.
Armstrong place and Walker avenue to Arm
Barfholdi place and Girard avenue to Bar
Runyon avenue. Jackson place and Hooker
avenue to Winfield avenue.
Avenue D and Bergen Point Plank Road 10
Garfield avenue.
Avenue Z to Princeton avenue.
Bright street between Mill Creek and Ma
tional Docks r. R.)tt to Brook street.
Van Nostrand place and Cedar avenue t.
Van Nostrand avenue.
Ravside place to De Mott place.
Ogden Road to- Mountain Road.
Earle street to Chapel avenue
Vaudeville avenue to Clinton avenue.
Hoadley avenue to Boyd. avenue.
Hatch avenue to Claremont avenue.
Osweso street to Johnston avenue.
WILEY street to Bergen avenue.
Liberty street to Griffith street.
West View avenue to Bay View avenue
Thomas street to Garrison avenue.
Ogden place to Ogden avenue.
Forrest place to Albeit street.
Delaware avenue to Whitman avenue (oe-
tween Cemetery and Sip ayenue).
clean avenue to Hawthorne avenue between
Cemetery and Sip avenue).
Belvidere avenue to Bryant avenue tpetween
Cemetery and Logan streetl.
Nunda avenue to Holmes avenue tpetWeeh
Cemetery and Sip avenue).
Mallory avenue to Emerson avenue Vpetween
Cemetery and Logan street,.
Plainheld avenue to tieid avenue lpetween
Cemetery and Sip aNenuel.
NfImot avenue to Halleck avenue IRON
north of Cemetery to p. r. Rl
Marcy avenue to Curtis avenue IRON noFth
~ Cemetery to p. r. H.
Maryey avenue to Whittier avenue efrom
north of Cemetery to p. r. RI
Steckton avenue to Hemans avenue 0rom
north of Cemetery to p. r. RI
north of Cemetery to Haekensack ayenuel1
Rockaway avenue to Losing avenue Cfro9s
north of Cemetery to Hackensack ayenuelf
Passed April .. 1893.
Approves EDw. HOGS. Mayor.
At' 2 r. BoUToN, Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
NOTICE.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners on
Tuesday, May 9. 1888, at 2 O'Clock P. NJ,
In the Assembly Chamber Of the City Hall,
IMPROVEMENT OF DUNCAN AVENUE.
between Hudson Boulevard and West Side ave-
hue.
Said Improvement to be made conformably to
the provisions Of Chapter z17 of the Laws Of
file in the office Of the Clerk OF said Board
Blank forms of bid and agreement Of sure
ties must be obtained at the office Of the
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
standard
of cost.
About 1.ss1 cubic yards of earth exeava-
non. per cubic yard -..-----.-s 80
About 10 cubic yards OF rock excavation.
per cubic yard 200
About sol cubic yards of earth filling, per
About as cubic yards Of sand diiing. per
About s,ss7 square yards Of Belgian paw
ing, per square yard ......-.---.-... 12s
About Loss, lineal feet of curb stone,
per Gneal foot &c
About z2f square feet of bridge stone. per
About $3.50 square feet of tagging. per
About ) SOU square yards Of repasinr. per "a
About go Ineai feet Of reset and dressed
euro stone, per tneai foot .-.----- 20
ed nag stone, per square foot .-.-....... OF
About 120 hneaI feet Of c~ribbing stone.
per Hnedl LOU ~
About 9 manhoie heads to be reset, each zoo
About 2 new receiving basins and connee-
tons complete. eaeh.......... .......... $50
About 2 rebuilt receiving basins and con-
neetions complete, each.-.-.-.. ...-.....-. 25.Oa
Time allowed for the completion of the work,
80 working days.
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be subject
to the remonstranee Of the owners " the
property liable to more than sne-haIf the as
sessment therefor on the basis Of preliminary
sketch.
velopes, endorsed Proposals for the Improve
ment of Duncan Avenue" directed TO VI
Jas S. Nolan" Chairman Of the Com
mittee on Streets and Sewers and
meeting when called for in the order OF BUSH
ness relating to sealed proposals.
The bonds required to be furnished on propo-
sails land a possible subsequent e~ontract) are
those of some surety company authorized to
do business in the State of New Jersey.
Bidders must state a single liked percentages
of the hundred per cent. standard above quoted,
for which they will furnish all materials and
do all the work Compensated in Specifications
and if final award of contract be made the
per cent. so stated viii form the basis upon
which payment will be made for all items.
The Board may, under the provisions of the
Act above cited, exercise its right to reject
any or all proposals
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section 7, Chapter 1874 of the Laws Of 1891,
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city. or become effective or
operative until the bonds offered by the COM
tractor have been approved as to suficienc--
by this Board and as to form by the Corpor-
alton Counsel, the President Of this Board
having the power to examine the proposed
bendsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO t. BouToN.
60 So q 4pnn
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT A
petition has been presented TO the
R6ard of Street and Water Commission
ers Of Jersey City by the Erie Railroad
Company and Others for a change Of the
route of the Hoboken avenue sewer, now
Itnder construction, by disseminating that
nortion thereof west of Concord street
and by continuing the said sewer from its
present westerly terminus as constructed
in Hoboken avenue northerly along Con-
cord street to Fleet street. and thence
westerly along Fleet street to the Cen
trail avenue sewer connecting herewith,
and the said Board have fixed Tuesday.
the ninth day of May, A. ID. 1899, at two
p. NJ, at the meeting room of the BOARD,
at the City Hall, Ia Jersey City, as the
time and place when and where all par
ties Interested in the change proposed
may be heard.
"a'e' GEORGE t. BoUToN.
CLERK.
Dated Jersey City. April z. 1889.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
NOTICE
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals Will be received by the
Tuesday, May 8. 1899, at 2 o'clock P. NJ,
in the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall.
for the
IMPROVEMENT OF VAN WAGENEN AVE
NUE.,
from St. Paurs avenue to the lands of the
Long Dock Railroad Co... a distance Of about
s29 fact.
said improvement to be made conformabIy to
the provisions of Chapter III Of the Laws OF lsso
and in accordance with specifications on lie
in the office Of the Clerk of said Board
Blank forms Of bid and agreement OF sure
ties must be obtained at the office OF the
Chief Engineer. City Hall, Jersey City, N j.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
Standard
of Cost
About 100 cubic yards of earth excavation,
A Beu ea 400 cg gbTa yards Of rock exeava-
ton, per cubic yard ...... .-.-.-.--.- zoo
About 10 cubic yards Of earth filling, per :.
AS 6ool0 3 gar cubic il yards Of sand filling. per
About 22o square yards Of Belgian paving
in cutters, per square yard ....--.--.. l.So
About $50 lineal feet of curb stone, per =.
About 1900 square feet of tagging. per
ABOUT Is square yards Of repaving. per
About 80 Iineai feet of reset and dressed
cuTD SI0net per lutdI IOOL ----s -
About 120 square feet of relaid and
dressed bridge stone, per square foot. 10
About 8 receiving basin heads to be reset,
About 3 manhole heads to be reset, each 200
Time allowed for the completion OF the
work. IS working days.
The making of the above improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be sub
ject to the renonstrance OF the owners OF the
property liable to more than one-haif the as
sessment therefor on the basis of preliminary
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed Proposal Cor the Improve
ment of Van " agenen avenue, directed to Mr..
Jas. S. Nolan, Chairman of the Committee on
Streets and Sewers and handed to the Clerk
Of the Board in open meeting when called Tor
in the order of business relating to sealed
proposals.
The bonds required to be furnished on pro-
posals land a possible subsequent contracD are
those of some surety company authorized 10
do business in the State of New Jersey.
Bidders must state a single fixed percentages
Of the hundred per cent. standard above quot
ed for which they will furnish all materials
and do all the work comprehended in specid-
cations, and if final award of contract be
made the per cent. so stated Will form the
basis upon which payment Will be made Tor
all items.
The Board may. under the provisions of the
act above cited, exercise its right to reject
any or all proposals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
TO Section 4. Chapter 1874 of the Laws of 1891.
under the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city or become effective or
operative until the bonds offered by the con
tractor have been approved as to Sufficlency
nv this Board and as to form by the Cor
poration Counsel, the President of this Board
having the power to examine the proposed
bondsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board OF Street anu water
o0m'n's FL T. BoUToN.
80 ---- ,... zE.~ o 1000
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
PERSONAL.

Counselor George Fiaacke, the German
member of the law firm Of Vredenberg s.
Flaacke, will sail for Europe on the Ant
werp line steamer Frlesland, ext We'd
nesday. He will travel through France.
England, ireland, Wales, Scotland and
Italy and meet relatives who are travel
ling at Rome and then proceed ia
Stuckert, Germany.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05
TINTED.


WANTED-Case Of bad health that
R-I-P-A-N-S will not benefit. Send .
cents 10 Ripans Chemical Co.. New York.
for 10 samples and LOCO testimonials.
WANTED-GOOD FEMALE RIBBON
long warps; good wages and
steady work. Balas Freres, Fourth ana
Jefferson street, Hoboken-
WANTED-TEN CARPENTERS TO WORK
out Of town. Address 3D." News Office.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-05

CAPTAIN JACK GRAHAM'S mouth
was as wide open as ever last evening.
and the work of Republican reorganiza-
tien goes noisily on.