The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-13

2 sAght turn in the tide when Grover
cleveland made him United States Mar
snal, put bad luck came again on the ex-
plratIon of his term. He made his last
ngnt against adversely at Navesink High
lands, When he opened a little hotel jus.
under the twin lights. The place didn't
pay, and he died there in 1890. The young
est BROTHER Bill. Is stiH. alive. He keeps
a hotel at Turner's. On the Erie Railroad
NO MOTEL in the country has had a more
interesting lot of guests than the worn
out old building put up by Noah Taylor
forty years ago. Being virtually in New
YORK, and yet over the State line and
outside the Jurisdiction of the New York
courts, 1t has been a haven for thou
SANDS or unwilling witnesses, OF debtors
VINO couldn't pay and clipping couples.
Some weeks as many as a dozen marrf-
ages have been solemnized under it's roof.
Other weeks nearly as many recalcftrant
spouses have been found there by their
deserted mates. Criminals have found it
a haven, too, and green goods men have
met come ns" there, though Chief Muir
ply of the Jersey City police force SAYS
Taylor's has never been what he terms
a crooked house."
Tayior's Hotel did not become celebrat-
ed until 1871, when an injunction was is
sued by the New York courts to pre-
vent Jay Gould and the late Jim Fisk
from tampering with the Erie Railroad
stock transfer list or issuing additional
stock prior to the eompany's next annual
election. Fisk and Gould then had control
of the Erie. and old Commodore lander
bilt was after it. Fisk and Gould saw that
they couldn't do as they wished in New
York, without running the risk of arrest
for contempt of court. and they moved
themselves, virtually, all the Erie Com
pany's books and a large part of the
clerical force in Taylors Hotel. There,
just across the North River from New
York, they could do as they pleased,
and there they printed and issued enough,
new stock to retain control.
There was some danger that Gould or
Fisk or both might be Kidnapped and
brought back to Manhattan Island, and
to guard against tina they hired a dozen
or two Pinkerton detectives to protect
them. They were on duty in the house
and in front of it. fully armed and con-
stantly ready for service. Two or three
of them always went along whenever.
either Fisk or Gould ak out for ex-
ercise and no kidnapping was accom-
plished.
Bill Tweed also made Taylor's a haven
of refuge, though his stay was shorter
h Fisk or Gould's. Sullivan and Pad
dy Ryan signed articles for their big
fight there. Lablanche and Jack Dempsey
went there after their mill up the Sound.
and there Lablanche was treated for his
injuries. Miss Campbell, when she sued
the late Charles A. Arbuckle-"Baby
Bunting for damages to her affections,
made Taylor's her headquarters for some
time. Charles Read, who defended Gut
teau. the slayer of Garfield, was in the
hotel a week before attempting suicide.
Howard, the electric sugar artist. and his
friends evaded arrest there for weeks.
Despite its convenience, Taylor's Hotel
has not been popular headquarters for
green goods men. More than once when
they lave used the house temporarily
they have come to grief. There was a
case of this sort about three years ago.
A eome-on named Sheffield from Nam
chester, N. Y, was met at the Pennsyl-
vania station by a steerer named Frank
Rivers. Rivers said 1.-THE old man. was
Ill and would have to be seen in Long
Island City. Sheffield declined to go
there until he had seen the quality OF
the goods, and suggested he be shown
samples at Taylor's. Rivers finally cons
scented; Sheffield engaged a room, where
Rivers opened his satchel and showed
$500 of good money in 500 packages.
No sooner had Sheffield seen this gem
erous display of long green than he turn
ed out to be what Jersey City folk term
a come back" for he whipped a black
jack from his pocket, Knocked Rivers
over the head and bofted with the money.
Rivers raised a cry of s"Stop theft" and
the ponce were aroused. Sheffield and
Rivers were arrested and indicted, the
one for atroeious assault, the other for
attempted green-goods swindling, and
both stayed a long time in Jail. On trial
both were acquitted. Rivers experience
may have helped in making Taylor's Hos
tel unpopular with his kind.