The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-07
GRAND JURY EATS
Foreman Bouton and Clerk
Gilman Given Rewards
Of Merit.
PRAISED FOR DOING LITTLE
Van Wrinkle Approves Simple
Laws-Ex-Senator Edwards
Lauds Almshouse Action

The Grand Jury of the December term
held it's farewell dinner last evening in
the dining hail of the Dukes House, Hoo
boken. The affair was a brilliant one.
Distinguished guests, Witty speeches and
general good fellowship were its attrac-
tive features.
The hall was deliberately decorated. the
national colors predominating. Covers
were laid for seventy odd guests. Stringed
orchestra accompanied the merrymaking
while the following menu was being dis
posed OF sovsrrps
Blue Psla RE2 e stas Half Shell
esis qSmatos owes Pickles Sailed Rad Almends
sauterne Consomme de Volatile
FISH.
.KeInebee Salmon, Sauce Gencoise
New Bermuda Potatoes Cucumbers
ENTREE.
Pommard FIIet de Bouef
French Peas Asparagus
Ruinart PUNCH ROMAINE
Cigarettes ROAST.
English Plover on Toast.
Lettuce DESSERT. omp0t
Brandy Neapolitan Ice Cream
cha Rooassort a ASSORTED eamam Ppalt
N0aueiof' Bent crackers samemoefe
COFFEE
Peffectos.
Foreman George T. Bouton acted as
POSTMASTER. Sittings for the members of
lows:-Cnas. O. Barker. A. Charles Borne
mann. T. M. Coyne, Martin Daab, II,
}o da Day, Emil E; Datz; George "
Foley, Frederick Gassert, w. ]. Gorsuch,
Homer NJ. Green, Michael F. KelIaher,
Thomas w: Leake, Thomas Mcmahon.
John Roberts, Edw. Q. Schermerhorn,
Gustave Scholp, August Stoeckel,
Nathaniel w. Trask.
h guests of honor Observation-Disclosures
Edward Hoos. Mayor Seymour of Bay
onne, Mayor Lawrence Pagan of Hobo
ken, Under Sheriff John Heavey, ex-Sen-
ator william D. Edwards, Assistant Dis
Cotter, City Clerk M. J.O.Donnell,
observation-disclosures William Midlige, ex-
Tax Commissioner John =. German, AS
Arthur, Thomas higgins. Eugene Leake,
Freeholder Dietz, -Assemblyman Bruder,
Director Herbert Rice. Maurice Stack.
Sonn a. v Wsasten. ex,Al n1sTIiana william lillian
Il. Kellers, Edward Mitchell, Robert P.
Gilman, Clerk to the Grand Jury; James
]. Wiseman, Clerk of the Board of Edu-
cation; Carl Ruempler, Councilman j. J.
McGovern of Hoboken, and Counsellor j.
]. FallOn.
After the good things had been dis
posed OF; cigars were lit and the speech,
making began. Foreman Bouton started
the ball rolling by t~estifying TO the mod
esty of our efficient clerk and present.
ing Mr.. Gilman, "as a mark of the es-
TEEN of the jury of the December term
with a gold mounted opal scarf pin.
Clerk Gilman gracefully acknowledged
the gift and had hardly concluded his re-
marks when up popped Counsellor Eu-
gene Leake.
II have" said he, ''the esteemed honor
Of beng selected by your colleagues,
Mr.. Bouton, to present YOU with a token
the Grand Jury of the December term.
In accepting this gift, I will request you
to bear in mind the motto that goes
along with 1t. Take it n remember
that i'll mixing The punch the less water
you put in the better will be the drink ;"
The gift, a cut glass silver trimmed
punch set stood on an adjoining table
draped in an American flag.
Mayor Hoos, the next speaker, was en-
Enthusiastically received with shouts of
Jersey City's next Mayor" The Mayor
was in excellent spirits n he made one
praised the December term of the Grand
Jury for hts work and concluded his re-
marks with a humorous reference to the
executives of Jersey City, Hoboken and
Bayonne.
1--WE make a great combination said he
Irish and Dutch
When the Mayor finished the guests re-
newed the applause and sang IN chorus,
For He's a Jolly Good Fellow"
Mayor Pagan and Mayor Seymour were
also called upon and they responded with
brief remarks. Both were enthusiaStical-
ly received.
Assistant Prosecutor Van Wrinkle ex-
tolled the work done by the December
term. He said its members should be
thanked not for the things they did, SO
much as the things they did not &c.
Dreams of the future said he. 'tell
US that the time will come when the laws
of the world will be embraced in a volume
that can be carried in n han That,
they say, will be ideal government. There
is no denying the fact that many
Grand .Juries in the past have not ex-
ercised the proper Judgment in the find
ing of indictments and 50 I say that the
December term of the Grand Jury is to
be congratulated on the judicious manner
in which it has restricted the multiplicity
of the indictments it has found"
Ex-senator Edwards said the December
term did a noble work in bringing to
Hill and that the county would ever re-
tors
Remarks were also made by John Mig
gins, Counselor John J. Fallon, the merl-
bers of the December term and Micha
O'Donneli, foreman of the April term.
The Dinner COMMITTEES which superin-
tended the excellent arrangements of the
evening was made up of thef following
Edward 0ffermann. Chairman; Chas. A.
Bornemann, Emil e. DATE, George w.
Decker, Michael r. Ke1laher, Thomas w.
Leake, Thomas Mcmahon, VIM. f. McCar-
ty, John Roberts, Edw. O. ScherInern1rn,
August Stocked and Nathaniel w. Task.