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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29

The so-called surrender of h Filipinos
reported, yesterday. is hardly likely to
impose on anyone. Even a spaniard
could see through it. 1t was what you
may call a surrender with a string to it..
We must remember that, in Aguinaldo's
dealings with Spain, he was never SO
much feared as just after he had made
peace at a large price. His general plan
was to elbow in" the bride, as soon as
it was paid him, for arms and m
munition to start a new rebellion.
His All Sin proposals to General Otis
are based on the assumption that we are
as great fools as the other tyrants who
preceded us. But the simple barbarian
will soon find that our civilization is
superior to that of Spain, not only in that
we shoot s~traighter, but also in our keen
appreciation of trickery-when others try
to practice it upon us.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
AM
Bfiou Theatre,

1t has been some time since Evans ana
Hoey last produced Hoyt's "A Parlor
Match" in his city, and those VINO re-
member the packed and damned houses
which greeted them will not be surprised
at the large sale of seats for the per-
Torrance which greeted them will not be
surprised at the large sale of seats for
the performance of this evergreen
popular success at the Bijou, beginning
next Monday evening. There have been
numerous so called comedies, and ex-
produced since the advent OF
"a Parlor Match and all of them to
a certain extent have copied the lines,
business and features that have mace II
famous. Not one of the races that close
ly followed the first production OF f1oyts
first and best effort at farce writing IS
alive today and yet "a Parlor Match Is
even more risky han ever. 1t has been
the policy of the management TO Keep
ABREAST of tn etimes, and each season new
lines have been added, new business ana
specialitis introduced, making it pracu-
cally a new play every year. This season
has been no exception to the RUE, anu
we are promisd the best performance OF
this really funny farce that has ever peeh
given. All of the characters are IN the
hands of well known and prominent play
ers. s'Old Hoss'' the stage original OF
America ntrampss who has captured the
public and excited amused admiration py
his very audaeity is admirably played by
the prince of comedians, Mark Sullivan;
Phillip Fl. Ryley is the proverbial BOOK
agent, and Edith Hoyt, of "A Trip to
Chinatown fame is the innocent Kid,
papa's Angel child. Among the other
features contributed by the thirty mem
bers of the is the whistling OF
Tom Browne, just returned from a three
wear tour abroad. The famous m
Quartette, the vivacious Kingsley Sisters,
Eta Butler in famous representations,
Emma Marsh, Hattie Vera, Harriet smell
don. Walter Ware, and others. The music
Is said to be new, bright and catchy, the
play entirely rewritten and the company
the largest and best that has ever inter-
prted the play. There are songs ana
dances galore and more vaudeville fea-
lures than you usually find in theatres
devoted solely to this kind of entertain
ment.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
Ths American Queen.

The much heralded thousand dollar
story, Queen Cophetua and the Beggar
Man." by K. Murray Eliot, is presented
in the current issue of the american
Queen" together with another short
story entitled ""The intermediary" by
Mrs. Herbert, both being profusely illus
trated; 1.-The Story of Fashion" for the
spring and summer of 1899, comprises
hints and suggestions upon dress and nils
linery and a veritable picture gallery OF
the latest creations, by Abby E. Under
wood and Casimir, of Paris; Dc Moth
ers-in-Law Deserve Their Reputation"
Should Girls be Sent to Boarding
SCHOOL," are the subjects of a couple of
symposiums ably discussed by well known
writer's, while 1.-THE Charm of Children"
n ON Leaving School are other arti-
cles which attract attention. The usual
Observation-Disclosures for Self-Sup-
porting Women, Beauty and the Toilet,
Domestic Science, Embroidery, Puzzles
and a host of other interesting and help
full subjects complete the May issue and
make = one of the best number put out
by The American Queen
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
Academy of Music.

William II. Crane will present the new
Fitch and Detrichsteen comedy, THE
Head of the Family" at the Academy of
Music, on Saturday night, May 10. The
play will be given with all of its original
cast and settings, the production not diff
fering in the slightest manner from the
one which met with so much favor in
New York. Since Mr.. Crane first pro-
duced this comedy he has found it
immensely to the liking of the public. It's
success from a financial stand point has
therefore been very large. The story un-
folded in the work is a domestic n and
while the play is mostly sunshine and
comedy 1t furnishes a very. good lesson
for those who look between its bright and
witty lines. Mr.. Crane had hoped to play
here for at least three nights, but he
found existing contracts prevented his APP
pearing longer than for n night.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
The Cuban Gold MYTH

If we listen to the voice of the charm
err. or go to the books on Cuba for our in
formation, we shall find that the mineral
resources Of this island include gold, sill
yer. mercury, lead, antimony, copper,
chrome, iron, manganese, pitch, bitumen,
and even coal; but when we come to look
for practical metallic results
rate with these varied mineral
we shall be ~disappoited.
The gold fiction Is n time,hon.
ored, fer the original Tieh ala spanish minsI Is settlers S5lea
According to their hist9rians nue. 4ha geld
ming Of the conquest but It seems prob
able that most Of this was taken from
the chiefs or caciques of the Indians and
very little from the ground. Eel Viagero
Universal Madrid, 1881; says-."some of
This metal (gold) is still found at Hol-
gum. .Wheneyer the existsnse e geld ,,i in
ID invariably brought forward. It is true
that some work has been done at this
point and a little gold has been extracted,
but there has never been any systematic
exploration, and there Is nothing there
which may be digniied with the name :
a mine.-sEnginsering Magazine"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
somsthins About the Guiiiotine.

The machine which acquired such evil
celebrity during the Reign of Terror was
named after the physician, Joseph Ig-
mace Guillotin Q738-1s14, a member of the
Assemble Constituante, who pleaded be-
fore his body IN October 10, 17se, for the
enactment of one kind of punishment for
all classes of criminals under capital SEN
tence, namely, decapitation-a punish
ment hitherto reserved for the nobility
and suggested for. this purpose the use
of q machine like the Italian mannaia
(the Neapolitan frame referred to by
Evelyn, which would do the work expe-
ditiously and with the least suffering.
His views were accepted after much dis
cussion: equality of punishment was de-
creed on December lin virtue of which
the Marquis de Favras was hanged for
treason on February 10, ireland decapi-
tation was adopted into the penal code in
the following year. The employment of
a machine was decided on later, but it
was not until March 20. 1882, says La
rousse. that the kind of machine to be
used was settled in accordance with the
report of DR.. Antoine Louis, Secretary of
the Academic de Chirurgie, to whom the
Assemble Legislative had. officially sub
mitted the question, and the first execu-
ton BY the guillotine took place on the
twenty-ffth of the following month, in
the person of a highwayman, Nicolas
Jacques Pelletier.-S Notes and Queries.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
Kautz, Coghlan and the Admins
tratiOu.

The panic into which the somewhat
plain talk of Admiral Kautz and Captain
Coghlan has thrown the administration
and its organs affords a somewhat curious
lesson in the theory of popular govern
ment, as understood by G.. o. F. states
men.
There is no doubt that both of the naval
officers have spoken the truth. No at
tempt is made to deny it. Even the
honester portion of the German press
confesses that Coghlan's outbreak was
justified by the vexatious conduct of
Admiral Dietrich at Manila. Indeed, the
public are now pretty well satisfied that
what has leaked out is far short of the
actual truth.
But if what we are now told-not
officially, but by explosion as it were
is true, why were we not told it before.
Why has the administration been con-
cealing it, not only from the people, but
from Congress? If the people are really
governing the country-as we fondly try
to imagine-how is a deliberate conceal
ment of this kind to be explained or justi-
fed? Are the people to govern in the
dark? Or is the phrase, popular govern
ment" a mere euphemism by which we
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
ANNUAL RIFLE MEET.
1t Will Be Held by the New
Jersey State Rifle Associa-
ton at Sea Girt.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News-"J
TRENTON, April 20, 1ss9.-General Bird
w. Spencer. Edward P. Meaney and
Colonel Anthony R. Kuser, comprising
the Executive Committee of the New
Jersey State Rifle Association, "a fixed
the week beginning September A as the
time for the next annual meeting. which
will take place ait Sea Girt.
The targets used in all the matches will
be those prescribed in sBlunt's Manual
for Small Arms" namely, 200 and 300
yards, target "a bullseye Sx10 inches;
500 and GOO yards, target 3d." bullseye
1Sx24 inches; 1000 yards, target &C." bulls
eye 32x45 inches.
In a circular just issued by the com
mittee, it is prescribed that the following
arms may be used by the several branches
Of the service in all team Matches
The National Guard, State Militia or
volunteers-Springield rifle and carbine,
As calibre (3-grove), without any alter
80 calibre.
zine rifle and carbine. 30 calibre; Spring
field rifle and carbine, As calibre.
The Navy and Marine serviee-Lee
magazine rife. .2S6 calfbre. Springfield
rife, As calibre.
The Naval Reserve-Lee rife, AS calibre.
Lee magazine rifle or Springfield rifle.
In Individual matches in which "any
military rifle is allowed, any military
rifle with plain open sights and not less
than six pound trigger may be used.
The circular also says
The fixed Government ammunition as
issued by the Government will be ex-
clusively used, the same to be delivered
at the range in unbroken original pack
ages direct from the Government OF
State Arsenals. An officer detailed for
that purpose will inspect all ammunition
at the firing point.
Ammunition may be purchased at the
range in original packages. In all indi-
vidual matches any ammunition may be
used unless otherwise specified.
The State of New Jersey will supply
tents, cots and blankets to all teams.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
HoBoKEn POLICE CHANGES.
Appointments Will Probably Be
Made Monday.

The change to be effected in the per-
sonnet of the Police Department is the
topic among Hoboken politicians these
days. The Board of Police Commission
ers will be r~eorganized Monday evening
and it is expected that the changes to be
made will be done at this meeting.
The News has told in the past what
these changes will probably be. Chief
Charles Donovan, it is understood, will be
retired, to be succeeded by Captain
Patrick Hayes. The captains successor,
it is also understood will be Police Com
missioner Patrick Hayden, a well known
Democrat and a staunch supporter Of
Mayor Pagan. There will also be some
changing about among the a drivers
and other minor officers, it is said.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
Ron Ton Theatre.

The finest burlesque show ever staged
by Phil. Sheridan, postmaster OF the our-
lesque art, will be seen at the Bon Ion
Theatre commencing Monday, May u
when his latest success, City Sports Bur
lesouers, equipped with a multitude OF
pretty choristers, clever comedians ana
good specialists takes the stage. Ihls
show as an entertainment is one of the
richest and most varied of the year. II
combines all the best and brightest ele-
ments of gay burlesque, spectacular and
vaudeville. and is superbly equipped with
all the essentials of an up-to-date draw
ing card. sparkling music and bright
comedy, and devotees of pleasure, pure
and simple, will all find plenty to amuse
and entertain them from the rising OF the
curtain until the final fall.
The olio of acts includes the highest
salaried artists on the vaudeville stage
and enumerates among others Miss Ruth
Beecher. a niece of the late Henry Ward
Beecher, who sings like a nightingale;
Alice Leslie: the Monte Myro Troupe of
-Four, pantomimists; WhitelaW and
Stewart. the German and the Celt;
.sPastimes Among the Flowers" a sketch
of dainty grace and artistic merit, ar
ranged by Mr.. Arthur Filippi and executed
by iCrissie Sheridan and twelve other
young~fadies, introducing a. number Oh
terpsichorean %eyolutions and a series of
art pictures; Scanlon and Stevens, in an
UNIQUE comedy sketch; Farnum and Mel
son. in an acrobatic speciality, and last
but not least, A. c. Lawrence, mono
loguist. Two bristling burlesques open
and close the programme under the titles
~ ssMaloney's Visit and The Troubles
of a King" The dialogue sparkles With
comedy, music, mirth and laughter. The
production is superbly mounted, the pro-
gramme varied and well contrived in
every department and full of life and
merriment. Phil. Sheridan always brings
a good show, and this, his latest, is said
to eclipse all others as his best efforts
have been placed foremost in getting
together this magnificent company which
comprise the very best in their respective
lines that can be secured. Matinees will
be given.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
A Serious Mistake Of Mayor Hoo

A Serious Mistake OF Mayor 0
The appointment made by Mayor Hoos
to the Greater Jersey City Commission
is a very great disappointment to all who
hope to see the great project advance to-
wards successful contamination. Mr.. B.
l.. Stowe is an estimable gentleman, a
good business man and a public spirited
citizen. But he is totally unqualified for
the duties which this Commission is to
perform
The work of devising a charter for a
great municipality should plainly be per-
formed by experts. The ablest lawyer,
the shrewdest politician, the most thor
oughly versed official is none too able,
too well informed, or too astute or too
well posted for such IN undertaking. In
this city. it is doubtful if there are a
dozen men who are properly equipped for
the work, and some of these, like Judge
Gilbert Collins, are disqualified fer one
reason or another from serving. sun
there were available men in both par
ties, whose services might have been Sc
cured. E. F. C. Young, William d. Ed
wards, ex-Comptroller George r. Hough,
ex-City Treasurer Dickinson are men OF
he extent of knowledge and degree OF
ability and experience in municipal al
fairs needed in this place. There is,
however, one man who was eminently-
pre-eminently the man for the Mayor to
select, on account of his ability, his ex-
perience, and his present official position.
This man is Allan l.. MeDermott. Why
he was not selected to represent Jersey
City in the Commission is one OF the
mysteries that no one can solve.
AS it is, Jersey City will be practically
unrepresented upon the Commission, I'M
less Mr.. Stowe has the good judgment
to decline a position which is outside of
his sphere of activity, and the Mayor
then names Mr.. McDermott or some
other suitable person in his stead.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
esale No. $685.
aUDsoN COUNTY ORPHANS COURT.


In the matter of the sale Of lands of Alice
Tierney, deceased, for the payment of her
debts.
Edward Kenny. Proctor.
BY virtue of an order entered in the above
stated matter, on the seventh day of April,
A. D. 1899. I shall sell, at public vendue, on
THURSDAY, the first day of June. A. D. 1899,
at 2 O'Clock in the afternoon, all the following
described land and premises, with the APP
purtenances, being the same described in said
order. that is to say
All that tract or parcel Of land and prem
ises. situated and being in the Borough of
East Newark, Hudson County, New Jersey, de-
scribed as follows
Beginning on the northerly side of Soaring
street or avenue, at q point therein distant
easterly one hundred and seventy-hve feet from
the corner of the same and Passaic avenue. as
the same are laid out on a map OF the Scar
ing property, made out by E. Dunn, Surveyor,
March, 1867 and filed in the County Clerks
office Of Hudson County, and from thence rum
ming north twenty degrees and ten minutes
east ninety-iye feet; thence south sixty-nine
degrees and fifty minutes east twenty-five
feet: thence south twenty degrees and ten
minutes west nipety-dye feet to the line OF
Soaring avenue aforesaid; thence along the
same north sixty-nine degrees and fifty min.
utes west twenty-five feet to the place of be-
ginning, and being lot No.. 50 on the aforesaid
map.
B. F. WALSH.
Administrator.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
TREE cHRIsTENED MERsHElMER
Arbor Day Fitting1y Observed al
No Is School.

Arbor Day was especially observed by
the pupils of No. 26 School yesterday af-
ternoon. A maple tree christened Mecs-
heimer was planted on the lawn just
south of the main entrance. The children
who took a prominent part in the SER
vices were:=Florence Desmond, Grant
Critschfeld, Murtus Davis, Minnie Siegl,
Henrietta Dodenhoff, Joseph Mullica. An
ma Lillis, Magdalena BONN, Louis Hansen,
Margaret Hawby, Mary McMenany. Rob-
ert Kelly, Elarle Rice, Vivian Gould, May
Hague, Ella Kattenhorn, May Wallace,
Otto Berghorn, Ernest Garry, Martha Al
Jason Skerritt, Erna Won der Heydt,
Abathea. Crawford, Joseph Hamilton, Ell
la Kittel, Pearl Stein, Frank Ard, Herbert
Pennell, Irene Barton, Mabel eager and
Fannie Daniels.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
MASTERS SALEM cHANcER1 OF NEW

MASTERS SALEM cHANCERI OF NEW
Between el The Farmers Loan and Trust Com.
parry ct al, Compliments. and Hudson Tunnel
Railway Company ct ais, defendants.
III ia. For Sale of Mortgaged Premises, &c.
Heturnable May Term, 1899.
Henry S. White, Solicitor.
Natice is hereby given that IN pursuance OF
a decree in the above entitled cause, and by
virtue of the above stated writ, to me directed
and delivered, shall sen by pqnilc Aver veno ~ t 1Se
Office Of the Hudson Tunnel Railway Company,
situated at the foot OF Fifteenth street on the
New Jersey, on Tuesday, the second DAY OF
Nav, A. D. 1899, at twelve o'clock and fifteen
serihed property, rights and franchises. with
the appurtenances, that is to say
All and singular the Hudson Tunnel Railway
Comnany's tunnels and lines of railway, al
readv constructed or now in course of eonstruc-
tion. and which said tunnels are now known or
tunneis extending from New York City, in the
state OF New York. to Jersey City, in the State
IL piebfs Of way, depots, workshops. engine
heuses. car-houses, freight-houses and other
huildings. structures and terminal facilities,
with the lands mot exceeding $50. 600 square feet
in the City of New York; appertaining 70 al
Of the ;m sane, ats materials, fuel and ali other
equipments, appurtenanees and personal prop
erty of every nature ua TX kin aa,, anI oT at anV
time after the 18th day Of April 1889. held Or
acquired by the Hudson Iunnsl hallway t tsns-
n1ants. hereditaments and appurtenances to the
said railways, branches, lands and premises
or either thereof, belonging or in any wise ap-
Tarta ining. and the reversion and reversions,
remainder and remainders. tolls, incomes;
revenues, rents, issues and profits thereof, and
La ali the estate, right, title, interest, prop
ertv possession. claim and demand whatso-
ever, as well at law as in equity, Of the SAD an
70 the same and every and any part thereof.
with the appurtenances, and nd all Il the he a pr0psTtyi
,us the said Hudson Tunnel Railway Com
pany.
Dae RANDOLPH PARMLY,
Master in Chancery of New Jersey.
HENRY S. WHITE.
Solicitor for Compliments,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
The "Journa1" apd the Schools.

The Evening Journal is devoting a
good deal of its more or less valuable
space just now to an effort to drag the
Board of Education sinto politics. 1t has
chosen Director Mulvaney as a sort of
~scapegoat, and through him it is trying
to have the party line sharply drawn in
the Board, and a bitter partisan feeling
stirred up which will impair the working
ssTh News in urging the members to
years.
would it not be better If it should join
s'The News in urging the members to
get together speedily, choose any good
man President, and take up at once the
task Of getting the schools into first rate
order, and so maintaining them. just now
there are two big questions to tackle. One
Of them is he rebuilding of No. 20 in
Greenvi1le. The other is the organization
of the annual ummer repairs, including
the renovation of No. u, now in a shame
fully bad condition.
we have several times urged thu need
for speedy action upon these pressing
needs. Now, if the Journal, cares any.
thing more for the schools than 1t does
for a game Of peanut politics, let It joir
with us and bring the six or seven direc-
tors, who are of its party, into line fol
Immediate action. What matter who ii
President?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29

tee. Thursday nights meeting was .
beautiful example OF. the style Of reor-
ganization that may be expected from
the powers that be.
The scheme of putting a dangerous mar
in an official place where he is complete
ly out of mischief is an old one, but It al
ways works. No doubt, Mr.. Baldwin VIII
wear his muzzle gracefully, and all The
rest of the discontented will soon get used
again to the tight fit of their collars.
Colonel SAM Dickinson is what is pop
ularly as a very slick article.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
Beware OF Ointments for Catarrh
That Contain Mercury.

as mercury will surely destroy the sense
n smell and completely derange the
whole system when entering Il through
the mucous surfaces: Such articles should
from reputable physicians. as the dam
go thev will do is tenfold to the good
you can possibly derive from them
Z rrhenev e Co, Toledo, o., contains no
ynArci1rv. and is taken internally, acting
upon the blood and mucous SUR
faces Of the system. In buying Halls
,,ine II is taken internally, and made
In Toledo, Ohio, by #. J. Cheney & Co.
Sold by Druggists, price 75c. per bottle
Hali's Family Pills are the best.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29

The stars next attraction is 1.-THE White
Heather" the big Academy of Music
success of last season. The plot will be
presented with a wealth of scenery and
stage effects, including the great diving
scene. The company engaged to inter-
pref the different roles is a competent
one, headed by Miss Alice Fisher, an ac-
tress Of considerable merit.
The Sunday evening concert at the Star
includes Marie Wainwright and company,
and a number Of new views, including the
san Juan battle, with Edison projecto-
scope.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-29
FOREST FIRE NEAR RlSIEY.

Especial to THE Jersey City News."1
MAYS LANDING, April %. 1854
fierce forest fire is now raging near the
West Jersey & Seashore Railroad,
north of Rtsley. The fire originated
from burning brush. Several farms are
in danger, and much valuable timber is
being destroyed.