The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-02-27
HUSHED UP.
Jersey City Club Will Take
No Notice Of Statement
About It's Cafe.
TO PLEASE THE M'ILROYs
DR.. Herr Accused of Giving
Out Garbled Report of
His Remarks.

The Board of Governors of the Jersey
City Club met last night in the treasurer $
Office of the club for the purpose of trans
acting routine business and to take action
on the death of the late William I. Nc
Troy, a charter member, who died on
Tuesday last from an attack of pneu-
monia after weeks illness. Resolutions
of coincidence were passed, but the ex-
pected answer to the bitter and unjust
attack of the Rev. Charles Herr, d. d.,
of the First Presbyterian Church, who
assailed the members and the cafe of the
cluo al the funeral services of the de-
ceased last Thursday night, was not made.
AT the earnest request of the family the
Board decided not to take further action
in the matter.
For three hours eleven of the sixteen
members of the Board discussed the re-
marks of Pastor Herr. There was not a
member present who was not perfectly
willing to put himself on record as being
bitterly opposed to Dr. Hers statements.
Had it not been for the request of the
McIlroy family the Board would certain
ly have drawn up a statement for publi-
cation DIR. Herr was denounced right
and left for about two hours, after the
business session had been conducted.
These were the resolutions passed.
Resolved, That the sympathy of the
club members be and hereby is eX-
tended to the family of the late Will
lam L. McIlroy.
Resolved. That at the request of the
family OF the late William /. McIlroy
the Board of Governors refrain from
taking any action in regard to the
sttements made by the Rev. Charles
Herr.
Three members were elected to the
Board ]. D. Baldwin, D. B. Day and
W. R. Starrett. A member of the Board
of Governors this morning made this
statement
Il have nothing to say about the contro-
versy between the club and DR.. Herr,
that can take care of itself. But I wish
to say a few words regarding the de-
ceased. 1 do not think that his death
could be attributed to any such cause as
claimed by DIR. Herr, nor for that mat
ter in any direct way by his personal
habits. In my opinion he had not dis
sipated to an extent which would serious
ly undermine his constitution, or to unfit
him to resist any ordinary attack of dis
ease not necessarily fatal from its in
tensity, whatever might have been his
condition from his manner of life.
HE certainly had dissipated less in the
last five years and particularly the last
few months, tnan IN the previous nva
years, when there was no cafe in the
club. DIR. Herr must have been ill-ad-
vfsed or he never would have SO maligned
the memory of the dead or driven the
sword of false accusation so deep in the
hearts Of the bereaved family already full
to overhowing.
'4The deceased was not a heavy drinker
in the ordinary sense of the word, but
was an inveterate and excessive user of
tobacco, a, practice DR.. Herr certainly
would never take exception to- In his
new found zeal for temperance, in his
appeal to the club members, he twice
described all rgho in any way contributed
to the support of the institution as muir
derers, but strangely omitted that part
from the supposed truthful version which
he gave out for publication"
Several members this morning were in
terviewed and everyone stated that he
was willing to go on record in the matter
if the club so decided. A conference may
be held among certain members and in
dividual statements given out for pub
licatfon.
DR.. Herr has refused to discuss the wat
ter further. He stated that he would
stand by his original statment and that
ended the affair SO far as he was con-
cerned.