The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-02-24
DR.. HERR
CONTRADlCTED.
Relative of Mr.. McIlroy
Says the Family Did
Not Authorize His
Attack.
THE ACCUSATION UNJUST
Former President Asks Why
the Pastor, When a Club
Member, Did Not Fight
Against Cafe.
THE ACCUSATION UNJUST

The main topic discussed last evening at
the Jersey City Club and in other circles
was the bitter and unjust attack of the
Rev. Charles Herr, D. D., on the MEM
bers of the Jersey City Club and the
cafe attached thereto. All the evening
the members gathered in little groups ana
denounced the utterances of the minis
ter. Every one of those present was OF
the opinion that DIR. Hers remarks were
entirely out of place and outrageous.
There was to have been meeting OF the
Board of Governors last evening, but
quorum was not present. This was prob
ably due to the fact that the meetings are
held on Thursdays, and Thursday being
a holiday the members thought that the
meeting would go over until next week
A meeting has been called for this even
ing, however. Notices to this effect were
sent out.
a member stated this morning that the
remarks of DIR. Herr would doubtless be
brought up for discussion. but he could
not tell what the outcome of the meeting
would be-
A reporter of 'The News" called this
morning at the home of the McIlroy fam
lily on Bramhan avenue for the purpose
of learning whether the members sane
toned the statements made by Mr.. Herr
at the funeral services of William j. Nc
Troy A sister of the deceased, in reply
to a question as to whether the family
were acquainted with the substance OF the
pastors sermon. stated that they were
not.
.'The family did not sanction Mr.. Herr's
remarks, . she stated. She added that the
family positively refused to discuss the
matter further. None of them would con-
sent to be interviewed, she said.
The Rev. DR.. Herr had nothing further
to say on the subject today. He said
yesterday that. he might make q state
ment on Monday morning. This depended
wholly on what action was taken by the
Board of Governors of the Clubs which
he denounced. DR.. Herr, in speaking OF
the matter, yesterday. said that he felt
that the McIlroy house was the place TO
make such statements as the club MEM
bers were there in numbers, and that
the time was most oppertune. He added
that if a sermon of that sort were preach
ed from the pulpit, it would have no eff
feet whatever.
II, with many other members of the
Jersey City Club, said a former presi-
dent of that institution, this morning,
think that DIR. Herr's remarks were un-
Just, may say cowardly. Just think of
it. a room filed with members of a club
obliged to listen to a terrible accusation
and propriety compelled their silence.
DR. Herr should have remembered that
in the Jersey City Club there are many
men who never go into the cafe at all;
never drink any spirituous liquor and yet
being members of the club they have to
endure this arraignment. His remarks
affect every club in the city. What as
tonishes me is that DR.. Herr, who now
denounces the cafe of the club, was
a member of the club and attended 1t fre-
uuently. Why didn't he when a member
fight against the change in the club?
Why didn't he as a Christian minister,
and, Of course, an uncompromising foe of
rum, do everything in his power to pre-
vent the cafe being installed in the club.
These questions, however, really are out
side of this that the Rev. DR.. Herr show
ed that in his painful speech transgressed
the bounds of charity, fairness and
truth"
Several club members were seen this
morning, but they stated that they were
unprepared to make lengthy statements.
These would positively come later they
said. All agreed, however, that the pastor
was unjust in his remarks and as result
was a decidedly unpopular man on the
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