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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
THE CORPORATION GRIND.
A Number Of Companies
File Articles at Trenton.
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Iopeclal 10 Ihe Jersey CITY News.
TRENTON, April 20, 1so1.-Articles of in
corporation for the following companies
were filed yesterday in the Office of the
Secretary of State:-
American Flour Manufacturing Com
pany, with a capital stock of s125.0 .0c0. The
principal office is at Vineland, and the
eompany's agent is Edwin F. Miller. The
incorporators, all of whom are from Vine
land, are Henry S. Morris, Adaline J.
Morris and George Cunning.
King Mercantile Company, with a capi-
tai stock of s50.oOe.
The Electric Railroad Construction
Company, of Perth Amboy, with capital
stock of 100000. The incorporators are
Sidney Riddlestorffer, A. Clayton Clark
and William A. Mccoy.
Mexican Process Company, with a capi-
tai stock of s125, ,Oe0
Whitney Car Wheel Company, of Cam
den, win capital stock of sl50,o0O. The
incorporators are Thomas g. Whitney,
Joseph P. Mumford, Francis Sehumann,
John Thomas, T. Fernley Brooks, ]. Ian
caster Daley, all of Philadelphia, and
William S. Darnell, of Camden.
The Globe Navigation Company, with a
capital STOCK OIL @l,uuu,UUU.
The New Auditorium Pier Company, to
conduct seaside resort amusement pier,
with a capital stock of 100000. The in
corporators are:-Edgar A Tennis, Homer
A Rau and w. B. Wolcott. OF Camden.
This is said to be reorganization of the
Atlantic City auditorium pier.
Cloverbrook Farm Company, to deal in
butter, eggs, etc, with capital stock of
$4,000. The incorporators are J. L. Camp
bell, P. j. Norton and ]. j. Treacy, all of
Jersey City.
Later companies formed are as follows:
The Bristol Company, $4,000; United
Air Power and Refrigerating Company,
1000; Eagle Rock Water Company,
s15O,O00; Johnson Carbonator Company,
s4O0, 600; Motormobile Company, s2eO, 900;
Mount Peace Cemetery and Funeral Di-
recting Company s12,5o0; Havana Brick
Company, 100000; Manitou Beach Asso-
citation, $3.50, 900; Acme Fire Escape Com
pany, 500, 600; Butler Pure Food Com
pany, S125, 900; Reside Fabric Company,
$50 900; Potomac Brick Company, 100000;
Irvington, N. J., Manufacturing Com
pany, $4,000; James River Live Stock
Company, 100000
Company, to construct, sell. manage,
etc. hotels, restaurants and other real
or personal property, with a capital stock
of $4,000 The company will commence
business with $1,000 The incorporators
are w. Johnson Quinn, William Joseph
Quinn, Charles Dutton, all of Allenhurst,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
SLEIGHT OF HAND SWINDLE
Hoboken Man Bought a Dia
mond Pin Which Decreased
in Value.

Two we'll dressed men entered the shoe
store of Louis Lowenthal, at No. 215
Washington street, Hoboken, yesterday
afternoon, and after telling the proprietor
a story of temporary financial embarrass-
ment from bad luck at gambling, offered
to sell him a handsome diamond scarfpin
for $25 They requested him to have the
pin examined and appraised by jeweler
next door before he bought it. Lowenthal
is fond of diamonds and the offer of the
men struck him as being such a fair one
that he did as requested. The jeweler
assured him that the gem was easily
valued at $50. Sure of q bargain Lowen-
thai returned to the men he had left wait
ing in his store and paid over the $25.
s.You won't regret your purchase" said
the quiet man of the two. "That stone
is a beauty. Hold it to the light and see
it sparkle. Here let me show you the
way
The quiet stranger took the pin from
Lowenthal and revolved it rapidly be-
tween his thumb and forefinger. The
stone, as he said, was a beauty and
scintillated in the strong glare let through
the front window of the store, throwing
out dazzling rays like small sunburst
Lowenthal looked on in admiration and
when the stone was returned to him he
caressed it tenderly.
Proud of his purchase he paid another
visit to the jeweler next door, who asked
for another look at it. The jewelers. face
dropped at the sight of the pin Lowenthal
proffered him.
Surely this is not the article you paid
SIS for?'' he said. Lowenthal assured him
that it was and would not believe the
jeweler was in earnest when he said the
gem was paste. But in a moment the
truth dawned upon him. In fondling the
real gem the quiet stranger had deity
exchanged it for a duplicate which he
returned in its stead. The value of the
second stone was about 81 retail.
Lowenthal ran to Police Headquarters
and reported the swindle The detectives
have small hope of being able to arrest
the men, as they undoubtedly came from
New York.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
CRAZE FOR SOAP.
Elmer's Womankind Has
Bought Enough for
Forty Years.
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BRIDGETON, April 20, 1901-The bus
Ting town of Elmer, few miles north
2 of here, has gone soap crazy Every
other woman is, or was, selling SOAP
The premiums offered by a Western
manufacturer tempted one or two, at first,
to send for the required amount to gain
the prizes, and the rest was easy. The
local express Office was worked overtime
to take care of the shipments of soap
boxes and articles of furniture, bric-a-
brac, pictures and whatnot sent as pre-
miums on the several orders.
Prominent women of the town began to
move about with industry and alacrity
to find purchasers for the commodity. and
there is a sickening drop in the market
price fromd ten to five cents. The craze
threatened to assume the proportions of
social revolution, for some who pur-
chased from one woman were given black
looks when another friend called and dis
covered that she was too late.
When nearly every householder in the
town had laid. in a stock sufficient to last
through a forty-year strike of soapmakers
the crisis came with a jump
Mrs. Halle Linch is an aggressive far
township, and drives to Elmer each morn
ing with cans of milk for shipment She
decided that there was money in the soap
business, and she arranged to become a
general agent. With hard cash, instead
of furniture, for premiums, she sold S. 900
worth in a few months and was on Easy
street. She spent little time each day
in Elmer, and when the glut came Mrs.
Linch, it is said, cut the price to three
cents cake.
The other women sellers became indig-
nant and put their heads together In
the Elmer Times" yesterday Mrs. Linch
inserted an article declaring that Mayor
Edmunds had notified her to come before
him; that she went and was ordered to
stop selling soap within the borough lin
its or pay a peddlers license She saws
the Mayors wife was one of the soap
agents, and declares that she cannot be
scared off.
Mrs. Linch offers to meet in public de
bate the women who. she says, are back
of the movement to stop her business. One
is a leading milliner and two others are
foremost workers in the Methodist
Church She wants the debate to take
place in the Elmer postoffice, between 8
and o'clock, any week day morning, and
invites them if they decline to do this to
present in writing the legal objections to
her continuing in the business. and offers
S5 SPOT cash TO them in return for which
ever proposition they accept. The offer
has not been accepted as vet.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
KIDNApS HIS CHILD.
Albeit Does All Sorts of Stunts
and the Little Girl Is
Rescued.

Joseph Albeit, of Camden, N. T., was
a prisoner today in the Tomplxinsville,
New York, Police Court. The specific
charge against him was disorderly con-
duct, and the remarkable clothes he wore
furnished the principal evidence against
him.
Albeit was dressed right so far as the
top half of him was concerned, a light
Fedora hat and a fawn-colored overcoat
completing that part of his attire. His
legs were incased in a short pair of rae
ing trunks that did not reach down to
his knees. and below that he wore moth
ing but a pair of socks. He looked like
cross between a Highlander and a
champion runner.
Albeit made his first appearance on
Staten Island yesterday morning. He was
seen on a wheel pedalling toward the
Tompkinsville school house from Staple
ton He mingled with the scholars and
paid no attention to the jeers of the boys
until a little girl approached him. He
seized her and started to run. The child
seemed to know him and made no out
cry.
The boys threw rocks at the grotesque
stranger until he dropped the little girl,
mounted his wheel and escaped. He af-
forwards appeared at the ferryhouse
where the men jeered him until he threw
q handful of S. and $40 bills at them and
then stalked into the waiting room. Here
his appearance caused such commotion
that he was arrested. He said that the
little girl he attempted to kidnap was his
daughter Size os the child of Mrs. Abb
lett, who lives on Targee street, Staple
ton. She says that Albeit is her husband
but that she has not lived with him for
eight months
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20

what the people Of this town should de
with this gentleman, DR.. McGlll 1 believe
his name is. Nothing good can come
of it. Drawing attention TO these matters
is more demoralizing than they are them
selves. Then the idea of having a lot of
people judge the posters, why it's alb
surd. There has never been an objection
to that paper before and we have been
all over the country. The fact that
these trivial matters are considered by
people who are supposed to have stand
ing in the community shows something
wrong in the mental makeup I am sure
Cue" again came through the wings,
and the girl rushed away.
Mayor Hoos, when seen in the City Hall
this morning, said:-
If this poster crusade is to continue,
why. can't imagine where it is going to
stop. If we open magazine, what do
we see? If we go into dry goods stores,
what do we see? Why, the forms of
women, showing style of corset But
the matter is in the hands of the Police
Commissioners and Chief Murphy. and 1
have enough to do here in the office"
City Hall Custodian Emil Datz said:--
When a man gets so that he cannot
look upon works of art without having
spasms of righteous wrath, as Dr. McGill
has, he should be taken from earth to fill
a place above
Charles Barton, of Barton & Rice, the
owners of the big Gaiety Burlesquers,"
last night said:-
tOf course do not understand what is
behind all this nonsense There may be
some petty political situation that I
don't understand, but whatever it is
want to say that this is very trivial all
through and it seems to me without
sufficient ground. That same paper has
been put up in every big town in the
country, that is, every town of 100000
Inhabitants or more, and there has never
been any complaint before. 1t may be
that the other towns are not so good
as this, but L don't think so. When men
like DR.. McGill start out to do good they
can always find much better material
than the question of theatrical posters to
turn their attention to. I have been in
the theatrical profession for about forty
years and have been in every town in
sihe States. There was once, in Pitts
burg, about eight years ago, a similar
incident. A company that went ahead of
us was playing the town. but nothing
came out of it in the end. Yeu see the
Doctor doesn't grasp the idea. We mean
that picture, which he complains of par
ticularly, to appeal to the humorous ele-
ment. Of course it is an exaggeration of
the ideas of roof garden or concert hall
scenes, but there is really nothing vicious
or indecent or obscene or even vulgar in
it. Only a perverted mind could take
such a stand as that occupied by some
of those crusaders
Treasurer Kitchen of the Bon Ton
said:-
There is no good reason why this cru
sade should be started. For years we
have been carefully going through the
paper sent to us and whenever anything
is found that is Objectionable, why he
take it out ana do not display it. We
have followed this rule so strictly that
advance men and managers, when they
come here and see our rules, frequently
remark Why don't you put couple
of spires on the top of this house and
calf it the Bon Ton ehapel?',
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
NO SUCH THING AS DEATH
So the Healer" Declares as
Little Ida Ellis Dies Of
Diphtheria.
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FANWOOD, April 20, 1sOl.--"There is no
such thing as death,'' declared the Chris
tian Science nurse in the home of Leroy
]. Ellis in Forest avenue today.
There is no sub thing as death,'' re-
peated the mother of eight-year-old Ida
Ellis, tossing in delirlun on her bed. In
the Village cemetery there was tiny
grave. in which the body of the daughter
Ida had been laid at rest during the night.
Armed guards patrolled about the house
and warned passersby that there was
diphtheria within.
There is no such thing as diphtheria,'' =
the faith cure healer declared, and from
the grief stricken mothers lips came a
repetition of the words. Her faith was
sublime, but her child was dead.
Her other two children, Willie and Dor
othy, are also critically i'll with diph-
iberia. The healer still remains, and
the doctors come and go, working with all
their skill, to save these two little ones.
They ignore the healer.
Willie, the eight-year-old boy, was the
first to be stricken The neighbors say
ago, but Dr. T. w. Westcott, the only
puysSlCIdu III Il dilWOOu, We5 iiul teAitu III
until last Friday evening. Even then it
was only when her husband insisted. The
doctor Immediately diagnosed the case as
diphtheria, and asked why he had not
been called before.
There is no such thing as diphtheria, =
said Mrs. Elils. willie is perfectly WE'LL"
The physician went away indignant ct
her anger and Mortified at the possible
results of her course. After conferring
with. his colleagues of the Health Board
he ordered 7the strict quarantine of the
house.
Monday night little Ida was stricken
with an acute form of the disease, and,
although the healers said the girl was
well, her father insisted upon sending for
DIR. Smith, of Westfield. Every remeoy
known to science was employed and the.
child was just kept alive until Thursday
afternoon DR.. Westcott was at her bed
side as the end approached. Turning to-
the father he said
"Mr. Ellis, your child is dying, and In.
a very few minutes all will be over.
At this the Christian Scientist nurse
spoke up.
do you mean to say that this child Is
dying?" she asked scornfully.
DR.. Westcott nodded his head
''What nonsensep' exclaimed the nurse.
s'There is no such thing as death.'
The words had scarcely left her lips
when the little girl breathed her last. !
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
SMALLPOX c0NvALESCEaTS.
Only One Death Feared at Snake
Hill--New Nurse.

Over one-half the smallpox patients at
Snake Hill are now convalescing and
Medical Superintendent DR.. George W.
King told a News reporter this morn
ing that he had no fear of any more of
the present cases resulting fatally, with
the possible exception of the Douglass
child from East Newark.
An additional nurse was installed at the
pest house yesterday. This is the first
time in the history of the institution that
the warden and matron were not able to
attend to all the cases.
There are now twenty-four patients.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
WRECKED AT PORT READING.

Captain John R. Dewar, secretary of
the New Jersey Pilotage Commission, was
advised today that the schooner Damon
had sunk off Port Reading, Arthur Kill.
He at once made an inspection of the
vessel since it has been reported that it
was dangerous to navigation. Captain
Dewar found the vessel entirely sub
merged and made report to President
D. C.. -Aase of the Pilotage Commission,
who will notify the United States au-
thorities to remove the obstruction.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
DETECTIVE FOUND THE WATCH

Detective Bumsted, after tour Of a
number of New York pawnshops, sue
ceeded in locating an openface gold watch
stolen from the home of Charles Hill,
No 90 Highland avenue. The details of
the robbery were kept quiet The theft
took place on April 8. Entrance was
gained through a basement window. The
thieves were scared away before they
could gather more boot.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
Disposal OF victoria's Feline Pet

4 TIE uIsp0saI OF Queen Vlctorla' s numeT-
Gus pets is a matter of no small concern
to the persons who are closing up her
affairs. The late queen was a great lover
of cats. When the court moved it was
accompanied by d feline caravan. There
were Persian cats, Manx cats, Angora
cats, Maltese cats, tabby cats and nom
descripts and they all travelled in state
They were placed in wooden boxes with
an open wire front and had plenty of
clean straw to lie on One Persian cat,
Of which the queen was especially fond,
wears round its neck an elaborate col
lar, on which appears IN silver letters,
"I belong to the queen Princess
Beatrice's especial favorite is a white cat
Of ordinary breed.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
EWIHG'S HOTEL SOLD OUT.

The auctioneer's hammer knocked to
pieces today an old landmark. All the
furniture and fixtures of Ewing's Hotel,
which has done business so many years
at the lower end Of Montgomery street,
were sold at auction this morning. The
event brought together a large crowd Of
bargain seekers and the sale realized a.
fair price. Whether the building will
ever be used again as hotel, the future
alone can tell
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
MARTIN ACT REPORT NO. 1903.

The 10sth report of the Martin Act Com
missioners was submitted to Justice Col
Inns in the Supreme Court this morning
for confirmation. There was only one OBJ
lection, from the Traphagen estate, and
the State, after allowing rule to show
cause, returnable next Saturday in that
case, confirmed the rest of the report.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
R0HazlaG AT RUTGERS.
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ISpeciaI to The Jersey City News"
NEW BRUNSWICK, April 20, 1901
President Scott at the dinner of the Rut-
gers College New York Alumni Associa-
ton announced that there would be no
more hazing at that college He stated
that in the future freshmen would be re-
ceived with open arms as the equals of
the hitherto superior sophomores, junior
and seniors Even the cane rushes are
to be done away with and high hats and
canes be worn by the freshmen if they so
desire.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
FALLoM ASSOCIATIONS PICNIC

The NJ. J. Fallon Association will meet
tomorrow afternoon at the club rooms,
Washington and Sussex streets, and APP
point the various committees which will
have charge Of the annual picnic of the
association at Greenville Schuetzen Park
on June IS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
THIS BLACK CAT NOT LUCKY.

A black cat upset a lamp which ex-
ploded and started blaze in the apart
ments of Dominick Vinzellow, at No. 529
Jefferson street, Hoboken, last evening.
The flames spread rapidly and kept the
firemen at hard work for twenty minutes
before they were gotten under control
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
CONTESTS Ills SISTERS WILL.

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NEWARK. April 20, 1901. The Orphans
Court heard evidence in George c. Ward s
contest Of the will Of his sister, Anna b.
Ward, which leaves him a trifiing sum
and bequeaths A0500 to Miss Wards maid
Lizzie Dow. Ward charges that IS sister
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
GIRL RUN DOWN BY TEAM

Thirteen-year-old Martha Beher, Of
No. I'll Garden street, Hoboken, was run
down by a team and buggy while play
ing in front of Public School No. 1, yes
terday afternoon. Louis Matthews, the
driver of the team, was arrested, but the
girls parents, despite the fact that she
was severely injured, refused to make a
charge against him and he was released.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
COLLEGE CLUBS MUSICALE

The College Club will hold musicale in
the lecture room of the First Presbyterian
Church, on Emory street. May 10, for the
benefit of the scholarship fund Mrs. Ian
Jackson, of New York, tenor, will rem
der several solos. Miss Louise G. Farrant
is chairman of the Entertainment Com
mittee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
Snring Faver.

Spring fever has arrived. It always
comes ahead of the calendar Generally
it is announced by advertisements telling
of remedies that will cure the tired feel
ing. Occasionally a biuebird comes along
to sound a note, and, finally. under the
leaves some one finds a snowdrop or q
violet, and everybody begins to grow
weary. The disease is largely mental and
the sovereign cure for Ii u Wofk.-The
Saturday Evening Post.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
Hartnest's Thermomstrieal Report
DIED.

NEUHAUS-On Tuesday April 1e. 1901, at
ST. Marks Hospital, OF pneumonia,
John Neuhaus, son of Catherine Neu-
naus, aged thirty-one years.
Funeral services at his late residence,
No. 6S Hoboken avenue, corner Oakland
avenue, on Sunday, April q, at two P. M.
Relatives and friends are respectfully in
vited.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
LEG BROKEN ON BREMEN PIER.

Joseph McIver. twenty-four years DID,
of No. 27l West 14Oth street. New York,
had his left leg broken while at work
yesterday on one Of the new Bremen piers
in Hoboken. He was taken to st. Marys s
Hospital in the city ambulance.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
An Old and well Tried Remoay

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething should always be used for children
while teeshing. Il softens the gams. aiiays the
pain. cures wind collie and Is the best remedy
fer diarrnosa, Twenty-Five cents per bottle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
FIRST WARD CLUB TO MEET.

The First Ward Democratic Club will
meet next Monday evening, and ar
rangements will be made for stag, to
be held at the clubhouse, Washington
and Sussex streets. some time next
month.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
THIRD WARD CLUB TO MEET.

There will be a special meeting of the
Third Ward Democratic Club next We'd
nesday evening at o'clock in the club
house, No. 250 Sixth street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-04-20
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, April 20, 1e81.-Forecast
for thirty-six hours ending at eight P. NJ
Sunday:-Rain tonight, clearing and
warmer tomorrow; winds northwest.
La democracia. (Ponce, P.R.) 1890-1948, 1901-09-20
Puestos vacantes

Mr.. Nc Leary ha participate al goberna-
dor civil que es precise que Sc cubran las va
que siguen:
Aguada, ]; Abonito Il ARROYO 2; Aguas
Buenas, 1; Af1asco, /; Barros. o; Cabo Rojo. q;
Caguas, 2; Cayey, 2; Coamo, 2; Dorado. /; Fa-
jardo. 1: Hati.lo, 1; Humacao, 2; Juana Diaz,
2; Larss, 2; Las Marfas, 1; Lola, i; Manatf, 81;
Maricao. 1; Mayagtisz. 2; Moca, /; Patilas. 1;
Ponce, /; Rio Piedras, 2; Sabana Grade, a; San
Juan, 2; San Sebastian, q Toa Alta, 1; Toa
Bsja. 2; Yabucoa, Q Yauco2.
Confamos en- que respetando las decico-
nes del sufragio, So cubran esos puestos con
federsles, donds 6stos obtuvieron la mayorfa
por expression de las urnas; y con republica-
NOS, donde la mayorfa haya favorecido los
rspublicanos.
Esto es 10 justo y 10 legal.