The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-04
Workings Of Station House
and a Nights Events
Shown Last Night.
ROASTS OF OFFICIALS
Gags About Leader Davis.
Sheriff Ruempler and
DR.. McGill.

body who saw it says so, and what
everybody says goes. The police scored
great hit. A typical audience filled the
theatre. Many officials and some clergy
men occupied the boxes Some of them
We're accompanied by their wives and
other members of their families. All
four boxes were filed. No finer audience
ever gathered in the theatre. No audi
ence was ever betted pleased. Police off,
cials passing or standing in the foyer OF
the theatre were showered with compli-
ments by an admiring throng passing
out after the show.
The audience was a study. It was a
sea of faces. But in it were some seldom
seen in the ordinary crowds that flock to
Jersey City's theatres in the theatrical
season Dr. McGill, president of the Po-
lice Board, sat like statue throughout
the performance. His face betrayed no
feeling. Mayor Hoos, who was in the
same box, the lower right, beamed with
pride upon the splendid showing of the
police in the station house scene which
was first upon the programme. DR.. Nc
Gills colleagues in the Police Board
Commissioners Adolph Walter and
Thomas Tilden-sat near him. President
Hasking of the Sinking Fund Commission,
Daniel E. Cleary and several other gen
tlemen were also in the box. In the box
above them sat two clergymen-the Rev.
]. Francis Morgan of the Park Reformed
Church, and the Rev. E. A. Meury of the
Second Reformed Church, Hudson City.
Mr.. Meury was accompanied by Mrs.
Meury, and Mr.. Morgan by Prof. Will
Jams, the choir master of the Park Re-
formed Church Mr.. Morgan left as soon
as the police station house scene was
over. In the right upper box were also
Street and Water Commissioners Hauck
and Sullivan, Acting Clerk William Toll
son of the Street and Water Board and
several ladies.
over ON the other side to the left, in
the lower box, sat Chief of Police Muir
ply, surrounded by a bevy of women who
filed the entire box. Mrs. Murphy sat
by his side. Police Inspector Archibold
and Police Surgeon Nevin were in the
background. Mrs. Nevin and Mrs. Archi-
bold were prominent in the large group.
The box above them was occupied by
Finance Commissioner Carnes, Clerk
Michael ]. Kelahar of the Finance Board,
Fire Chief John Conway, Fire Commis-
sioner Erickson, Clerk Charles Ester
brook of the Fire Board and others.
When the curtain first went up sta
ton house scene was revealed Behind
the desk stood Police Captain John F.
Kelly of the Second police precinct, look
ing every inch police captain. Seated
at desk and standing beside him re-
spectively were Police Sergeants Cannon
and Duffy. The scene was a good one,
but it by no means came up to Captain
Kelly's station house in Seventh street,
where everything looks like the deck of
a trim gunboat, metal polish and all, with
a conservatory thrown in to help relieve
the war-like impression.
But it was the reporting Of the men for
duty, the inspection and delivering of in
structions before two midnight platoons
are sent out on duty that excited the
admiration of the audience and drew a
volume of plaudits that resounded from
pit to dome. Constant training had made
every man of the two platoons perfect in
the part he was playing, without any ex-
ira rehearsals. DR.. McGill's features did
not exactly relax, but his eyes bespoke
admiration.
A few incidental scenes were thrown in.
They were in the nature of the ordinary
arrests. But when big Patrolman Brady
came in with pretty little two and half
year old Lillian Green of No. 1909 Pai-
saue avenue as lost child, the audience
went wild. But when she was delivered
to the care of Bicycle Patrolman Heck
and he sang with voice and skill of a
Scanlon lullaby that soothed the child
to contentment the applause grew louder
than ever.
The abused wife came in and made a
scene, a patrolman on posi- reported burg
larry from signal box; reserves were turn
ed out and sent in the patrol wagon to
the scene of the burglary. A reporter
came in and asked Captain, What is
new?" He got all that had been going
on. Mr.. Tim Healy, one of the most popu-
lar scribes at Police Headquarters, per-
trayed the work of reporter in a man
ner that entirely met with the approba-
tion of his numerous reportorial friends
in the audience. A patrol wagon returned
with burglars, the mother reclaimed her
lost child, etc., etc.
The vaudeville performance which fol-
lowed was one Of the cleverest and best
ever seen in this city. The programme
was not followed in the order printed,
but included: :-Ra gtime songs and walks
by Miss Maude Fox, who pleased the audi
ence; Cheridah Simpson, who absolutely
charmed the audience as a vocalist and
musician; the Four Emperors of Music
Howard, Russell. Edwards and Whiting
than whom no better musical quartette is
travelling; Fisher and Carroll, Irish and
Dutch comedians of a high order; the
pantzer Trio, ''in gymnastic parlor
amusements,' that excited not only won
der but admiration; Dolan and Lenharr,
in a refined comedy sketch entitled "a
High Toned Burglar" and the renowned
comedy couple, Mr.. and Mrs. Sidney Drew,
In laugnable sketch that enabled them
to exhibit the versatility that has made
them justly famous, and the Jenny Emily
Trio. that has become Intensely popular
with Jersey City audiences.
The individual star, however, appeared
TO be John W. Ransome who disguised as
Dick Croker fand most admirable make
up it was) appeared and apologized b.
saying that Bob Davis told him to tie
up to the dock and tell Carl Ruempler to
cneck his baggage to Mayor Hoos Mr..
Ransome WAS exceedingly clever and his
local, as well as national gags kept the
audience either tittering or roaring with
laughter He saw Sam Dickinson dewn
on The Potomac at Washington and asked