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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
TOBACCO COMBINE.
Consolidated Company Takes
Over American and Con-
tinental Stock.

With capital of $50 100000, the Consoli
dated Tobacco Company, incorporated il
New Jersey on Wednesday, was organized
in New York City yesterday. The com
| pany will control the American Tobacco
Company, known as the Tobacco Trust
the Consolidated Tobacco Company whicf
mas been connected with the American
and the American Cigar Company. organ
ized in January. The following directors
were elected yesterday ay:-James B. Duke
Oliver II. Payne, Thomas F. Ryan, j
3. Cobb, W. w. Fuller, Grant B. Schley
Frank II. Ray, Anthony w. Brady, C. C.
Dula, w. r. Harris, p A. B. Widener
Percival S. Hill. B. N. Duke and Chas
E. Halliwell.
Ine directors organized by electing Jas
b. Duke, president; Thomas f. Ryan
first vice president; J. B. Cobb, second
vice president: C. C. Dula, third vice
president; William R. Harris, treasurer
and C. S. Keene, secretary. All are di-
rectors or officers of the American and
consolidated Tobacco Companies
The capital, $30,0000O0, will be paid in
today. At the meeting yesterday it was
decided to offer four per cent. fifty-year
gold bonds of the company to the COM
mon stockholders of the American and
Continental Tobacco companies. on the
basis of 81 in bonds for each dollar par
value of Continental stock and 81 in bonds
Tor each dollar of American. The bonds
VIII oegln TO draw interest on August
Inc bonds, besides being a lien upon
the shares deposited, will also be lien
upon the 900 of cash capital of the
company and whatever property may be
acquired by the new company, and also
upon'the earnings of the company. Under
IT'S charter it can buy and sell and manu-
facture tobacco tobacco in all it's forms
It's scope, according to an officer of the
company, will be International and it is
said that the promoters aim at a world !
trust in tobacco.
considerably more than majority of
the common stock of the American and
continental companies has been pledged
TOR exchange into the hands of the Con-
solidated Company. The preferred shares
Oh the American and Continental COM
panies are not disturbed by the deaf.
AT the same time the Consolidated
Company will also control the American
cigar Company, seventy per cent of the
capital of that corporation being held by
the American and Continental companies.
The capital stock of the American To-
bacco Company is s6S, 500, ,0OO of which s14,-
100000 is preferred.
The capital of the Continental Com
pany is s9769O,700, equally divided be-
tween preferred and common. The an
thorized capitalization is s10O, ,O00, ,0oO
Of the s1o,000,000 capital stock of the
American Cigar Company So, 600 goo is pre-
ferred
One OF the first purchases of the Con-
soildated Company is likely to he that of
the Universal Tobacco Company, re-
cent rival
To effect the exchange of stock of the
American and Continental bond issue of
about sl54,0o0,OOO will be necessary by the
Consolidated Tobacco Company.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
ONE FOR HIS MOB.
Col. Gi1more's Blow Broke Gen.
Grants Nose


An interesting little story of Col @.
ON. Gilmore, Commandant of the Sec
ond Regiment of this State, came out
yesterday on visit he paid to West
Point Colonel Gilmore is brother of
Lawyer w. G. Gilmore of this city and is
well known here, having few years ago
served as Lieutenant Colonel of the
Fourth Regiment.
On the parade ground, at West Point.
yesterday, during the drill a lady, refer
ring to General Fred Grant, who was
there, asked her escort if the General
had been wounded in battle
81 don't think so,'' was the reply.
How did he get that horrid scar across
the bridge of his nose?" inquired the
lady.
Oh" laughingly replied the other,
task Quincy Gilmore about it. He can
tell"
The story is to the effect that when
Gilmore and Grant were cadets together
at the Military Academy, away back in
1869, they settled a personal matter which
then existed between them with ungloved
fists. The encounter took place in a Sc
of the rounds Gilmore delivered a blow
with such force as to break his antagon-
lists nose. The latter was confined in the
cadet hospital for several weeks and re-
tains to this day the scar The incident
is still fresh in the minds of many of the
older residents. General Grant and
Colonel Gilmore met yesterday, not hav-
ing seen each other for several years.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
VETERAN PlCKPocKET CAUGHT
Woman Will Spend the Next Ninety
DAYS in Jail.

Rebecca Coleten, sixty-ave years old, a
veteran pickpocket and confidence woman,
was arrested in the Hoboken depot of the
Lackawanna Railroad this morning for
attempting to steal the pocketbook of a
woman in the waiting room She was de-
tected in taking the purse by the owners
daughter, who snatched it from her and
set up an outcry.
Road Detectives McClelland and Bennett
recognized the Colsten woman from her
picture in the rogue's gallory and took her
to Police headquarters. Recorder STAN
ton committed her to ninety days in the
county jail.
The prisoner was arrested and sentenced
a year ago in Hoboken for a like offence.
While he was holding her in a chair to
be photographed on this occasion she bit
one of Detective Fentons fingers nearly
in two. She invariably dresses in black
and looks respectable. Her favorite fields
for operation are funerals and railroad
stations. The residence she claimed is in
Hicks street, Brooklyn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
NO MONEY FOR RAISE.
Hoboken Tax Commissioners
Don't Provide for Teach
ers' Increase.

The Hoboken Commissioners of Public
instruction at their meeting last evening
decided to petition the Common Council
to adjust the tax budget in way that
would make possible the payment of sal
aries to school teachers according to the
new schedule. The increase the new
schedule necessftates was not provided
for by the Tax Commissioners, and al
though it was adopted to take effect on
May 1. the salaries for that month will
not be paid as the new schedule provides.
The Commissioners believe they cannot
with safety ignore the old schedule since
The Tax Commissioners failed to appro-
pirate for the maintenance of the new
one.
If the Council refused to adjust the bud
get TO straighten out the muddle the
teachers intend to carry on their fight for
the salaries called for by the new sched-
ule into court.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
MINIS Ter LASHED
Negro Driver Whips Pas
tor of John Knox Pres
byterian Church.
AFTERMATH OF PARADE
Mr.. Montgomery Stopped 4
Horses Untilthe Chill dren
Crossed the Street.

The Rev. T. E. Montgomery, pastor of
the John Knox Presbyterian Church,
Manning avenue, was lashed yesterday
afternoon with horsewhip by Harry
Moore, colored driver of No. 40 Grand
street, an employe of Contractor Van
Reuren. The minister " as cut by the
whip on his hands and wrists and he has
welts to prove the lashes. His arms and
back were beaten until they stung pain
fully. This treatment the minister suf-
fered while shielding the members of his
Sunday-school from being trampled un-
der the feet of the horses Moore was
driving. The children were in actual
danger, the minister thought, and the ad-
mission of Moore himself shows that they
were. The incident occurred in the course
of the parade of the Sunday-school chii-
dren yesterday.
Mr.. Montgomery and his flock had sep
arated from the main body of the parad-
ers and were on their way home when
Grand and Grove streets were reached.
Mr. Montgomery, with two young men.
led the procession. AS they were cross
ing the street Moore drove along with
a heavily laden truck. Mr.. Montgomery
looked at the man and saw that he had
evidently no intention of halting his
horses so that the children might pass.
Mr.. Montgomery held up his hand to in
dieate that he wished the horses stopped
so that the line of march might con-
tinue unbroken. Moore paid absolutely
no attention to the sign but continued to
bear down on the line.
the children at the head of the line
were unaware of their danger and two
of them were almost under the heads of
the horses when two of the school teach
ers pushed them out of danger. The push
was necessarily violent and one of the
girls hat fell into the dirty street and
was ruined.
Then Mr.. Montgomery grasped the near
est horse by the bride and stopped its
progress. Moore angrily demanded that
he let go of the horse. His demands were
unheeded, Mr.. Montgomery's intention
being to allow the line to pass before he
would allow the truck to proceed. Moore
grasped his whip in his hand firmly and
rained blow after blow on the minister.
Then Mr.. Montgomery ordered him from
the wagon and sent his lieutenants for
policeman. Moore got off his seat and
began to abuse Mr.. Montgomery. A crowd
few minutes the lieutenant returned with
Sergeant Booth of the Fifth precinct.
Booth could not find Moore and started
to the First Precinct station house with
Mr.. Montgomery. On the way they met
Moore and Booth placed him under ar
rest
Moore admitted Mr.. Montgomery's
charges and acted and talked as though
he thought he had right TO do as he
did
The case was heard this morning in the
First Criminal Court before Police JUS
tice Mccormick. Moore asked for an ad-
journment until tomorrow morning SO
that he might have an opportunity to
get witnesses in his behalf. His request
was granted and he was remanded for
further examination tomorrow morning.
Bail was fixed at $500.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
PASSA|C POLLUTION
William 7. Hunt Says the
Conditions Are En-
couraging.

| William T. Hunt, former president OF
| the State Sewerage Commission, ex-
pressed himself without reserve after the
meeting of the Board. The plans now be-
ing discussed by the cities of Passaic and
Paterson had been the subject of CONVEX
sation and some of the members express
ed unqualified approval of the proposed
consolidation of the sewer systems OF
| of disposal works.
| Mr.. Hunt, however, did not join in the
| general commendation of these plans. He
declared that the proposition for inde-
pendent disposal works was subject to the
very serious objection that such plant
deprecated the value of land for large
areas and that wherever put in operation
almost open rebellion had broken out
among residents and property owners.
Personally l have not yet seen a bet
ter plan of ridding the river of it's sew
age" he said, than by constructing a
trunk sewer to the Newark meadows,
there removing the solids and discussing
the effluent into the Kill Won Kull. The
cost seems likely to be smaller, the diff
ficulties less, the publication more COM
plete, and the maintenance charges not so
great as by any of the disposal systems.
There is, however, an alternative plan
which, from a Newark and Essex point
of view, would be entirely satisfactory,
though it may be questionable from the
broader view of the whole State.
This plan is for the erection in Ber-
gen county of disposal plants which would
accommodate Paterson and Passaic and
TotrfI nrfn nrl & IL.
palities where the plants would be erect
ed would have to be obtained, and as the
effluents would pass into the Hackensack
River, tidal stream, there might be
objection from residents on that river.
"Of course, this plan would take out
of the Passaic all the sewage which now
pollutes the upper reaches, and it would
leave Newark the easy task of cleansing
its own section, including Hudson Coun-
ty, so that the river would be completely
relieved. The cost of this plan to the
cities of Passaic and Paterson will be
ascertained, and if Bergen County offers
no objections and the cost is not greater
than by other plans, it seems to me to
be an excellent scheme.
But it is all a question of fact and
figure and for engineering experts and
statesmen to settle. and can no more be
disposed Of in public meetings of laymen
than the construction of the East River
tunnel or any other work of engineering.
1t took Boston nine years to get as far
with a simpler work as this State has
done in five years. 1t has taken Glas-
gov, Manchester, Paris, Berlin and Leeds
quite as long and all are struggling still
The work of purifying the Passaic is
complicated beyond any of these, and its
cost in proportion to wealth and popua-
ton will be greater than most. 1t seems
to me progress has been reasonably
rapid, considering everything, and that
conditions are encouraging
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
KIDNAPPING SCARE SPOILED

The police of this city were asked yes
terday to aid in the arrest of tail. dark
man who, the East Orange police say. is
wanted for kidnapping five-year-old Ed
ward Muller from his home yesterday
afternoon. A good description of the kid
napper was sent out by the police and
efforts We're made to locate the boy and
his abductor.
A little later John Flynn. a member of
Ashland Hose Company. found the boy in
Roseville, crying as though his heart
wouldb reak. He said man had taken
him trolley riding and had then left him
alone in the street.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
Mr.. YOUNC'S Gift
Children's Home Receives
Five First Glass Rail-
road Bonds of
$1,000 Each.
FORTY YEARS. BENEFACTIONS
Donor a Founder of the In
stitute and One of It's
Untiring Friends.

The Board of Trustees of the Children s
Home experienced a very agreeable sur
prise at their meeting last night. A let
ter was received from Mr.. E. r. c. Young
inclosing five first class railroad bonds of
Sl,0o0 each, and this princely donation was
Tor the permanent fund of the home
Mr.. Young is one of the founders of this
We'll deserving charity and has been close
ly identified with its management for
forty years
In the early sixties the question of pro-
viding home for poor children was dis
cussed in this city. Everybody then was
agreed that such an institution was neces-
sary, but nothing came of the matter
until Mr.. Young took hold of it. One
afternoon in 1863 Mr.. Young got together
in the First National Bank building DR..
Dashiel, a prominent resident of the city
at that time, and Mayor James sGopsill.
These three gentlemen were the incor-
porators of the institution. They secured
a small building, gathered subscriptions
and the home was begun. Later the pres
ent building was acquired and is a smodel
of its kind. AT all times Mr..
Young has taken the deepest in
terest in its welfare and much
due to his efforts to that end 1t was
througn his instrumentality that the pres
ent building occupied by the children was
secured. Quietly and unostentatiously he
has generously contributed to its funds
and this last mark of his bounty deeply
affected the trustees of the institution.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
THE MCPHERSON CASE.
Judge Blair Will Hear
Argument Next
Friday.

| Motion was made before Judge Blair
in the Orphans Court this morning oy
| Counselors Wall and Van Wrinkle to GER
| ufy the Mcpherson will case to the Chr
| cult Court for the trial on the facts.
Judge Abel /. Smith of Hoboken, counsel
for Aaron S. Baldwin, the executor of the
| Mcpherson estate, opposed the motion on
| the groundt hat no copy of the motion or
petition had been served upon him. Coun-
selor Lewis for Christ Hospital, one of the
iegatees under the will, also opposed the
| motion on the same ground.
Mr.. Van Wrinkle said that the statute
| under which the motion was made did
not call for the service of the notice. and
that the Court was authorized to grant
the motion ex parte.
John Tracy for Yale University an
| other legatee, also opposed the motion ii.
its behalf
Judge Blair thought it only fair that
counsel shouldh ave a copy of the motion
or petition. He said further that he was
lot at all sure that the case should go to
the jury anyway.
.If 1 was called to decide this motion
now.' he said. 81 would say that am in
clined to deny the motion The questions
NA2Nh L dPplCLS-lu dI6 III tIllS case 10 QS-
eide, are undue influence and the want of
testamentary capacity. They involve
mixed questions of law and fact, and
could be more properly tried out here
thoroughly and more satisfactory than
before a jury of twelve men, who do not
know the law and who might pass upon
them with instructions from the Court
only.
Il will continue this matter, however,
Until next Friday, when 1 will hear you
in argument and then pass upon it. Let
copies of the motion and petition be
served on all the counsel before that
time"
Messrs. Wall and Van Wrinkle also pre-
sented tot he Court written order COW
ering the grounds of its ruling in appoint
ing Judge Otto Grouse to act as admis-
traitor, giving the charge of the estate
to Executor Baldwin and Administrator
Grouse jointly. Judge Smith objected to
this order also because copy of it had
not been served upon MIN. Judge Blair
ordered one served and said he would also
dispose of that matter next Friday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
MRS. HOLINESS DEATH
Board of Freeholders Adopts Suit
able Resolutions.

The Board of Freeholders transacted nC
business at their meeting yesterday De
cause of the absence of Director Holmes
the funeral of whose wife took place yes
terday. The following resolutions signe(
'byt he entire board were passed, Freehol
der Cooper presiding
Whereas. Almighty God In His in.
finite wisdom has seen fit to call from
this life to her eternal home, Bridget,
the beloved wife of our esteemed Di-
rector Michael r. Holmes; and
Whereas, In the opinion of the MEM
bers of this Board, our respected fell
low member and Director has suffered
an irreparable loss in the death of his
beloved wife; therefore be- it
Resolved, That we extend our sim
cere sympathy to our bereaved Di-
rector and his family in their great
afflictiorh, and as mark of respect to
the memory of the deceased. we here
by direct that these preambles and
resolutions be printed In the official
minutes of this meeting, and a copy Of
these proceedings be transmitted to
the Dirsctor; and
Resolved. That as further mark of
respect to the memory OF the deceased.
this Board do now adjourn, TO meet on
Monday next, the 10th inst, at r. NJ.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
THE PARADE YESTERDAY

The Sunday school children's parade in
the Hudson City section was a very pret-
ty affair and was witnessed with admir-
alton by almost everybody in that section
of the city. The Sunday schools were rep
resented and there were over two thou
sand children and teachers in line. The
principal thoroughfares were paraded and
the marchers were reviewed by Mayor
Hoos, ministers and Sunday school super
intendents OH grand stand in front of
DR.. Nevin's residence opposite Trinity
Baptist Church
The South Bergen division was second
to none in line and five Sunday schools
were the Emory Methodist, Bethel Metho-
dist, Salem Baptist, Bergen Mission and
First Congregational. Exercises were held
in all the churches before the parade All
schools left promptly and there was ro
confusion orc rushing.
The hot weather told on the little ones.
They were scarcely able to stand the
fierce rays of the sun beating down or
their heads. The shady side of the streets
were picked out for marching and The line
of march was not extended over the
route laid down. The distance was short
ened in order to prevent sunstroke.
The review took place at the home of
Committeeman James V. Foster, No. IS
Bentley avenue. The route embraced Lex
ington avenue to west side of Boulevard,
to Bentley avenue to Bergen avenue,
where the schools were dismissed. Mr.
Seudder's school carried OFF the palm fer
attendance Emory Church has two hum
cred ard one and the remaining churches
from one hundred to one hundred and
fifty.
All along the line houses We're decorat-
ed with flags and the day proved a great
one for the tots. Refreshments were
served at al, the churches
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
Az, Intelligent Monkey.

A remarkable case of intelligence in a
small sapajou monkey belonging to NJ
Hachet Souplet, is related by him in the
French scientific journal, "La Nature
Monkeys, it appears, are liable to the
torment which Burns avenged in rhyme
that is to say, the toothache-and the
sapajou was troubled with it after eat
ing nuts, which, of course, he liked to
eat. Failing to pick the offending morsels
of nut from his teeth by his nails, he was
doomed to suffer, until his master gave
him the means of making a toothpick, in
the shape Of little rod of iron and a
whetstone. The monkey tried the rod on
his teeth, and finding it too blunt had
the idea of sharpening it on the hone
After working on it for an hour he pos
sessed an effective toothpick.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
NEWARK PLANK ROAD OPEN
Shortly Before Midnight
Two Cars Passed Over
Draw Followed by
Many Teams.

Shortly before midnight last night the
Newark Plank Road was opened. Long
before that time there was a long line OF
vehicles on the Newark side of the Pas
sale draw waiting to pass over to this
city and on the Hudson side of the Hack
ensack there was another
A gang of men under Superintendent
Wisconsin Jackson We're hammering
away at the planking, removing the tim
bers stretched across the entrance to the
bridges. Promptly at quarter before
twelve the roadway was clear and two
cars, one from Newark and the other
from Jersey City. passed across. A
cheer burst from the teamsters as they
whipped up their horses and hurried on
the bridges. There were only few pas
sengers on the cars.
From midnight until late hour this
morning there was a steady stream of
trucks passing and repassing.
'"The road is at last open,' said Presi-
dent E. F. G. Young but as yet have
had no reports. 1 am glad the trouble
is at an end'
1t is now the intention of counsel for
the Boards of Freeholders for Hudson
and Essex counties to prepare Jointly a
bill to be presented at the next Legisla-
ture placing the burden of maintaining
the road and the bridges on the counties
respectively.
''We WILL" said County Counsel John
Griffin, have an understanding that Es-
sex County shall take care of the Passaic
bridge and Hudson that crossing the
Hackensack. The question of purchasing
the bridges will of course be dealt with
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-07
TWELFTH'S PICNIC AsUccEss
Mrs. Grod Wins the Gold Watch
Drawn For.

Pohlmann's summer pavilion was
thronged last night with members and
friends of the Twelfth Ward Democratic
Association. The clubs annual picnic was
held, and as usual with all its social af-
fairs the event was an unqualified social
and financial success. Many prominent
Democratic politicians were present. Con-
siderable interest was manifested in a
drawing for a lady's gold watch The
lucky number, "21,'' was held by Mrs
Grod, of No. 482 Central avenue.
Alderman Robert Cookson was floor
manager and Edward Craig was assistant
floor manager. Street and Water Com
missioner James S. Nolan was chairman
of the reception committee. His con-
freres were Samuel Nagle, George Blank
l.. Spitznagel, John Mehl, Jr, and Henry
Reuter-. The floor committee consisted of
Messrs. Alfred Franz, Carl Schumann,
George Prigge, Andrew Moran, Herman
Wilkers and Alderman 10th.
Floor Manager Robert Cookson, the
Alderman, led the grand march with Mrs.
Cookson.
Others in the march were Street and
Water Commissioner and Mrs James s..
Nolan Mr.. and Mrs. J. s. Lindsay, Alder
man and Mrs. Gustav 10th, Mr. and Mrs
A. T. Bahr, Mr.. and Mrs Edward Nc
Carthy, Mr. and Mrs. M. Burkhardt, Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Burkhardt, Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry Reuter-, Mr.. and Mrs. Edward
Roede, Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. McGibney, Mr..
and Mrs. Michael Groth, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Elliott, Mr.. and Mrs. L. F'inan,
Dominick Mcmahon and Miss McCarty,
Matthew Rooney and Miss Mccarthy.
Others notice in the gathering were Sur
rogate Lillis Alderman Jacob Muller,
Counsellor Michael Fahen, Map Clerk
Christopher Smith, Street and Water
Commissioners Hauck and Sullivan, AL
dermen August Menge and Edward White,
Police Commissioner Walter Tax Com
missioner Robert Hoos, Assemblymarl
John Vollers. Music was furnished by
Prof. Loth's orchestra.