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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
CONSUMERS PETITION.
Members of White Goods
Movements Want Woman
Factory Inspector.

TIE following petition has been sent
by the Consumers League of New Jer-
sey. formed March, 1900, in Whittier
House, to all the clubs throughout the
State belonging to the Federation of
Women's Clubs, hundreds of clergymen
and numerous Christian organizations,
for signatures. 1t is the intention of the
Consumers League to get up a mon
strous petition before forwarding the
document to Governor Voorhees,
seTo his Excellency, Foster M. voorhees,,
Governor of the State of New Jersey
whereas, The Statute of the State of
New Jersey providing for the appoint
ment of deputy inspectors of factories is
SO broad and general in its terms as to
admit Of the appointment OF women to
that office.
"We, the undersigned, considering the
vast Timber of women employed in the
factories of our State, and believing it
for the best interests Of the women so
employed and Of the community at large
that at least one of the deputy inspec-
tors of factories of this State should be
a woman, do respectfully petition the
Governor of the State of New Jersey that
in making new appointments to fill the
vacancies which have occurred, or which
are about to occur in the Office Of deputy
inspectors of factories, he appoint a
woman.
The officers Of the Consumers League
president; Mrs. Hugh f. Fox, of Bay
onne, vice president; Mrs. Stewart of
Short Hills chairman of the Executive
Committee.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
TO MEET JOHN FOX, JR.
Major and Mrs. Pond Issue
invitations for Lecture at
Their Home, Thursday.

Major James B. Pond, who has just re-
ton Churchill, has issued invitations from
himself and Mrs. Pond, to his friends and
neighbors, for Thursday evening, January
"a, at $780, to meet Mr. John Fox, Jr, the
Southern novelist at the Majors home,
No. $50 Bergen avenue. Miss Alice Camp
bell Forsyth, the eminent English pianist,
will also discourse some fine music.
Mr.. Fox was born at Stony Point,
Bourbon county, Kentucky, where he
grew to young manhood. He studied at
Harvard College, where his companions
knew him as an all around athlete and
were surprised when he took honors in
Classics and honorable mention in Eng
lish. From college he went to journalism,
after three months of which he entered
the Columbia Law School, but abandon
ed law later to return to newspaper
work, in which his health gave way and
he returned to his Kentucky home, where
he became famous from his Kentucky
stories,
Mr.. Fox Has a certain boyishness and
enthusiasm blended with mature insight
and trained habits of thought. AS a rea-
ed success. His rendering of the noun
tain dialect is simple and unaffected, and
rings as true as Mr.. Pages negro talk.
Although immensely dramatic in his
stories, he does not "elocute" nor indulge
In the histironic, yet there is a quality Of
about him that hold interest from Begin
ming to end.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
GRAND JURY INDICTMENTS
Jurist Discusses the Case Of
the Last Board Of
Freeholders.

The present Grand Jury's investigation
into the finding of the wholesale indict-
ments against officials by Sheriff Nc
Leans reform" Grand Jury of the Sep
tember, 1899, term, told in Saturdays s
News" was precipitated by letter
written to the Grand Jury by ex-Free-
holder Riordan of Harrison, in which he
practically charged Prosecutor Erwin
with being responsible for the indict-
ments which he subsequently declared,
when moving to noIle prose- were with
out merit
Congressman McDermott, when asked
his opinion on the question this morning
said:-
mo such power exists in a grand jury.
You might as wen ask Judge his rea-
sons for giving decision or a lawyer TO
tell all about his clients case"
Prosecutor Erwin when seen by a
News" reporter. declined to be interview
ed. He said
My relations with the Grand Jury have
been pleasant thus far, and want them
to continue SO. I know of no investiga-
tion except what I have read in the
News" If such move is made think
which will be revealed to the Grand Jur.
ors the further they go into the matter
Further than this have nothing to say.
Authorities on the matter, furnished by
leading jurfst, are as follows
I'm order to prevent injuries and abuses
of this kind it is a principle constantly
given in charge to the Grand Jury by
the Court that this obligation of secrecy
is perpetual and that a Grand Juror
cannot be absolved from it at any period
of his life. Nothing in the administration
of public justice can be more rational OF
salutary than this principle. A violation
of it may be the means of producing
dangerous and violent animosities
through life, among those who may be
affected or injured by it, Daviss Pre-
cedents. p 1874
Whether a grand juror shall be exam.
ined as a witness is to large extent dis.
cretionary with the court" American
English Encyclopaedia of Law.
BY rule of common law: 1.-THE oath Of
secrecy must be strictly kept and no in.
formation given pending or after the
deliberations" American-English Ency-
clopedia of Law.
"A rule from which it would seem nc
departure is ever allowed is that the
Grand Jurors cannot tell how they OF
their fellows voted; what induced the
finding of bills, nor can they disclose the
opinion of themselves or their fellows or
what occurred on any question before
them, and to do so would subject them
to contempt of court and also crimina,
charges" Am.-Eng. Ency of Laws.
THE grand jury is entirely irresponsi
Bile either to the public or to the individ
| uals aggrieved. When the official exist
ence of the grand jury terminates they
mingle again with the mass of citizens
not responsible for any of their officia
acts, either by private action, public
prosecution or legislative impeachment"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
FROZEN COMING NO RTH.
Negro Concealed Himself on
Trucks of the Express.

Almost frozen to death and unable to
move, Stephen Grey, a negro, who says
he lives at No. 212 Bowery, New York
City, was yesterday taken from the
trucks of a passenger car in the Penn
sylvania Railroad depot and taken to the
City Hospital, where he lies in serious
condition. When the Florida Express
pulled into the depot the mechanics,
whose business it is to examine the pas
senger cars working gear, We're at work
when one of them saw the figure of a
man on the trucks of the forward car.
He called his fellows and they took the
almost unconscious negro from his posi-
tion and sent for an ambulance.
The man was removed to the City Hos
pital. When he revived sufficiently to
talk he gave his name and address and
said that he was stranded in Jackson
ville Florida, when the express passed
through that city He wanted to get to
New York and concealed himself on one
fthe trucks under the car. He had
been there twenty-nine hours when he
was found.
Grey was one of the men who went
to Florida two weeks ago with about
three hundred other negroes who were
engaged to work in the hotels there. He
lost his job shortly after his arrival in
Jacksonville and he was pennileSS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
MRS. VAIL PREACHES
Takes Her Husbands Place
in the First Univer-
salist Church.

Mrs. Nina Vail. wife of the Rev. Charles
H. Vail. who resigned as pastor of the
First Universaiist Church of Jersey City
TO become a platform advocate of the
cause of socialism. occupied the pulpit
in that church yesterday. She promised
the congregation she would preach un-
til her husbands successor was chosen,
beginning with Sunday next, but she was
pressed into duty sooner than she ex-
pected by reason of severe hoarseness
contracted by Mr.. Vail while lecturing
last week. The minister has been nom
mated by the Social Democratic Party
as a candidate for Governor of New Jer-
sey and is now stumping the State.
There were only thirty-four people in
the congregation. including the Rev. Mr..
Vail, who sat with his overcoat on in a
rear pew. when his wife opened the SER
vices. Mrs. Vail selected as the text for
her sermon, Mat. xvi. 19:-'I will give
unto thee the keys of the Kingdom of
Heaven" She read her discourse with
out any attempt at oratorical effect and
held the interest of her hearers for over
half an hour. She said
1.-The mother holds the keys to her
babys life. She has the power to mould
and make and can lead the child to the
doors of heaven or hell. She can deter
mine the possibility of human greatness
or weakness. No act of hers is ulinl-
portant, and yet there is too mucn care
lessness in the exercise of this God given
trust. When see children growing up
in the care of kitchen maids and nurses.
often ask: What is the mother doing?'
There is a time in every bows life when
lie is particularly susceptible to the in
fiuences of the hired man. and this is the
period when the mother should exert her
greatest care. The first keepers of the
keys of life, therefore, are the parents.
Mrs. Vail touched on the marriage re-
latlons and said that the keys of a hus-
bands honor are in the possession of the
wife. The wife, she rem arked, has a pow
erfui influence over her husband in every
thing except his business and sometimes
she tries to have influence even in that.
The husband, she said, also has the keys
Of his. wife's happiness and development
Of her character.
Mrs Vail said in conclusion that an
other key is the key of the religion of
the Fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man
The minister's wife will preach again
on aext Sunday morning. She is not an
ordained minister but graduated from
the theological school of ST. Lawrence
University, ir the class of '92 with Mr
Vail, whom she subsequently married.
Mrs Vail studied socialism with her hus-
band and will accompany him on tour
through the country. She expects to lee.
ture on socialistic subjects to wives with
the idea of inducing th,m to prevail upon
their husbands to join the Socialist move
ment.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
MURPHY'S PLAN.
Advocates a Reappointment
That Will Give Essex
Two Congressman.
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4 NEWARK, Jan. q, 1901.-Chairman
Franklin Murphy, of the Republican State
Committee, announced Saturday that he
favored redistricting of the State, to
conform to the provisions of the Burleigh
act which gives New Jersey ten, instead
of eight Congressman. Some time ago the
State Chairman was quoted as saying it
might be well to have two congressman
at-Large, but that sentiment does not cor
rectly reflect his views.
Personally he says, 81 favor a plan
of redistricting the State fairly and equi-
tably. OF course, the redistricting will
be within the province of the Legislature
and not the State Committee, but think
that It will be enirely feasible to divide
the State into ten districts. so that they
would conform to the letter and spirit of
the Burleigh act, as to proximity, con-
tiguity and average population.
am of the opinion that the Legisla-
ture will have, as they should have, re-
gard for the views of the present Con-
gressmen and it is likely the leaders in
the Senate and House will have a con-
ference before bill for the redistricting
will be introduced. The present Republi-
can members of the New Jersey delega-
tion in Congress have served longer in
each case than has been the record here
tofore. and 1t is only proper that their
views should be given consideration when
it comes to making reapportionment.
Il am of the opinion that in the final
disposition of the problem, the Essex
delegation in the Legislature will take a
decided stand SO far as the demands of
this county is concerned. My impression
is that the delegation will insist upon the
right of Essex County to two Congress-
men. I'VE have population to warrant such
a claim, and fair division of the county
would make both districts Republican.
Hudson County is entitled to the same
distinction. That county undoubtedly has
a right to two Congressman, and unfor-
tunately for the Republican party, it is
likely for the present at least both would
be Democratic"
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
IE DEUM AND JUBILATE
Mr.. Moritz Schwarz Des-
cribes Church Music in
st. Johns Bulletin.

In ST. Johns Bulletin for this week.
Mr.. Moritz Schwarz, organst, gives the
following description of the Te Deum and
Jubilate as sung in the regular church
service:-
Te Deum in L fat by Dudley Buck.
Jubilate in B flat, by Vi1liers Stanford.
These two anthems are distinctly oppo-
site in character and at the same time
represent good styles of church music
The Jubilate is from the pen of fine
English writer, and follows the accepted
English Cathedral style. The Te Deum,
by one of the foremost American com
posers, represents style which is free
and unhampered by the dictates of tradi-
ton.
Which is the right style? The beauty of
both compositions makes it difficult to
declare for .either side
The Englishman conforms to tradition,
even emphasizing this with Gregorian in
troductiors and sober diatonic harmonies,
introducing like soft benediction the an
cient and traditional Dresden Amen.
THE American does not consult trad-
tion, but expresses the religious emotions
of his own heart, unleavened by eccles-
astical schooling.
The Jubilate is constructed mainly from
as you will notice, appearing in the organ
and various vocal parts separately and
successively, is woven into the whole like
lace tapestry or carpet pattern with the
Gregorian intonations and Dresden Amen
for color effects.
The TIE Deurn consists of a series of
complete melodies or short songs follow
ing each other in a cycle, each expressive
of the passing text vet each Independent
in musical significance. Therefore. in en-
deavoring to draw comparisons between
these two pieces we will say that they
are like the musical analysis of two
church windows. One, the English, made
up of numerous diamond shaped pieces Of
glass, with here lily flower, there an
H. in successive order making a
fine Arabesque window, the Gregorian
and red Tights to spread a soft glow
over all. The other, the American, is
our charming and delicate cllancel win
dow, depicting the scere of The Annunci-
alton. Both are beautiful, both have a
right and proper place in our Church.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
MORGUE KEEPER SHOCKED
Man on Slab Comes Back
to Life and Says
"Where Am T."
Especial to 'eThe Jersey city News ]

Especial to '"The Jersey City News.l
NEWARK, Jan. q, 1901.-Joseph Muir
ply an attendant at Mullins morgue
here, experienced a shock Saturday
night while caring for supposed corpse
from the effects of which he had not re-
covered yesterday.
Early in the night the police ambu-
lance stopped in front of the morgue and
Murphy was notified by the policeman in
charge that he had brought the body of
a colored man who had shot his wife and
killed himself by sending bullet into his
own brain.
The body was that of Charles Craw-
ford, thirtytwo years old. He had quar-
relied with his wife, Sarah. over money
matters at their home, and the shooting
was the outcome of the quarrel.
The bullet intended to end Mrs. Craw-
ford's life missed fatal spot by a bare
half inch, and she escaped with a scalp
wound. Crawford held the muzzle of the
revolver against his own temple, and
when he pulled the trigger he fell as if
instantly killed.
When the police ambulance reached the
scene the officers were directed to take
Crawford to St. Michaels Hospital. Sister
Saberta was in charge of the reception
of patients when the ambulance reached
the hospital.
''We have a colored man who shot him.
self in the head announced the police
man. 81 guess he is dead, as he has not
moved since the shooting
IF he is dead,' replied Sister Saberta,
''the hospital is not the place for him.
You had better take him to the Morgue.
1 will examine the body myself. however,
as there is no doctor here at this mo-
ment.''
Sister Seberta has had years of expe-
rience in the hospital. She went out to
the ambulance, climbed in and applied
the usual tests. 1t was bitter cold and
Nhe body seemed lifeless.
Eyes, he seems to be Dead" said the
sister to the policeman. Take him to
the Morgue.
Mullins Morgue is but four blocks from
the hospital. The body of the supposed
suicide was carried on a litter to the dead
house and Attendant Murphy, who is a
young man. proceeded to "lay OUT the
corpse Suddenly his eyes almost start
ed from his head. He saw the supposed
corpse move. The eyes of the figure on
the slab slowly opened and met those of
Murphy. The latters first impulse was to
escape. When he got to the door, how
ever. he heard the words
whats the matter? Where am I?''
Then Murphy realized that a mistake
had been made.
1t was cold in the dead house and Craw-
ford would soon have died from exposure.
He was taken back to the hospital and
NAV recover
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
FELL OVER A CLIFF.
Body Of Henry Elsing Found
Second Accident Of
This Kind.

Sebastian Debold of No. 2G9 Cambridge
avenue, was horrified to find the body of
a man lying at the foot of the high cliff
at Franklin street about seven o'clock
this morning. He Immediately notified the
Sergeant on dutyat the Webster avenue
police station, who sent Chanceman
Breakey to investigate. Breackey found
the man dead.
He proved to be Henry Elsing, fifty
four years old, of No. IS Paterson street,
Hoboken. From the location in which he
was found he had evidently pitched
headforward over the rail of the one
hundred steps that lead up from the
bottom Of the cliff at or near the top of
the head. 1t Is not known just when the
accident occurred. There is no evidence
of foul play. The skull was fractured,
the limbs were broken and the body was
Elsing's fall was somewhere between
forty and sixty feet. 1t is surmised that
he fell some time during the night. Evi-
IDENTIFY he had slipped on piece OF Ice,
with which the steps were covered,
than two feet high. missed it and pitched
headlong over.
II he fell from the top he struck a
slanting, jagged ledge Of rock about
forty feet further to bed of dirt, stud
ded with Jagged edged bouldere. He
could not have fallen less than forty feet.
His body was taken to Speer,s morgue.
Elslng was conneetsd 2 business Win 9, :
Years has travelled around this section
sRa koz1: # was III Elsing,s b1lsi :, to
aeel{s tl3is Winter 81 tlae sazae plece'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
DR.. WlLElNson'S DIVORCE SUIT
Subpoenas Served and Case Will
Come Up for Hearing Soon.

The divorce suit of DR.. Walter Wilkin-
son of this city against his wife, an an
nouncement of which appeared exclusive
ly in The News" two weeks ago, has
not surprised anybody on the Hill. For
some time past it was well known that
the doctor would sue for divorce and for
the custody of his little son, Theodore
Irving.
The bill filed lays one charge, for
grounds for divorce, at the Paxinoser Inn,
Easton, Pa; five others at No. rs West
9th street. and one at the Hotel Earring
ton, Twenty-seventh street, New York
City. Five of the correspondents are
known and there are two or more said to
be Jersey City people, whose names will
appear during the proceedings
Ex-senator William Brnkerhoff, coun-
sci for Dr. Wilkinson. would not talk
about the suit, excepting to say that. his
client would ask the Court to give him
the custody of the boy and a divorce
Sheriff Ruempler received the subpoena
on Monday, and when the return is made
a motion for reference will be made be-
fore a Vice Chancellor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
BOY PREFERS CHEAP LODGINGS.
Runs Away From a Comfortable
Greenville Home.

Armed with small revolver. a tobacco
bag full of bullets a comb, a can opener.
pocket knife and forty-three cents, six
teen-year-old John Thompson, of No. 623
Ocean avenue, ran away from home last
Thursday. He was last night arrested in
the Montauk lodging house, at NO. %
Montgomery street.
Thompson had been a very bod boy, his
father told Police Justice ,Hoos in the
First Criminal Court this morning. He
had employment in grocery store, but
had a strong liking for staying out late at
night Reprimands from his father We're
of no avail, and on Thursday the Doy left
the house after being scolded.
The lad secured lodgings at the Mon
tauk. He was seen there last night when
Captain Cody was looking through the
place. He could give no satisfactory ae-
count of himself 80 he was taken to the
station house. He was paroted tnls morn
ing ana he promised never TO again
wander.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-21
Girl MISSING.
Father Has Her Intimate
Friend Arrested on a
Charge Of Theft.
WOMAN WEARS DAUGHTERS CLOTHES
But Insists She Knows
Nothing Of the Disappear
ance Police Are
Searching.
WOMAN WEARS DAUGHTERS CLOTHES

Mrs. Sarah Smith, nineteen years old,
Of Eighteenth street, Weehawken. was
arrested yesterday afternoon on IIalla-
day street by Patrolman Egan of the
Communipaw avenue station, on a
charge of petit larceny preferred by Hen
ry Gilman, of No. 21S Halliday street
The arrest Of the woman was made under
very peculiar circumstances. She was
charged with stealing coat a collarette
and a skirt from Gillman's daughter Nell
lie The articles in question were beng
worn by the woman when arrested.
1t developed when the prisoner was
brought to the station house that Mr..
Gilman had caused her arrest because
his daughter was missing and he believed
that she knew the ggirrs whereabouts
Gilman told the police that the Smith
woman formerly resided in the house ad-
joining his The family moved a few
weeks ago and since then his daughter,
Nellie, eighteen years old, was miss
ing. He accused the prisoner of conceal
ing his daughter.
In court this morning the Smith woman
told the same story that she told the po-
lice when arrested. She denied that she
was helping the Gilman girl to remain
away from her parents. She said that
the girl came to her house several days
ago and stayed few days. The clothes
she was accused of stealing were given to
her, she declared
The Smith woman said that Nellie
Gilman said she was going to see a
theatrical manager to try and get on the
stage. That was all Mrs. Smith knew of
her. Mrs. Smith admitted being close
friend of the missing girl.
Police Justice Murphy discharged her
on the petilt larceny charge. The father
of the missing girl told the story of his
daughters disappearance to the police.
He said that she left home a week ago,
taking most of her clothes with her. No
one knew where she had gone The
father suspected that the Smith woman
had helped her to run away and when
he saw her Sunday wearing his daugh-
ter's clothes his suspicious were con-
frmed.
Gilman met the woman as she was
about to leave the house where she for
merly resided He questioned her regard
ing Nellie's absence, but she claimed that
she was ignorant of the girls where
abouts. He called the policeman then,
and caused her arrest for stealing his
child's clothes.
The disappearance of the Gilman girl
is mystery. She had a good home. Her
parents are at loss as to the girls con-
duct: Mr.. Gilman said that she never
spoke of going away from home The po-
lice have been asked to assist in locating
har