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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09

Berlin has conceived a newell plan of
furthering the right development of chill
dren. This provides for an interchange
of city and country children, says Har-
per's Bazar. Thus the poorer classes Of
Berlin, who can not afford family outings.
are enabled to send their children to the
country, and in exchange they receive the
children from the country home who thus
town life affords. Reciprocal selfish in
terest in their own prompts censiderate
treatment of the visiting children Ia each
the intention new is to extend it. and
make it international, establishing an ex-
change of children between different
countries The question arises in the
American mind, Why have homes at all
under this system. Turn children ever to
State institutions, and let the work of
modern education meFrily preveed with
out the slightest obstable which preserVa-
tion of the family ideal imposes,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
WOMAN
TAKES Gas
Mrs Moore Register at
L,ubben's and Then Com
mits Suicide.
FEARS BEING BURNED ALIVE
Baby's Picture and Stores
Bought In Plainfleld the
Only Means Of Tden-
tification.

For Gods sake be sure I am dead be-
fore you place me in the ground,
This note, unsigned, was found on a ta-
BILE in Room No. q at Lubben's Hotel
I, No. Exchange place, this morning. The
| table rested close to a bed ON which lay
the body of a woman who had committed
suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. All
that is known of the woman is what was
written by herself ON the register, Mrs.
Moore, Newark" The whole affair is a
mystery.
The woman walked into the hotel office
yesterday morning about 10 o'clock. She
registered and was assigned to room No.
40. When shown the room she said it
would not "suit her purpose, because it
had too many windows and DOORS Then
she was assigned to room No 22 a small
Ter room. Nothing more was heard or
seen of her until one o'clock when she
was seen going to letter box to mail
several letters she carried She returned
to her room and nothing more was seen
of her until ten o'clock this morning. At
that time a chambermaid in going about
the rooms to make them up was unable
to open the door of No. q. She knocked
and received no reply.
Then Mr.. Lubben, at the desk, was noti-
fed and he went upstairs. He tried the
door and could not open it. He secured
ladder and looked over the transom.
He saw the woman stretched ON the bed
fully clothed. Over her head was her
seal cape and one end of rubber tube
attached to the gas jet was in her mouth.
Mr.. Lubben called a policeman and they
broke open the door.
rl,,a hot
the woman was dead. The note given
above was found. The tube was new.
When Mrs Moore entered the hotel
She carried a small valise and an UNI
brella There were no marks of any kind
on the umbrella, and the officer turned
his attentions to the valise. 1t contained
a picture on brown cardboard of child
evidently four or five months old. There
were no marks on the picture, not even
the photographers name. There was also
a glass vaseline jar with a silver top,
bearing the initials IN. p. NJ. A bottle
of toothpowder bore the name of Nc
Innerney, New York There was also
a miniature bearing the picture of a
beautiful young woman dressed in the
fashion of the early nineteenth century.
The. other articles were of no interest
and could not help Identification The
womans shoes, which were size four and
seemed comparatively new, bore the
name of "A. Willett & Son, Plainfeld,
New jersey
The woman was about 2S years old,
5 feet inches tall. She wore dark
blue rainy-day skirt, dark waist, black
hat, covered with veil, and an electric
seal cape. There We're no marks on any
of her clothing. The body was removed
to Speer's morgue, and the authorities of
Newark and Plainfield were notified
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
THE ERIE TAXES.
John WahI Queen Gives the
Opinion of the Supreme
Court.

City Attorney John Wah1 Queen has re-
eeived certified copy of the text Of the
opinion handed down by Mr.. Justice Gar
r1son of the Court of Errors and Ap-
peais, in the Erie Grain Elevator case.
In which the city wins in a suit Involving
an amount of money approximating
100000. In epitomizing the text of the
opinion City Attorney Queen this morning
said
1t affirms the decision of the Supreme
Court that the Erie grain elevator and
land upon which it stands are not used
for railroad purposes and are subject to
local taxation. The opinion of the su-
preme Court was to the effect that it
would be unjust to recall from the State
the taxes on this property from the year
1884 to 1856.
THE Judgment of the Supreme Court
was that the State should pay to the city
the taxes -whieh it had collected for these
years. The judgment set aside the taxes
assessed by the State for the years 81
and 'sS and ordered the State to refund
to the Erie Railroad Company the taxes
for these years. The Court of Errors
in its decision sets aside the judgment Of
the Supreme Court, ordering the State to
pay the city the taxes for the years 81
'96, inclusive, and orders that the taxes
assessed by the State for these years
shall be cancelled. 1t follows that the
taxes assessed by the city from 'S4-'9S in
elusive are valid and must be paid. The
Court says that it will net pass upon
the question of the share of the taxes
which have been paid by the State to the
city. but says that whatever taxes have
been so paid can be taken into consider
alton in the adjustment between the
State and the Railroad Company and the
city when the taxes are paid
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
Lons-Lived Birds

1t used to be believed that ravens lived
longer than any other species of birds,
and it was said that their age frequently
exceeded a century, says the Albany
Argus" Recent studies of the subject
indicate that no authentic instance of
raven surprising seventy years of age is
on record. But parrots. have been known
to live 100 years. One lost it's memory
at sixty and it's sight at ninety There
is g record of a golden eagle which died
at Schoenbrun at the age of lis years.
Another golden eagle was kept in the
Tower Of London for ninety years. A
third died at Vienna aged 104 years.
Geese and swans are tenacious of life,
and extraordinary accounts exist of the
great age that they have attained. Buff
fon and other authorities have credited
them with eighty and 100 years of life
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
WANSER VS.. H00S.
McDermott Says the De-
eision in That Case
Answers for Meek
er Bill.

Allan L. McDermott, who was counsel
to contest the Macarthur act in 1897, says
the Meeker act is so boldly unconstitu-
sional that argument is unnecessary. He
made a close study of the election laws
and their relation to the constitutional
privileges granted in the exercise of the
voting franchise. He argued the uncon-
sfitutionality of the Macarthur act in the
Supreme Court in the case of Hoos VS..
O.Donnen, and in the Court of Errors
and Appeals, where the title of the case
was Wanser versus Hoos In the Supreme
Court, opinions that the Macarthur act
was unconstitutional were rendered by
Justices Garrison and Gummere.
These opinions were affirmed and broad
ened and generally enlarged upon by the
Court of Errors and Appeals, and Mr.. Nc
Dermott says that this decision sweeps
away any belief in the constitutionality
of the Meeker Act. Aside from its in
herent defects, the act is invalid in princi-
rle in the light of the previous decision
by the highest court of the State. If he
were to argue the case, says Mr.. Nc
Dsrmott. he could only refer to this de-
clsion.
Mr.. McDermott, when interviewed,
said
THE Meeker Anti-Spring Election act
is so badly unconstitutional that your
case will need no argument Some of
your people in Newark have asked me
to join in the case, but l can see no rea-
son for doing so, for there is nothing to
argue. I shall advise our public officials
in Jersey City to go ahead with the cleo
ton.
80 far the only public references I
have seen to the judicial law on the sub
ject have quoted the decisions of Supreme
Court Justices Garrison and Gummere
If you will turn to 81 Vroom, page 535,
reporting the decision of Justice Depue
for the Court of Errors and Appeals, you
win find that the court of last resort has
closed every door to such acts as that
passed this winter. Instead Of quoting
the Supreme Court decisions, why don't
you get, read and publish that deAsion
Of the Court Of Errors If were to ar
que the unconstitutionality Of the pres
ent law all l could do is tc read that de-
cssion.
n the syllabus of the Wanser VS.. Hoos
case in the Court of Errors and Appeals,
the fellowing general propositions are set
forth
"a general law, as distinguished from
a special or local law, within the mean
ing Of the constitutional provision, Is a
law that embraces class of subjects or
places and does MT exclude any subject
or place naturally belonging to such
class
The test of tie generality Of law IS
fret It shall embrace all and exclude none
v;zaSe onnditfeals and wants render such
equally appropriate to them
Ine prinfiple by which the general
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
WASHINGTON.
Three Day Personally Conducted
Tour via Pennsylvania Railroad.


Few short journeys are as interesting
as a trip to Washington, the Nations
Capital, and such trip can be made
most satisfactorily by participating in the
three-day personally conducted tours of
the Pennsylvania Railroad. The next
tour of the season leaves Thursday,
March 21. Round-trip rate, covering rail-
road transportation for the round trip,
meals en- route, transfer of passenger and
ordinary baggage to hotel, hotel accom-
modations, and guides, services of expe-
rienced tourist agent and chaperon, in
short, every item of necessary expense,
$1450 from New York, s13 from Trenton,
and $11.50 from Philadelphia, with pro-
portionate rates from other points. These
rates cover accommodations for two days
at the Arlington, Normandie, Riggs or
Ebbitt House. For accommodations at
Willard's Regent. Metropolitan, or Ma
tional Hotel $3.50 less. Side trips to
Mount Vernon, Richmond, Old Point
Comfort, and Norfolk at greatly reduced
rates.
All tickets good for ten days, with spe-
cial hotel rates after expiration of hotel
coupons
ply to ticket agents; Tourist Agent. No.
1895 Broadway, New York: No. Court
street, Brooklyn; or address Geo. w.
Boyd, Assistant General Passenger Agent,
Broad Street Station, Philadelphia.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
DIED.

RINGLE-In this city, on Thursday
March Z, 1901, George, eldest son of
Jacob and the late Mary Ringle, aged
81 years.
Funeral services at his late residence.
No. 80 Mercer street, on Sunday, March
10, at 2 P. nj.
Funeral private.
Please omit flowers.
RITZ Thursday, March z. 1901 Louis W.
Ritz. beloved husband of Mary Ritz,
aged 80 years.
Funeral services Sunday. March TO- at
2:s0 P. NJ, from his late residence, No.
3SS Palisade avenue
RUOPP-On Friday. March 8. 1901, Emma
Sophia Edith, only child OF Henry j.
and Laura A. Ruopp, aged months
and 20 days.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited TO attend the funeral services on
Sunday, March 10, at p. NJ, at the resi-
dence of her parents, No $40 Grove street.
Jersey City
WERRBACH-On Thursday. March Z,
1901, Christian. beloved husband Of
Anna Werrbach. aged rs years.
Relatives and friends are invited 10 at
tend the funeral from his late residence.
No. lS9 Jackson avenue, on Sunday
March 10, at 2 p. NJ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
SHE'S AFTER P|TNEY.
Miss Philbrook Pays Her
Respects to the Vice
Chancellor.
Especial to .The Jersey city News.''l ]

ISpecldi TO IHe Jersey LILY NEWS
TRENTON, March 9, 1901. For the first
time in the history of the New Jersey
Court of Errors and Appeals. a woman
appeared at it's bar yesterday and argued
| the case of a client.
The woman was Mary Philbrook, coun-
eellor-at-law, the first woman in the State
TO win a sheepskin permitting her to
practice in the courts.
She appeared before the Court OF APP
peals to argue the cause of another wo-
man, Pauline C. McGear, who had failed
in the Chancery Court to get divorce
from her husband, James ]. McGear.
1t was an ex parte case But despite
the fact that the husband put in no de-
fense, Vice Chancellor Pitney declined to
grant the divorce. 1t was only natural
for Miss Philbrook to believe the Vice
Chancellor had erred. Most lawyers think
that way most of the time. So does the
Court of Errors, if its decisions are any
criterion.
But to the case in point. Miss Phil
brooks client is young woman of TWEEN
ty-five, a Protestant in religion, who mar
ried McGear, a Catholic, in Brooklyn in
1897. They were married by Protestant
clergyman and lived together just one day.
Two weeks later the wife received letter
from her husband, charging her with
having married him while he was drunk.
According to Miss PhilbroolS, Mrs. Me-
Gear learned that the laws of New Jer-
sey afforded her opportunity of relief III
her marital difficulties, which she did not
have in New York, and so she took up
her residence with friends in Jersey City.
Once her husband called upon her in Jer-
sey City and she signed off her rights in
his fathers estate, for which he gave her
$1,000. Although she had some money of
her own besides Mrs. McGear declared
in her testimony that she entered the
service of the Nelson's as domestic.
The case was first referred to Master,
who reported against Mrs. McGear on the
ground that there was no desertion by
the husband that could be construed as
obstinate and further because she had
not acquired bona fide residence in the
State. Exceptions were taken to the re-
port. and further testimony was taken
as to the residence of the wife, before
Vice Chancellor Pitney, who decided that
no residence had been established in New
Jersey.
In some way part of this testimony was
mislaid by the stenographer and the Vice
Chancellor made memorandum of the
testimony as he recalled it and certified
as to its accuracy. For this, Miss Phil
brook waded into the Vice Chancellor
with as much vigor as is the custom with
lawyers of the sterner sex.
She stoutly maintained before the Court
of Errors yesterday that there was de-
sertion and that Mrs. McGear had a resi-
dence in the State sufficient to give the
court jurisdiction. She cited authorities
galore in support of her two contentious,
ana asked the court to reverse Vice Chan
cellor Pitney and come to the aid of her
chent. The decision will not be announc-
ed until the next term of court, to be
held in June.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
MORE DAMS FOR DELAWARE.
Two Companies Incorporated Wit
$4,000 Each.

Especial to ''The Jersey City News"1
TRENTON, March 9, 9O1IArticles of
incorporation were filed yesterday for
two more companies, each with $4,000 cap
ital stock, to dam the Delaware under the
act of 1896.
One is named the Delaware Power
Company, which is authorized to build in
Pohatcong, Carpenterville, Warren coun-
ty, and the other is the Indian Rift Com
pany, to construct dam at Indian Rift,
about three miles above Easton.
The incorporators of each company are
Lewis I. Fletcher, Easton; Charles E.
Griffith, New York, and Jacob S. Stew
art. Phillipsburg.
Other companies chartered follow
Washington Investment Company, with
a capital stock of $1,OOO,0OO Frank E.
Lord, Horace E. Parker, of New York,
and Oscar L. Gubelman, incorporators.
American Oil and Development Com
pany, with capital stock 5f $1o00,0O0
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
BRIDGES TO CLOSE
Trolley Traffic Will Cease
at Midnight Over the
Plank Road.
TO PRESERVE CoHPANY'S RIGHTS
Mr.. E F. G. Young Unable
to Say Definitely What
Steps Towards Re-
building Will
Be Taken.

At midnight tonight the drawbridges
over the lPassaic and Hackensack Rivers
will be closed and those whose purpose it
as to get to Newark by the trolley road
sof the North Jersey Street Railway Com
pany must take the steam railroad to
chat delectable place. Just how long this
state Of things will last no one appears
to know.
This determination on the part of the
Newark Plank Road to close the bridges
is occasioned by the recent decision of
the Court of Last Resort.
Yes said President E. F. c. Young
today, "by a mutual agreement of our
company and .Ae Newark Council we
have decided to do this to preserve the
rights of the company
Mr.. Young could not say what steps
would be taken in relation to rebuilding
the bridges. 1t is understood, however,
that the Freeholders of both Essex and
Hudson counties will take some steps
soon towards an agreement on the sub
iect
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
FATHER SHEPPARD STARTS.
His Parishioners Wish Him Bon
Voyage to the Holy Land.

The Rev. Father Sheppard, of ST. Mich
aePs R. c. Church sailed this morning for
a three months trip to Europe and Pal
estine. A large number of his parishion-
ers bade him ''bon voyage" and wished
him safe return home. He sailed on the
steamship Hohenzollern, Of the North
German Lloyd line. His stateroom was
filled with flowers given him by his appre-
ciatlve parishioners, who followed him to
the dock from which tie steamship sail
ed. at the foot of Congress street, Brook
lyn.
Father Sheppard goes first to Naples
and thence to Palestine, where he will
spend Holy Week in the holy places. On
his way home he will spend six weeks Ii
Ireland.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
CHILDREN TO co FREE.
Hudson City Business Men Will Adj
NIT Them to the Etposifion.

fair sized crowd attended the indus
trial exposition at Pohlmann's last night.
J. Wallace Black, who is ii charge of the
committees business Office, says that
the nightly attendance islup to expecta-
tions One of the additijnal attractions
last night was Ahmetta, palmist and card
reader, who has taken aIbooth.
The concert and the dance were enjoy
ed by many last night. Next Tuesday af-
ternoon the children ofthe public schools
of the Eleventh and twelfth wards will
be admitted free. There are between five
and six thousand pupils in the public
schools of these. two wards.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
So On.

Lady Dorothy Nevill, one Of the wit
test women in London society, is well
known to most Americans who visit
London during the season, says Cham
bers Journal. Some time ago there was
rich and ambitious man in society who
went in for entertaining largely, and es-
pecially for making his parties interesting
and representative A marked falling off
began to take place after while in the
quality Of his quests. Lady Dorothy
commenting on this deterioration. said
ssOnce we used to meet Browning and
Whistler and Henry James. and so on
there; but now We only meet-so on
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
CRU SADIE IN H0BoKEN

William Dorschlager, proprietor of a
Hudson street hotel, was arrested in Ho-
boken, yesterday, on complaint of j.
Breen and ]. Havens, who charged him
with running a disorderly house. Dorsch-
lager gave bail to Justice Seymour for
his appearance before the Grand Jurw
A week ago he had the complainants ar
rested for SANDER. Bail for their appear
ance before the Grand Jury was accepted
by Justice Macs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
BoARDERS WE'RE ROBBED.

Carl Weiss, twentytsix years old, who
was arrested by Defective Weinthal in
Hoboken yesterday, qa suspicion of hav-t
ing robbed boarders at No. liz River,
street, was arraigneh before Recorder
Stanton today, Two stolen watches were
found in the prisoners bed, but he Plead
ed that he hadsnot stolen them and that
he knew nothing of their presence there.
The Recorder ield him for the Grand
Jury.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
IMPRoMPTU SKATING RINK

A leak was sprung in the water main
on Stegman avenue. near Ocean avenue,
on Wednesday afternoon. The escaping
water froze rapidly, and made the street
in the neighborhood of the leak one sheet
of ice The leak was repaired yesterday,
and the people on that street are hoping
for a thaw SO that the ice will disappear
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
CHILD DEAD MOTHER INSANE

Mrs Anna Altman, forty-seven years
old, was removed from her home at No.
S24 Adams street, to Hoboken Police
Headquarters today, via 'y insane
Her husband, whoSisAd her taken into
custody, says the 5eath OF a favorite
child q month ago was responsible for
her condition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
WATCH FOR coRYDon.

Thomas Corydon, of the St. Michaers
bowling team, who made the highest in
dividual average score in the recent Cath
olic Club bowling tournament, was pre-
sented with a beautiful gold knight of
Columbus watch charm by the Rev. Fa-
ther McDermott, on Thursday evening.
The presentation took place on St.
Michael's Club alleys in the presence of
many ladies and gentlemen.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
ENDS HIS WAR ON SIN.

The Rev Hugh Rankin, "the Rocky
Mountain Evangelist viii close a week $
war against sin in Hoboken at the first
Reformed Church tomorrow night. The
revival meetings have been largely at
tended and Pastor Bluhm is highly grati-
fed with the good accomplished.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
An Ola and Well Tried Remedy

Mrs. Winslow'a Soothing Syrup for children
teethins should always be used for children
while testhing. II softens the gums allays the
pain. cures wind collie and Is the best remedy
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09

NEW YORK, March 9, 1891 Forecast
for thirty-six hours ending at p. M.
Sunday:-Probably rain tonight; fair to-
morrow; southwest winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
Hartnett's Thsrmometrieal Report
MATTERS OF FAcE.

Pavonia Brand of Canned tomatoes. extra
large cans, and filed with red ripe tomatoes.
wholesale at D. e. Cleary Co.'s stores. Ask
your srocer for 'ena.
e.Ss.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
Signed by The Cook.

All dishes at the English royal table
are marked with the name of the cook
a custom which originated with George
H.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09
COURT CALENDAR.

Circuit Court cases.
Date March IL. 1s0L-CentraI r. r. Co.
VS.. Sleeper.
Date March y, 1eG1.-Freeholders cases.
Date March 13, 1901.--No S52.
Date March II, 1s01.--Nos. PAS and 244.
WEATHER INDICATIONS.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-03-09

City Clerk Michael J. o'Donnell has re-
ceived the following opinion from Corpor-
alton Counsel Allen l.. McDermott, con-
cerning the validity of Meeker Anti-Elec-
ton act:-
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1901-07-19
BIG STRIKE IS ON.

At Pittsburg, Pa, after three days session,
the conference between representatives OF the
American sheet steel, American Steel Hoop Com
pany and American Tin Plate Company, subsd-
iary companies of the United States Steel Cor
poration, and general executive board of the
Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and
Tin Workers, adjourned last Saturday evening,
without reaching an agreement. In less than
an hour, the president of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION had wired to all the lodges in the tin
plate, steel hoop and sheet steel mills of the
country:
"Notify your men that the mill is on strike,
and will not work on Monday, July 18TH"
About IS 900 men are directly affected at once,
and many thousand more will be affected soon
if an agreement is not reached.