The Jersey City news., 1901-12-14
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ferry. The marriage ceremony will be
solemnized on Wednesday evening in
Trinity Church, New York. and will be
followed by reception at the brides new
home on Mercer street and Jersey avenue,
necessitating the crossing of the Hudson
twice for the Jersey City guests once
for those from New York, and it is to
accommodate the expected five hundred
carriages that the P. r. r. has consented
to change its schedule. Everything has
been arranged to run with clock like pre-
ciseness, and unless the weather man
should be unreasonable enough to send
fog the bride will be in two states Of con-
jugal bliss.
This evening Miss Bishop will give the
bridal party supper al the new nome
given her az a wedding present from her
father, Mr.. Henry w. Bishop. Covers Will
be laid for nineteen-zMiss Bishop and DR..
Shera. the bride and Bridegroom; Miss
Elizabeth Shera maid of honor; Miss
Natalie and Master James Hulshizer.
flower girl and page; Mr.. j. Fletcher
Shera, best man; Mr.. e, B, Bacon, Dr.
Talbot r. Chambers Dr. 1. Pyle, Mr..
John Rich. Dr. Edward Roesa of New
York. and Mr.. H. K. Wood. ushers; Mr..
and Mrs. j. e. Hulshizer. Mrs T., B.
Bacon. Mrs Chambers. Mrs. 1. Pyle.
Mrs. H. K Wood and Mr.. Henry w.
Bishop. Supper win be served by Maresi
and the decorations win be of pink. The
gifts viii be an opal ring to the maid of
honor, pearl pin to the flower girl and
gold sleeve links to the page from Miss
Bishop. Dr. Shera viii present pearl Tie
slips to his best man and ushers.
church rehearsal will precede the supper.
A week ago the Rev. Charles Herr
spoke very strongly against what he
called Ecclesiastical blackmail and low
appeals to the grab bag"-the church fair
which turned the House of God into
house of merchandise. Why does not
some one raise the objection of 'educa-
tional blackmail' to turning the public
school into a house of merchandise for
publishers of educational pamphlets and
periodicals at the Teachers Institute AS
sociation meetings?
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals has prohibited the
docking, of horses Probable the young
teachers compelled to attend the Teach
ers' Institute or be '.docked" wish some
one would start a society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to teachers.
Major T. K. Pangborn paid tribute to
the Woman's Club at the Cosmos dinner
Monday evening when he said that the
women had done more toward cleaning
the streets than had ever been done be-
fore. This ought to encourage Mrs. Hud-
speth-Benson and the Town Improvement
Department, which has apparently be-
come much disheartened. and spur them
on to do it again-the city certainly needs
it.
ssThere is some thought of the union of
the Education and the Town Improve
ment Departments" says the last issue
of the wofnan's Club ~Outlook." Mrs
Hudspeth- Benson would enjoy seeing the
joining together of their common inter
eets THAT may be all very we'll in its
way. but to join the two forces would be
to sink the Town Improvement into
oblivion. and to sink the Town Improve
ment into oblivion would be to lose Mrs.
Benson. and Mrs. Benson is too valuable
a woman TO lose. AT the time Mrs. Ben
son took hold of the Town Improvement
Department nobody outside the clug. and.
in fact, precious few of the club members
themselves knew it existed even In name.
Tnrough Mrs. Benson ii has come into
prominence 1t has done more effectual
work than all the other departments put
together with the Mary Benson Park as
a living monument Through 1t the club
itself has gained worldwide recognition
and renown. True, the members seem
to have lost interest, but not Mrs. Benson,
ana ii would be but poor gratitude to her
to let ii die now Tie Education and
Town Improvement Departments may
have many interests in common, but stiil
each Is a distinctive field by ITSELF and
the combination must sooner or later sink
one or tlle other. Just now the Educa-
ton Department is booming. but even
club women are faddy, and before long
the tide may turn again in the direction
of Town Improvement to sweep the city
with much needed sweep. vive la
Town Improvement.
Again. the woman,s Club is the key
note to Il busy social week. 1t has
planned for Itself three department meet
ings and just as many social events as
will warrant good attendance have been
crowded into the same week. Still Lent
comes early This year, which may account
for 1t 10 some extent
The Home Department will meet on
Monday in fHasbrouck Institute at half
past three. The programme will consisf
Of three papers, one on .The Land Of the
Midnight Sun, by Mrs. Willard Fisk; one
on "Reminiscences of Russia," by Mrs.
d. A. Bishop, and one on Kris Kringle