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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
ELKS' GOOD TIME
Jersey City Party Returns
From Milwaukee.

Delegates and other Elks who attended
the annual convention of Elks at Mill
waukee have all returned. The party in
cluded Police Commissioner Adolph
Walter, ex-Police Captain Fred Farrier,
William Mckinley. William Cunningham,
Thomas Lane, Mr.. Shawhaber, George
Wood, George Taylor. James F. OMealis,
Patrick Powers, ex-Freeholder Clements,
William Kennedy and James E. Murray
Mr.. Murray was on his bridal trip.
Messrs. O'Mealia, Powers and Kennedy
We're also accompanied by their wives.
Captain Farier gives a glowing account
of the party's trip. He left the party at
Niagara and returned home via Canada
The Elks were splendidly entertained Nin
Milwaukee. Mayor Rose, who is an sxalt-
ed ruler. issued a. proclamation declaring
one of three days of the convention Elkls'
Day. There was a big parade with ghost
and Dark Town Fire Department fea-
lures. The Jersey City party all took in
the Pan-American Exposition on its way
home.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
SIX BIG COMPANIES
Secretary of State Is Busy Granting
Charters.
Especial to "The Jersey City News.

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News."l
TRENTON, Aug. 9, 1901.-Articles OF IT.
corporation for the following corspanies
were filed yesterday in the Office Of the
Secretary of State:
The Permian and Trans-Pecos Texas
Copper Company, 100000. John Lutz.
Claudius H. Chavant and William Linden
burgh, of Jersey City, incorporators.
United States Twine and Net Company,
of Paterson, s50,OO0, to manufacture
threads, twines, yarns and nets Of every
description, whether made from flax,
hemp. jute, cotton or any other fibrous
material. The incorporators are William
Barber, Alfred Turner, Jr., Henry G.
Knox and Frank Gledhill of Paterson and
Robert B. Symington of Newark.
Fuel Economizer Company of America,
$3.50 900. George H. Burbee, Philadelphia;
Winold J.. Beckenbach and Frank e.
Meeter. of Camden, incorporators.
Star Silk Company, Of Paterson, $4,000.
Israel Sapirstein and Philip Bernstein,
Paterson, and Abraham Schwalbe, f'ew
York, incorporators.
A. D. Meiselbach Typewriter Company,
s125. 900, to manufacture typewriters and
typewriters parts.
Headley-Christie Construction Company,
s25. .O0o J. Arthur Headley, James A..
Christie and James III. Van Ness of New
ark incorporators.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
NOT THEIR MAN
Green Good Suspect Re-
fuses to Tell All He
Knows.

Detectives Frank Bennett and Michael
McNally, of Police Headquarters, went to
Wilkesbarre, Pa, yesterday, to interview
prisoner in the jail there who is held
under the name of Frank Wallace" He
is charged with green goods swindling.
Wallace, it is believed, knows all
about the operations of the gang who
worked along the Central Railroad, using
the Western Union Telegraph Company's
wires to draw come-ons. The gang sue
ceeded in avoiding arrest here because of
the refusal of Superintendent Charles p
Adams and Operator Albert Keyser, of
the Claremont avenue station, to give the
police information about the Whereabouts
of William Gray, a swindler For this
refusal Adams and Keyser were arrested.
The detectives interviewed Wallace in
the hope of learning something of the
gang who worked here, but Wallace was
as silent as clam. Wallace was arrest
ed in Mauch Chunk along the line of the
Central. He was in easy communication
with this city
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
MORE DAVIS PIONEERS
New Company Organized Among
Ninth Ward Democrats.

A special meeting of the Ninth Ward
Democratic Club was held last night for
the purpose of organizing and electing
officers for the new company that has
been added to the Davis Pioneer Corps.
There We're several candidates for the
various offices. These men were finally
declared elected:-Captain, Robert G..
Smith, Jr.; First Lieutenant, Daniel F.
Coleman; Second Lieutenant Charles F.
x. O'Brien; First Sergeant, James F.
Dugan; Second Sergeant, Edward jack
son; Third Sergeant, Hugh Parle; First
Corporal. John Nixon, and Second Cor
poral, James A. Ryan.
Another meeting will be held Saturday
night when the men will be measured
for therj uniforms and receive instruc-
tions a to the drilling. The new com
pany will be called Company G, and Cap
tain Gleason of the Fourth Regiment will
drill the men,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
Mr.. EDWARDS'S FUNERAL.
Services Held Last Night
at His Home in
Lafayette.

The funeral services Of William w.
Edwards, who died Tuesday morning
after a lingering illness, were held last
night Interment was made this morning
in the family plot in the Cypress Hill
Cemetery. Only the immediate relatives
were present when interment was made.
Six of Mr.. Edwards's sons, William D.,
John T., Edward, Joseph, Cornelius and
David, acted as pail bearers. James NJ.
another son, who is in New Orleans, was
unable to attend the funeral
The services were held at the house on
Pacific avenue last evening at eight
O'clock The casket rested in the front
parlor. At its foot was a bank of beau
tiful floral pieces. The relatives and
friends began to arrive at seven o'clock
and an hour later, when the service be-
gam the house was crowded.
The service was conducted by the Rev.
T. ]. Komners, pastor of the Lafayette
Reformed Church on Communipaw ave-
nue. Mr. Kommers was in the country
when the news of Mr. Edwards's death
reached him, but at the request of the
family consented to return to officiate
at the funeral.
He had know Mr.. Edwards for many
ears, Mr.. Edwards having been one of
The oldest members of his church. Pastor
Kommers's remarks were affecting. He
alluded to Mr.. Edwardss s life both in COR
nection with the church, of which he was
for many years an officer. and in private
He said that Mr.. Edwards had made
many friends in his long residence in the
Lafayette section, and would be missed
by many.
At the close of the regular service the
members of Amity Lodge. No. 1O3 F. and
A. M, took their places about the casket
Worshipful Master James ellison conduct
ed the service.
There were many prominent city and
county officials present. also many asso-
ciates of Mr. Edwards.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
TRA|NNEN'S DANGER.
Movement to Lessen It By
Different Foot Gear.

There is a movement on foot among
| railroad employees in this city, principally
| those who work among the tracks in the
freight yards, to induce brakemen and
/ trainmen to wear CATERS with heavy
| soies and heels and rubber sides while
at work. All men who look after switches
and who spend their time on the tracks
will be urged to wear them
The decision was made Thursday after
noon. 1t was brought about mainly by
the horrible death of John R. Hoffman,
a brakeman, who was cut in two late
"Wednesday night in the Central yards.
Hoffman got his foot caught in a frog
and he struggled for his life to pull his
foot from the shoe. The shoes he wore
were heavy laced ones. He united the
laces to loosen his foot, but the shoe was
too firmly wedged between the rails. The
more he struggled the tighter his foot
got. While thus held, he was cut to
pieces by the train on which he worked.
Hoffman's death made the most harden
ed railroad men shudder. They all adj
mitted that if Hoffman had worn CATERS
he would have been able to extricate his
foot Even buttoned shoes would have
saved his life.
/ Hoffman's death is but of Of hundreds
that have occurred from practically the
same cause. A railroad yard is a dam
gerous place to work in in the day time,
but at night the danger is more than dou-
bled. Dodging drill engines at night is
precarious work.
There are a hundred engines shunting
cars back and forth through the yards
and sidings. Men leave the cars, rush
ahead several hundred feet to pull or
open a switch, and while performing these
tasks in a hurry get caught in the
switches. The yards are poorly lighted
to make the best of it, and it is seldom
that a man is caught by his own care
lessness
There are a dozen big freight yards in
this city where thousands of men are en-
ployed daily to handle the rolling stock.
Their lives are constantly in danger.
Scarcely a week passes that report of
some trainmans death is not made to
the police and at least half of them are
caused by frogs.
The new plan is to convince the men
that CATERS lessen the danger. Ways and
means will be discussed at the next ses-
sions of the local societies OF railroad
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
WASHINGTON BAND coNcTER

The Washington Band will render an
other programme of music tonight in
front of the Business Mems Club House
on the Boulevard.
A subscription is being taken up among
the members of the Business Mems Cycle
Club and residents of the Bergen section
of the Boulevard for the Washington
Post Band. which has been giving free
open Dir concerts in that section for the
past six weeks. The object is to purchase
new uniforms and more instruments fer
the members of the band. Those APP
preached for subscriptions should see that
the caller bears proper credentials. The
band will continue its open air concerts
until cold weather sets in.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
"sPoT's" oBEsQUlEs.
Children .of the Tenement Bury
Their Dog in Style.

Spot" the tramp fox terrier who was
the pet of the children of the tenements
on Grove street, between Eleventh and
Grove streets, and who was found dead
in vacant lot Tuesday, having been
poisoned. was buried by the children yes
terday in lot in Eleventh street. They
got box from Undertaken Careys estab-
lshment, had it cushioned inside and
placed the dead dog in it and carried it
to the burial place with much solemnity
They are on still hunt for the person
who poisoned their pet and if he or she
is discovered they will make it warm for
the culprit through the medium of the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
SUNDAY MIGHT CLUBS PICNIC

The Sunday Night Club win hold its all
nual picnic at Pohlmanns pavilion on
Monday evening. August u. Pros. Tenn
ler will furnish the music. The officers
of the club are: NJ. P. Malone, President;
]. J. Murphy, First Vice President: Frank
scanlon. Second yice-President; j. J.
Dovle. Third vice-President NJ. j.
O'Brien. Corresponding Secretary: J. ].
McCable. Financial Secretary; j. schlitt.
Recording Secretary; Edward Hughes,
treasurer: James McKenna, Sergeant-at-
Arms, ard Charles Nulrain. Assistant
Sergeant -at-Arnls.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
MRS. BENDER is FREE
Husband Deserted Her and Joined
the Boer Forces in South Africa.

A decree of divorce has been granted
to Mrs Adolf Bender of Greenville,
whose husband deserted her five years
ago.
They were married in Germany and
came to Jersey City ten years ago. With
out word indicating his intentions Ben
der walked out of the house and has
never been seen since by his wife He
never wrote to her and she hasn't the
slightest idea of his whereabouts. Letters
were written to his relatives in Germany
but nothing was obtained from them.
Bender wrote to a Greenville friend two
years ago, saying that he was about to
take sides with the Beers in the Trans
yaal war,
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
CAUGHT IN THE MUD

A truck loaded with heavy curbstones
and driven by Phillip Finnulty of No 50
Brunswick street, got stuck in the mud
on Linden avenue, near Linden court,
yesterday afternoon and is there yet.
The rain of Tuesday caused a depression
which was responsible for stolling the
truck. The horses went in to their knees
but got out uninjured.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
THROWN OUT OF sULKY

A horse attached to sulky and driven
by George Wallace, thirty years old, OF
Montclair, at five clock yesterday after
noon became frightened in West Newark
avenue, near James street, and ran away.
Mr.. Wallace was thrown out and his left
arm was broken. He was taken to the
City Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
LOST HER COLD WATCH

Mrs. Margaret Flemming, of No. 277
Pine street, reported to the police Of the
Communipaw avenue station house last
evening that she had lost gold watch
valued at $50 at Summit and Communi
nav avenues. She said the watch was
pinned to her waist and that pin and
watch were gone.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
uNsANIIARY SHEDS

Patrolrnan Stevens reported to the
Ocean avenue station house that the resi-
dents on Old Bergen Road were COM
planning Of odors arising from several
outhouses and sheds IN that vicinity The
Board of Health has been asked to look
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
Stains on Furniture.

The white stains on polished furniture
caused from the spilling of spirits or too
hot plates can be removed by pouring on
them few drops of spirits of camphor,
wiped off quickly with a flnnnel cloth.
Follow this treatment Immediately by
a vigorous rubbing with good furniture
Woman.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
Oxford Man and Cambriage Man

That great questionable difference be-
tween an oxford man and a Cambridge
man-was once solved by the epigram:-
IAN oxford man looks as if the world
belongs to him; a Cambridge man looks
as if he did not care TO whom the world
belongs"-The late Mandel Creighton,
Bishop of London.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
DROWNED WHILE AT WORK

Andrew Correyea, whose home is at
Asbury Park, was drowned last evening
while at work at Browns dry dock at
the foot of Essex street The body was
recovered by several of Correlyea's fell
low workmen. 1t was taken to the
morgue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
a Memorial of the Men of Hawiok

At Hornshole, near Hawick. there was
recently unveiled (says the Newcastle
"Chronicle') memorial stone erected to
the youth of Hawick, who, according to
tradition, in 1914, routed a band of English
marauders and captured their flag, fac
smile of which is usually carried at the
celebration of the common riding
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
A. Old and well Tried Remedy.

Mrs. winsiow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething should always be used for children
while testhing. II softens the gums allays the
pain. cures wind cclic and Is the best remedy
Tor diarrhoea. Twsnty-hye cents per bottle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
SOUTH COVE CHANNEL

The city has finished the work Of dredg-
ing the channel in the disputed property
at South Cove and the dredgers are today,
employed In doing work for Swanson's
dry dock concern.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
THE C0RNFlELD is CONE.

Phe cornstaiks that shot up In the
Gamma bed Of one OF City Hall Custodian
Datz's pet flower mounds were removed
yesterday afternoon.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
MATTERs OF FACT.

The ARC Corn Starch. one OF the very best
foods for children, or puddings. etc.. Wholesale
at b. e. cleary Co.'S stores. Montgomery
and Greene streets. Jersey City.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-09
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. 8, 1901. Forecast for
the thirty-six hours ending at eight p. M.
Saturday:-Geuerally fair tonight and to-
morrow; variable Winds.
Hartnett's Thermometrical Repor
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30

In the island of Cyprus is basin
cut off from the sea. although sunk
slightly below sea-level. which con-
tains a salt lake from which a con-
siderable harvest of salt is annually
obtained in August, when the fierce
summer heat dries up the water. G.
v. Bellamy. who recently visited the
lake called Larnarca. thinks sea-water
percolates through the rocks into the
basin, thus supplying the salt. A
single heavy rain in midsummer has
sometimes suf1iced to ruin the salt
crop, and the Cyprians. in order to
protect the valuable lake as much as
possible have constructed channels to
carry off the flood water of rains from
the slopes of the basin into the sea-
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30

The United States will shortly pos
coast Notifications. and complete in
every detail. the world-famed Gruson
turret Not only Is the plant assured.
but work has actually commenced on
the erection of the necessary build
ings, and to such an extent have the
plans progressed that the casting of
the plates for the initial turret could,
if required. be commenced in six
months hence.
The raison d'etre of the new indus.
try is primarily the recommendation
of the Endicott board Of ordnance and
Notifications. calling for emplace-
ments for % turrets at coast points
of the United States; but in the main
the new plant owes its being to the
conditions which confronted this coun-
try on the breaking out of war with
Spain in 1898. and to existing condi
lions which make imperative the
adoption of a system impregnable to
gun attack.
The new organization is called the
Gruson Iron Works. and will carry on
the manufacture OF all descriptions Of
chilled iron-work and heavy castings
requiring special strength and resis-
tance for naval and marine work.
The interests associated with the
new company include the largest man
ufacturers Of chilled iron in America,
and the works will be equipped with
everything requisite for the manufac-
ture of the largest chilled castings
to which the particular plant for fin
ishing Gruson turrets can be quick
ly added.
The site for the new works is on
the banks of the Delaware at the
little town of Eddystone. and distant
only a few miles from the city of
Chester, Penn. This site was select
ed largely because of its tide-water
facilities. and with special reference
to the needs which must arise incident
to the shipment of heavy turret equip
ment.-Harper's Weekly.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30

pushed forth like it did when Moses
struck the rock with his rod. Mr. Pills
bury. of Americas, an honorable vet
eran, was there on guard and says the
whole thing is made up, and 1t can be
proved so by many old citizens OF
Sumter county. We, will have to nail
that Andersonville lie to a board anc
put it I'D at the forks of the road. We
will brand it when we meet at Mem
phis. | want to meet Colonel join
Cussons there and thank him for his
little book l want every veteran tc
have one. The price is only 25 cents
and it is worth ten times that much
to have it in the house and refer tic
1t sometimes when we get cussin' mad.
Providence spring! I'm going to
see if can't beat my neighbors Cary
and Yarbrough and Corley and Mrs.
Fields, raising tomatoes. Mr.. Corley
has put out only six plants and says
they will yield him twenty bushels of
fruit Mr.. Yarbrough, the preacher,
has six plants. 10 dug six wells
about two feet deep and filled them
up with all sorts of fertile and says
he will have a. wagon load. Last year
he had eight on one stem-ail touching
each other and the eight weighed
twelve pounds! I've seen the photo
graph. I've got out 100 plants and am
not done yet, and they laugh at me,
but want load or two to give away.
My garden must keep me busy 1t
don't do to sit down and brood over
trouble and SANDER anu lies. / pick
strawberries every day, but I'm not
fond of the business. Have TO stoop
too much and it gives me the back
ache. I'm the only boy left and my
folks keep me very busy.-P;H Arp, in
Atlanta Constitution.
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30
ALL BUT TWO WEST POINTERS.
General Charles King Tells of Leading
officers After the Civil War.

The Army Register of 1S67-the first
published after the reorganization OF
that day-is a field for study now. At
the head of the list General-in-C Chief.
is the name of the great silent soldier
who in 81 vainly rendered his sword
to the War Department and sadly
waited two long days in McClellan's
anteroom at Cincinnati, begging an
audience that was never accorded.
Neither the wisdom of the Adjutant-
Generals Department nor that of the
great organizer saw anything worthy
of consideration in the appeal of
resigned captain, despite his West
Point diploma and his fine fighting
record in Mexico. Illinois gave him
the start, merit did the rest, and in
spite of everything Grant forged to tAe
front.
Second on the roll, Lieutenant-Gen-
eral. was Sherman, who, with intu-
ence to begin with, in 'G1 had skill to
send him on.
Then came the MajorG
cold Brains" Halleck, Meade, the 10y
al head of the Army of the Potomac,
Sheridan (whose own State had no
place for him among it's volunteers
and who got his start from Michigan).
Thomas, the Rock of Chicamauga. ana
Hancock, ''the superb"-all West
Pointers.
So, too, were the Brigadiers, save
only Terry, the Connecticut soldier
lawyer, who won fame at Fort Fish
er, and his Kentucky fellow-fighter,
Rousseau, awarded the fag-end of
the list when Rosecrans resigned in
the spring of '67. Even the Brigadiers
had commanded Independent armies.
or at least corps d'armee, during The
great war-Rousseau and the veteran
dragoon St. George Cooke alone ex-
cepted. In the order of regular rank
they were Mcdowell, Cooke, Pope,
Hooker, Schofield, Howard, Terry,
Ord, Candy and Rousseau.
So there you have the seventeen
generals of the line as determined by
the war beside which the recent fur
ry was but an affair of outposts. and
all but two-West Pointers.-Gen.
Charles King, in the Saturday Even
ing Post
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30
A PopuIar Collegiate Course.

zone of the newest and at the same
time most popular courses at the Uni
versity of Illinois," says the Chicago
Tribune, sis that in stock judging. 1t
has been established only three years.
and there are at present more than
three hundred students taking it. The
course is popular because it leads di-
rectly to employment at much more
than average salaries. some OF the
graduates, after taking a course of
nine months duration, securing
places as cattle buyers at the stock
yards and elsewhere at salaries rang
ing from $4,000 to $4,000 a year So
great is the interest which has been
aroused in cattle judging that num-
Der of Western colleges have formed
an intercollegiate stock judging
league, and send rival teams to annual
contests, the winners being awarded
a handsome silver trophy presented
by ]. A. Spoor, of Chicago. The course
of instruction at the University of H.
linois is entirely practical. No books
are used, the demonstrations being
made on the living animals. Once the
students have the good and bad points
of the different classes of animals
firmly fixed in their minds they are
set to judging five or six animals in
the same ring"
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30

A man wa being tried recer thy in
New South Wales for stealing a
watch. The evidence was conflicting,
and the jury made up their minds to
retire, but before they left the hall
the Judge remarked that if there We're
any points on which they required
information he would be pleased to
assist them. Eleven of the jurymen
had left the box, but the twelfth re-
manned standing, with mis- eyes fixed
downward. as if absorbed in thought.
"Well, SIR" said the judge, ''is there
any question you would like to ask
me before you retire?" Il would like
to know, my l-rd," ,ame the reply,
"if you could tell us whether the pris-
oner stole the watch?'
The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1901-05-30
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY,

IN 1889 the production of aluminium
in the United States was about %
tons and in other countries II tons,
while in 1900 the United States pro-
duced about 1900 tons and other
countries about 1900. Copper tele-
graph and telephone wires must be
twice as heavy as aluminium in order
to do the same work, and 5000 tons Of
aluminium used for sheathing or roofs
will replace 10000 tons of copper.