The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-05
ASSEMBLY MEETS
Considers CLANS, Fish and
Watermelon at Pleas
ure Bay.
/" SPECIAL SESSIONS SUCCESS
Maurice Marks's Novel
Scheme to Get Square
With the News
paper Men.

at the Real Widow Browns Place a
Pleasure Bay Saturday afternoon and al
/ went home prepared 10 convince the mos
skeptical that 1.-The Real Widow Brown
is real enough widow and that she
knows how to entertain to perfection a
| throng of hungry and thirsty statesmen, "
as one of the Camden delegation ex-
pressed it. Although this extra session
was not called by the Governor for the
purpose of considering the Passaic pollu-
| ton bills. Senator Tom McCarter was on
hand and took as deep an interest in
| the proceedings as though he and Carl
Lentz We're bossing the whole thing. He
| simply paralyzed with admiration the Es-
sex delegation by steaming up to the
| landing in his private launch which
brought him down from his summer
home on the Rumsen road. This extra
session, however, was called by the "As-
sociation of the General Assembly of
1901, an organization which was formed
by the members of the last Assembly for
the purpose of perpetuating the social
relations which We're formed among the
members of the Legislature last winter
at Trenton, and it was called for the pur-
pose of considering bill of fare intro
duced by the Real Widow Brown
Tie members of the Assembly and their
friends arrived at the place of meeting
about three o'clock. They ware met by a
committee consisting of J. Harry Bachel-
Ter, George G. Tenant, Charles S. Foote,
Ellis R. Meeker and Maurice Marks and
escorted to seats at long tables. labelled
with the names of the counties, which
yUar Al,
grassy lawns which slope down to the
banks of the Shrewsbury
Those who found places were these
members of the Assembly,
Leon Albeit. J. Harry Bacheller, Oliver
/. Blackwell, Robert M. Boyd, Jr., Will
lam J. Bradley, P. Anthony Brock Rob-
ert w. Brown, William P. Buck, Patrick
H. Connolly, Lewis M. Cresse, Frederick
Cummings, William B. Davidson, J. War
ren Fleming, Charles S. Foote, William
B. Garrabrants, Samuel j.. Garrison,
Ephraim T. Gill, Edward e. Gnichtel, H.
Raymond Groves, Henry w. Hoagland,
John G. Hol'ner, John Howe, William
Hyres, S. w. Kirkbride, Vivian NJ. Lewis,
William A. Lord. Killian V. LUZ, Adrian
Lyon, Maurice Marks, Ellis R. Meeker,
James w. Mercer Frederick P. Rees, Ed
ward J. Rice, Theodore NJ. Roe, Ralph B.
Schmidt, William G. Sharwell, Chester
NJ Smith, Charles r. Snyder, George q.
Tenant, Joseph H. Tillotson, John H.
vollers. Charles r.. Whitehead, Edgar
williams and Charles Wright.
Senator Joseph Cross of Union, and
Senator Thomas N. McCarter. Of Essex,
represented the upper House. Barker
Gummere of Trenton came over with
Comptroller Hancock and was received
with cheers and congratulations upon his
return into politics. Hamilton Kean.
chairman of the Union county Republican
committee, and personal representative Of
his brother the Senator, was seated op-
pcsite to Charles N. Codding, the candi-
date of the Voorhees-Fowler faction for
the office he holds. The two greeted each
other aistantly and said nothing about
the fight which is now rending the Union
Republicans.
No guest attracted more attention than
Robert Davis, who many believe will lead
the Democracy of New Jersey to victory
next fall. He sat at one of the tables
between Tommy Fallon and John Zeller,
at the Hudson table. Near him were
Police Justice Murphy, Surrogate Lillis,
Lewis Fischer and the Hon. Frederick
Kissam. William J. Davis, of Harrison,
was close to Mr.. Davis, and the Hudson
delegation were grouped about him. He
filled the role of sphinx to perfection and
refused to talk politics. He said he had
come to the bay to eat clans and not to
talk politics.
OF course, no legislative gathering is
complete without Major Tom" Palmer
and Colonel "Dick' Reading, of the Third
GIouee and they were prominent.
The guests of honor were the news
paper correspondents who report the pro-
ceedings of the Legislature for the State
papers. 1t was the intention of the COM
mittee to turn the tables on the scribes
and give them roasting after the man
ner in which the newspaper men roast
the statesmen at the dinner which they
give their legislative friends at Trenton.
They and the officials were gathered in
a little pavilion on small knoll where
the others whose tables were gathered
around the pavilion could get at them as
circumstance required. At each plate was
miniature book entitled, sUnwritten
Laws, A. d. 1901. To Be Considered
August 8, 1901, at the Real Widow
Browns, Pleasure Bay, N. j." The first
page contained list of the officers and
members of the association, His Ex-
cellency the Governor and their Super
Excellencies the United States Senators
from New Jersey being entered as homo
rary members. Then followed the menu,
which was set forth as Just sure
enough old fashioned clambake the Real
Widow Brown fecit. Physicians ser
,,foae ~, fha talpphOna y
Next came this attempt to get even
with the newspaper mem
INTRODUCTORY.
We fingered at the Trentons festive
board,
At that terrible newspaper dinner
Ard the scribes our witticisms scored
Till each seemed a guilty sinner;
And we vowed, with those fellows we'd
surely get square.
So now we have them here by the haIr;
Then here's to those who roast us well.
And those that don't may go TO Harlem.
TOASTS.
I'm warm weather.)
Hon. Vivian M. Lewis -Timekeeper.
1.-THE financial condition of Trenton,
or why should Essex SO imp Diluted
Alexander Dean Mclean.