The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-17
DAY OF PRAYER.
Mayor Hoos Sets Thursday
Apart to Mourn
Mckinley.
MANY MEMORIAL SERVICES
All Jersey City to Refrain
From Business Out of
Respect to Presi-
dent.
BAR ASSOCIATIONS TRIBUTE
Impressive Services Held To
day at Hudson County
Court House.

Whereas, The President of the Unit
ed States and the Governor of the
State of New Jersey have appointed
Thursday. the nineteenth day of Sep
body of the dead President will be con-
signed to its last resting place, TO be
day Of mourning and prayer.
l, Edward Hoos, Mayor of Jersey
City, do hereby recommend that on
the day so appointed the people OF Jer-
sey City refrain from their usual busi-
respective places of worship to pay
reverence to the Departed President:
to offer up prayers for the support and
comfort Of the bereayed family: for
new impulse of patriotism to guard the
country which he loved so well.
Given under my hand and seal this
18th day of September, d 19ol; 49,,
Attest M. J. O'DONNELI,
City Clerk.
All the county offices will be closed all
day Thursday out of respect to the men,
ory of the departed President. Notice to
that effect was posted on the Sheriff s,
County Clerks and Registers offices this
morning.
The Free Public Library will be closed
Thursday in honor of President William
Mckinley.
There will be no school Thursday, and
special memorial exercises in honor OF
President Mckinley will be held in all the
public schools throughout the city to-
morrow afternoon. The following letter
was sent by Superintendent of Schools
Henry Snyder to every principal in the
city yesterday
BY direction of President Mulvaney,
the schools will be closed Thursday,
September 10, on which day the fun
nf lat
will be held.
You are requested to hold special ex-
ercises commemorative of the life,
public services and tragic death of
President Mckinley on the afternoon
of Wednesday. September 49, The use
full life and the lamentable death OF
able lessons to our boys and. girls. You
are, therefore, urged to make the ex-
ercises of Wednesday afternoon parti-
cularly memorable. At this time,
above all others, the lessons of loyalty
and devotion to God and country
should be indelibly impressed upon the
minds of our children.
Although programmes vii have to be
arranged on a days notice for this occa-
sion, they will doubtless be very inn
pressive memorial services. All the
schools will be draped in mourning and
the exercises will consist of prayer
hymns and a review of the Presidents
life.
Public School No. 6, of which Major
Brensinger is principal, is preparing an
especially elaborate programme, in which
the Majors well drilled cadets play an
important part The exercises will begin
at one o'clock in the Assembly Room un-
for President Mckinley There will be
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ceremony, the flag will be hoisted to half
mast.
There will be prayer by the Rev. J.
Madison Hare, chaplain of the Third
Regiment; Counselor Eugene w. LeaKe
will give the principal address, besides
which there will be short talks by those
present, and Miss May Young will read
an essay on the life of the President.
President McKinley's two favorite
hymns, LEAD Kindly Light and Nearer
My God to Thee" will be sung. The bu-
gle taps. customary over the grave of a
soldier. and the raising of the flag to full
staff will complete the service.
The work of draping private and busi-
ness places was resumed this morning.
The door of the First National Bank is
covered with black cloth, with black
rosette in the centre of the arch. Equally
tasteful are the drapings of the CONNER
cial Trust Company with its pillars COW
cred in black cloth and two large Ameri-
can flags covering the figures over the
entrance. The Colonial Life Insurance
offices. the offices of the North Jersey
Street Railway Company and many other
buildings downtown are dressed in black
4; y, 1rf1ir, Or
the Fourth Regiment Armory, at Bergen
avenue and Mercer street, was begun this
morning under the direction Of Major Ar
thur L. Steele. The Board of Officers
have given orders not to spare expense in
the decoration and they will consist Of
the most elaborate and handsomest in the
city
A union memorial service in memory of
President Mckinley will be held by the
Hedding Methodist Episcopal Church and
the Parmly Memorial Baptist Church
Thursday morning, at eleven O'Clock. The
pastors, Dr. Joseph A. Owen and the
Rev. J. Madison Hare, will be assisted by
prominent men of Jersey City and vicin-
ity who will make addresses. Appropri-
ate music will be furnished by large
choir.
In accordance with the proclamation Of
President Roosevelt memorial service
in honor of President William Mckinley
will be held in the Bergen Reformed
Church, corner of Bergen and Highland
avenues, on Thursday, at II o'clock A. M.
Several distinguished citizens have been
invited to speak. The music will be in
charge of the choir of the church, under
73raofioy1 af Frank r Gilbert
The Robert Davis Association has re-
ceived an invitation to attend the united
Mckinley memorial services of downtown
MATTERS or FACT.