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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
VH ns
Marvellous and Mis-
chievous Franks Of
a Storm That
Lasted Only
Fifteen Min
utes.
SLAUGHTER OF SPARROWS
One Thousand Killed by a
SINGLE Bolt--Children
Try to Revive the
Birds in Van
Worst Park.
MANY HOUSES DAMAGED
North Hudson Motor Burned
Out Forces Many Heights
Residents to Wade
Home.

The city was visited by freak storm
early last evening. The rain fell IN
sheets downtown, converting the streets
into miniature lakes. The Bergen and
Hudson City sections were drenched.
Greenyille, south of Claremont avenue,
wasn't even sprinkled. and the Celery
vile folks were very skeptical about the
stories of the storm damage which came
from Hudson City, where house was
unroofed by lightning and the Ravlne
road sewer was wrecked by the great
pressure of water which swept through
it from the flooded streets.
Hundreds of cellars were filed with
water to a depth of six inches to as
many feet, and innumerable panes OF
glass were smashed in all over town, eX-
cepting Greenville. by the force of the
driving rain. The damage will amount
to thousands OF dollars.
The storm lasted only few minutes.
1t was preceded by an intensely sultry
hour, and ii was great relief to the
syeltcring community.
LAKES IN THE STREETS.
For several minutes after the storm
ceased there were dozen or more street
intersections down town which were
covered with several inches of water.
The receiving basins were closed up and
it was sometime before the miniature
lakes disappeared.
There was one particularly deep body
of water in front of Police Headquarters.
Small BOYS who tried to ford it had to
roll their Knickerbockers far above their
knees. The water came up to the axles
of the trolley cars and for time blocked
travel. Good sized whirl pools formed
over the receiving basins as the water
rushed down into the sewers. The rain
smashed in large window in Charles
K. Inness's cigar store at the triangle
formed BY Van Worst and Gregory
streets.
Tie storm played havoc with trees and
shrubbery on the Heights. Many fruit
trees laden with fruit were broken, while
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
and HAVOC
Ravine Road a Raging Tor
rent Power House Struck
Houses Wrecked,
People Drenched.

1t was supposed to be only an unus-
ious to the downpour the western and
middle sky and the condition of the at
mosphere bore every indication of a
promised electrical display. While the
shower was at its height some said it
was a fall of rain such as people of this
lasted comparatively on'-x few minutes,
and after it was appare- sly over people
who had sought shelter downtown ven
tered forth again to continue their jour
ney home. For it happened at an hour
of the day when people generally We're
bound hillward. They knew little of the
damage that had been done on the Hill
in the few minutes down pour.
In the Hudson City section it seemed
from reports gathered from other sect
ions of the city late last night, that the
damage was greatest.
The Ravine road down and around
which the big five-foot sewer fed by four
Of the principal sewers of that section
runs was torn and swept by a flood such
as has not been known there for many
years.
EIGHT GYSERS.
The pressure of water in the big sew
er forced sewer gratings and hanhole.
and when curious residents of the vicin-
ity climbed down the road to see what
damage had been done they were greeted
with spectacle of eight gysers spout
ing ten feet high with brick aud cement
as an element. The road was thus
flooded, and the streams of surface wa
ter pouring down from the foot Of
streets conyerging at the foot Of the Pal
isade avenue bridge, under which the Ra-
vine road winds, mingled with that es-
Gaping from the big sewer, and together
they poured in a torrent down the hill
side. A shanty near the tracks of the
D. l.. & W. Railroad was bowled over
and swept with the tide, and the Occur
pant John Smith, watchman, had to
swim and struggle to reach place Of
safety.
Hundreds of spectators were gathered
there after the storm was over.
TRAFFIC STOPPED.
Meanwhile traffic at the very busiest
hour of the day was at a standstill on
the elevated structure of the North Hud-
son County Railway Company. Light.
ming had struck the tall chimney of the
power house at the Palisadc avenue sta
ton, sending shower of bricks down
into the engine room and putting one Of
the largest dynamos s'out Of business.
The food occasioned by the bursting 81
the Rayine avenue sewer had prevented
many hundreds Of workers who habitu'
ally climb the .soue hundred steps" al
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
CLEVER THIEVES CAUGHT.
One of Their Victims Did Not
Know He Had Been Robbed
Until Police Told Him.

Chief of Police Murphy said this morn
ing that Albert Foster, George Williams
and Charles Philips, who We're arrested
at the Erie depot by Detective Brown, of
the Erie. and Patrolman Corliss, of the
Second Precinct. on Sunday, on suspic-
ion of stealing pocketbooks belonging to
Maennerchor excursionists who were on
their way tosShohola Glen, constitute a
trio of the cleyerest '.grafters" ever cap
tured inthis city.
The Chief has clear case against
Foster, in whose possession two pocket
books were found. and he hopes, he says.
to connect the other men with Fosters
oprations.
One Of the pocketbooks contained a
Communication ticket on the Jersey Central
Railroad between Plainfield and New
York, bearing the name of Charles Van
Middlesworth. lie lives Rrooklyn.
He visited Chief Murphy today in re-
sponse to a telegram asking him to come
over and claim his property. He didn't
know that he had been touched" until
the pocketbook and ticket We're returned
to him. He said that he went on the
excursion.
When Foster was placedin cell in
the City Prison he wore an imitation
Panama hat, which has since disappear
I eli. The Chief says that he can't im-
aciue what Ft ster did with It. or why
. he wanted to get rid oft. The police
found d; tourists cap, so-called, ring
err in its stead.
A score OF newspaper clippings OF fu-
ture excursions, evidently furnished by
elinping bureau, We're discovered among
the Ir;soner's effects.
The trio will be accorded hearing to-
4 nc crrnW
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
BIRD SLAUGHTER
Children Try to Save Spar
rows Blown Out Of Van
Worst Park Trees.


After the storm, from fifty to hun
dred children were to be seen running
about Van Worst Park searching for
dead sparrows. Hundreds had been
knocked out of the trees by the rain and
wind.
Most of the children had taken off
their shoes and stockings SO that they
might 90 on the grass. Some of them
took the little birds in their hands to
warm them and dry them. A great many
children took them home. The air was
full of chatter.
''Oh. the por little things said one
little girl.
Cheese it, the cop, shouted a rude
boy .sOh, why don't he stay OF the
other side of the park, there's another
one''
"Tliis ones dead"
They were running right and left, firss
finding bird and then .sdodging the
cop
If ever kindness was shown, it was
certainly shown by the little waits who
came from all around to try 10 save the
birds
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
AGNOSTIc UNIDENTIFIED

The Hotel Montgomery suicide on Sat
urday night has not yet been identified.
About fifty people visited the morgue
Sunday and yesterday to look at the
body. Most Of the visitors were there
out Of curiosity.
1t was supposed THAT some Of the
members of the Suicide Club Of New
York to whom the suicide addressed a
package Of poison, would identify him.
If any of these club members called
and were acquainted with the suicide,
they failed to make it known to- Atpygne
Keepr Henry lSrilIiths M II 334
Ehesb0dy iii Be kept until @he tier
part of tlle week 5}.R VIII iitheSl2 81! sili-
TERED in Potter
dltssl. = sS
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
ALL HANDS BACK DOWN.
Planned to Dope a Saloon
keeper, But Get Cold Feet
Now Jailed.

Three young Germans, who said they
were William Klug, 81 years old; Treo-
dore Ballier, 20 years old, and Herbert
Schwartz, 1S years old, were arraigned
before Recorder Stanton IN the Hobo
ken police court this morning on suspic-
ion of conspiring to drug Emil Schmidt,
proprietor of a saloon and boarding
house at No. 10 Hudson street, with
the intention of robbery.
According to the story that wds re-
lated in court. KIug planned the job. He
gave Ballier forty cents with which to
buy morphine, and Schwartz. who was
employed as a waiter in Schmidt's sa-
loon, was to drop the drug into his pro-
prietors drink. Then when Schmidt
went into the land of dreams all hands
were to take part in looting the saloon.
The job was to have been carried out
last night, but at the last moment
Schwartz losct his nerve and squealed.
Boiler was also accused by Klug of dis
ing his nerve, for instead of buying NOR
phine he spent the forty cents for wkis-
key and put water in the bottle which
he handed to Schwartz Schwartz thor
oughly believed that the bottle contained
morphine. When the opportunity arriy-
ed to put the drug into his employers
drink he back down and informed,
Schmidt of the conspiracy. Schmidt noti-
fed the police and the three men were
picked up in the vicinity of the saloon
last night by Detective I<ivlop and Fo-
licemen Winters. Burke and Kealy.
As there was not sufficient evidence to
hold the men on a charge of attempted
robbery Recorder Stanton sentenced
klug to ninety days, Ballier TO sixty
days, and Schwartz to thirty days in the
County Jail.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29

l
to save car fare daily, from reaching the
steps. These were obliged to turn back
| to the nearest station of the elevated
structure at jefferson street, Hoboken,
to Jersey City, known as the Henderson
street station. During rush" or com
mission hours Mt all times, these sta
| tions are crowded and one is fortunate
! if he does not have to wait while he sees
several cars of the particular line he is
waiting for pass before the conductor
considers it safe to stop and open the
gates of the car platforms for the recep-
ton of more passengers. With this usual
crowd augmented by the crowd unable
to climb the lone hundred steps, the
Jam last night was simply awful. Then
came the stalling of cars while the
knocked-out dynamo in the power house
at the top of the hill was replaced with
a new one. AT all the stations along the
structure and at the top of the Hill
where the lines separate for various To-
calities. great crowds were jammed.
Hundreds, tiring of waiting, even before
the storm had subsided, left the elevated
s+o+;on MA otforms and filed singly be-
tween the up and down tracks IN an Ell
fort to reach the Hill.
Rut bv this time a new dynamo had
taken the place of the one knocked out
bv the lightning. and ears began to glide
mn and down the structure, but they were
90 crowded that no stops were made at
the way stations for some time. So those
who were practically walking ties to the
ton of the hill felt satisfied with the
Journey they had undertaken. No such
scene has ever before been witnessed
in the history of the structure.
CELLARS FLOODED.
AT the top of the hill. notably IN the
vicinity of Ferry street, New York ave-
nue., Franklin street and Webster ave
nue., the receiving basins were unaoie
to carry away the surface water ana II
ran in the streets two and three feet
deep, submerging cellars and doing more
than considerable damage. buisel
saloon cellar. diagonally across from the
Webster avenue police station was SUI
merged with seven feet OIL water.
When the lightning struck tne tan
chimney of the power house at tne eie-
waited structure OF the north nuuson
County Railway Company III iansaue
avenue, the little waiting room ~'s
packed with people, anxious 70 reaen
their homes. A iauy Iaili'eu anu ma'
caught IN the arms OF Democraeic oon-
mitteeman George Honman' VINO was as
badly scared as tne iaus was neisei'
but still exhibited tne degree, ~ sai'an'is
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
DIED

ROSS.-In this city, on July 2s, 1902,
Eleanor, daughter of jain B. and
Mary Ross, aged year and 3
months.
Funeral services at the residence of
her parents, 304 Sixth street. on Tues
day evening, July 10Th, at S o'clock.
sLESIIE--At Enqlishtown. N. j., on
July Is, William G., Leslie, of No.
IS Prospect street, Jersey City.
Notice of funeral hereafter.
4SOLTS-~In this city, on July 81, 1902.
Richard Soils.
Funeral services at his late residence.
No. 241 Monmouth street, on Wednesday
afternoon. July. 80, at Que o'clock.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
ST. MICHAEL'S OUTING.
Two Women Do Funny Stunts
AS the Boat Leaves the
Pier.

About four thousand people boarded
two barges and one steamer today for
Bay View Grove, Long Island Sound.
The occasion was the annual excursion
of st. Michael's Roman Catholic Church.
The picnickers will spend the day in
playing various games for the amusement
of the youngsters and adncing for the
older folks. Much fun was occasioned
by woman running down the wharf
just as the last barge was leaving Two
men reached out and caught her hands
as she jumped. She arrived on board
safely and just then another woman
was seen running down. She was very
stout and seemed to be afraid to make
the attempt and turned sadly away.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, July 20. 1902. Fore
p. NJ. Tuesday: Cloudy and lower tenn
.perature tonight, fair and warmer to-
morrow; southeast winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29
SECOND BAND CONCERT.

The second band concert will take
Mace this evening at River View Park.
Ogden avefl,le and Rleecker street. HE
band Of Louis Eckert's will furnish the
music.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29

The way to regain your health after sickness
is to take Hoods Sarsaparilla-it tones the
whole system.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29

WILLIAM DELANEY, Undertaken,
successor to Brady & Delaney. removed
to No. 2S0 First street. corner Newark
avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-07-29

r. H. DUFF, Undertaken, now at No.
544 Jersey avenue.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-23
NOTES OF SOCIETY IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON Ian. % (speciaD:-Two hundred peo-
ple attended the second Bachelors Cotilon at the
National Rifles Armory tonight The ballroom
decorations consisted of palms ferns and flowers,
which formed a fine contrast with the yellow bunt-
ing which hung from the ceiling in festoons and
on the side walls At 10 o'clock dancing began,
when Santeman's Band started march There
were a number of dinners in the early evening, after
which the parties the cOtillon Mrs. Richard
II. Townsend, with the members of the executive
committee consisting of Jesse Brown. P Lee Phil
lips Richard Merrick Captain j. {. Gilmore, Jr
L. s A: Major Charles McCawley L. ). NJ. C.;
Captain i Van Ness Phillips and Commander T.
l. Rodgers, received the guests Captain Phillips
led the cotillon with Mrs II. C. Corbin Among the
guests Miss Alice Roosevelt. who danced with
Mr. Jones: the Secretary of War and Mrs and Miss
Root the Attorney General and Mrs Knox the
Secretary of the Interior and Mrs. and the Misses
Hitchcock. the Secretary of Agriculture and Miss
Wilson, the German Ambassador. the Russian Am
bassador. the Mexican Ambassador and Nine
Azpiroz the Austrian Minister and Baroness Hen
gelmuler and other members of the Diplomatic
Corps Mrs. Harriet Lane Johnston, the Misses
Letter. Senator Clark and Commander Cowles.
There we're receptions at the homes of some of
the women of the Cabinet to-day. Assisting Mrs.
Root were Miss Root. Mrs. Frederick d. Grant Mrs
F. Bates and Mrs Gillespie g NJ. c0r,o,,.o,, ,,t,.
Of the secretary of the President; Mrs Rxey Mrs
Mrs payne held her first reception She was as
sisted by her niece. Miss Louise Jones; Mrs. o. H.
First assistant Postmaster General: Mrs. Perry S
Heath and Miss Ruth Hanna
With Mrs. Hitchcock and the Misses Hitchcock
were Mrs. II. G. Sharp. Mrs Edward Burr. Mrs.
Ernest Henderson and Miss Ethel Kennedy.
Assisting Miss Wilson were Mrs. Lee Phillips and
Miss Erol Brown.
Senator and Mrs. Elkins entertained at dinner
tonight the Postmaster General and Mrs Payne
the Secretary of Agriculture and Miss Wilson
Speaker Henderson, Senator and Mrs Fairbanks
Senator and Mrs Burrows Senator and Mrs. Scott
Representative and Mrs. Dalzell. Representative
and Mrs. Dayton and Mr. and Mrs. DOOner.
Senator and Mrs. QUAY gave dinner tonight for
the members of the Pennsylvania delegation In
Congress-
Mrs Logan gave a dinner marty at her house IN
Thrteenth-st.
New-York tribune., 1902-01-23
AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

Washington Jan. % (SpeciaD.-Among the callers
at the White House this forenoon were senator
Hawley and Representative henry oi OoiHecu
on. With q delseation of the National Cigar Leaf
Association: Representative Pugsiey' OF Ne"-holA'
who introduced Captain W. ]. Smith VINO wants
army appointment; Senators oIaiiiiser' iiai .
Dahoe Rurton Denew McEnery, Foster, of Louisi-
ana; Elkins, Scott and Pritchard' representatives
Curtis McRae. Kahn. Bromwel' irwin JOY. par
thoidt Bartlett, Loud Southard' ho"aru anu
Miner Accompanying Representative MINER Oh
wisconsin were several lake captains VINO came
to pay their respects to the President.
FlorizeI Won Reuter-, the little protese OF oecre-
tary Gage, has been invited to the White house
tn NAV the violin at a musical entertainment the
date for which has not yet been nxed -, 1,,I..o
M go rii he an afternoon tea at the White
House on January a ,.- II .,rh+saors q re
The East Room, where tourists ana slShtseets ar
usually to be found in large numbers 2etWeeh ~
and 2 O'Clock was closed to-day while the norists
were placing decorations for the Congressional re-
ception to be held by the President and MIS-
Roosevelt tomorrow evening.
President Roosevelt went for his usual horseoack
ride this afternoon and there was large crowd at
the southeast gate to see him mount ana start
New-York tribune., 1902-01-23
NO CODDLING OF OSTEOP4THY.

The bill now before the legislature which
grants particular favOrs 70 osteOpaths. per-
sons who claim to cure diseases by manipula-
ton of the bones, ought never to be passed. Its
most clearly Objectionable provision is that
which requires the Board of Regents of the
State University to grant, without examination.
license TO practise Osteopathy TO any person
now actually engaged in that practice in this
State who is a reputable graduate of regu-
larly conducted school of osteopathy, on recon-
mendatiOn of the State Board of Osteopathic
Examiners created by the bill. How is that
board OF examiners to be constituted? BY ap-.
pointment of the Regents, but exclusively from
persons nominated by the New-York Osteopathc
Society. The matter of qualifying for license
would, therefore, be wholly in the hands of the
osteopaths themselves. so far as present prac-
titiOners are concerned. the Regents being mere
ly an instrument for carrying ont their wishes
under compulsOn. In respect to persons desr-
ing to become practitioners of osteOpathy here
after the provisions of the bill are somewhat
more eXacting, but in their cases again the
Osteopathic Society through the examiners ap-
pointed on its nomination, would virtually con-
troll the situation.
The demands thus made are utterly opposed
10 the wise regulations laboriously established
by which persons afflicted with disease are more
or less efficiently protected against ignorance
and fraud The standard OF knowledge end
character exacted of those who desire TO prac-
tise the healing art has been slowly raised in
this State, and we hope 1t is destined TO be
higher in the future than it is now Any effort
to degrade it, or any scheme of which the
manifest tendency is TO degrade ii, should be
promptly and firmly brought to naught. Theme
is no conceivable reason why. osteopaths should
receive special consideration. They make large
claims, which some of their patients. we believe
are ready to grant; but IL there Is truth in the
theories they proclaim, they should themselves
recognize the importance of justifying their
faith by willing submission TO the conditions i'm
posed on other applicants for authority to under
take the cure of disease. Their treatment of a
patient may benefit him, as the usual forms of
massage might; furthermore, strictly for the pur-
pose or the argument there would be no obiec-
tioh TO admitting that they are capable of doing
all thst they profess to do. Buttha would not
settle the case In their favor or diminish in tbe
slightest degree the Indispensable necessity Of
keeping up the bars against dishonesty and In
| competence.
! This bin does not merely aim to promote the
New-York tribune., 1902-01-23
NEW RAPID TRANSIT CALCULATIONS.

NEW RAPID TRANSIT CALCULATIONS.
The bill introduced yesterday in both Senate
and Assembly authorizing the contractor for
the underground railroads to transfer the right
and duty of operating them to a corporation
now existing or 70 one formed for the purpose
is supposed TO have been drawn in accordance
with the wishes of Mr.. Mcdonald and the Rapid
Transit Commission. We are not sure that it
has ever been officially announced that the con-
tractor not expected to operate the roads
after he had built and equipped them, but
general understanding to that effect has been
permitted TO prevail ever since the contract was
awarded, and the present introduction of bill
similar TO one introduced, but not pressed, last
year will cause no surprise among those familiar
with the undertaking. 1t is possible that new
legislation is not absolutely necessary, for the
Rapid Transit act provides that no contract en-
tered into under its authority shall be assigned
without the written consent of all the members
of the commission; from which it might be in
ferred that they have power to sanction an as
signment of that part of the contract which re
lates to the operation of the roads. But if they
considered this point they doubtless felt that it
would be safer to procure explicit permission,
and there would seem to be reason for with
holding it. provided all public interests continue
to be fully protected.
The proposed amendment appears to be salts
factory in that respect. 1t provides that the
existing sureties shall be continued in case of
an assignment. and that the transfer shall be
approved by the commission. 1t is TO be as
sumed. furthermore that it does not modify
that provision of the Rapid Transit act which
requires the roads to be operated upon such
terms and conditions to the rates of fare to
'be charged and the character of service 10 be
furnished, and otherwise. said board shall
deem to be best suited TO the public interests.
land subject TO such public supervision and TO
''such conditions. regulations and requirements
las may be determined upon by said board"
The preservation OF such a measure of control
in the hands of the commission is obviously
Sental whether company to operate the
roads be formed or company already engaged
in the transportation business take over the
obligation to operate them; and II certainly is
not less essential in the latter case than in the
former.
We suppose. matter of fact, that most
well informed persons have been inclined to as
sumo from the outset that the Metropolitan
Street Railway Company would sooner or later
be invested by some means with authority to
run the tunnel roads. and this latest develop
ment at Albany tends to support that theory
1t is not difficult TO fOresee substantial advan
tages in such an arrangement. provided ample
power resides in the Rapid Transit Commission
and the city authorities TO protect the public
from the possible abuses of a monopoly. But
that is an Indispensable safeguard.