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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
BIDDERS BANG.
Hamburg American Bag
gage Sale Nearly Re-
quires the Aid Of
the Police.
THE BUDGET A FRAUD.

An auction sale of unclaimed baggage,
most of which was formerly the property
of steerage passengers, took place this
morning on the Hamburg American line
steamship pier in Hoboken. The auction
wa sattended by about fifty: Jewish
tradesmen from New York, and when
the bidding began there was no end Of
excitement.
The bidders did about ten times more
talking than the auctioneer. The latter
stopped frequently to try and silence
them, but his efforts were in vain. En-
nally one Jew accused another of bid
ding against him on every article simply
because little bad feeling existed oe-
tween their respective families. The 9TH
er Jews took up the case and soon the
entire fifty were mixed up in the argu-
ment. There was so much noise that the
auctioneer sent out for the police to pre-
serve order. A policeman finally succeed
ed in stopping the racket and the sale
proceeded.
scrofula, dyspepsia rheumatism. kidney
NcQfnplaipt, catafrh and general debility are
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
CITY CREDIT IMPAIRED
A Few Months Ago Our
Securities Fetched
1O9 On a $780,
600 Refunding
Issue.
ALL TENDERS REJECT Ed
ALL TENDERS REJECT Ed
Einanciers at a Standstill as
to How to Provide for
Water Department
Liabilities.

What the conservative citizens of this
city have feared, ever since Mark Fag-
an began his reckless career of wildcat
fnanciering, has occurred and the credit
Of Jersey City is practically ruined. This
was demonstrated at the meeting of the
Board of Finance yesterday afternoon
when bids were opened for the issue of
$500, 600 of city bonds.
Three bids were received for these
bonds. They were at 100.19. 100.71 and
10O.79.
So ridiculously low were all of these
for such gilt edged securities as Jersey
City's bonds have always been that even
the Pagan Board of Finance was start
led, and at once rejected all the tenders
1t requires backward glance along
only few years to show how complete
and rapid has been the destruction of the
city's credit since the government has
incompetents and thimble riggers of the
Pagan regime.
On June Is, 1898, the city offered for
sale 100000 of public school bonds
Such high reputation did the securities
of Jersey City then enjoy in the market
that there We're fourteen bidders for
these bonds, and the successful purchas-
er carried them off at 1O6.03.
Scarcely three months later, Septem-
ber Z, 1898, the city invited bids for
/ $151, 900 Free Public Library bonds and
after some spirited bidding they were
sold at 105.37
Not only did the city maintain this
excellent credit but increased it to such
an extent that on May l.. 1901, it dis
posed of two patches of funding bonds
one of 1907, 900 and the other of $751;
900 at 100.
OH, WHAT A DROP!
On January /, 1902, Mark Pagan took
charge of the city government and al
most at once began his policy of Wild
cat schemes for raiding the city treasury.
What was the result?
Within three months the city had occa-
sion to sell some more funding bonds
and offered the market $1,175,OO0. Bids
were not over numerous nor did inves-
tors tumble over each other to get the
securities as they did four years before.
The city was obliged to let them go at
101.6 60.
Since then, has come the Fagan raid
on the Sinking Fund, the fund solemnly
pledged by the city for the payment of
its bonded debt, and investors have taken
alarm. They are holding aloof, fearing
to invest their money in the securities
of municipality which is being rapidly
hurried to bankruptcy by its reckless and
incompetent officials.
A shrinkage Of the city's credit from
100 to 1OO.79 in less than four years is
enough to alarm the boldest and to fill
the citizens and taxpayers Of Jersey City
with apprehension.
SURPRISE ALL AROUND.
Representatives Of the New York
banking firms that bid yesterday after
noon for the 100000 wafer bonds offer
ed for sale were greatly surprised when
the Finance Commissioners announced
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
An Old and Well Tried Remedy.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for chr-
dren teething snould Always be used for
children while teethinS Il softens the
gums a;aays the pain cures wind collie
ana Is the best remedy for diarrhoes.
TWENTY-FIVE cents per bottle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
Greenland's Population.

Greneland's population by the recent
census is 10,9T4; 5,174 are men, $500
owmen. The population increases about
100 yearly. There are usually 20 to %
fatal drowning accidents each year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
Hartnett's Record.
mArrERs OF FAoE.

Pavonia Brand Of Fine Early June Canned
Peas for sale at nearly all good grocery
stores and wholesale at the d. E. Cieary COS
stores.
Bassett, the Caterer, why haven't you
tried his frozen fruits? Grove and
Wayne streets.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07
WEATHER INDICATIONS

NEW YORK, Aug. Z, 1902.-Forecast
for the thirty-six hours ending at 8 p. M.
Friday:Fair and cooler tonight; gener-
ally fair with slowly rising temperature
followed by local rain tomorrow; south
west winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07

r. 81. DUFF, Undertaken, now at No.
544 Jersey avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07

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, 1902-08-07

Choice selection of Cut Flowers and
Funeral Designs.
AT COLES, the Florist,
No. 146 Newark Avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07

WILLIAM ]. MORAN, Undertaken,
147 Montgomery street. Tel. 347.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07

Scrofula, dyspepsia rheumatism. kidney
Ncpmplaipt. catafrh and general debility are
cured ~ Hoods sarsapari asA
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-07

politics has entered into the doings of the
Board. / like to refrain from introduc-
ing them. But in this case it is my duty,
as a member of this Board, to my party,
and to the public, to say what l have
said.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18
PRAYER.

Prayer is desire and all things pray.
The hungry horse, the trustful dog and
all domestic animals pray to man.
They look to him for food and shelter
and cry out in anguish when in sore
distress. He answers his pets not be-
cause they pray but because he under
stands their needs. In time of drouth.
the earth parts its parched lips and
prays for rain. Who has not seen in
our great agricultural states the regi-
ments of corn with withered banners,
standing in serried ranks and praying
for refreshing showers? At noontide's
burning hours the furnishing flowers
pray for the pearly dew.
The plant whose lot has been cast
in the somber shade lifts it's pale hands
toward the silent stars for the golden
sunshine to come, that it may have
vigor, strength and beauty.
Sincere desire is prayer. Utterance
avails nothing. Articulating pleasing
thoughts and building pleasing SEN
fences is a harmless and useless waste
of words. Voice in prayer is lost on the
desert air, and signs, means and groans
are but remnants of Middle Age super
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18
JEFFERSON.
be done.

Somewhere amid the poems of James
Russell Lowell the reader will find
little verse that runs something like
this:
They are slaves who fear to speak
For the fallen and the weak;
They are slaves who will not choose
Hatred, soothing and abuse,
Rather than in silence shrink
From the truth they needs must think;
They are slaves who dare not be
In the right with two or three
When the weeping Nazarene stood
before plate, traitors accused him of
treason and clamored for his blood.
When giving their choice between Jesus
the just and Barabbas the murderer,
they gave Barabbas life and freedom
and crucified our dear Lord. Upon
history's page this awful bloody crime
stands out monumental and monstrous.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18

ism. It confounds confusion and rem
ders the correct solution of any pro.
blem impossible. The antithcsis of
Jetfersonian democracy has ciogged
the wheels of progress in every age.
But for this retroactive principle the
earth would be paradise and all men
gods. War would be numbered among
the lost arts of Egypt and peace cover
the earth as the waters do the sea.
The democracy of Jesus can be con-
densed into about dozen words: 'Do
unto others as you would have them do
unto YOU" The vital principle of JEFF
fersonian democracy is the spirit of
this precept. It is the key to universal
progress, peace and prosperity.
The principles of Jesus and Jeffer-
son run counter to selfishness. Take
the trust problem for instance. Being
creatures of favoritism, trusts are op-
posed to the equal rights of all men.
They stand ready to crush the wage
Garner, should he demand an equal
distribution of the wealth he pr oduces
as do the vast railway corporations by
merging together rob the independent
shipper and producer, while favorine
the larger shipper via the rebate
system.
The solution of all the trust and Labor
problems of today is in the triumph O
true democracy - not Cleve1andism "
which renders to all men equal right
and denies special favors to any man.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18
StitiOn.

StlllOIl
a year ago last Monday President
Mckinley died. For several weeks
previous to his death there sprang
from the altar of every patriotic heart
fervent prayers for his recovery. 1t
was so with Lincoln, and when Gar
field fell. But the sainted Lincoln
succumbed and the brilliant Garfield
fingered long in Deaths cold stream
and finally passed to the other shore,
despite the millions of prayers that
were uttered in their behalf.
1t has become almost universal in
the colleges of the u. s. to set aside a
day of prayer" This is but little
better than hollow form that probably
does not attract the slightest attention
of the Deity if there be one.
Our prayers may or may not be an
swered, but all men will continue to
pray. Some pray as a profession or a
habit. Such prayers neither harm nor
help. Some pray only in the face OF
some awful catastrophe, like the terri
bic forest Tres in the state of Wash
ington the past week, that have de.
stroyed scores of cities and thousands
| of acres of crops, burying nursing
babes beneath an avalanche of stone
and brick.
When their friends cannot aid and
they are beyond human help, all men
even down to the heather fix their
minds upon their gods.
Our advice to all is this: If you are
caught in hurricane, ask Gods help,
but get into a stormcave as quickly as
possible. If sick unto death, pray TO
the heavenly father, but send for Re-
Der or Wilson in the meantime. Pray
for the homeless victims of the forest
fires but do something more if the gov
ernor of Washington issues cali for
relief. If the Lord were going to have
anything to do with this case he would
have let raindrops fall upon the FIRST
spark that kindled the awful conf a.
grafton. If you have dry ranch.
praying for rain will probably not
make it any worse, but it would he
consistent at the coming election to
vote for no candidate for congress
regardless of politics, until he has
pledged himself from the rostrum in
every town in eastern Montana, TO do
his very utmost to secure governmental
irrigation for the arid area of this
treasure state.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18
For Sheriff,

I hereby announce myself as a can
didate for Sheriff of Rosebud county
subject to the action of the Democratic,
County Convention.
JOHN A. WOODS,
Crow Agency.
Rosebud County news. [volume] (Forsyth, Mont.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-18

diplomatic dinners are by no means
the only things that serve to befuddle
the blessed saviours of our country.
Not all women to be found in Wash
ington are Sin society, '-as Brecken-
ridge of Kentucky might certify.
Some poet has intimated that "the
man who loves not wine, woman and
song will be fool all his day long,"
If this be true it is only necessary for
us to ascertain what kind of liquor,
beauty and melody will do our solons
tbs least damage.
Shall we leave them to the fashion
| able butterflies, blue label and Wag-
merriam melody, or consign them to the
female lobbyist, cheap beers and the
shady songs of Yvette Guilbert.
SO far as his public servants are
concerned Uncle Sam seems to be be-
tween the devil and the dark blue sea,
and his only escape is to go up in a
balloon.
If he permits his servants to gal1op
in the same handicap with the Four
Hundred they become demoralized,
while if drives them to seek recreation
Elsewhere, they likewise become de-
graded and fall by the wayside.
Mr.. Hill certainly has a Legitimate
kick coming. Think of congressman
struggling with a case "katenjam-
mer" aggravated and tormented al
most to distraction by dreams and day
visions of ball room beauties with cor
sages cut perilously low, and at the
same time trying to cogitate on the
tariff or some other problem with a
view of comforting the greatest good
upon the greatest number! After a
man has reduced his head with cam
phor and cracked ice IN order that he
may put his hat on with the aid of a
soapstone and shoehorn; possessing
that wish-I-were- dead wont do So any
more feeling, he is apt to try to enact
| COMA ,>oc,1;,,- 1oo; Il +;o,
Mr.. HILL if he had his way, would
doubtless transform our federal Off.
, Gals into a stag-party, or in some way
segregate them from those female
clerks whom they have placed under
everlasting obligations, by securing
f for them positions where there is little
to do and plenty to get.
About the only way to remedy things
would be to move the seat of govern
ment to some lonely island or barrel
cliff and put guard of gorgons anC
hippogriffs about it to keep the girls
, away, while our Lycurgeses are i'm
I proving rivers and harbors for politica
, navigation and flooding their agricul
tural constituents with pumpkin seed
D and speeches even much more worth
, less.
He will have to declare Schenck'
: manual and poker chips, sour mas
l and Mumm's contraband, and driv
e congress by means of unslaked thirst
0 and that longing for female companion
: ship manifested by all animate beings
$ to do something beside filibuster an
o grind out hot air. 1t simply canno
: be done.
lEEEEDCnM
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-16
HIGH-WATER CARG0ES
ResuIt of Rainfall and Big Ships on
the Great Lakes.
Buffalo Commercial.

Buffalo Commercial.
Lake craft are loading very deep just
now-to a draft of 1875 feet. which is a
clean foot better than last year. The nom
scientific layman who measures rain pre-
cipitation by his impressions may think an
increase of twelve inches in the average
depth of water in the lakes 4 feeble ex-
preston of the excessive rainfall this
summer; but to the lake navigator, as to
the trained observer, it is a fact of strik-
ing significance.
On Friday, Aug. 8, one impressive demon
stration of the practical benefits of a wet
season was seen at Duluth when the
schooner-barge John Smeaton, of the Pitts
burg Steamship Company, took on a load of
S,44O net tons of ore, the same being equiv
alent to 2S1. 1873 bushels of wheat, for Lake
Erie ports. This is the biggest cargo ever
carried in a lake vessel. 1t breaks all
records-even the Smeaton's own record
at South Chicago a week ago, To middle
biggest freighters on the lakes had a tom
mage of 500 these figures tell an eloquent
story as TO changes in lake navigation.
1t may be well to add in this connection
that already, with the season scarcely half
finished. more than 100000 tons of ore
nave been shipped from the upper TO lower
lake ports The total for the season is ex-
pected TO reach 24,0G,U 0 tons, or II per
cent. more than the unprecedented ship
the period that the great increase in the
lake traffic is expressed. not in bushel of
grain. as formerly, but in tons of ore. 1t is
the iron age.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-16
Boys Worry FactOrymen.

Three boys caused annoyance to the pro-
prietors and employees of the Puritan Bed
Spring Company, on River avenue in West
Indianapolis, on Thursday night. The boys
are Floyd Butterfield, 525 River avenue;
Otis Hoyt, 1245 Reisner street, and Charles
S~chugrue, 627 Holly avenue. They, with a
boy named ~Youngerman, went to the fac
tory in search of work. Youngerman pre-
sented the best appearance and was put
to work. The other three boys gave a cry
Of hilarity when the foreman told them
that he did not need them. They went to
a side room in the factory where bicycles
are stored and began annoying the work
men by ringing the bicycle bells. The
superintendent gave them a chase. The
boys ran through the office.
Butterfield saw the door key resting in
the door and pulled the door after him,
locking 1t. The superintendent tugged, but
could not open it. The presence of a po-
liceman was required TO assist the night
Waterman in looking after the place Thurs
day night. Butterfeld and Hoyt were ar
rested by Bicycle Policemen Morgan and
Simon and the key was recovered from But
terrified.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-16
SELL ICE TO THEMSELVES
MUTUAL COMPANY ORGANIZED BY
BUTCHERS y SALOON KEEPERS.
New I~nterurban Railroad and other
Companies of Various Kinds Among
a Days interpretations.

To fight for cheaper ice rates the Mer-
chants Ice Company has been organized
and incorporated by a number Of saloon
keepers and butchers of Indianapolis. Ar
ticles of Incorporation were filed yester-
day with the secretary of State. The COM
pany is capitalized at $4,000 and the direc-
trs are: Victor r. Jose, Charles Young
man, Frank G. Kamp. William Schuessler,
John Wolsiffer, Joseph Baldus and Fred
Hinnenkamp. Wolsiner is president of the
company, Youngman is vice president. Jose
is secretary and treasurer, and Frank j.
Lab is attorney. Only stockholders in the
company will be supplied with ice. as the
company was organized by the merchants
to protect themselves from exorbitant
rates. 1t is expected that ice will be de-
livered to stockholders at Is cents a hun
dred pounds.
The Centerville Condensed Milk and
Creamery Company. of which William F.
Churchman, of indianapolis, is president
and a heavy stockholder. yesterday noti-
fled the secretary of State that an issue
of preferred stock to the amount of 100000
has been authorized by the directors. The
office of the company is in Indianapolis.
The Elkhart, South Bend & Chicago Rail-
way Company is the newest interurban line
to incorporate. The company will build
a system from Elkhart to Chicago, and a
provision is made that the company may
operate street railways. The capital stock
is $1,000 and the directors are w. Osgood
orion, S. 5. Perley, George w. Bryson and
+. r. Gribben.
The Graphine Gun Wad Company, of
Muncie, incorporated. The capital stock is
$4,000 and the directors are c.. f. Adam
son. M. II. FOrbis, +. l.. Sugden and S. E.
Voris.
The Elwood Broom Company, capitalized
at $4,000, Incorporated. The directors are
II. c. Galloway. J. W. Galloway, Arthur
g. Galloway, Charles c. Galloway and H.
b. Youngs.
The COwan Rural Telephone Company
of Delaware county Incorporated with cap
ital of $4,000. The directors are Abraham
Mcconnell, Charles Springer, c.. w. Ka-
brich, Philip Turner, William Clark, Les
ter Painter, A. B. Harbaugh and p. p.
Turner.
The J. w. Horse Company of Indianap-
oils Incorporated. The capital stock is
$500 and the directors are Jacob WOessner,
Theodore Porteous, Robert R. Sloan, Gree
ly Winnings and w. J.. Woessner.
The McCauley and King Company of
Indianapolis incorporated. The capital is
$1,000 and the directors are c. c. McCauley,
A. T. NJ. King and Otto Ehrgott
The Anderson Manufacturing Company
incorporated. The capital is 5000 and
the directors are ]. w. Carpenter, A. R.
Leib, NJ. A. Chapman, K. c. Carpenter and
d. G. Chapman.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-16
ROTHSCHILD'S MISTAKE
Fort Wayne Man Decides Not to APP
neaI from His Assessment

The State Board of Tax Commissioners
continued its daily grind yesterday in ex-
ecutive session behind closed doors APP
peals from various counties were heard,
among them being that Of Henry Roth
schfld. OF Fort Wayne. a dealer in notes and
mortgages. To the Allen county board Mr..
Rothschild returned a valuation Of s1.15O.
covering the value OF notes and mortgages
held by him. The county board increased
the amount TO $4,000, and in his appeal 10
the state board ROthschild swore that ne
had made n truthful valuation Of the paper
held by him. He was 10 have been before
the board on Monday afternoon, but failed
TO show up. and yesterday Merrill MOOres.
deputy attorney general, went TO Fort
Wayne after him.
ROthschilds was represented yesterday
afternoon by Judge Odds, of Fort Wayne,
who admitted TO the board that ROthschild
had made a mistake in his return TO the
county board and said that his client must
decline TO testify to the value of his paper
In order TO avoid discriminating himself.
During questioning by Governor Durbin.
Mr.. Odds said his client would be glad to
accept the valuation OF the Allen county
board IL the state board would drop the
case. The action of the county board will
be approved by the state board. as Roth
schild admitted yesterday afternoon that he
held notes and mortgages to the value of
81. go.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-16

FREEDOM UNDER NEW ASPHALT
SPECIFICATIONS Is F~RUITLEss.
:. II. shearer. Who Complained of Tn
fair Restriction, Bids Away Up
Municipal Affairs.

The first bids under the new asphalt
paving specifications were received by the
Board of Public Works yesterday for the
paving OF Madison avenue from Merrill
street 10 Ray street. with asphalt. cement
walks. brick cutters and curb. The road
way is forty feet vida Three bids were
opened. The Western Construction Com
pany bid S6.s7 a foot on each side, S. H.
Shearer 1872 and the Barber Asphalt Com
pany 1852. The successful bidder has been
using Trinidad pitch lax asphalt, but un-
der his bid he is not required 10 specify
what his source of supply shall be. The
company is not a part of the so-called
asphalt trust, which uses and seeks recog-
milton only for Trinidad lake or Bermudez
asphalt. although it may use these ma
terials. S. II. Shearer is the man who made
the warfare on the old specifications of the
board. which required Trinidad lake or
Bermudez asphalt. He urged that Trini-
dad land asphalt was equally good and that
any asphalt could be made into a good
pavement. The board amended its specif-
cations and expected that there would be
a great drop in prices. The prices bid are
not far from the estimated prices, the sue
cessful bidder being lower.
Shearer's bid occasiOned surprise and so
much surprised Joseph X. Cooper, who was
trying to form an asphalt construction
company in connection with Shearer, that
he announced he had no connection what
ever with Shearer's bid. THAT bid is a
fake bid, said Cooper, "and l do not want
to be understood as having any connection
with it. At the prices bid the lowest bid
is 1925 for asphalt a yard and the highest
81 As. 1t is possible for a construction COM
pany using outside asphalt to bid on
work and do it at a profit for 81 a yard.
/ nave urged Mr.. Shearer to organize a
company, but he has not done so. L do not
know what kind of asphalt he Intended TO
use or what company he intended to get
it from"
Mr.. Shearer did not explain to the Board
Of Works why his price was so high after
the promised cheapness that would follow
letting down the bars to competition.