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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received by the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners on
Tuesday, July Z 1903, at o'clock p NJ, IN
. the Assembly Chamber of the City Hail. for
the
from Van Cieef street to Ocean avenue.
Said Improvement to be made conlor1napiy
to the provisions of Chapter 2l7 OF the Laws
of 1895. and In accordance with specincatloIs
on file in the office of the Clerk of said Board
Blank forms of bid and agreement OF sure
ties must be obtained at the office q the cnief
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 54S cubic yards of earth excava- a.
About ) cubic yards Of sand filling, per
cubic yard ......-..-..-. .....-..-...-..-.- 1<o
About 1850 square yards of asphalt paw
ing, per square yard ........--.-...---.-.. l.to
About 20 lineal feet of curbstone set on
concrete, per lineal foot .....-:...--.,.. .es
About Is square yards of repaving, per a.
About i.15o lineal feet of reset curbstone
in concrete per lineal foot ..-.:s......; ~
About $50 square feet of relaid anu
dressed bridgestone, ~per square foot. 10
About 25 linea feet Of eribbng stone set
in concrete, per lineal foot ,-,.....,,,. q %
About manhole heads to be reset. eaeh 200
About 6 noiseless inanhole covers, each.-.- lot
About water gate box to be reset, at... s;oo
Time allowed for the completion OF the
work. 30 working days.
The making of the above improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be sub
iect to the renonstrance of the owners of the
property liable to more than one-half the as
sessment therefor on the basis Of preliminary
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envel-
opes, endorsed, Proposals for Improvement Of
Armstrong Avenue directed to Mr.. JAS. s.
Nolan Chairman of the Committee on Streets
and Sewers and handed to the Clerk OF the
Board in open meeting when called for in the
order of business relating to sealed proposals
The bonds required to be furnished on pro-
posals tand possible subsequent contract) are
those of some surety company authorized TO
do business in the State of New Jersey.
Bidders must state single fixed percentage
of the hundred per cent standard above
quoted for which they will furnish all ma
terials and do all the work comprehended in
speefca tons, and if final award of contract
be made the per cent. SO stated will form the
basis upon which payment will be made for
all items.
The Board may, under the provisions of the
act above cited. exercise the right to reject any
or all proposals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section T. Chapter 1874 of the Laws of
1891 under the terms whereof no contract
shall be binding upon the city or become effec-
tive or operative until the bonds offered by the
contractor have been approved as to sufficieney
by this Board, and as to form by the Cor
poration Counsel. the President Of this Beard
having the power to examine the proposed
bords.aen under oath
I BY order of the Board of Street and Water
ooA'''''-s GEO T. BouToN. clerk
Dated Jersey City. July s. 1893
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
TOUR TO THE PACIFIC COAST
Via Pennsy1vania Railroad 40 count
G. AZ r. National Encampment.


On account of the National Encamp-
ment Of the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie at San Francisco, Cal, August II to
%, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
offers personally conducted tour to the
Pacific Coast at remarkably low rates.
Tour will leave New Yerk, Philadel-.
phia, Baltimore, Washington and other
points on the Pennsylvania Railroad east
Of iPttsburg, Thursday, August 6, by spe-
cial train Of the highest grade Pullman
equipment An entire dav will be spent
at teh Grand Canyon Of Arizona, two
days at Los Angeles. and visits Of half
day or more at Pasadena, Santa Bar
bara, Del Monte, and San Jose. Three
days will be spent in San Francisco dur
ing the encampment.. A day will be spent
in Portland on the return trip, and
complete tour Of the Yellowstone Park,
covering six days, returning directly to
destination via Billings and Chicago, and
arriving Washington Baltimore, Phila-
delph.a, and New York September /.
Round trip rate, covering all expenses
for twenty-seven days, except three days
spent in San Francisco, $2l5; two in one
berth, $500 each.
Round frip rate covering all exnensps
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
BOLD ATTEMPT / TO.
ROB.
Ticket Agent Ross Of the
Erie R. B. Attacked n
His Office In Broad
Daylight
BLINDED WITH AMMONIA
Assailant Made No Sound
and Left No Trace Safe
Contained $4,000.

The police and the Erie detectives
are puzzled over mysterious attempt to
rob the safe in the ticket Office in the
depot in this city in broad day light yes
terday. The receipts of the various ex-
cursions on Saturday and yesterday
We're heavy and the safe contained be-
tween 10000 and 10000.
None Of the money was however taken.
A cloth saturated with ammonia was
thrown down over the eyes Of General
Ticket agen Charles E. Ross and he was
for time blinded. Mr.. Ross was sitting
near the rear of the Office with his back
to wire screen door. The safe doors
were open. Ticket agent Henry Jeffries
was standing at the front window sell
ing the tickets. A ticket rack was be-
tween him and Mr.. Ross.
The 1915 local train had just pulled
out of the train she'd Suddenly Agent
Jeffries heard scream behind him and
the sound of body falling to the floor.
He rushed around the rack and found Mr..
Ross writhing upon the floor.
''My God, Harry! I'm blinded,'' he
screamed and then told Agent Jeffries
what he thought had happened No one
else was in sight in the room. The re-
ceipts in the safe were found intact. Mr..
Jeffries did not even hear the wire screen
door slam.4He hastily summoned Police
man Corliss and Detective O'Brien. A
crowd Of passengers that just. arrived
were passing through the ferry house en-
route for New York.
There was no sign of moist cloth in
the ticket Office, but Detective O'Brien
found small bottle that had contained
ammonia in the ferry house some dis
tance from the Office. 1t was also found
that the wire screen of the rear door had
been cut just above the catch, so that the
supposed robber could put his hand in
!, and pulled back the latch. How the
screen could have been cut without at
tracing the attention Of Mr.. Ross mys-
titles the police. That there We're so
many people about the station and that
the would be robber could so easily make
good his escape is also a mystery.
While the safe door was open the re
ceipts were securely locked in drawers on
the inside. 1t is supposed that the would
be robber anticipated snatching the mon
ley and making wild dash out attempt
to escape in the crowd passing to the fer
ry boats and finding that the money was
not exposed even though the doors Of the
safe were open, decided instantaneously
that he would beN lost if he attempted to
tamper with the locked drawers. He
was also apparently nervous intending to
gag and suffocate Mr.. Ross. but put the
cloth too high up thus binding. Mr..
Ross scream caused him to leap immedi-
ately through the open door.
Mr.. Ross is forty years old and has
been in the employ Of the company since
he was a boy.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

CERTIFICATE OF REDUCTION or THE
Capltal Stock by reducing the par value Of
THE TURCK COMPANY
The location of the principal office In this
State Is at No. 24S Washington Street, In the
ClIy OF Jersey City. County OF Hudson
The name OF the agent therein and In charge
rnereoI rlsrs upon whom process against this cor.
poratlon may be served, is Charles n. King.
RESOLUTION OF DIRECTORS
fne Board Of Directors OF the Turck Conn
pany, corporation of New Jersey on this
seventh day OF January A. D, 1908, do hereby
resolve and declare that it is advisable thai
the capital stock of this company be reduced
from one hundred and twenty-five Thousand
dollars consisting of 2.500 shares of preferred
ana O,UOo Shares OF common stock, both Glasses
oeing OF the par value of $1,000 per share)
70 Twelve thousand five hundred dollars (con-
s1stlng Of 1900 shares Of preferred and 10000
snateS OF common stock, both classes 20 be
OF the par value OF $1OO per share. said
REDUCTION TO be effected by changing the paE
value OF each share from $1,000 to $l.o0 pei
snaTe; and do hereby call a meeting OF ths
stockholders. to be held at the company
office. in the City of Jersey city. on Monday
The twelfth day Of January. 1908, at o'eIocH
+. NJ, TO take action upon the above rs5o-
lation.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

SnJos ApAc SSt u P-SS
Beethoyen's VIII =! lll 1ll0ns hnd FFu-
'bert's "Ponchiello,v Strauss Waltzes and
Wagner's ssTannhauser, are featured,
while Mendelssohn and Massenet, Ros-
sini and Tschaikowski, Bizet and Often
bach also figure upon the bill. Miss Ell
ecta Clifford the soloists engaged in a
beautiful woman with beautiful voice
She took Sembrich's s roles with the Grau
opera company last season and sang with
marked success, on the Duss Spring tour,
alternating with Nine. Nordica. During
the week she will sing the Indian Bell
Song" from Delbes' "Lakfne' Proch's
"Air and Variations" Arditti's I'll Bac-
cio," the Waltz Song from "Romeo ct
Juliette,'' and the Polonaise from Mig
non..''
Wednesday night will be as usual
composer night, Meyerbeer being the COM
poser chosen Selections from 'sThe
Prophet, . ssThe Huguenots" and L'Af-
ricaine' are announced. Miss Clifford
will sing the ever popular Pages song
'sNobil Signor.''
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE.


THE TURcK COMPANY. A CORPORATION
ot New Jersey. doth hereby certify that Il
mas reduced its capital stock from enc hundred
and twenty-five thousand dollars (eonsisting Of
zs9oO shares of preferred and 10, 900 shares sl
common stock, both classes being OF the pal
value OF $1,000 per share) TO twelve thousand
nve hundred dollars consisting Of q 500 sharea
of preferred and 10000 shares Of common
stoek), both classes 10 be of the par value Of
$Le0 per share. Said reduction was effected
by changing the par value Of each share from
Slo.0V to $l.u0 per share, said reduction OF taa
capital stock having been declared by resoIus
tion OF the Board OF Directors of said cor.
poratlon tabove reeited) to be advisable, and
having been duly and regularly assented "a
by the vote Of two-thirds in interest Of each
class OF stockholders having voting powers
at meeting duly called by the Board -
Directors for that purpose; and the WRIT
assent Of said stockholders IS hereto appended
In witness whereof said corporation nas
caused this certificate TO be signed by It's presi.
dent and secretary, and its corporate seal t.
be hereto xed the 12th day of January,
A. .. 1868.
MARIUS TuRCK,
President
JOHN L. SMITH,
(Seal.) Secretary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
MEEIENGS

CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COMPANY.
Jersey City, N J., June 27th, 1903.
The Board of Directors have ordered paid on
July 18TH 1903, out of the rental payment made
by the North Jersey Street Railway Company
TO the Consolidated Traction Company. under
terms of the lease between said Companies,
dated May 18th, 1885, aiviaena o. aud
one-half 61so5) per cent on the capital stock
Of the Consolidated Traction Company. Pay
ment will be made to Stockholders of record
the 30th day of June. 1903 Transfer books
close June S0th 1903 at three ocloclAP. NJ,
and reopen July 18th, 1903, ar ten o'cioekeA. M.
]. p. DUSENBERRY. Treasurer.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
sALB OF STOCK OF THE COLONIAL

sALE OF STOCK OF THE COLONIAL
tracing Company.
Notice IS hereby given that pursuant
order OF the Board OF Directors. and
suance of the statute in such case ma
provided, the undersigned. as Treasurer
Colonial Contracting Company. Will
public auction on the l4th day OF IulyH
O. clock in the forenoon, at the effassI
company. No 80 broadway, New <
twenty shares OF the capital stock 4
pany, standing in the name Of E.dyf
ter, or so many Of said shares as WI
ST. o00. co. being the amount Of unpaid H*
ments on said twenty shares now d b
said Edward J. Carter. and also the
thereon from May 2fth, 1905 70 the
sale, and all necessary incidental chars3
Nothing has been paid on each
shares.
An assessment of $4,000 Is nov due
OF said shares, which assessment the I'll
must forthwith pay on each share "a
tion to the amount of his bid
JAMES C. WE1pER. Tras
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

STATE OF NEW JERSEY. EY.-DEPARTMENT
OF STATE.-CERTIFICATE OF DISSOLU-
TION.
TO all 10 whom these presents may come,
Greeting:
Whereas, it appears to my satisfaction. by
duly authenticated record OF the proceedings
for the voluntary dissolution thereof by the
unanimous consent of all the stockholders,
deposited in my office that the West Side
Land and Building Company. corporation
of this State, whose principal office is situated
at No. l Exchane place. in the city of Jersey
city County of Hudson, State of New Jersey
(Joseph D. Bedie being agent therein and in
charge thereof upon whom process may be
served) has complied with the requirements
Of ..An Act concerning corporations (Revision
of 1S96)'' preliminary to the issuing Of this
certificate of dissolution.
Now therefore, /. S. d. Dickinson, Secretary
of State of New Jersey. do hereby Certify
that the said corporation did. on the twenty
seventh day of May, 1908, file In my office a
duly executed and attested consent In writing
10 the dissolution of said corporation, executed
bv all the stockholders thereof, which said
consent and the record of the proceedings
aforesaid are now on file in my said office, as
provided by law.
In Testimony Whereof. I have hereto
set my hand and affixed my official
(SEAL.) seal. at Trenton, this twenty-sev-
enth day Of May, A. D. one thou
sand nine hundred and three
S. D. DICKINSON,
Secretary of State.
whose principal office situated at No.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
RARlrAN RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY.

Notice Is hereby given that the Holland
Trust Company has resigned as Trustee Of ths
first mortgage bondholders under the mQrpgagl
River Railroad Company to said HollssA
Trust Company, Trustee, that said resignatis
has been accepted by this Company. and III s.
June 18th, 1903. the Board Of Directors y
this Company, under the provisions Of sa#
mortgage, has appointed The New Jersey ii
Guarantee and Trust Company of Jersey Cit
to the office of Trustee under said mortgas*
which Trusteeship has been duly accepted n
said last mentioned Company that ceFti%
cate of such appointment has been filed in tI*
office of the Secretary of State for Ne
Jersey, and that hereafter the interest eonpo&
on said first mortgage bonds will be payah&
at the banking rooms of The New 1efss&
Title Guarantee and Trust Company, No.
Montgomery street, Jersey City.
RARITAN RIVER RAILROAD COMPANI
FRANK H. EARLE, President-x +
CHARLES HI. SISSoN, Secretary.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
An Old and Well Tried Remedy

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup NJ
children teething ihould always be use
for children while teething, it softens the
gums. allays the pain. cures wind collie.
and is the best remedy for diarrohea.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

THE FINAL ACCOUNT OF THE SUB
scriber administrator of Patrick Buckley,
deceased, will be settled by the Hudson
County Orphans Court on July 10. 1893
MATTHEW c. BUCKLEY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
IIII,soM e,nIINrY oRPH-aNs. az

HIIDsoN COUNTY, ORPHANS CouRT-TO
Margaret Condor and Kate CoRdon
Nv Virtue Of an order of the Orphans Court
.of The County of Hudson, made on the day Of
the date hereof. in the matter of the estate Of
Eenrv. fondon deceased. you are required to
annear in said proceeding or before the
twenty-second day of July. next. or in default
thereof such proceedings will be had against
in said proceeding.
The said proceeding is for the probate of the
last will and testament Of Henry Condor, and
YOU are made parties because you are legatees
Under said will
Dated May 2end 1908.
4
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

THE ACCOUNT OF THE SUBSCRIBERS.
Trustees of Estate Of John G. Heppding, de-
ceased, will be settled by the Hudson County
Orphans Court on July "a, 1903. ELIZA HEPP-
DING. JOHN HEPPDiNG. HENRY ACKER-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

Your step has lost elasticity because
your blood has lost vitality, which
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
SITUAYION WANTED

DRIVER WISHES A POSITION. CALL OR
write. Address f. j. yOGR. 405 Henderson
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
FOR SALE

FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN-THE PROPER
ty No. 232 Tonnele avenue, can be purchased
at a very reasonable figure: the property pre-
duces annual income of $34S, and will make
a paving investment at the price asked.
FREDERICK F. GUILD, Receiver,
No 708 Prudential Building. Newark N ]
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06
MEYERBEER NIGHT
Duss Programmes for the
Week Electa Clifford. the
Brilliant CoIorature so-
prano Every u

For his sixth week in
York" (" Mr.. Duss has
enjoyable set of progy
xvrrr
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

whose principal Office Is sltuatei at NJ
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-06

100 Montgomery ST.. j.. G. 27 Bayon X
75l Montgomery j. G. ngtonS Hob OXEN
Ave.J 90 Av. Town Of linton
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-14
The Lady and Her Nose.

There is a washerwoman in Paris
that is in great trouble. Two years ago
she had fight with her husband. In
the course of which so much skin was
talen from her nose that some new
had to be grated on. Recently she
made the horrifying discovery that a
fine coat Of hair was growing In her
new nose, and then learned that the
doctors at the hospital who had treat.
ed her had used skin from q human
scalp for grating purposes. The poor
washerwoman then went to the courts
to ask for a divorce, urging cruelty as
cause, because it was her husbands g
brutality which took the original skin
off her nose which resulted in the
grating, the hair, and the ridicule Of
her neighbors.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-14
Attacked Wife With Club.

Now York, Oct. 8.-Suffering from
many Injuries received in an attempt
to defend the wife OF William O'Keefe
from the attack Of her husband, Police.
man Hdsall, Of the Bronx, has shot
and seriously wounded O'Keefe. The
latter had recently been released from
the city prison and returned home,
where he attacked his wife with a club.
She carried her baby In her arms and
IN order to protect 1t, received the
blows without finching. Neghbora
summoned Policeman Edsall and the
husband turned the attack in his direc.
tion. The woman was badly hurt,
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-14
Her Fatal Meal.

While working OH the Cleveland and
Pit;sburg Railroad at Macedonia, O..
Contractor Frank Wise hung his vest
on fence on lot belonging to Frank
Green, farmer. In the pocket of
the vest was a purse containing $85.
4 wandering COW of depraved appo.
tite spied it and ate the vest and con.
tents, but fortunately Wise discovered
her in the act. He purchased the ami.
NAL frolh Green for $50 and sold her
to local butcher for 500. The cow
was slaughtered Immediately, and a
search resulted In the recovery OF the
$S3, which was yet in such condition
that 1t could be redeemed.-Baltimo
Sun
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-14
Ineecf0 Thtnk.

That insects think Is the belief OF NJ.
Forel, a French neurologlst, who has
been making careful observations Of
ants and bees. He thinks that, between
the ideas Of the naturalist who regards
insects as mere automatons and those
of the man who treats them as hu.
manly intelligent, there Ia a happy
edium of common sense, and this he
has tried to attain. Ills observations
teach him that, although most of the
acts of insects can be explained by In
stinct, there remains what he calls
small plastic judgments" by which
they avoid difficulties and steer their
way beyond dangers. The directive
faculty of bees especially and their
wonderful memory for places can hard.
ly he explained on the theory of auto
MISUNDERSTANDING.
The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1903-10-14
IRON TRADE CONDITIONS.
Report OF the Review For the Pas1
Week.

noPo'e VI tne HeVlo" ror the Pact
Week.
Cleveland, Oct 8.-The Iron Trade
ReYiew this week says:
Another week has passed in which
She iron trade has been buster watch
ang developments than in buying and
selling. The meeting Of the southern
turnacemen and their decision on
prices, the action Of pig iron producers
IN throe sections indefinitely planning
10 cut down production and finally the
cutting In two OF the dividend on the
common stock Of the United States
Steel corporation, combined to make
the week eventful. In the meantime
business has waited. We estimate the
probable curtailmemt Of pig iron pro-
duction the last quarter OF the year
through concerted action at close to
sSo,0o0 tons. This counts on $50 tons
from the restrictive program Of central
western furnaces and 175, 900 tons from
the southern and eastern furnaces pro-
Vided the eastern furnaces continue
through November and December the
20 per cent reduction planned for Oc.
tobsr
The situation as to southern iron
has been complicated by some moves
made in advance of the action Of the
association meeting at Birmingham.
There has not been enough buying
In the week to make the market clear.
bu $10.60 and $10.75 iron is not plenti-
ful and 1t remains to be seen whether
the 70 per cent reduction in output do.
cided on by southern association fur.
naces will enable them to work Off &C.
cumulated stocks at current prices.
me situation In the steel market hsa
peen without feature. less being heard
OF billet prices below those agreed up.
on. There Is no market for Bessemer
iron, which can be had at $3.50, val.
Icy furnace. Northern foundry Iron
Is irregular, being generally $14.5O to
STATS for no. 2 at furnaces