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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02

per cent; second year, Az per cent;
third year, 8 per cent; fourth year, 6 per
cent; fifth year, per cent. The South
Jersey Gas, Electric and Traction Com
pany, which has bene leased by the Pub
lie Service Corporation, was Incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey September
1, 1900. The Company controls the
Camden Gaslight Company, Camden Gas,
Light and Fuel Company, Camden and
Burlington Gas and Electric Company,
East Side Gas Company, Gloucester City
Electric Light Company. Consumers Gas
Company, of Woodbury.; Woodbury. Elec-
tric Light and Power Company, Trenton
Gas and Electric Light Company, Glou-
cester City Gas light Company, River
shore Gaslight Company and the Burling-
ton Gaslight Company.
These corpSations include the entire
gas and electric light interests of Tren-
ton, Camden, Mt. Holly, Woodbury., Had
don6eld, Burlington, Beverly, Riyerton
and the adjacent towns
The entire capital stock of the Cam
den, Gloucester and Woodbury. Railroad
company, authorized at $6,000,oo0, has
also been acquired by the company
The Trenton Gas and Electric COM
pany, Incorporated in New Jersey, Feb
ruary 1, 1899, controls all the gas and
electric facilities of Trenton and its SUI
burbs. 1t acquires the stock and proper
ties of the Trenton Gaslight company,
the City Gaslight company, the Tren-
ton Light and Power company, Peoples
Light and Power company of Trenton,
Edison Electric Light and Power COM
pany of Trenton, Peoples Gas Improve
ment company and the Deleware River
Improvement company.
The authorized stock of the Trenton
Gas and Electric company is $2,000,000,
and the funded debt, first mortgage, 5
per cent, due 1949, is $1,5O0,000.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
ESSEX JOINS.
New Corporation Gets Control
In Spite of Opposition.
special to .rhs Jersey city News.y2

Especial to ..The Jersey City News.'')
NEWARK, June 2, 1903 for
NAL vote of the stockholders of the
Essex and Hudson Gas Company this
afternoon leased the plant and business
of that company to the Public Service
Corporation.
The decision was reached shortely af-
ter 9 o'clock this afternoon, after five
hours of deliberation and consideration
of the proposition. As was stated yes
terday, opposition to the the plan was
manifested, but no formal protest was
entered at the meeting, the objections
having been smoothed over in private
conference.
Three or four stockholders are said to
have refrained from voting, one of these
having been Charles Holzhauer, is it said
Under decision of the Court of Errors
it is held that failure to specifically OPP
pose is considered as acquieseence in the
plan.
1t was rumored during the recess that
opposition may come from Philip n.
Jackson and others as well when the
question of the lease comes up.
The voting strength of the U. G. I. in
terest in the meeting was 32,525 shares
held by its directly, together with several
Thousand additional shares represented in
proxies.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02

TO DAVID O,KEEFE, ELLEN QUINN, PAT
rick Quinn, her husband. Bridger OKeefe,
and as s il,'am Si tae M FL
lard, Mary Ellard Catherine Grant Frank
Grant. her husbands; William Ellard, IN
'Keefe Daniel O'Keefe, Michael OKeefe,
naTy abe Kesfe Paa eef Minnie
Chittick John Chittick, her husband; Margaret
o'Keefe, widow David Q keefe. Eliza o'teefe.
his wife; Mary 0sKeefe, John O. Keefe, Mar
gareI q, Keefe, Mary Ross, Kenneth Ross. her
husband; Esther A. Bramhall, widow; William
Joseph B. Bartleman, David B., Day, Horace
K. Thurber Henry Prigge. The American Ma
% chine Gompany Thomas a aows ss,ner Eagrns Ne
Max Stiner and Company, Schwarzsehild
and Sulzberger Beef Company and The Board
of Chosen Freeholders of the County OF Hud-
You are hereby notified that public sale
made by the City Collector or Of Jersey city, on On
Aldermen Of Jersey City purchased for the sum
of eghtysix dollars and seventy-fye cents all
the land and real estate situate in Jersey City.
in the County of Hudson and State of New
Jersey fronting on County Road and Quincy
lot 8. in block number OF. upon an assessment
map annexed to a report number 50 made by
the Commissioners of Adjustment appoint
ed in and for said City by the Circuit Court
of the County of Hudson. certified copy or
which report and map filed in the office
S4th day Of October, 1883. said report and map
and said sale being made pursuant to the pro-
visions of act Of the Legislature of New
Jersey, passed March 30th, 1886. entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and collec-
tion Of arrearages of unpaid taxes, ASSESS
nents and water rates or water-rents in
cities of this State, and imposing and levy
ing tax, assessment and lien in lieu and
instead of such arrearages, and to enforce
the payment thereof, and to provide for the
sale of lands subjected to future taxation
and assessment
And the several supplements thereto
And you are further notified that you appear
to have an estate or interest in said land and
real estate, and unless the said land and real
estate shall be redeemed. as provided in said
acts before the expiration Of six months from
and after the service hereof, deed for the
same will be given conveying to The Mayor
and Aldermen of Jersey City, the fee simple
OF said land and real estate according to the
provisions of the said act.
Dated Jersey City, N. j., May 11th, 190S-
THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF JERSEY
CITY.
NJ NJ. FAGAN. Mayor
M ]. o'DoNNELL.
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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
CASDEAL THROUGH
Public Service Corporation
Absorbs the Big Com
panies of the
State.
HUDSON GIVES A LEASE
Newark. Trenton and South
Jersey All Go In Too.

The stockholders of the Hudson Coun-
ty Gas Company yesterday afternoon ac-
cepted the proposition of the Public Ser
vice Corporation to lease the gas proper
ties for term Of 999 years. There was
no opposition at the meeting.
The directors of the Gas Company ac-
cepted the proposition on May 20, and
the meeting of the stockholders was
called to approve the action taken by the
directors.
The name of the gas company will
be changed at once.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
MISS GIBSON FAINTS.
While Testifying in the Davis
Estate Case She Is
Overcome.


Miss Annie Gibson, of the Lafayette
section, tainted this morning while Jes-
tifying before VicelC Chancellor Stevenson
in the suit which she instituted against
her brother-in-law, John H. Byrnes, to
recover her share of the estate of her
grandmother, Mrs. Anastatia Davis, who
died in April, 1900 Miss Gibson was
taken into the Chancellor private
office, where she regained Consciousness.
a recess was then taken until this after
noon. when she with be put on the rsand
again.
Byrne'ss wife, Ella, is Miss Gibson's
sister.
valued at gaw WOW rtd WOW woyoy
Mrs. Davis died leaving an estate val
ued at between $4,000 and $4,000. 1t
was supposed that she died intestare tus
shortly after her death Byrnes produced
a will in which Mrs. Davis left every
thing to Byrnes' wife.
Miss Gibson claims that undue infiu-
ence was used to induce her grandmother
to make the bill, and that she Miss Glib
SOM is entitled to share of the estate.
Mrs. Davis formerly resided on Pine
street. Later she boarded with family
named Stanton on Johnston avenue.
Byrnes testified that on March %, 1900,
Mrs. Davis, while i'll, sent for Miss Glib
son. The latter, it is said, did not go
to see her. Byrnes said he found Mrs
Davis in ned of care and took her to his
home, where she died in April Of the
same year.
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JUMPED FROM A TRAIN.

Cornelius Noonan, sixty years old, of
No. 213 South Fourth street, Brooklyn,
jumped from Central Railroad passen-
ger train in motion yesterday afternoon
in the train shed. He was badly cut over
the left eye and on the side of his head.
He was taken to the City Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
DIED.

JACKSON-On Monday, June 1, 1903.
Victoria A., beloved wife of George
Jackson, aged A years.
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the funeral services at
her late residence. No S8 Jordan ave-
nue., on Tuesday, June A. at P. NJ.
LUCAS-At Atlantic Highlands, sud-
denly, on Sunday, May 81, 1903,
Laura A., only daughter of Archi-
bald and Clara Lucas
Relatives and friends are respectfully
invited to attend the founeral services
from the residence of her parents, No.
III Belmont avenue, on Wednesday,
June 3, at 2.30 P. NJ.
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tsale No. 11.sss.> -
oUNTY ORPHANS COURT.

HUDSON COUNTY ORPHANS COURT
Notice.
In the matter OF the application Of Mathaus
and Theresa Lautenbacker, to adopt Cecilia
Merrick. female child.
Notice is hereby given, that by order of
the Hudson County Orphans Court, the petit
ion of Mathaus and Theresa Lautenbacker was
filed with the Clerk of the said Court praying
leave to adopt Cecilia Merriek pursuant to the
provisions of an act entitled, An Act concern
ing minors their adoption, custody and mains
tainance, revision of 1892. approved April 2,
1906, (. together with the consent and affdavits
Herewith presented, and that said Court has
fixed Friday, the Twelfth day of June, Nine
teen Hundred and Three. at ten o'clock in the
forenoon, at the Court House in Jersey City
as the time and place when and where the ap-
pointment of next friend to the said child
will be made
MATHAUS LAUTENBACKER.
THEREsA. LsAlITENR%eKER
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
ALL RUNNING WELL.

Democratic Leader Robert Davis, was
asked today how far in his opinion
Police Justice Murphy was ahead of As
semblyman Treacey for the Mayaralty
nomination.
"How do know?' he asked, dryly,
81 guess both are running well. So is
Ruemplar, isn't he? and Hauck, tooY
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
PAINTER HURT BY LADDER

Edward Credis, nineteen years old, Of
No. 2 Canal street, was seriously injured
about the head this morning by the fall
ing Of ladder while painting a boat at
the foot of Hudson street. He was taken
to the City Hospital.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
IN cHANcERY on NEW yERsHa.

To Jennie r. Marcnand-
BY virtue of an order of the Court of Chan
Gerry OF New Jersey, made on the day of the
date hereof in cause wherein Wllhelmina
Rub is complainant and you and others are
defendants. YOU are required 10 appear and
plead. demur or answer to the complainants >
bill on or before the twenty-hrst day Of March
next. or the said bill will be taken con-
fessed against you.
The said bill is filed to foreclose a mortgage
given by Theresa Siegfried and her husband to
The complainant, upon lands in the Township
OF North Bergen. in the County of Hudson In
this State. and you are made defendant be-
cause It is alleged that you entered into an
agreement with said Theresa Sisgfried for the
purchase Of said land and premises.
Dated January 2lst, 1908.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
SOUTH JERSEY co. LEASED
Local Concern Goes for 900
Years--DeaI Ratified In
Camden.

Se~ffSNAe%& J
TRENTON. June 2. 19O3.-The stock
holders of the South Jersey Gas, Electric
and Traction Company at Camden yes
terday formally endorsed the decision
arrived at by the directors on May 21 to
lease their plants to the Trenton and
Camden, as well as gas foundries. pipes,
ETC., inSouth Jersey to the Public Ser
vice Corporation for period of 800
years.
Many stockholders sent proxies, beng
eminently satisfied with the plan to lease,
which is to receive eight per cent. divi-
dend on all stock after the lease has run
five years, and up to that period to pay
dividends, as follows:-First year, 31a
You should not feel tired all the time
nealthy people don't-you won't IL you take
Hoods SarsaDariIia for a while
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
M. j. o'DoNNELL.
City Clerk.
Sale No. $3.50.
TO PRESTON LEAR AND MRS. PRESTON
ear his wife,

TO PRESTON LEAR AND MRS. PRESTON
Lear. his wife,
made by the City Collector of Jersey City, on
the twenty-second day of July. 1902, l pur-
chased for the sur: OF twenty-six dollars and
thirty-eight cents, ALL the land and real
estate situate in Jersey City, in the County Of
Hudson and State of New Jersey, fronting on
sclaremont avenue which IS laid down and
desienated as lot 80, in block number 1 7S0
as Shown upon l.. ID. Fowlers Official AS
sessment Map Of Jersey City, N j., 1884,
said sale being made pursuant to the pro-
visions OF an act OF the Legislature of New
iersey passed March s0th 1856, entitled:-.sAn
Act Concerning the settlement and collection
of arrearages of unpaid taxes, assessments
and water rates water rents in cities Of
this state and imposing and levying a tax,
Assessment and lien in lieu and instead of such
arrearages and to enforce the payment there
of and to provide for the sale of lands sub
fected to Iuture taxation and assessment
And the several supplements thereto.
And YOU are further notified that you ap-
near to have an estate interest in said land
and real estate and unless the said land and
real estate shall be redeemed as provided Ia
said acts, within one year from the date Of sale
and before the expiration of six months from
and after the service hereof. a deed for the
same will be given conveying to the purchaser
the Lee simple of said land and real estate ac-
cortlng to the provisions OF the said acts.
Tated Jersey City. N. J.. March IA. 1903
EDWARD P. KELSEY
Purchaser.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
EDWARDs's CLAIM VETOED

Mayor Pagan this morning vetoed the
claim Of J w Edwards in the amount of
$3.50 for sprinkling the macadam roads
Of Green vile. on the grounds that the
roads were not properly sprinkled.
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1 true copy, E. c. Stokes, 5 Clerk. + K
CORPORATION NOTICE

CORPORATION NOTICE. -
Notice is hereby given that on the sth day
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners BY
Edw G Jieger and others for the
IMPROVEMENT OF VAN NosTRAND AVE-
between Garfield avenue and Bergen avenue
) said ala Improvement 70 be made eonfornabiy
1885, and in the following manner. including
all Intersections
To have the street for the fun width thereof
graded to the established grade by exeavaring
or 1lng the same TO the established grade,
thereof.
To have the present curb reset and new 90
inch curb set where necessary.
To have the cutters each side paved with
stone paving to a width of SO inches.
To have new bluestone tagging four a. feet
wide laid on each sidewalk.
To have the present tagging reiaid. and new
Tagging laid Where necessary.
To have the. present bridgestone crosswalks
relaid and new bridgestone laid where neces-
sary.
sary to provide for the flow of the surface
water and to complete the improvement in q
good and substantial manner.
Notice is also given that on the 18th day OF
May. 1908, the Commissioners Of Assessment
MED in the office of the Clerk of the Beard
OF Street and Water Commissioners their pre-
liminary map for said improvement. showing
the probable total cost of the contemplated
Improvement and the probable amount to hs
assessed on. property specially benefited there's
by, and the same is now open to public in
s2ecticn in the Office OF the Clerk Of said
And notice is also given that the following
streets. or avenues, or particular sections
thereof. are included in said assessment, name.
w.
VAN NOSTRAND AVENUE
from Bergel avenue to Garfield avenue:
BERGEN AVENUE f
on the east side, from Van Nostrand avenue to
points about 2S.u feet north and south thereof.
JACKSON AVENUE,
from Van Nostrand avenue to points aho,tk
100 feet north and south thereof:
RUTGERS AVENUE,
from Van Nostrand avenue to point about
100 feet south thereof;
OCEAN AVENUE
from Van Nostrand avenue on the west slda
to points about 2o-2 feet north and south there-
of; and on the east side to points about g 81
feet north and q. is feet south thereof;
GARFIELD AVENUE
on the west side, from Van Nostrand avenue
south thereof.
And that in accordance with the provisions
OF the Act above cited the 2nd day of June
1903. at O'clock p. NJ, and the Assembly
Chamber of the City Hall are hereby fixed as
the time and place when and where the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners VIII naeef
to hear all parties interested in said apulic1-5
tion and all remonstrsncess asafusE tisf zali<
ssy order Of the Board Of Street ana water
Commissioners.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, June 2. 19o3.-Fore-
cas- for the thirty-six hours ending s
T. NJ. on Wednesday Fair tonight and
tomorrow; variable winds.
Hartnett's Thermo metrioaI Ranor+
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02

WHEREAS. A LEGAL MEETING or THE
Stockholders of the United States Physicians'
Association cannot be otherwise called the
Undersigned three stockholders of said COM
pany having voting powers do hereby call a
meeting of said stockholders to be held at the
Registered Office of the Company so Mont
gomery street, in the City of Jersey City. New
Jersey, on the Ninth day OF June. A. D. 1903
at o'clock in the afternoon, for the purpose
of electing a Board OF Directors, ana receiv-
ing and acting upon the reports OF the officers
and for the transaction of such other business
as may properly come before the meeting
Dated Jersey City, May 2ath. 1908
JAMES COWLING.
9. G. KLIPPERT
S. SULEDER
Stockholders
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed poposals Will be received by the Board
Tuesday. June 3, 1sos at o'clock p NJ, in
the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall, for
IMPROVEMENT OF HoBsoN STREET,
from Palisade avenue to Ogden avenue.
said improvement to be made conformably
of 1895, and in accordance with specifications
on file In the office of the Clerk of said Board.
Blank forms Of bid and agreement Of sursties
Ansnssi EsTiMAE FIX All oT 5f!ssS eu9Nf1TiEs Any Il
1oogo standard
Of cost.
About s41 cubic yards of earth excava-
tion, per cubic yard. $50
About 20 cubic yards Of rock excavation,
per cubic yard. Observation-Disclosures. $50
About 4 cubic yards Of earth filling, per
cubic yard. ....,,.................--.,... 10
About lsl cubic yards of sand filling. per
o, euDtc x, yaro ,,ars !. az - ,,ssa lzo
% ing, per SS SQUARE uss yard yaqps y eis'an paw
About 40 lineal feet Of curb stone. per :
Aba neai lSU. sSa sc;a, fsst ~ sys;, \"
square foot. Observation-Disclosures. .16
About 40 ilneal feet Of reset and dressed
curb stone, per 1ineal foot. .............. 20
About 400 square feet of reaid and dress
ed tagging stone. per square foot..s..... .02
About manhole heads to be reset, each. 200
About water gate box, at. ..-......,.... 200
= Time allowed for the completion of the work,
rs working days.
The making Of the above Improvement and
award Of the contract therefor will be subject
to the remonstrance of the owners of the prop
erty liable to more than one-half the assess
ment therefor on the basis of preliminary
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envel-
opes, endorsed, Proposals for Improvement of
Hobson street, directed to Mr. Jas S.
Nolan Chairman of the Committee 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-
rcsals and possible subsequent contrac) are
tnose 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 materials and
do all the work comprehended in specifications,
and II nna1 award of contract be made, the
per ent. 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 its right to reject any
or all proposals
The attention Of bidders is especially
called to Section Z. Chapter 1874 of the Laws
Of 1891, under the terms whereof no contract
shall be binding upon the city. or become
effective or operative until the bonds offered
by the contractor have been approved as to
sufriciency by this Board, and as to form by
the Corporation Counsel the President of this
Board having the power to examine the pro-
posed bondsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board Of Street and Water
Commissioners.
GEO 7. BoUToN.
Dafed Jersey CITY Nav rs 1an2s.s
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Solicitors for Petitioner,
259 Washington street. Jersey City. n.
CHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.

IN CHANCERY OF NEW JERSEY
between Frank j. Currier. petitioner. and
Ada Currier defendant.
On Petition for Divorce. Order of PubIica-
tion.
The petitioner having filed his petition In the
above cause. and process of citation having
been issued and returned according TO law
And it being made to appear by affidavft
that the defendant resides out of the State of
New Jersey, and that process could not be
served upon her,
1t is, on this Fourth day of May, One Thous-
and Nine Hundred and Three. motion OF
Hudspeth & Puster, solicitors of the petitioner
Ordered that the said absent defendant do
appear and answer to the petitioners petition
on or before the Sixth day of July next or
that in default thereof, such decree may be
made against her as the Chancellor shall think
equitable and just.
And it is further ordered, that the notice Of
this order prescribed by law and the rules OF
this Court, and this order, shall within twenty
days hereafter be served personally on the safd
absent defendant, by delivery OF q copy
thereof to her, be published within the said
twenty days in the Jersey City News, news
paper printed at Jersey City, in this State and
continued therein for four weeks SUCCESSFULLY
at least once in every week, and In case OF
such publication that copy thereof be also
mailed, within the same time, to the said alb
sent defendant, directed to her post office ad-
dress, If the same can be ascertained in the
manner prescribed by law and the rules of this
Court.
W. ]. MAGIE. c.
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IN CHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.
Between Frank j. Currier, petitioner; Ad1
Currier, defendant.
On Petition Notice.
To Ada Currier:-
By virtue Of an order OF the Court Of Chans
Gerry of New Jersey, made on the date hereof
in the cause wherein Frank ]. currier Is petit.
to appear and answer the petitioners petition
on before the Sixth day of July next. ez
that in default thereof, such decree viii hs
made against you to the Chancellor shall
seem equitable and just. The said petition IS
dleds against you for divorce from the bond
of matrimony.
Dated May 4th. 1908.
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WANTED.

Male.
WANTED FOR U. S. ARMY-ABLE BODIED
unmarried men, between ages of q and s5;
citizens of the United States, of good character
and temperate habits who can speak, read
and write English. For information apply to
RECRUITING OFFICER, A Montgomery
street, Jersey City. N. J..
MANUFACTURER WANTS RELIABLE
man to deliver and collect; horse and wagon
and $3.50 deposit necessary 81 week and ex-
adelphia, Pa
TECTIvE-SHREWD, RELIABLE MAN
wanted in every locality for profitable secret
service; experience unnecessary Write AMER
ICAN DETECTIVE ASSOCIATION, Indian
apols, Ind.
SAVE YOUR OLD CARPETS-wE CAN
make handsome reversible rugs with Oriental
effects out of them; write for particulars.
THE NEW JERSEY RUG CO.,
Hackensack, N. J., Telephone 16 l.
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WHEREAS. 4 LEGAL MEETINe on

s order Of the Board of Street ana Water
Commissioners.
GEO II RorrTaN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-06-02

You should not feel tired all the time
aeal5ny people don't--you won't If you take
Hoods sarsaDarilia for a while.