The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-03-30
JERSEY LENDS Us JOHN WELSH
AND COMES OVER TO GIVE HIM A
START HELPING TAMMANY.

Mayor Hinchlino Of Patterson Premcts
That tho Lawyer" VIII Teach Tim
sullivan . Trick or Twe-1t Was
Wonderful Invasion OF the Tenderiein.
Doctors, lawyers, college professors.
Senators. Assemblymen. Mayors, District
Attorneys. Sheriffs, County Judges, Alder
men, actors. bankers, brokers, farmers
from the State OF New Jersey crossed TO
New York and went to the Tenderloin on
Saturday night to help the Hon. Johnny
Welsh, ex-Councilman OF Passaic and ex-
County boss. open up new saloon he
purchased q few days ago at "a West
Twenty-eighth street.
Mayor Hinchliffe Of Paterson was the
first man to arrive from Jersey on Saturday
night. The Shrewsbury River clamdigsers
came in wagons. The folks UP Rutherford
way came by trolley. The Montclair crowd
arrived In automobiles. The boys from
Catfish Pond and E gg Harbor brought
their lunches with them. Those from
Warren county, the Cider Grove contingent,
carried whiskey TASKS. One man who
came on horseback from Cherry Tree Bend
insisted on taking his horse into the bar
room. Another who came from Frog Town
carried q live goose as present Tor the
Hon. John. There were any number OF
Smiths, from Peapack, Squankum. Goose
town and Goshen, and few from Straw
berry Hill.
Two thin men from Hickory Corners got
lost near the ferry and did not reach the
saloon until nearly midnight They were
followed by a man from Temperanceville.
up Gloucester way, who explained that he
had stopped In several saloons after getting
OF the boat and had TO pay q stranger o.
cents to fetch him around. A ministerial
looking chap from Solitude, N. j., came in
with two men from Snuff Mills. who had
been lost for four hours in Harlem. Other
Jersey towns represented at the opening
were Fish House Junction, Saddle River,
Rocky Hill, Good Intent. Six-Mile Run,
Three Tons. Four Bridges. Calico Neck,
Tillietudelum. Tranquility and Unexpected
Bog.
the end Of the dining hall and raped Tor
order New Jerseys swell set found itself
sandwiched between farmers and clam
diggers. The Mavor told what New Jersey
folks thought OF the Hon. John Welsh and
added that he had read an editorial in the
Passoic Dolly Herald which stated that
| York inasmuch as Lawyer" Welsh in
tended to become q Tammany leader.
This announcement was greeted with rounds
Of applause. The Mayor said that Welsh
was bold and brave enough to tackle any
thing and would probably be able to teach
Leader Murphy and Tim Sullivan q few
interesting tricks in politics.
Lawyer Welsh made a speech az did
many others after the crowd had disposed
Of the dinner, and then they lined up to the
bar where Monmouth county almost caused
a riot because Mr.. Welsh had forgotten
the applejack. D.. =.
At midnight many OF the visitors had
succeeded in losing themselves on Broad
way A man from Perth Amboy had a
row with Q cabman who refused TO drive
him home for n quarter. In Twenty
eighth street near Broadway DR.. Wood
burys men who we're sweeping up the
hayseed yesterday dug up bundle that
moved. A Tenderloin cop braced the bun
die UP and said:
where do you live. In Passaic1'
-Dam-Passaic. stammered the
bundle
sDundee1-
Dam Dundee: I mean Dundee Dam:
that's In Passaic, amt it,"
And the cop steered the bundle In the
direction OF the Erie ferry.