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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
" Respectfully,
/" ROBERT j. HOOS,
g Tax Commissioner

"sTax Commissioner
''To reduce the tax on $95, 200, 600 of
property from twenty -eight dollars a
thousand to twenty-seven dollars and
eighty cents thousand requires an ad
dition to the valuation of less than
$650O00. But we have an increase of
more than 100000 over this figure.
The valuation of PROPERTY in the last year
of Mayor Hoos's term was 500, ,602, ,562.
On each thousand dollars of this there
was an assessment of twenty dol
lars. The valuation for the present year
is $100300,0O0. On each thousand dol
lars of this there is an assessment of
twenty-seven dollars. and eighty cents.
The tax of the last year of Mayor Hoos's
administration therefore produced the to-
tai sum of s2,676.s71.73, while that of
the first year of Mayor Fagan's admin
istration produced the sum of $685.
633.12 an increase of Sill, ,46s.27.
So we have it that, outside of the ques-
ton of the taxation of property used for
railroad or canal purposes, and outside of
all questions of taxation of franchises,
the property owners of Jersey City were
forced to contribute, to maintain the city
government, under the first year Of
Mayor Fagan's administration, the sum
of Sill ,468 more than they were called
upon to contribute during the last year
in which the tax levy was approved by
Democratic Mayor To reduce, the tax
levy from $28 to $27.80 required but the
raising of $4,000 or less than one-third
of the amount that was stolen from the
sinking funds in order to make an appar-
ent reduction in the rate. When you add
the $4,000 taken from the sinking funds
to the Sill 1853 added by direct taxation,
you have the cost Of Mayor Fagan's first
year at $171, ,46S in excess of the cost of
Mayor Hoos's last year.
If you ask where this money has been
expended, the answer comeE in part ht
least, from the city records, $1,000 for
music in the public parks and over $685.
600 increase, in salaries to produce regu-
lar attendance at the meetings of the
Sam Dickinson Association and contribu-
lbns to the fund for the reelection of the
Mayor. If the present administration
has-obtained the unlimited amounts that
it claims to have obtained from railroad
companies, why has It been found neces-
sary-to tax the people over Sill 900 more
than it cost to run the government under
Mayor Hoos?'
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
Legal NOTICES


IN cHANcERY OF NEW JERSEY.
In the matter of the application of Margaret
MeAlone for permission TO sell lands owned BY
Peter Murtaugh, supposed deceased.
To Peter Murtaugh and all persons claiming
any interest in the lands and premises describ-
-sd in this notice, by or through the said Peter
Please take notice, that Margaret McAlcns
has filed petition in the Court Of chancery
OF New Jersey, praying fofr permission to sell
An those two certain lots pieces or parcels
or land and premises situate, iying and being
as lots numbers IL and 22, Blocks nunHer ss2,
on the City Map entitled. 'AssessrnentyhkAsl Of
vey and the recordass 1888 l.. o Fowler surV-
and more particularly described as f1iioWss
Beginning at point on the ncrtheffy eide
of Wayne street distant 125 feet westerly from
the westerly hne Of Monmouth streets hence
% northerly parallel with Monmouth street
200 feet to the southerly line of Railrcad. ave-
nue.; thence tz westerly along the said south
eriy line OF Railroad avenue (25) feet; thence
~ southerly parallel with Monmouth street
200 feet to the northerly side Of WaVne- street,
and thence "a easterly along the said nortner-
ly side OF Wayne street (25) feet to the point
or place of beginning.
Being the same premises~described IN a GER
tan deed made by Margaret Murtaugh. widow
Of William Murtaugh to Margaret McAlone. by
Liber 552. page 4si; in which said lands ana
premises one Peter MurtaHsh had a certain
interest; sale OF whichssaAd interest Is pray
ed. and asdecree barring the said Peter Mnr~
laugh and all persons claiNstng any intez4st
in said lands and estate by or through tho said
Peter Murtaush fom any claina or title In the
said land and real estate; said Peter Aftrfaugh
being presumed dead: and take notice that the
Chancellor has set Monday the Ninth day OF
November, Nineteen Hundred and Three at
ten. o'clock In the forenoon Of that day or as
soon thereafter counsel can be heard. at
the Chancery Chambers Ia Jersey City Num-
Der Is Exchange place. as the time and place,
when and where hearing will be heard in
THE matter, and all persons interested may at
tend at that time and be heard
HUDSPETH & PUSTER
Solicitors for PetItfonep
Post Office address, No. z5s Washington street,
Jersey City, N. J.
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MASTERS SALEM cHANcERr OF 90

MASTERS SALEM CHANCERY OF Kew
Jersey.
Between Anthony Koopnan, Complainant,
and Dorothea Magill ct al. Defendants.
On bill for partition.
James A. Gordon, Solicitor OF ConBlf
By virtue of a decree of the Court Of Cham
cery of New jersey made in the above stated
cause and bearing date the fifth day Of Sep
tember. nineteen hundred and three, shall
expose to sale at public vendue, on
FRIDAY, the Sixth day of November A. D..
1903.
at two o'clock in the afternoon at Chancery
Chambers number Is Exchange place. in Jer-
sey City, all the lands and premises described
in the said Decree follows, to witt
All those two certain lots, pieces. or parcels
OF land and premises situate lying and haug
in Jersey City. in the County OF Hudson ana
State of New Jersey, whAcb, nsap entitled
Map of property belonging TO the V1ashiaEton
Village LaHd Association, sitNA&b near Hobo
ken, on the PaAsa0e avenue, near tho Newark
road" duly fled Of record IN -the Office OF the
Clerk (now Register) Of Hudson County sxs
designated, known and distinsHishad as 10ts
numbered Two hundred and twens*-one Gea7,
and two hundred and twensy-sFNo S32al lying
and fronting the easterly side Of Washing
ton (now WebsteEl avenue, bstween H6tton
street and West Hohoken taows CaHitk) sstsest
together with the buildings yhsvson erected
and including the ineAoate, right Of dower q
the defendants, Masgaretha TofA and Amelia
Tohia, and together with all and siasaitza ths
hereditaments ed appureenancss to ~ said
premises belonging or In auTgike anrettaining.
Special Master in chancery Of New Jersey.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
70 THE CREDITORS OF HUDSON covNrs

TO THE CREDITORS OF HUDSON COUNTY
Tunneling Company.
By virtue Of an order Of the Court OF Chan.
Gerry of New Jersey, made the 1sth day OF
September 1908 in a cause wherein Joseph w
Edwards is complainant. and Hudson County
TunneHng Company Is defendant. Notice Is
hereby given to you to present to the sub
scrfber receiver of said Hudson County Tun.
neiing Company. appointed in said cause
and prove before him under oath or afirnia.
tfon or otherwise to his satisfaction youf
several respective claims and demands against
the said Corporation within two months from.
the date OF said order, and that in defavS'
thereof you will be excluded from the ben. ~
of any dividends which may hereafter be ma
and declared by said Court upon the procse|3'
Of the effects of said corporation. Z
JAS. P. NORTHRUP 49,
Receiver of Hudson CountE fk1~
neing Company,
/ Exchange Place
Dated Jersey City. N. J.
Sent. 1lth. 1893.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
FOR sale

FOR SALE-FINE RESTAURANT, ON AC-
count of being wiuow and alone; u furnished
rooms, all with separate entrance; all improve
nients; only one IN blocks; near the docks
and factories; for sale at once J, FOERSCH.
32S Washington street. Hoboken-
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
FRED. C. BRAUER. JR..
Secretary.

THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCK
holders of the Brylgon Steel Casting Co will
be held at the office of the Company. 50 and
So Montgomery street, Jersey City, N. j., on
Wednesday. October 2Sth. 1868. at one o'clock
p. NJ, for the election Of Board of Directors
and any other business that may properly come
before the meeting.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17

An old and we'll Tried Remedy
Nrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup =,
for children while teethine. it softens the
gums. aflays the pain. cures wind collie.
ana i the - remedy for dIarrohea.
children tsething r,houId always be use.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17

Court of Errors and Appeals without
| charging Jersey City cent; that the
Mayor at one time agreed to his APP
pointment as such counsel, and said:
sLet him be appointed If he wins we'll
get the credit, and if he loses he'll get
the blame"
Mr. McDermott declared that Mayor
Pagan knew that he knew his reason for
vetoing the resolution, and that the reas-
on was such that he, the Mayor, was
afraid and ashamed to tell the public of
Jersey City. For his own reasons, he
said his own lips were sealed in the mat
er until the Mayor explains his veto
otherwise than that he did not wish the
people to be put to extra expense AS
to the libel suit threatened by Mayor
Pagan, he said he proposed to the Mayor
to be tried before jury of twelve minis
ters who voted for his (Fagan's) election,
and that he would call upon him to be
the first witness; that if the Mayor lied
as to his reason for vetoing the resolu-
ton, his (McDermott's) lips would be
unsealed and he would tell him the rea-
son. As to the reference to a February
term of the Court of Errors and Appeals
in Mr.. Fagan's Thirteenth street matter,
the man who wrote the letter for the
Mayor knew there was no such term of
that court as a February term, and that
he lied when he wrote it for the Mayors
signature, and knew that he lied, and
also knew that he (McDermott) knows
who wrote it.
In discussing the Erie grain elevator
tax compromise, Mr.. McDermott declared
that the city had been robbed of $4,000
and that it was larceny on grand
scale, perpetrated over the signature of
the Mayor.
Though the speaker was earnest main
" throughout his lengthy address,, he at
times grew facetious and had little fun
with Mr.. Record and the Mayor. He
said the Mayor gave the people promises
two years ago and the most the people
got was pictures, alluding to the Repub-
lican campaign book. The taking of
pictures, he said, appears to have been
the Mayors chief industry for the past
eighteen months, and that it was no
wonder he complained of getting no rest
"We intend to give him one" said Mr..
MeDermott. ''The people have been
that reminds one of the Omaha post
Office, and the new high School has
string to it. He believes in concentrated
government, but vast majority of peo-
pie told him he was too young to run
that form of government. This city has
had enough experience with appointive
boards.S If we are not fit to elect our
o"n ''''e'"'s we're are no' ~ - eject
a Mayor. And Notwithstanding the ex-
pfesseu "'sn 0i 'ne people 'he mayor
a@s Deen na'i'n e'Ds at 'ne u0of u 'ne
Supreme Court to allow him to appoint
Street and Water Board of his own.'
MT. mcDermott also SAM
II Is Claimed tnat the cost OF the local
government OIL Jersey City mas peen de-
CREASED uhuer the auniinlstratlon Oh
mas'r fagan. IN iooi. uaider mayor
f1oes' the TAX rate was 9zo a tnohsan'-
ror 'hA year enoins on the nrst OF uest
Decenioer, tue tax fase . e@aoo 4 mot
sano. ihis IS apparently a reduction OF
twenty cents OF taxes on each one thou
80 - = :,
- :
~ 49,
,s.s'sss - = i'si = e'1'6
~
-, ~ Wy
's' - "A' 'e seen y Inns 'o'fesponu-
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SITUATION WANTED

se>-s>>~~~s-S>rs>~s>~>~--
STABLEMAN OR COACHMAN; NOUN9
colored man thoroughly experienced; personal
references. l. T. WEEKS, 6s2 Elton street,
Brooklyn.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17

posite is the truth. Again / beg leave
to introduce the tax books:
Jersey City, October II, 1908.
/" Robert ]. Hoos, Esq, Tax Commits
sioner:.
"'Dear Sir:
"T will be obliged if you will furnish
me with statement of the amount as
ssessed on the property of the Central
Railroad Company Gncluding the assess
ment made under the name of the Amer
lean Dock and Improvement Company
in the last year Of Mayor Wanser's adj
ministration, and the amount assessed
on the same property during the last
year of your fathers administration.
I Truly yours.
".ALLAN L. McDERMOTT.'
"'Ofice of the Board of Tax Commits
sioners, Room No. II; City Hall,
.s.Oet. "A, 1908.
Hon. Allan l.. McDermott:
Dear Sir:
!" The tax books show that the prop
erty of the Central Railroad mentioned
in your favor of 18th inst. was, during
the last year of Mayor Wanser's ad-
ministration assessed, for taxation by
!
Jersey City, at 81 1882, 900. In the last
year of Mayor Hoos's ADMINISTRATION this
same property was assessed, for taxation,
at $2,374,o0o, being an increase of
$492 900.
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PERSONAL.

~ 10y WANT ~ GtGT MA1thiED. Af %,
send for the Intelligencer; October number
just out; sample copy free. THE INTELLI-
GENCER. station c, Los Angeles. Cal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK. October II, 19o3-Fore-
cast for the thirty-six hours ending 8
y NE Sunday,-Partly cloudy today;
rain tomorrow; southwest winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-17
STEAMBOATS.
WANTED.


WANTED FOR U. s. ARMY-ABLEeBODIED
unmarried men between ages Of q and 30;
citizens OF United States, Of good character,
and temperate habits. who can speak, read and
write English. For information apply to Re-
cruiting Officer. Al Montgomery street. Jersey
w.ANTED:- INVENTORS, PArENTEEs AND
Mechanics and everyone interested in Patents
an ana Inventions to send for cur Inventors Guide
Thfs 50 page Book sent FREE. Contains full
information about Patents. How to Obtain a
Patent. What to Invent for Profit and How
20 Sell Patent This elegantly printed Book
sent FREE TO any address.
O'MEARA BROCK, PATENT ATTORNEYS,
620-11th 81. N. w. Washington. d. C.
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JAMES J. wIsEMAN.
Secretary.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
CHEAP LANDS
For Homeseekers' and Colonies

For Homeseekers' and Colonies.
The country along the Cotton Belt
Northwest Louisiana and Texas offers
the greatest opportunities for Home
seekers. Mild climate, good water,
cheap building material, abundance OF
fuel, and soil that will often in single
season yield enough to pay for the
ground. Land can be bought as cheap
as $3.50 an acre, prairie land at 81 and
s. per acre up, bottom land at So and 50
per acre up, improved or partly cleared
land at $40 and sl5 per acre up. Some
fine propositions for colonies-tracts OF
1000 to 5000 acres at 81 to $40 per acre
big money in this for good organizer.
Fruit and truck lands in the famous
peach and tomato belt Of East Texas at
$40 to 500 per acre up. Write us for
information about cheap rates, ex-
cursion dates, also literature descrlp-
tive of this great country, and let US help
YOU find home that will cost you no
more than the rent you pay every year.
E. w. LABEAUME, G. P. Il I. A,
Cotton Belt Route,
st. Louis, Mo.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
MORAL COURAGE.

Nashville Christian Adyocate:-"As
individuals we are too often cowed be-
fore mere blind public sentiment. The
boycott and the mob belong 10 the same
category. 1t is the multitude infiicting
some narrow class sentiment or opinion
upon the individual, merely because they
are many and he is one. The servility
which corporations exact of their en-
ployes is sometimes as amazing as it is
humiliating. Teachers in great unlversi-
ties are required to trim their utterances
to the whim Of some capitalist who has
given, or possibly may be persuaded to
give, a liberal donation. Public school
teachers must play puppet to boards and
superntendents. Preachers and editors
must utter without the suspicion of lisp
the shibboleth of self constituted men
tors or run the risk of mob trial in the
public prints. And all of US are forced
into thousand more or less absurd con-
ven tionalities simplybecause to neglect
them brings upon us the rude stare and
the coarse criticism of the unthinking
multitude.
american civilization and American
Christianity are built upon the indiyid
ual and his right to freedom of initia-
1--WE. IulS udS Ueeu OuI SiOIS huu bHc
source of our strength. 1t will be
deplorable calamity if instead of ma
ton of free and self directed individuals
we become an aggregation of unions"
driven hither and thither by self-in-
terested bosses and dominated by
machne-made opinions, opinions con
cerned only for the good of the class,
and taking no account of the individ
ual.
1.-The times are ipe for the assertion of
individual opinion and of personal rights
as against mob law. The Sheriff who
backs his convictions of duty with bullets
when bloodthirsty lynchers are pressing
him, is the true type of citizenship. And
the mobs which hang and burn criminals
are not, unfortunately, the only examples
of the unreasonmg tyranny of the multi
tude. There ought to be among us 30
true an appreciation of moral courage
that the man who refuses to go with the
multitude to do evil will get as hearty
commentator from men as we are as
sured that ne gets from God"
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
AFTER GOVERNOR JIM.

Gov. Frazier recently pardoned a
Memphis gambler. This brought forth
scathing criticism from various sources.
The Governor now claims that he is
sued the pardon "under misappre-
hension of the facts" II this is so
the Governor must have been sleep
walking when he issued that pardon.
1t is his business to know the facts in
such cases. If he don't know them he
does not perform his duty as chief ex-
ecutive, and besides is very stupid
statesman.
The other hypothesis is that he did
know the facts.
A governor of Tennessee pardoning a
gambler under 'misapprehension of
the facts" sounds very fishy for people
Of moderate understanding to swal-
low.
Have the gamblers clutch on Gov
pardon seekers impose on his under
standing with perfect impunity?
Is the Governor go foolish that he
habituslly does things "under misap-
prehension Of the facts!"
Did he veto the Columbia Dispen.
sary bill "under misapprehension OF
the facts?"
A critical analysis of the acts OF
the present Governor, may show that
he trains with the Nashville whiskey
ring, and their allies, the gamblers, and
that his coat tails are firmly grasped by
corporation representatives from every
town in the State.
The people of Tennessee ought tc
know about these things; and they viii
know them before the next gubernator
ial convention Times-J our
nal.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
TIE Time Will CONF
When the Advice Of This
Nashville Resident Will
Help You.

Very few people are entirely free
from backache. 1t does not take
much to derange the kidneys. A
little cold, strain STOPPING position
or hard work overtaxes those delicate
organs and many aches and pains
promptly follow. A Nashville citizen
Tells you here how every kidney ill
can be relieved and cured. Read
about it:
Mr.. James A. Childress of 7SWharf
avenue, wholesale produce business
with headquarters at j. j. Hills pro-
duce and commission house, 1873 North
Market street, Nashville, Tenn, says:
"For seven or eight years when
suffering from attacks of kidney
known medicines, mineral waters,
and went away every year for awhile
to springs where 1 got some relief.
Finally my back grew so lame and sore
that ] could not lift at all and l was
compelled to quit work. When you
have spent hundreds of dollars in
tink ering with medicines, when you
have almost given up hope of ever be-
ing cured, and when from loss of sleep
during the night, due to kidney COM
plant you rise in the morning totally
unfit for a days work and you at
last stumble across q medicine which
brings you good sound health, you
naturally endorse 1t to the public. To
say endorse Doan's Kidney Pills,
feebly expresses my opinion OF them"
Just such emphatic endor sement can
be had right here in Columbia.
Call al Adams Il Martins drug store
and ask what their customers report.
Remember the name Doan's and take no
substitute.
For sale by all dealers, price 30 cents,
Foster Milburn, Co., Buffalo, n. Y, sole
agents for the United States. III
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

| Have heart that never hardens, a
temper that never Tires, and touch
that never hurts.-Charles Dickens.
To betray confidence is to make
yourself despicable; many things are
said under a seal OF secrecy, but are
understood to be confidential, and a
truly honorable man will never violate
this tacit confidence. ID. Hartley.
! The twenty-third Psalm Is the
nightingale of Psalms. Il Is small, Uf
homely feather, singing shyly out OF
obscurlty; put O! it has filled the air
of the whole world with melodious
JOY greater than the heart can con-
ceive! Blessed be the day on which
that Psalm was born Henry Ward
Beecher.
A great many people are afraid OF
enthusiasm. Ii man is enthusiastic,
they raise the cry: Zeal without
nowledge. - / should rather have zeal
without knowledge than knowledge
without zeal. | know men as wise
as owls without any fire In their souls.
Ethusiasm means "ln God and
can't understand how any man can
realize his standing tor God and not
be on fire three hundred and slxtyfive
days in the year. Any man who goes into
business and doesn throw his heart
into it doesn t succeed. Now why not
go into the Lord work as earnestly
as into athletics1-D. l.. Moody.
Cornelius Vanderbilt is quoted as
saying to a friend short while before
he died !: Il don't see what good 1T
does me-all this money that you say
is mine | can't eat 1t; cant spend
It IN fact, / never saw it. | dress no
better than my private secretary, and
cannot eat as much as my coachman.
| live in a big servants boarding
house, am bothered to death by beg
gars, have dyspepsia, cannot drink
champagne, and most of my money is
in the hands of others, who use 1t
mainly for their benefit. 1t is stated
that John d. Rockefellef's millions
have cost him the ability to enjoy |
them. Able to buy the daluties OF the |
markets of the world he must live on |
a diet of n ilk and crackers. Emerson
finely said: why needs any man
be rich? Why must we have horses,
fine garments, handsome apartments. |
access to public houses and places OF |
Only for want OF
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1903-08-28
RUM0RS RIFE IN VIENNA.
Emperor Francis Joseph Said to
Contemplate Abdicnting as
King of Hungary.

Vienna, Aug. 23.-Rumors are again
in circulation of the possible abdca-
ton of Emperor Francis Joseph as
king of Hungary, because he is tired
of the continued political struggle.
Both Austrian official circles and the
Hungarian opposition deride the re-
ports, the latter believing them to be
spread by the government with the
view of inducing the abandonment of
the aggressive attitude OF the opposi-
ton.
Private information from Ruda Pesth
declares the emperor is not ready to
grant the army concessions demanded
by the Hungarian diet