The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-02-27
AN OPEN SESSION
Governor Murphy yEntertains
the Legislative Cores
pondent's Club.
Special to ..The Jersey city News. .


TRENTON, Feb. 27, 1903.--Goyernor
Franklin Murphy last night entertained
the members of the Legislative Core
spondents' Club at his temporary resi-
planned by the executive to be given
during the Legislative session.
The big library in the old Stryker
homestead had been converted into a din
ing hall for the occasion, and the table,
arranged in the form of horseshoe,
/ gave ample accommodation for the two
score newspapermen who responded to
the governors invitation.
The Governor, assisted by his secre-
tary, John L. Swayze, received the
guests as they entered, and the prelim-
mary part Of the entertainment was un-
der the supervision of the veteran major
domo of the executive chamber, Samuel
Gordon, the bronze Chesterfield. There
was the warmest kind Of warm well
come for the guests as they arrived, the
governor and his secretary exerting them
selves to make the men feel thoroughly
at home.
The table decorations were similar to
tl,asa at the former dinners to the mem
bers of the Senate and House-American
Beauty roses and carnations.
As tribute to the correspondents. the
men who chronicle the daily doings of
the lawmakers, the governor departed
from the rule that has obtained, and
made it an open session, with Lawrence
S. Mott, president of the club, as toast
master.
Their were no formal toasts, the
| speakers responding to whatsoever de-
mand Mr. Mott made upon them. At the
outset the POSTMASTER invited the COVER
nor to say word or two to the men
and Mr.. Murphy responded with a neat
| nltle SpeecH, III WHICH HS toiu " Inc
abiding love he has always entertained
fession in general and those of this State
in particular.
Addresses were also made by John T.
Swayze, private secretary of the COVER
nor; State Librarian Henry 6. Buchanan
Thomas B. Holmes, of the "State Ga
zeste;" Francis B. Lee Colonel e. G..
Stahl, of the "Staat's Journal" and JAS
Kerney, Of the .Tenton Times"
The men who W re at the table were:
Charles j. Allen, Advertiser New
ark; w. Holt Apgar, Independent"
Hightstown; Charles R. Bacon, Rec
ord,v Philadelphia; Charles H. Bateman
ssUnionist- Gazette Somerville; Henry G.
Buchanan, Paterson Press" T. Edward
Burke, "Town Talk" Newark; John J.
Cleary, Sunday Advertiser Trenton;
! James II. Dale, "True American" Tren-
ton; William K. Devereux, Legislative
Press Bureau; Daniel K. Dugan, Omaha
Bee::" John P. Dullard, Associated Press;
| Walter e. Edge, Press" Atlantic City;
John j. Farrell, Journal" Jersey City;
Walter H. Fell, Ledger" Philadelphia;
Thomas f. Fitzgerald, Sunday Adver-
| tiser," Trenton; Charles H. Follwell,
New Jersey Mirror" Mount Holly;
| Thomas Holmes, "State Gaztete," Tren-
ton; Upton S. Jeffries, POST Telegram"
Camden: Harry G. Jewett, Inquirer"
Philadelphia; Hugh Wesley Kelly,
STANDARD News Association; Joseph NJ.
Kelly, "Call," Paterson; James Kerney,
Times" Trenton Charles H. Levy,
'sun,'' New York; James Martin, "Tri-
bune,n New York; Alexander Mclean,
journal" Jersey City; Lawrence S.
Mott. Mail and Express New York;
John L. O'Toole, News Newark; Chas.
A. Ransom, observer, Hoboken; Er-
nest G. stafl, Stats Journal Thomas
c. Valentine, Evening Sum- New York;
Herman B. Walker, News Newark;
Thomas II Waldron, Advertiser Tren-
ton: William Cloke. Herald, New
Yo-k; John T. O'Brien, Journal Ter
sey City; Peter j. 0'Toole, World, 4
New York; w. Scott Snyder, Tribune"
New York; William p. Brown, POST
Telegraph Camden; john +. AZ. Kelly,
State Gazette" Trenton; Howard B.
! Tindall, Press. New York Edward J.
Burke Evening World, New York;
John ]. 0'Rourle, Guardian, Paters on;
James b. van Horne, North American, (, I.
/ Philadelphia; T FraEcis 81 Lee, historian.