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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
sealed If sno WV Water oe
Tuesday, March H. 1908. at o'clock P. NJ, in
the Assembly Chamber of the City Hall. for
IMPROVEMENT OF BIDWELL AVENUE.
from Ocean avenue to Jackson avenue.
the provisions of Chapter 217 of the Laws 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 sure
ties must be obtained at the office OF the Chief
Engineer, City Hall. Jersey City. n. J.
1000 standard
lof cost
About 1,o50 cubic yards of earth excaya-
tion, per cubic yard. 81. 80
About 10 cubic yards of rock excavation,
About rs cubic yards Of earth dlling, per
About Sif 10 10 cubic yards Of sand filling,
per cubic yard -....-.... LIS
About l0,700 square feet tagging, per
About 100 square feet of relaid and Dress
ed tagging, per square foot.............. .02
About receiving basin heads to be re-
set, each. 800
About 8 manhole heads 70 be reset each. 200
Time allowed for the completion of the work,
As 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 oIle-half the assess
ment therefor on the basis of preliminary
sketch.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed enyel-
opes. endorsed Proposals for the Improve
rlent of Bidwell 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 pro-
posals.
The bonds required to be furnished pro-
posals (and possible subsequent contracD 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 materials and
do all the work comprehended in specifications,
and il 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 its right to reject
any all proposals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section I, Chapter 1S4 of the Laws of 1891,
undfr the terms whereof no contract shall be
binding upon the city, or become effective or
operative until the bonds offered by the Con-
tractor have been approved to sufficency
by this Board and as to form by the Corpora
ton Counsel the President of this Board hav-
ing the power to examine the proposed bonds
men under oath.
BY order Of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
GEO. t. BoUToN.
Clerk.
Dated Jersey City March g. 1909
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
PEMBERTON SUIT
SENSATIONAL.
Testimony Taken in the Suit
Broughtby Long Branch
Doctor Against His
Wife.
TWO CORRESPONDENTS EArRD.
Witnesses Say They Saw
Her With Both Men Wis
itor Saw No Impro-
rrieties-

Fice-Chancellor Stevenson, in Jersey
jCty today continued the taking Of tcsti-
many in the suit for divorce brought by
DR.. Harry Pelnberton, of Long Branch,
against his wife, Ella. The case has al
ready revealed many sensational fea lures
nd today's testimony was saho exception.
DR.. Pemberton, who is well known
and wealthy physician of Long Branch,
sues for absolute divorce, naming as CO...
respondents Benjamin Kraft, a lawyer,
Of New York, and Alexander Anderson,
of Long Branch. Mrs. Pemberton is su-
ing for heavy alimony.
Most of the witnesses called today tes-
tilted as to having seen Mrs. Pemberton
and Kraft together on numerous occa-
sions.
Winfield Bennett, painter, Of Long
Branch, who knew Mrs. Pemberton, said
he saw her with Anderson as well as
with Kraft. Once he saw Mrs. Penn
berton and Anderson together at Taken
essee Lake. They were close together, Z
he said, near clump of bushes. This
was in 1857. / saw them sitting on
bank about forty feet from the road
where they had left their bicycles
]. p. Gouldy, formerly conductor on
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad, who knew
Kraft, testified that he saw Kraft and
Mrs. Pemberton together on numerous
occasions. He first saw them first on
the beach at night.
II saw them sitting in the pavilion to-
gether many times. saw them more
frequently during the bathing hour
Joseph Stratton. of Elberson, testified
that he saw Mrs. Pemberton and Ander-
son together on their bicycles. Mrs.
Pemberton would come from Long
Branch continued Stratton, "and meet
Anderson at The Cedars.'' Mr.. Stratton
denied that he had seen them together on
the sand.
George Rittenhouse, Of Long Branch,
said he saw Anderson and Mr.. Pember-
ton frequently.
s0n one OCCASION" he added, Il saw
them in the Wolff Hill woods
How did you come to notice them?'
Il saw their wheels. They had dis
mounted and had entered the woods. At
another time | saw them at Tallahassee
Lake near a clump of bushes"
How long were they there!'
about twenty minutes
Fanny Gardner, servant in the Penn
berton home. said she knew Kraft and
saw him many times at the house.
Miss Bessie Humphreys. guest Of
Mrs. Pemberton's, testified that she never
saw any familiarities between Kraft and
Mrs. Pemberton.
Mrs. John Penberton, widow, of DR..
Pemberton's brother. when asked if ii
was true that she had not spoken to Mrs.
Pemberton in seven years, said that she
had spoken to her about seventimes or
about once each year.
The case is still on.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
MAR. IS,lsO3

at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. Specifications
may be inspected at the office of the Clerk
to said Board. Room T. City Hall, between the
hours of A. M. and p. NJ, daily, where
blank forms Of bid must be obtained Parties
fcations will be required to present with their
estimate a bond. as provided by law
or a certified check for Is per cent. Of the
amount of their respective bids as a guarantee
of good faith for signing such contract, and
bond as will be drawn by Corporation Attorney
The Commissioners reserve the right to reject
any all bids if deemed for the best interest
of the city so to do. Proposals will be
marked for interior and exterior work, City
Hall. Directed to the Board of City Hall
Commissioners, Jersey City, and handed to the
Clerk in open meeting when called for In the
order of business relating to sealed proposals.
By order of the Commissioners,
CHARLES L. SEDORE.
Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
ST.PATRICK'S DAY
Every Irishman Worth the
Name Wears Some
thing Green Today.
LoTS0F SHAMRooKs TOO
Delegations Off for New
York's Big ParadeAFriend-
ly Sons OF Erin Banquet
"A Patriotic Pump.
LOTSOF SHAMR0CKS TOO

Every true Irishman in Jersey City is
honorings : the memory of the good st.
Patrick today in one way or another.
Some are merely wearing shamrock in
the lapels of their coats. Other have
their hats decorated with green sprigs
Green neckties are seen everywhere and
many women are seen on the streets
wearing green waists. There is no big
parade in the city such as has character
sized the day in Jersey City in years past,
but Irish enthusiasm is no less prevalent
Division No. of the Ancient Order of
Hibernians, Board of Erin, paraded the
principal streets of the Horseshoe sec
tion before departing for Brooklyn to par
ticipate in the great St. Patrick's Day
parade over there. The members will
celebrate at Johnson's Hall, No. 135
York street, tonight.
Tonight also the Friendly Sens of Ire
land viii banquet at the Hotel Washing
ton, and afterward listen to responses to
tOasts and addresses by eloquent speak
ers.
There are some humorous features in
connection with the general observance
of the day. What is known as Moran's
pump (named after former Freeholder
William J. Moran in front of Michael
Doyle's saloon, at the junction opposite
Police Headquarters, is attracting a
great deal of attention and surmises are
rife as to the cause of it's brilliant new
dress of green and orange. The body is
beautiful emerald green, while the top,
clamp and ornamental rings are resplen-
dent in an equally beautiful orange hue.
From the top floats side by side minia-
ture American flag and Miniature EN-
blem of the Emerald Isle. Mr. Doyle
is trife worried. Freeholder Moran is
blamed. He denies all knowledge of the
identity of the decoration. An Italian
bootblack is guarding the pump to see
that it is not demolished.
An enthusiastic son of Erin, employed
as motorman on one of the numerous
trolley lines saw astride prancing steed
a uniformed Hibernian, garnished with
brilliant military trappings. He shot off
the electric current and jammed the
brakes, while he lifted his cap, swung it
wildly about his head and shouted,
"Hooray for Ireland and st. Patrick.
God bless their souis.'' The car was
filed with passengers who were made
curious and amazed at the strange con-
duct of the motorman, but when they
saw the object of the motorman's enthu-
siasm, they laughed good-naturedly and
some even eheered him.
Mrs. Richard ivcker's devotion to Ire
lands patron saint carried the day for
her during a case in which she figured
as witness in case in the First Grim
inal Court. Her daughter, Kate Arnold,
and Hannah Fallon, all three of No. 140
Eighth street, were respectively COM
plainant and defendant in clothes line
fight. Police Justice Hoos learned that
mixed up in and was partially respon-
sible for the trouble.
s'Ihe only way to see to settle this
You should not feel fired all the time
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17

DIED


GRIFFIN-On Sunday, March Is, 1908,
Mary A., beloved daughter of the
late Michael and Margaret Griffin.
Relatives and friends of the family are
invited to attend her funeral from her
late residence, No. 1893 Monmouth street,
on Wednesday, March 18, at A. NJ;
thence to St. Mary's r. G. Church, where
solemn high mass of requiem will be
offered for the repose of her soul.
SHAUGHNESSY-On Sunday, March
Is. 1908, after brief illness, Mary,
the beloved sister Of John and Pat
irck Shaughnessy.
Relatives and friends Of the family are
respectfully invited to attend the funeral
from. the residence of her sister, Mrs.
DoHlinick Heavy, No. 206 Warren street,
on Wednesday, March is, 8 A. M;
thence to st. Peter r. @. Church. where
a solemn high mass of requiem will be
offered for the happy repose of her soul.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
FOUND Gull TY.
Carlstadt Post Office Thieves
Not Likely to Be Tried
on Other Charges.


turned by the jury in the General Ses-
sions Court yesterday afternoon, in the
case of Cahrles Smith, Leo Davis and
Henry johnson, the alleged robbers of
the Carlstadt, Bergen County post office,
captured at the lower ferry in this city
early on the morning of February 26
last.
The indictment on which they were
tried charged them with having burglars
tools in their possession, and why they
ever went to trial is mystery. Five re-
volvers, brace and bits and many other
articles used by expert safe breakers, in
Guiding bottle of lubricating oil and one
of nitro-glycerine, were found on them.
They offered absolutely no defence, not
one of them even taking the stand to
offer an explanation of ris presence III
this city, or to tell where he had been on
the morning the Carlstadt post Office was
rifed.
When the State had presented its case
and it was a strong one--Lawyer Jos.
NJ. Noonan, who represented the prison
ers, made the usual motion for the direc-
ten Of verdict of acquittal, arguing
that, even u. the tools found on his eli
ents at the time of their arrest were bur-
glars tools, no intent to commit crime
had been proven. He said that such in
tent must be shown.
The motion was promptly denied by
Judge Blair, and then FIVE witnesses were
called to prove the previous good charac-
ter of Harris. One of these was his
uncle, New York contractor, for whom
he formerly worked. The others were
members of the Operative Plasterers Or
ganization of the metropolis, Of which
Harris was member.
Their testimony seemed to indicate
ithat he was the novice of the trio in the
burglary business.
Snith, the authorities believe, was the
brains of the trio. He sat during the
trial entirely unconcerned, laughing hear
tily when counsel exchanged witty sal
lies or smiling appreciately when either
scored point on the other. When the
jury retired he engaged in q lively con-
versation with the other two, until Pro-
secutor Sheer summoned them to the bar
to plead to the additional indictments.
found against them.
Harris pleaded not guilty to the charge
Of attempting the life Of Policeman Gar
rick, and all three entered similar plea
to the Indictment charging them with re-
sisting an officer. This formality disposed
of, the two resumed their seats to await
the return Of the jury.
To the surprise of nearly everyone the
jury was almost an hour in reaching its
conclusion, and, it is sair, that on the
first anr several subsequent ballots they
stood eight to four for conviction. Smith
smiled, but the other two looked serious
when the foreman announced the verdict
which win send them to prison for long
term.
Harris apparently was the only one Of
the threeA who had any friends in court.
1t is believed that in view of this con-
viction they will not elect to 60 to trial
on the other charges, bn will retract
their pleas and enter one Of guilty OF noil
vult. Il is thought they will be sentenced
on Thursday.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17

NoTIcE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
annual meeting Of the stockholders OF the
Empire Palm Oil Go. viii be held at the Com
nany's office. No 7e Montgomery street, Jer-
Sew CITY. on Monday March 14th. 1903, at 10
O'clock in the forenoon, for the election OF Di-
rectors and the transaction of such business as
may come before said meeting.
Ry order of the Board of Directors.
FRANK B. WASHBURN
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

NEW YORK, March II, 19o3.-Fore-
cast for the thirty-six hears ending 8
E. M. Wednesday Partly cloudy, pos
sibly with rain tonight and tomorrow; !;
variable winds.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-03-17
ORDER 10 Snow CAUSE.

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE.
Salvatore Garsyenta, at the request ek
Teresa Eoppiani. Giuseppe Foppiani and Luigia
Fopp.sai the only persons interested in tho
will OF Agostino FopPiani, late of Feppiant.
In the Kingdom Of Italy, deceased. having pre-
sented and filed in my office copy Of tho
said Will exemplihed under the hand and seal
Of Scotti. President of the Tribunal o.
Bobbio. Kingdom OF Italy. whereby 1t appears
that the said viii has been admitted TO pro-
bate in said Kingdom of Italy. and the said
Salvatore Garaventa having applied to me to
have the said viii proved and recorded in this
State pursuant to the statute in such case
made and provided. / 10 hereby order thes
be shown before me at my office. In th8
City of Jersey City, County OF Hudssn and
State of New Jersey. at the hour Of 10 o'clock
in the forenoon, on Friday. February thfr.
teenth, nineteen hundred and three WIZ a
duly certified copy of such will should n6f 1s
filed and recorded in my office. ana letters Of
administration with will annexed thereon DO
issued to said Salvatore Geraventa; and that
this order be published in the Jersey City
News. newspaper printed and published IN
this county, for the space OF 6ve weeks next
preceding said day at least once in each week.
Given under my hand This sth day Of Janu-
ary. 1908.
JAS. T. LILL.Ts
Surrogate of Hudson County New Jersey
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20

q u . . 4. s I
was appalling, and many who started to
work had to give up unnervcd
Over from the High School, where tho
crash had been heard. and from the win
dows Of which some had witnessed tho
accident, camd pupils and teachers to
aid In succoring their companions. a
lad who had been hurled to safety In a
snow bank thirty feet from the crossing
arose. brushed the snow out OF his eyes
and with shrek rushed up the street
to n fire box and turned In an alarm.
Within five minutes as many dead
bodies had been laid side by side In the
snow alongside the track One OF tho
bodies. that OF a girl. was found block
beyond. It had been carried there on
the OF the engine. Load after load OF
the injured was sent away IN patrol
wagons and ambulances. Within
short time there was not one injured
person near the scene OF the wreck and
the dead were on their way to the morgue.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20
ATTORNEY STROBE
GROWING BETTER
Counsel in Campbell Case.
Forced to Take to His
Bed on Yesterday.

ia It was feared at one time yesterday
that serious Illness would overtake AIr.
Aubrey E., Strobe. the young attorney
for the prosecution in the Campbell in
vestlgation. before he could return to his
home in Lynchburg Last night how
ever he was resting better. and 1t was
hoped that he would be out again short
Iy. possibly to-day.
Contrary to the advice OF his physi-
clans. Mr.. Strobe insisted upon coming
to Richmond upon the neopening of the
hearing. and the trip served him badly
He came late. but yesterday morning he
was on the field. and. though he could
hardly stand, he took an active part In
the proceedings. Yesterday afternoon he
was in bed at Murphy's, where he Is
staying. sick man This time he was
forced to regard the instructions OF his
doctor. and he could not leave his room.
Judge Loving stated at the investiga-
ton that he feared his young colleague
was threatened with a serious illness.
At 10 O. clock last night. however. Mr..
Strobe was somewhat better, and was
able to eat, though still confined to his
bed. 1t is now hoped and expected that
he will pull himself to rights very short
ly.
Judge Loving himself is Tar from well.
He. too, arose from a sick bed to come
here and tho trip certainly made him
no better. 1t was with an obvious ef-
fort yesterday that he kept himself up.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-20
Two Unmdsked Robbers Held
Up Passenger Train.
EVIDENTLY :'l OLD HANDS
Covered All With Revolvers and Gave
Orders to "Dig up"-one Man
Who Resisted Search Game
Near Being shot-Escaped.
(By Associated Press.

Sci VI
: LOS ANGELES. CAL. February ls.-
Two unmasked men held up and robbed
a carload OF passengers on the Los Ange-
les-Pasadena train last night. a..rty-two
passengers. one-half of whom were wo-
men. were forced at points OF revolvers
to surrender cash and jewelry to the
amount OF between $500 and 800. The
robbers performed their work quickly.
but effectively. The car was held for
ten minutes. The men then left 1t and
disappeared in the darkness.
b The hold-up was carried out in a way
that marked the two outlaws as being
old hands at the business With revolyers
In their hands they stood In the doors
and In foul language ordered everybody
to .'dig up the coin and jewelry without
any monkey business. The robber at
the car door stepped upon a box and
from this commanding position covered
the startled passengers with his revul-
yer. The other one passed down the aisle,
taking pocket-books. coin and watches and
thrusting them carelessly into his coat
pockets. While taking the property Of
the passengers the bandit kept up
flow Of abuse
John w. Gay, agent Of the Raymond
w IutCOIn6 =eNCuTSlOH, udITOWly5Ee escaped
being shot by the robbers. He resisted
being searched, pushing the robber back
Instantly the man showed his revoveler to-
wards Gays face. The latter struck the
weapon upwards just as the trigger was
pulled and the bullet passed through
the roof OF the car. Another passenger
showed some inclination to resist.
"Get. sour heads, out OF the way there
ordered the man at the rear door, ''till
/ get that man." With that he turned
tho revolver upon the unwilling pas
senEer. who quickly gave up his valu-
abIes. The women passengers were ter
ro-i7ed. many Of them screaming. others
weeping. No distinction Of sex was made
and the women gave over their money and
watches without show Of reluctance.
The conductor and motorman were
told to keep their hands above their
heads. The robbers forgot to search Con-
ductor Dayhoff and consequently missed
about fifty dollars.