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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30


SPECIAL MASTERS SALE.
ants, and Edwin T. carswell, ct al, defend
On Bill for Partition and Decree for sale.
Grouse & Perkins, Solicitors OF Comp iainants. a
BY virtue Of decree Of the Court OF Cn',n, man,
cause and dated July g. 190S l. Pierre F. Cook,
one OF the Special Masters Of said Court s1aii
expose to sale at public vendue to the highest
1'S THURSDAY. August 20, 1903.
at the hour of Two o'clock in the afternoon OF
said day, at the office of the subscriber.
Pierre F.. Cook, ! Exchange place, Jersey
Xii that certain lot Of land and premises
situate in Jersey City Hudson County New
Jersey Beginning at point in the northerly
line of South Fifth street fnow Fourth streeQ.
distant sixty feet westerly from the westerly
line of Erie street; thence running "a nocthfriy
at right angles TO South Fifth now Feurthl
parallel with South Fifth fnow FOURTH STREET
twenty feet thence (3) southerly at right anglss
to South Fifth (now Fourth street seventy
FourthS se street W thence nee % essterly aoag said
line twenty feet to the point or place o. De-
ginning. Including the estate and interest," li n
widow of Thomas CarswelI. deceased, and of
the defendant Emma u. Carsweli, widow of
Robert Carswell in the premises and Including
also the inchoate right of dover of the eom-
plainants Sarah -Carswe Catharine CarsweH,
and Mary F. Carswell, wives OF GeorgeS Allen
\ James F. Carswell respectively; and Including
also the inehoate right of dover of the DEFEND
ants Celia Carswell, Jennie ". CaTswen and
Mary b Carswell wives of Edwin Thomas
fCarsweii Robert F. Carsweli and Ira A. Csrs-
well respectively, together with al and sinsu-
lar the hereditaments and appurtsnances to the
premises belonging, or in any wise appertaln-
ing.
PIERRE F. COOK,
Special Master in Chancery
of New Jersey.
Exchange place,
Jersey Citv
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30

Van Einkle street, and $470 for lot on
Van Winkle street, near skillman ave
nue..
Six lots at Bleecker street and Carroll
avenue went to A. ]. Goldstein for $156.
NJ. ]. Davis boHght lot facing on
Gator avenne for $40.
About thirty other parcels of land
were sold at ordinary auction prices.
Gustav A. Piklman bid S310 for a
LOT at Tuesdays sale and yesterday said
he did not wish to purchase it. He for
fcited the $62 which he had paid down.
The property was put up again and only
brought $105.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
Legal NOTICES
SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM CHANGER
Of New Jersey.


SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY
OF New Jersey.
Between Mary Keeney and William Keeney.
her husband complainants. and Theresa Hen
ming and others. defendants.
On bill for partition.
plainants.
BY virtue of a decree Of the Court Of Cham
twentieth day of June. A. ID. 1863, directing a
sale Of all and singular the premises mentioned
and a. described 4 in said decree. Frank z;
New Jersey, will sell, at public vendue, to
the highest biqder, on
GUST. 1903,
at o'clock in the afternoon OF said day,
upon the premises hereinafter described,
STREET, JERSEY cry. N. j..
all the following described lands and premises
All thai certain lot Of land and. premises.
Ward of Jersey city aforesaid. with the build,
ings and improvements thereon erected and
more particularly bounded and described as
Beginning at point in the southerly line
OF OF Fourth street, formerly South Fifth street
Fourth street, street. formerly lusr South Fifth street
along the west side of Coles street, ninety
five feet to a certain alley or paSsa &c s1''a Y
OF ten feet in width running through the Md
distant from Fourth street, formerly South
Fifth street, and Third street, formerly South
Sixth street. thence westerly and parallel with
Fourth street. formerly South Fifth street,
twenty feet; thence northerly parallel with
wall standing PARTLY on the premises hereby
conveyed and partly on the premises next ad-
joinin westerly thereto, ninety-fye feet, to
the point or place of beginning.
Together with that part of the said alley
way lying between the centre line thereof
and the premises herein described The use
of said alleyway being reserved for sevvsrag ge.
aaueduct and drainage, and for common
right of way for the private use of the occu-
pants of the said block including the estate
and interest in dpwer of the said defendant,
Theresa Hennng. widow of Ferdinand Hen
ming deceased in the said premises together
with all and singular the hereditaments and
appIrtenances to the said premises belonging
or in anywise appertaning.
Dated July 7th, 1903.
FRANK p. McDERMOTT,
Special Master in Chancery of New Jersey,
Commercial Trust Co. Building,
Jersey City. N. ].
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
MAIN MAY De BUILT. :

In addition to adopting the budget for
the fiscal year of 1903 19o4sat yesterday S
meeting the Finance Board concurred in
the passage of the emergency resolution
of the Street and Water Board to CON
struct a water main from point near
the junction of Kearney avenue and
Belleville Turnpike to connection with
the new water main built for Jersey City
at or near Kingsland
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30

WE. THE : UNDERSIGNED. COMPOSING
the Board of Directors of the United Bot
ting Works. do hereby certify that at a meet
ing of the said Board called for that purpose
and held on the Seventeenth day of July,
Al. d. nineteen hundred and three, said Board,
by a majority of the whole Board, did adopt
the following resolution
Resolved, That in the judgment of this
Board it is advisable and most for the benefit
of the United Bottling Works that the same
should be Forthwith dissolved, and to that end
it is ordered that meeting of the stockholders
be held on the Eighteenth day of August next
at the office of the Company, No. 900 Palisade
avenue. in the City of Jersey City, New Jer-
sey. at two o'clock in the afternoon of said
day to take action upon this resolution: and
further that the secretary forthwith give no.
tice of said meeting, and of the adoption Of
this resolution, within ten days from this
date.sby publishing the said resolution, with
notice of its adoption, in "The Jersey City
News.t a newspaper published in the City Of
Jersey city, for at least four weeks, once a
week, specessively, and by mailing written
or psintkd copy Of the same to each and every
stockAolder Of this company in the United
INsVvITNEss WHEREOF we have hereunto
set our hands and affixed the corporate seal of
said Company, this Seventeenth day of July,
A. D. nineteen hundred and three
WILLIAM SHAFFER,
(Seal) GEORGE H. SHAFFER,
HENRY SHAFFER,
eAttestt-- Witnessed
HENRY SIAFFER, Secretary.
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HUDSON COUNTY ORPHANS, COURT.

HUDSON COUNTY ORPHANS COURT.
On application of John 8. Darling, Adminis-
traitor of Dominicl Robert deceased
Order to show cause.
April Term. A. D. 1903
John S. Darling, administrator of DomincsS
Robert deceased, having exhibited to this
Court under OATH just and true account of
the personal estate and debts of said deceased,
whereby it appears that the personal estate Of
said Dominick Robert is insufficient to pay his
debts. and requested the aid of the Court in
the premises;
1t is Ordered. That all persons interested In
the lands. tenements and real estate of said
Court. at the Court House, n Jersey City. on
the Eleventh day Of September next to show
cause why so much Of the said lands tene-
merits, hereditaments and real estate OF the
said Dominick Robert, deceased, should not be
sold, as will be sufficient to pay his debts, or
the residue thereof as the case may require.
BY the Court
JOffN@A. BLAIR. Judge.
X JAMES T. LILLIS Clark
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Absolute Sale Of Martin Act
Property Brought $40,
ooo Yesterday.
TOTAL so FAR $4,000
Public Men Among the Buyers
-Pihlmans Forfeits His
Deposit and Lot Sells for
5000 Less

Another large crowd attended yester-
days absolute sale of land acquired un-
der the Martin act in the Assembly
Chamber yesterday afternoon. Many
more parcels were sold and $40, 600 more
We're added to the $4,000 which the
brought the day before making total so
far of $4,000. An effort is being made
by Auctioneer Frank Stevens to dispose
of the balance of the properties this af-
ternoon.
The land sold brought fair auction
prices.
Street and Water Commissioner An
thony Hauck paid $4,000 for eight lots in
the vicinity of Garfield avenue and Nor
ris canal adjoining the property of the
Baldwin Lumber Company, which had
been used as lumber yard.
The smallest piece sold was small
triangular plot 15x10x10 at the junction
of Charlotte avenue and Jersey City
water pipe line, purchased by Pauline
Fein for S12
Another small triangular plot in the
anne vicinity went for 80.
H. A. Heidi made the largest pur-
chase. He bought whole block bound
ed by Johnston, Pine and Monitor streets
and the National Docks Railway for
$S,1o5. y
County Collector Stephen NJ. Egan
: bought twenty lots for 800.
Four lots on Seventeenth street, near
Jersey avenue, purchased by John f.
Boyle, brought S1.120.
Henry Byrne paid s175 for lot on
; ! Trenton street, near Chestnut avenue
Former Excise Commissioner John
/ O'Brien, who purchased considerable
property, the day before paid 81 400 for
two lots and house on Pacific avenue,
near Forrest street.
Z Henry V. CIT made the following
+ purchases. Six lots on Terhune - enue,
! for $3.50; twenty-five inside vacant lots
of meadow land on Pen Horn Greek, ad-
joining D. L. & w. ands Erie Railroad
properties, for $2a5; twelve whole lots
and as many pieces of lots at the june
tion of Morris Canal and Swamp Greek,
for S510; seventy vacant lots. near Pen
Horn Creek. for $735.
NJ ]. Currie paid 81 ,s95 for nineteen
on Princeton avenue. between Vain
wright and Manila streets.
f. N. Van Blarcom paid $3.50 for q
house and lot on Lembeck avenue, be
tween the Boulevard and Old Bergen
road.
John F. Boyle who purchased a lot
on Seventeenth street, hear Jersey ave
nue.. also purchased lot on Erie street
near Sixteenth street. for 1910.
Stephen Krayszewski paid 1926 for 8
lot on Germania avenue, near Van Win
kle street, and Frank McElhone paid
$500 for a lot on Skillman avenue, neal
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CORPORATION NOTICE.


Notice is hereby given that on the 18th day
of May, 1903, application was made to the
Board Of Street and Water Commissioners
by Jalnas NJ We'd, Wade an and others for ,s., the
from Duncan avenue to the Catholic Cemetery.
Said improvement to be made conformably
to the provisions of Chapter 217 of the Laws
of 1885, and in the following manner, includ-
ing all intersections =
To have the street for the full width
excavating or filling the same to the established
TO have new 2o-inch curb set on each side
To have the present curb reset and new
2s-inch curb set where necessary,
To have the cutters on each side paved with
stone paving to width of So inches.
To have new bluestone tagging, feet wide.
laid on each sidewalk.
To have the present f1aggirue relaid. and new
tagging laid where necessary.
To have the present bridgestene crosswaiks
relaid and new bridgestone laid where neces-
sary
And all other work done that may be neces-
sary to provide for the flow of the surface
water. and to complete the Improvement in a
good and substantial manner
Notice is also given that on the 21st day
of July, 1903 the Commissioners of Assessment
filed in the office Of the Clerk of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners their pre-
liminary map for said improvement, showing
tie probable total cost Of the contemplated
Improvement, and the probable amount to be
assessed on property specially nensfitSa there.
ins9ection in the office of the Clerk Of said
Board.
And notice is also given that the follow
ing streets or avenues, or particular sections
thereof are included in said assessment.
namely
NIINDA AVENUE,
from Duncan avenue to its northerly terminus;
DUNCAN AVENUE
on the north side from Nunda avenue to
points 20 feet east and west thereof.
And that in accordance with the provisions
OF the Act above cited the 4th day Of August
1908 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 will meet
to hear all parties interested in said appiica-
ton and all retnolsstrarces against the said
In writing.
BY order Of the Board Of Street and Water
GEO. r BoUToN.
Clerk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
COULDN'T PAY HIS FINE.
Peter Eichman. Convicted Of
Petit Larceny Went to Jail
for Want of $25.

Peter Eichman. twenty-six years old
of No. 175 Newark avenue, was fined
S25 in the First Criminal Court this
morning on charge of petit larceny, and
was sent to- Jail in default of payment
of the fine. The complainant against
Eichman was Robert Mulligan, of No. so
Montgomery street. Sullivan accused
Eichman of robbing him Of $3.50 after
having done the Good Samaritan act
for him. He said that while in company
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
REDpIcK's MARROW ESCAPE
Deckhand Saved Him Just as He
Was Drowning.

Bernard Reddick, twenty years old,
residence Unknown. but employed as
butcher at the abattoir at the foot of
Sixth street, was seized with cramps
while bathing near the abattoir in the
North River this merning, and was
drowning, when he was hereically res
cued by John Norton, deckhand on the
barge Burlington, who plunged into the
river and landed him on terra sfrma.
Reddick was taken to St. Francis Hos
pital in an unconscious condition.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30

NOTICE. WHEREAS. KATIE WEISS. DE-
ceased. in her lifetime, made a contract
in writing. still unfulnlled. for the sale to
Emilie Schroeder OF. the property known as
No. 51f jefferson place, in the Town Of Union,
Hudson County N. Il and which is described
as being lot number twelve az in Block num-
Der three 80 on a map entitled, Map OF the
property belonging to III Geayer and r. Butts
filed in the Clerks uow Registersf office of
Hudson County.
Notice is hereby given tha I will amply
to the Orphans Court of the County Of Had
son. to be held at the Court House in Jersey
at the hoar Of ten o'clock in the forenoon
for the fulhliment Of said contract according
to law.
JOSEPH WEISS,
Administrators Of Katie Weiss deceased.
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70 WILLIAM F. LouGHRAN AND JOSEPH

Kramer Harrington.
By virtue of an order of the Court of Cham
Gerry of New Jersey, made on the day of the
date hereof in a cause wherein Mary A. Geb-
defendants, you are required to appear, plead,
answer or defnur to the bill of said complain
ant on or before the Seventeenth day Of Sep
tenlber next. or the said bill will be taken as
confessed against you.
The said bin is filed to foreclose two certain
County of Hudson and State of New Jersey.
the first made by Robert Leonard and Mary
Leonard, his wife, to Clara NJ Kellogg, dated
May 5, 1887, registered in Book 1876 of Mort
cages for said County of Hudson, page 80, and
by the said Clara M Kellogg assigned to the
complainant; the second made by Sarah Ann
Loughranz and Mary ]. fnnet and husband TO
Iohn s. NIcWilliam, Trustee, dated January
II. 1889, recorded In Eeok s374 of Mortgages for
said County of Hudson, page 495, and by the
Executors of said John 8. McWiliam, Trustee,
assigned 20 John McWill:an1, surviving execu-
tor of Sarah Ann LougEran, deceased, and by
said surviving executor of Sarah Ann Lough-
ran, deceased, assigned to you the said Will
liam Fl Loughran and by the said William
F. Loughran assigned to Annie d. Loughran,
(now Annie Z. Percy, and by said Annie L.
Percy assigned to the complainant.
YOU William T. L4oughran, made de-
fendalt because you own some interest in the
lands covered by said mortgage.
And you, Joseph Kramer Harrington, are
made defendant because you claim that the
said William r, Loughran is dead, and that
you are the devisee and legatee under an un-
probated will of said William F. Loughran.
and therefore have some interest in the lands
covered by said mortgages.
Dated July 10th, 1903.
BRINKERHOFF & FIELDER
Solicitors of the Complainant,
Is Exchange place, Jersey City, N. j.
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Notice is hereby given that on the 2ist da
or July, 1903, the Commissioners Of Assessastii
MED in the office of the Clerk OF The ar
OF Street and Water Commissioners t..v4r ma
assessment map and report for the
from Bergen avenue to Hudson Boulevardl
in accordance with petition previous = ~
sented to said Board on the 2nd day os xeSD
tember. 1902, and conformably to the proT1sfcu
OF chapter 2ll Of the Laws of 1895. aad III
same is now open to public inspection in III
office of the Clerk of said Board
Ano notice is also given that the follovlf
streets or avenues or particular section
thereof are included In said assessment
ORIENT AVENUE
from Bergen avenue to Hudson Boulevard;
HUDSON BOULEVARD,
on the east side, from Orient avenue to DO Mt
about 2s4S feet north ana 1898 feet sout
BERGEN AVENUE,
on the west side, from Orient avenue to po'nt
about 2S-H feet north and l5.9 feet souti
thereof.
And that in accordance with the nravjsian,
or the Act above cited the 4th tiay Of Aa,a1,sf
lsoS at O'Clock p NJ and the Assemble
chamber OF the City Hall are hereby fixed Al
the time and place when and where ,ltr boar9
OF Street and Water Commissioners will nan
TO hear. consider and adjudicate upon ali ob
Jections to the confirmation OF sid ano3
sented in writing -
BY order of the Board of Street and wets,
Commissioners.
GEO. r BouToN.
Dated Jersey City, July %, 1903.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
BODY FOUND in TnEsBAY

The nude body Of man about twenty
FIVE years old, fve feet six or seven
inches tall and weighing about 135
pounds, was found in the New York bay
at the foot of Communipaw avenue yes
terday by Michael Murtin, Of No. 3o5
Harmon sreet. and William McDermott,
Of No. 632 Grand street. The body was
taken to Hughes's morgue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30
5 KICKED BY A HORSE.

John Wischam, twelve years old, Of
No. 1877 Manhattan avenue, while play
ing in vacant lot at Summit and Carl
ton avenues yesterday afternoon was
kicked on the head by horse grazing in
the lot. He received an ugly scalp wound
and was taken home by friends.
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DRANK cARBoLlC AND DIED

Miss Louisa q. Kilian, twenty-six
years old, of No. 1e2 Griffith street, com
mitted suicide yesterday afternoon in a
vacant lot at Bleecker street and Ger
mania avenue by drinking carbolic acid.
Miss Kilian left letter saying that
she intended to kill herself and asking
that Undertaken Klever take charge Of
her body and cremate it.
She also left letter in German to her
ftaher.
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SALE OF srocK OF THE COLONIAL CON

tracing Company.
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to an
order of the Board of Directors. and in pur-
suance of the statute in such made and
provided, the undersigned, as Treasurer OF the
Colonial Contracting Company. will sell at
O'clock IN the forenoon, at the office of the
company No. 80 Broadway, New. York City.
twenty shares Of the capital stock of said COM
pany standing in the name of Edward ]. Car
ter. or SO many of said shares as Will pay
So 600 co. being the amount of unpaid assess
ments on said twenty shares now due from
said Edward ]. Carter and also the interest
thereon from May 2ath, 1898, to the date Of
sale and all necessary incidental charges.
Nothing has been paid on each of said
shares.
An assessment of $4,000 is now due each
of said shares. which assessment the purchaser
must forthwith pay each share in addt-
ttou to the amount of his bid
JAMES c. WEIDER. Treasurer
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-30

Notice Is hereby given that the Hollana
Trust Company has resigned as Trustee Of the
first mortgage bondholders under the mortgage
dated January l. 1889. made by the Raritsu
River Railroad Company to said Holland
Trust Company. Trustee, that said resignation
has been accepted by this Company, and THAI
this Company, under the provisions Of saiS
mortgage has appointed The New Jersey Titls
Guarantee and Trust Company Of Jersey City
to the office Of Trustee under said mort cage
which Trusteeship has been duly accepted b5
said last mentioned Company; that a certif
cate of such appointment has been .filed In tht
office of the Secretary Of State for New
Jersey, and that hereafter the interest couponi
on said first mort gage bonds win be PAYABLE
at the banking rooms Of The New Jsrses
Title Guarantee and Trust Company. No s
Montgomery street, Jersey City.
RARITAN RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY
FRANK H. EARLE. President.
CHARLES H. SISSON. Secretary.
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Jersey CITY PAPER coMPANY Y-->o oI.c14
a of Stockholders meeting.

JERSEY CITY PAPER COMPAN4--->QI4et
of Stockholders meeting.
Notice is hereby given by James Tompklns.
George s. Mallory and Joseph D. Bedle, three
Stockholders Of the Jersey City Paper COM
pany, having voting powers that meeting
If fhe Stockholders of the said Company will
be held at the Company szzprincpaI office, No.
10 Cornelison avenue. Jersey City, New Jersey,
on Wednesday, the Twenty-ninth day of July
Nineteen Hundred and Three, at twelve O'Clock
noon for the purpose Of electing four Directors
as NAV come before the meeting This meet
ing IS called under Section 46 of the Act Con-
cerning Corporations Reyision of 1886, and Is
Intended to be effectual If for any reason a
legal meeting of the Stockholders of this Com
pany cannot otherwise he called; and we here
per in which the above notice is to be pub
Ilished
JOSEPH D. BEBLE
AfIES TOAfPESIflS
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OVERCOME BY THE HEAT.

David McIain, twenty-three years old,
Of No. 543 Newark avenue, was over
come by the heat at Newark avenue and
Willow Court at half past>eleven o'clock
this morning. He was taken home in an
ambulance.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
Sealed proposals for
REPAIRING DOCK AND ROAD
to dock on Hackensack River, known as the
Board of Health dock, will be received by the
! Board of Health at IT'S meeting to be held on
July 29th. 1903, at O'Clock p. M at Police
Headquarters. Gregory street and Cooper place.
Jersey City, N. ].
Proposals will be addressed to Commissioner
John Mitchell President Of Beard OF Health.
in sealed envelopes and marked Proposal for
Reuairs to Dock and Road" and handed to
the Clerk when called for under the head OF
miscellaneous business at tho meeting.
Specifications can be had at the office of the
Health Inspector, 262 Grove street
The Board reserves the right to reject any
or all bids ii deemed for the best interest Of
the cit.sss3. to ldo.sf
y. BY order Of the Board of Health
JOHN MITCHELL
-,-S-...s. President