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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-05-04
ARLINGTON AVENUE, JERSEY CITY


Printed conditions under which the proposals
must be made, plans and specifications of the
work, form Of contracts and blanks for pro-
posals can be examined at the Office OF the
Cerk OF the Board OF Chosen Freeholders,
next to the Court House. in Jersey City. on
ity required.
Each proposal must be accompanied by a
receipt from the County Collector enclosed
therein. therein that a certified check drawn to the
order OF Stephen NJ. Egan, County Collector
on one Of the National Banks or Trust Com
panies doing business in Hudson County, or
cash in the sum of five thousand dollars
90 900 has been deposited with him. and said
check or cash must be deposited with him
on or before Wednesday May A. 1904 at u NJ.
ana me successful bidder will be required to
give bonds for the faithful performance of the
contract when awarded. and any bid which
fails TO comply with any of said terms and
conditions win be rejected as informal
:, Ine Board Of Chosen Ereeholders reserves
the right to reject any or all proposals if it
IS deemed for the best interests of the
county so TO do
By order of resolution OF the Board Of
Chosen Freeholders adopted April Z, 1904
JOHN P. EGAN,
Bidders will please furnish certified checks
instead OF cash if possible
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WANTED.

WANTED FOR u. s. ARMYzABLEBoD1RD
citizens of Omitted States, OF good character,
and temperate habits. who can speak. read and
write English. For information apply TO Re
cruiting Officer. AZ Montgomery street. Jersey
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AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE TO
sell our watches. A $40 sample free and lib
eral commission. If you want profitable en-
ployment for spare moments send for sample
and terms now UNION WATCH CO., Dept.
ITO, Chicago. III.
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zVANFED-MALEs; YOUNG CLERK ANB
Stenographer, with some office experience
and highest references, in financial depart 1nent
of large corporation. Address TREASURER
News office.
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THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1904,
at 4 o'clock P. NJ.

at the Court House. Jersey city. n j., for
Inc construction Of new steel bridge over
the Newark and New York Railroad Cut at
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NOTICE
TO
STEEL BRIDGE BUILDERS

Sealed proposals will be received ana read
at meeting OF the Board of Chosen Freehold
ers Of the County Of Hudson to be held on
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birds, Absence of smell.

Birds seem TO have no discrimination
whatever in regard to poisons, prob.
ably because they have almost no sense
of smell and swallow their food with
out masticating it. They are terrified
to paralysis by the appearance Of a
poison snake unless the terror be due
to dread of the appearance of the ser
pent rather than to an inherited knowl-
edge of its venomous power; but such
intelligent birds as rocks will pick up
and eat poisoned grain, and crows or
ravens readily eat poisoned eggs or
meat. Chickens will eat the poisonous
seeds of laburnum and die from its
effects. Whether birds such as tits
and greenfinches ever do so does moi
seem to be known. But wild birds
are frequently found dying in gardens
though apparently they have been il
good health a few hours before, anC
their death may probably be due t.
the consumption of poisonous Seeds
London Spectator.
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Miscellaneous News Notes.

Sheckard has not yet struck his
natural gait in batting.
Two Spanish battleships and a cruz
ser have been ordered to Tangier.
Mercer University has adopted caps
and gowns for the university costume.
Handball is a favorite means of
exercise with the Brooklyn players.
Lewis, short stop for Cornell last
season, is nov with the Baltimore
Eastern League team.
Miss Pauline Hardin, Kentucky's
most successful woman politician, is
about to be married.
Among the New York bricklayers
the lowest wage is $500 a week. and
the highest is owe $50.
Detroit critics aver that the CIeye-
land team plays without system and
behaves stupidity at critical times.
At the meeting of the Columbia Uni
versity trustees gifts Of endowments
Oh two professorships were announced.
Justice Gaynor, of the Supreme
Court, in Brooklyn. handed down a de.
clsisn in which he holds that Sunday
playing is entirely legal.
Two Japanese divisions, numbering
about 10000 men. engaged the Russian
position near WafanS-Kao, north OF
Pelan-Tlen and were renrIsad
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A Trapper of Big Hawks.

Glenn Russell, a young nan of neal
Hunter, this county, has certainly
broken all late day records as a hawk
catcher. He began his work of catch
ing hawks by means of traps in No
vember last, when on the 22d day of
that month he bagged his first bird,
which had a spread of wings of fifty
and one-half inches from tip to tip. The
day following he caught another,
which measured fifty-four and one-half
inches. On December s another one
was added to his list, which measured
fOrty-nine inches. On the 9th and 10th
of the same month he scored one each
day, measuring forty-eight and forty,
nine inches respectively. February q
of this year another was caught, which
measured ffty-One inches. March 4 he
scored a catch, which showed a spread
of wings of fifty inches; on the 14th an.
other was added, having forty-eight
inches of wing; on the 10Th another big
fellow was trapped, which showed vi
f%ifty-three inches of sailing power. Or
the Oath perhaps the daddy of 'em al
was taken, and this fellow could un
fold fifty-fve inches of wing power
On the same date another was decoyeC
into Mr.. Russell's traps, with a wing
measurement of fifty inches.-Barnes
vile (Pa.) milestone.
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Personal Mention.

Charles Beecher, in whose library
at Fairfield, Wayne County, ILL.,, the
Lincoln Presidential boom was
started, has just died at Marysville,
Ohio.
Abner Mckinley, brother Of the late
President Mckinley, was found dead
in his room by his wife at Somerset,
Pa. Death was due to Bright's dis
ease.
DR.. George Johnston Altman, for more
than forty years professor of mathe-
mates in Queens College, Galway,
Ireland, has died at the age of eighty
years.
The Sultan of Turkey is in better
health than usual. The news of ia.
panese successes is said to act upon him
like a tonic"
Samuel M. Lindsay, Commissioner
of Education for Porto Rico. and for
merly of Philadelphia, returned to this
country for a short vacation.
Lord Gwydyr, who has just entered
his ninety-fifth year, is one of the very
few men who can remember George
Tvs memorable visit to Ireland.
Sergeant John Martin, the only sur.
vivor of General Clusters regiment
engaged in the battle of Big Horn in
1877, has been placed on the retired
list Of the army,
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A branch of the American Federation
of Labor has been organized at Biloxi.
Miss.
Troubles of the Nickel Plate Rail-
road boilermakers have been amicabiy
settled.
Bricklayers in Glasgow, Scotland. to
the number of 1900, have suffered a
decrease in wages.
All the Jewish bakers are striking
for in London is a twelve-hour day and
nine cents an hour.
The Bay City (Mich.) Street Railway
Company has voluntarily increased the
wages of its employees.
The Brotherhood of Painters is over
$4,000 strong.
The average Hindoo workingman in
India gets about SO a year.
Demanding semi-monthly pay days.
800 men went on strike at the Royal
Paper Mill, in Montreal.
Machinists on the northeast coast of
England have made a demand for an
increase in wages of two shillings a
week.
A new labor union has been formed
at San Francisco, Cal, to be known as
Stone Sawyers' Union. It has applied
to the Building Trades Council for af.
fliation.
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The TeutOn is a long time in learning
British idioms. One who had been
here a year or more and could speak
some English before his arrival-a
very short and corpulent man, ~ the
way-went to his grocer's and paid a
bill which had been standing for sew
eral weeks.
"Nowyouareallsquare sir
"Now you are all square, sir"
81 vas vat?"
"You are square, 1 said"
81 vas squaref"
Yes, you are all square now"
Hans was silent for a moment; then,
with reddening face and flashing eyes.
he Brought his plump fist down upon
the counter and said:
"See here, mine trent, 1 will have no
more peezness NIT you. l treat you
like a shentleman. 1 pay my pill, and
you make a shOke of me. You say
1 vas square ven 1 know 1 vas round
as a parrel. l don't like such SMOKES.
My peezness NIT you vas done."-Lon
don Tit-Bits.
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Servian railroads are being extended.
English cotton workers are rushing
to Canada.
The fourth hole through the Alps has
been made with the final piercing of
the Simplon tunnel.
Three electric shocks were required
to kill Michael Schiller, a wife MUIR
derer, at the Ohio State ~Penitentiary.
General Miles still clings to his plan
for employing United States soldiers in
roadmaking during peace time.
The New York Court of Appeals de-
cided that a private detective has the
right to shadow" persons.
Paris offers prizes for window gar
dening.
Every saloon in st. Joseph, Mo-, was
closed the other day for the first time
in fifty years.
A combined steam, trolley and cable
railway has recently been built in
Southern Tyrol, Austria.
The steamship Nebraskan, burning
oil as fuel, arrived i'll San Francisco
four days ahead of time, after a run
from New York.
Germany has been buying her horses
from Russia for some years past. but
may now be compelled to seek the
American market again.
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GRAIN. ETC.
A Pointer for Candidates.

Two candidates for office in Mis-
souri, were stumping the northern
part of the state, and in one town
their appearance was almost stimuli
taneous. The candidate last arriv-
ing happened to stop at a house for
the purpose of getting a drink of wat
er. To the little girl who answered
his knock at the door he said, when
she had given him the desired draught
and he had offered her in recompense
some candy: did the man ahead of
me give you anything?"
ooh, yes, sir" replied the bright
girl, "he gave me candy"
"Ah!" exclaimed the candidate,
there's 5 cents for you. I don't sup
pose that he gave you any money!"
The youngster laughed merrily.
"Yes, he did, too. He gave me 10
cents!"
Not to be outdone, the candidate
gave the little one another nickel.
and, picking her up in his arms,
kissed her.
did he kiss you, too?" he asked.
genially.
Indeed, he did, sir!" responded the
little girl, land he kissed ma tool
Golfers Weekly.
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eide. The scenes in the Vicinity of
st. Marks Church and through the
stricken district have been touching in
the extreme.
AS fast as the bodies were recovered
they were inspected by Coroner O'Gor.
man on the beach of North Brother
Island. Their watches and jewelry
and other effects were sealed, num-
bered and preserved for relatives and
friends. Then the corpses were placed
in the rough pine collins and sent to
the Morgue to await Identification.
I'VE found about three hundred
watches on the dead" said the Cor.
oner, "a bushel of finger rings. hun.
dreds of pins and jeweled trinkets of
every description. and a large amount
of money altogether. My estimate of
the value of the watches and rings
and jewelry is $500 The dead
were people in comfortable circum-
stances. and many of the women wore
diamond earrings and diamond rings
of great value. Some of them had
big rolls of bills in their clothing.
Many wore bags under their corsets
or strapped around their waists in
which hundreds of dollars were found.
All this money, as well as the jewelry,
has been placed in bags with tags
corresponding with the number of the
tags on the bodies. don't think
there will be great difficulty in rela-
tives claiming and securing this prop
erty at the proper time.'
Almost as appalling as the specta Gle
OF the burning and drowning of the
hundreds of women and children was
the grief of the thousands of relatives
of the dead who thronged the Morgue
in the pitiful search for the loved ones
who had gone away from home smil-
ing and happy in the belief that they
were to have a pleasant days outing.
These poor distracted people were as
helpless as babes in their grief. They
wandered about daZed-like people in
a dream. There were little children
bereft of both parents and sisters and
brothers. There were fathers and
mothers who had been rendered child
less. Their were fathers, and these
were in the greater number, who had
lost wives and children. In some terri
BILE instances whole families had been
blotted out. Six Brooklyn families
met this awful fate.
One of the most frightful scene on
the burning steamboat General Slocum
vas the frenzied attack Of a number Of
women, huddled for safety on the star
board paddle box, on an unknown
hero, who climbed to their place of ref
uge to lower them to a tug with a rope
that he carried. AS the man, a tug
boat hand, made his way up the pad
die box. a score of women, rendered
insane by terror, rushed at him. They
sunk their teeth in his arms and tore
his coat from his back. He had to
fight for his life, but eventually he re-
stored the women to a semblance of
reason and lowered many of them to
the tug. One arm was terribly bit
ten.
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The National Game.

Patsy Donovan is playing right field
for the Washingtons.
Jack Dunn, of the New Yorks, is
still a most versatile and valuable
player.
The Atlanta Club has signed first
baseman Felix Hardy, hailing from
Texas.
Frank Selee says that Mordecai
Brown is the greatest fielding pitcher
he ever saw.
Joe Kelly says a managers hard
est task is studying the eccentricities
of his players.
Baltimore is said to be flirting for
Washington's place in the American.
Base stealing in the American
League this year is very light.
The Little Rock Club has trans
ferred second baseman Joe Henniger
to Birmingham.
The New York American League
Club is this season enjoying very much
greater patronage than last year.
Beckley, now with the st. Louis, is
about the liveliest old-timer cavorting
around the diamond this season.
Frank Selee says that Chance is the
greatest first baseman in the world
to-day, excepting only Harry Davis.
~~a
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the single hour following the discoy-
cry Of fire in the pleasure steamboat,
which was carrying Pastor Haas st.
Marks Lutheran congregation on its
annual picnic excursion, more Amer
lean lives were lost than during the
Spanish-American War.
Two days after the disaster Police
Inspector Albertson, who is supervis-
ing the work of recovering bodies,
said: 1.-THE $50 bodies found repre-
sent only half the number of dead. 1t
will be days before the sunken Slo-
cum gives up all it's dead and for
weeks bodies will be washed ashore
down the East River and up the
Sound"
The difficulty of estimating the num-
Der the dead is increased by the uncer-
tainty as to the number of persons
who were on the General Slocum
when she left the pier and steamed
up the East River on her fatal trip.
No n knows how many dead are
still at the bottom Of the river off the
island, or how many burned and black
ened corpses lie in the hull. Coroner
O'GOrman thinks that at least 200
more will be found. The Coroner said
that Diver John Rice and the men
who worked with him at Hunts Point
believe that there are scores caught
in the debris of the burned steamer.
These it may be impossible to remove
until the wreckers get to work and
tear the Slocum apart. At any rate,
it will be a week, perhaps longer. be-
fore all the dead will be found. Some,
so the divers and grapplers of the river
say, will never be recovered. Carried
out to sea, or held fast at the bottom
of the river or utterly destroyed in
the fire are scores, these men think.
Other divers exploring the river bed
along the track covered by the burn
ing steamer say there are heaps of
bodies still beneath the water.
In all the history of disaster where
human life has been sacrificed no wall
of lamentation could be greater than
that which has gone up from those
bereft by this tragedy, for as the days
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soon as the convention had been called
to order by Chairman Cannon. and
prayer had been made by the Rev.
Thaddeus E. Snively, former Govern
or Black, of New York, placed Thee
dore Roosevelt in nomination for Pres
ldent. When he finished the bands
played and the delegates cheered, and
then Senator Beverage, of Indiana,
vas recognized to second the nominal
ton.
The Indiana Senator devoted TWEEN
ty minutes to telling what the Repub-
lican party is, and what Theodore
Roosevelt has proved him-elf to be.
-Four other short seconding speeches
were made by George A. Knight, of
California; Harry Stilwell Edwards, of
Georgia; Joseph B. Cotton. of Mime
sofa, and Harry S. Cummings, of
Maryland, and then it was moved that
Roosevelt be nominated by acclama-
ton.
After the demonstration and ap-
plause, the following program was car
ried out:
Announcement by the chairman of
the commit e to Eotify President
Roosevelt.
Nominations for Vice-President.
Roll call. Fairbanks.
The final act of the convention was
the election of the new National Com
mittee.
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have run the craft into shoal water
and been within reach of help from
shore and close to a flotilla of boats
that We're rushing to the rescue; but,
either dazed by the situation or out
of his head entirely, or believing that
the only salvation was to reach North
Brother Island, he passed Wards Isl
and after the fire was discovered, made
no attempt to run close to the Astoria
shore and steered away from the
Sunken Meadows, which the Seawan-
haka sought twenty-four years ago,
losing less than thirty of her passen-
gers.
Flags on the City Hall and other
municipal buildings We're at half mast
by order of Mayor Mcclellan to show
formally the widespread sorrow in the
city for the deaths of hundreds of peo-
pie caused by the burning Of the steam
boat. The Mayor issued a proclama-
ton expressing the sympathy of the
people of the city and appointing a re
lief committee.
President Roosevelt ordered Secre.
tary CortelyOu 10 make a rigid inves.
tigation of the disaster, and the work
will be conducted under the personal
supervision of Mr.. Cortelyou and Geo
Uhler, supervising inspector-general
OF the steamboat inspection service
Any government employee found neg
ligent will be severely punished.
Investigations have been started by
Coroner Berry and District Attorney
Jerome. The fire marshal ordered ar
investigation of the cause of the fire
The steamboat company was conduct
ing an inquiry of its own.
First Officer Flanagan of the
steamboat made a statement at the
District Attorneys Office that the hose
was rotten, and burst when efforts
were made by the crew to put out
the fire.
Around the Morgue heartbreakins
scenes are witnessed every day. ant
the work of Identification goes on an
idly. Several persons, driven insane
by the awful sights they witnessed
| and their bereavement. attempted sui
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grew in number the horror increased
in intensity. On whose shoulders rests
| the terrible responsibility is yet to be
determined, but one fact has beer set
| tied beyond .dispute-a great number
of the life p~reserverS on the craft
were not life preservers at all, but life
destroyers. Instead of being buoyants,
they were as leaden weights, carry
ing their victims to certain death.
Scores of bodies have been found
with these miserable pretenses
strapped about them. 1t may be that
there were a few serviceable cork
jackets ON board the General Slocum,
but the majority were made of pow
dered cork and glue, and were not
only absolutely useless, but a peril
rather than a safety. They were pulled
out of their places by men strong
enough to secure them, but the women
and children in the panic and excite
ment did not know how to adjust the
belts, and only a few of them were
loaded down with the weights that
meant certain death. Those found
have been found on the bodies of
men fer the most part. All these ap-
pliances had been passed by inspect
ors as serviceable and safe. When
the inquiry shall have begun the story
of the condition of the life preservers
will be of greater interest and i'm
p~ortance than the action of the cap
tain in the pilot house, who ran his
ship afame a mile or a mile and a
half before he sought refuge by driv-
ing her ashore.
1t is agreed by a majority of the
survivors that Captain Van Schaik
made a desperate and heroic effort to
save the lives of his passengers, but
experienced rivermen are of the opin-
ion that the suddenness of the fire
and the fright and confusion which
followed upset his judgment and
caused him to do the very thing
which he ought not to have done. 1t
has been pointed out that there are
at least three points where he might
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M ISIS BLANCHE GREY, a prominent
WI young society woman of Memphis,
Tenn, in a recent letter IRON ia Alabama
street, says:
$40 a society CONAN lghOse nervous
force is soften tG0edt to the utmost from
lack Of rest and irregular meals, L
k1IOaC of nothing lChtch Is Of so much
benefit as PerunG. / took IL q fen
months ago lChen ITett my strength
gtUtnO 1CGy, and it soon made itself
manifest In gtUinJ me eelC strength
and health. "--BJGnche Grey.
Peruna is without an equal as a nerve
tonic and vital invigorator.
Buy a bottle of Peruna. II you do NOT
receive all the benefits from Peruna that
you expected, write to DR.. Hartman, 70
lumbus, o.
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by1ocal applications as they cannot reachthe
diseased portion ofthe ear. There is only one
way to cure deafness, and that is by consti-
tutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an
in1amed condition of the mucous lining OF
the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is in
famed you lave a rumblingsound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the infiam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to it's normal condition, hearing will
be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten
are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
lntlamed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness Caused by catarrh)that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars free. FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for constitution.
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The President Acts.

Washington, D. G. - President
Roosevelt issued imperative orders to
Secretary Cortelyou of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor to in
veStigate the Slocum horror and ID
leave no stone unturned in the effort
to fix the responsibility for the disas-
ter. If any n in the service of the
government was negligent in his duty
he will receive no mercy at the hands
Of his superiors.
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Resigns from Brown Faculty.

Archibald Delaney, for nearly TWEEN
ty years steward of Brown university,
has resigned, his resignation to take
effect Aug. 1. Mr.. Delaney has served
the college in the capacity of steward
since 1885 and is well known to Brown
men throughout the country. He will
be succeeded by E. A. Burl:rgame. &
civil engineer of Providence.
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FIXING THE BLAME
FOR STEAMER HORROR
Latest Estimates Of the Number
Of Lives Lost BY the Burning
Of the General SlOCum.
RIVER HOLDS MANY DEAD

New York City.-Of the Bronx shore
of North Brother Island, where the
burning General Slocum was beached,
and on up the river for a mile and a
half to Hunts Point, where the tide
finally carried the charred hulk, the
CHASTITY business of fishing for human
bodies has gone on day and night since
the appalling tragedy, neither weari-
ness nor hunger stopping Coroner
OGorman's volunteer crews and the
pslice. The racing tide made it well
nigh impossible to use the graphing
irons at times, but on the ebb the
Eshers more than made up for their
enforced idleness.
Added findings row show beyond
the shadow of any doubt that during