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The Jersey City news., 1906-06-04

$1,000, ,-, :. .-,,
NOTICE TO CONTRACIORS.
Sealed proposals VIII be received by the
Board OF street and water Commlssloners on
Monuay, June fIn, ISVo, az q . cloeh @ +, M IN
the Assembly Chamber OF the City Hail. for
the
CONSTRUCTION OF "a, a SEWER S.9, IN WARNER
STREET,
from a point los feet east of Hudson Boulevard
to and connecting with sewer at Warner street
and Rutgers avenue.
Said sewer to be built conformably to the
provisions OF Chapter 217 OF the Laws Of 1895,
the office of the Clerk of said Board.
Blank forms OF piQ ana agreement OF sure
ties must be obtained at the office Of the Chief
Engineer, City Hall. Jersey City. J.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
1OO@o Standard
sss Of Cost.
About 1880 dneal feet of 1S-inch vitri-
fed Pipe Sewer, per lineal foot....$ 200
About 10 cubic yards of Rock Excaya-
tion, per cubic yard ................... 800
Apert per cubic euyiG Yard y.as :. Diis sOs 100
u n. feet esV'v Zee. ?. ~. .nsa.as. 30 5000
AtDa tions complete, fstan per f basin 4l.a @ $500
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Dated Jersy City, May %, 1906. :

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Sealed proposals will be received by ths Board
Of Street and Water Commissioners on Monday
June A. 1906, at 2 o'clock P. M, in the
Assembly Chamber of the City Hall for the
IMPROVEMENT OF WALDO AVENUE
from Newark avenue to Pennsylvania Rail
road
Said improvement to be made cenformably to
the provisions Of Chapter 217, of the Laws of
1895. and in accordance with specifications on
hle in the office of the Clerk of said Board.
4 Blank forms of bid and agreement Of sureties
must be obtained at the office of the Chief
Engin eer, City Hail., Jersey City, N. ].
ESTIMATE OF, QUANTITIES.
1907 Standard
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AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE DRIv-
ING OF VEHICLES.

Dated Jersey City. May Is. 1906
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Time diiOmeu Aor tn6 cOmpIellon OF the sWOrK,
so 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 than one-half the assess
ment therefor on the basis of preliminary
sketch. =
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed envrl-
epes, endorsed Proposals for the Improve
ment of Waldo Avenue" directed to .'Mr
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 proposals.
The bonds required to be furnished on pro-
posals (and a possible subsequent contract) 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 If final award of contract be made, the per
cent so stated will form the basis upon which
payment will be mace for all items
The Board may, under the provisions of the
Act above cited, exercise its right to reject any
or all proposals
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z Chapter 1874, of the Laws of 1891,
under 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 sufficiency by
this Board, and as to form by the Corporation
Counsel, President of this Board having the
oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
GEO. t. BoUToN.
Clerk.
Dated Jersey City May &c, 1906.
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SPECIAL MASTERS SALEM cHANcERY
of New Jesey
Between Frank S. Cleverly, ct al complain
ants, and John l. Hay, ct al, defendants
On Bill for Relief and Partition and Decree
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About 800 cubic yards of Earth Exeava-
ton, per cubic yard Observation-Disclosures 40
About 30 cubic yards of Rock Excava-
tion, per cubic yard ...................... 800
About 231 cubic yards of Earth Filling,
per cubic yard ........ Observation-Disclosures. 10
About 553 cubic yards of Sand Filling,
About 1920 square yards of Paving, Bel
gian, per square yard ................. $50
About 1918 lineal feet of Curb Stone,
5"x16" set in concrete, per linea1 foot 80
About 24O square feet of Bridge Stone,
About 40S2 square feet of Flagging, per
per square foot ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. is
About 40 square yards of Repaying, per
square YARD ....-.....-...... 80
About Sc lineal feet of Reset in con-
crete, and Dressed Curb Stone, per lin
esti IoOt ...-.-.........-..-........ 80
About 220 square feet of 'Relaid and
Dressed Bridge Stone, per square foot .05
About 1900 square feet of sRelad and
Dressed Flagging per square foot..... 02
About Reset Receiving Basin Heads,
each .....,................. - 500
About Reset Manhole Head, each.... ZOO
About Water Gate Box Reset, each.... 200
About 1 Rebuilt Basin and Connec-
nections complete, each ................ q. 90
About new Manhole, complete each :. sc. 90
for of tla
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Dated Jersey City, May 81, 1906.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
RAILROAD NEWS.
Union Pacific Installing Electric
Block System.
Main Line Kansas City to Den
YER Being Equipped.
TO AVOID COLLISION.
Planned to Have Equipment in
Service This Summer.
Gossip and Matters Of Interest
in Railroad Circles.
70 AVOID COLLISION.

Abilene, Kan, Aug. 9.-Last week the
Union Pacific moved the material to
Kansas Falls for the commencement of
the installation of the electric signals
that will be put in there in the block
system. Concrete bases are being put
in and the signal equipment will be put
up in most substantial way. Mater
ial is being placed at Sand Springs for
a station there.
The Union Pacific has commenced
work all along its line between Kansas
City and Denver installing the block
system. Foundations upon which viii
rest iron posts from which is suspended
the alarm signals have been built at
many places. Just when the signal
posts will be erected is not known but
it is understood that the railroad will
have the system in operation this sum
mer.
BY the use of this system if a train
is within mile on the same track the
red arm will tell it to the engineer. a
head-on collision is almost an impossi-
bility where this system is used. When
a moving train gets within a certain
distance of one of these signals a bat
terry will throw the signals and thus
give warning of the trains approach.
Thus engineers have protection IN this
way even when operators make mis-
takes or should train run wild.
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AT THE TWENTIETH REUNION.
Wilder S. Metcan and w. A. Harris Are
the Speakers.

Pittsburg, Kan, Aug. s.-Wednes-
days programme was the best OF the
reunion of the Soldiers and Sailors
association. 1t included addresses by
General Wilder S. Metcalf of Topeka.
United States pension commissioner of
Kansas; w A. Harris, Democratic
candidate for governor of Kansas, and
several members of the Twentieth
Kansas. Because of the brief time that
some of the Twentieth will be together,
the programme Tuesday and yesterday
was devoted chiefly to them. The to-
tai registration up to date shows that
100 members of the Twentieth Kansas
are in attendance.
Among the orders posted at the re-
union grounds of interest to the vet
Grams is q new order issued by the de-
partment commander of the Kansas G.
A r. dividing the Kansas department
into four divisions, and dividing each
division into brigades.
Colonel J. A. Smith, of CSirard, is ap-
pointed commander of the Third brig
ade, which comprises the Third con
gressional district. Capt. o. S. Casad,
Of Pittsburg, is appointed aide de camp
on the staff of General A. W. Smith,
commanding the Fourth division. COM
prising this county.
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TO HEAD OFF LEGISLATION.
System Discovered in Rate Reduction
Move by Pennsylvania Railroad.

When properly understood there IS
no great difficulty in accounting for the
Pennsylvania action in voluntarily
reducing passenger rates on its lines
east of Pittsburg to a maximum basis
of 2 y cents a mile. By so doing it
hopes to save more than $6.0OO.OOO
year in revenues.
At present there is much agitation in
Pennsylvania for railroad legislation,
providing. among other things. for a
maximum rate of cents. Should
such a law be passed il would mean
that it must be made effective over the
entire eastern end of the Pennsylvania
system. A Scent rate could not be
made to apply in New York or New
Jersey while the legal rate in Pennsyl-
vania was only ? cents The difference
between a 2-cent-a- mile rate and one
Of , y cents a mile would mean for the
Pennsylvania between 100000 900 and
S7,000,000 a year. The exact amount
on the number of passengers carried in
1904, the last year for which COM
plete returns have been published,
would be S6,O92 SOS 81. This is GER
tainly worth saving
By making a reduction voluntarily
from cents a mile to p cents the
Pennsylvania hopes to head off the leg
islation which it knows would have
been introduced in the coming session
of the Pennsylvania legislature. 1t was
to avoid, if possible, the Introduction Of
such a bill that the road further an
nounced a fiat rate of $50 for 1000
mile ticket A suit now is pending
against it in the courts to compel the
sale of such a ticket, and the Pennsyl-
vania has simply taken the bull by the
horns and deprived the attack of its
aggressive force.
A legal decision to the effect that a
deposit of $40 on such tickets. as an
evidence of good faith regarding their
proper use. will now be Of no force or
effect. The suit may not be prosecuted
to decision. If the tactics of the
Pennsylvania in the matter should
prove successful, the saving that will
be made each year will be sufficient to
pay one of the quarterly dividends on
the roads present issue of capital
stock
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Racing Results at Antlonv.

Anthony, Kan, Aug 9.-Anthony's
third fair and race meet opened Tues
day. The attendance was 1000.
Wednesday the attendance was 5000
persons Weather fine track good.
The results:
First race, 2:4O trot, purse $500
Teddy R.. owned by o. S Ramage
Little River, first; Alfred W, owned by
J. E. Martin, Harper. second; Maud
B., owned by c. F. Bar, Harper, third
Time-2:21 2:222z 2.23H
Second race, 2:35 pace, purse $500
Little Mack, owned by L. P. Buchanan,
Joplin, first; Dennis T., owned by w
H. Meigs, Este1le, Okla. second; Silver
Key, owned by Arthur E. Peterson.
Hutchinson. third. Time-2:I7 u .
2:1S. 2:1S15
The gallopers in the half mile dash
made q bad start some of the Jockeys
Tllsund Starter Updegraf # s
cry OF Hold for the word. and three
made the race, Jimalong coming un-
der the wire first On being ordered to
run again, Jimalong was withdrawn
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
ADMIRATION FOR RATE LAW.
Passenger Traffic Official says Nice
Things for New Law.

Warren ]. Lynch passenger traffic
manager of the New York Central
lines west of Buffalo who is in the
east at present. has been interviewed
on the operations of the new rate law
for which he appears to have great adj
miration. He is reported to have said:
'All railroads are unanimous upon
one point-they propose to enforce the
law to the limit.
THE law is not so complicated as
many people imagine Almost all sec
tons of it are clear. although there are
a few am biguous sections which admit
of different constructions. We propose
to follow them as we interpret them
until the interstate commerce commits
sion gives a ruling on the points in
doubt.
1.-The bill is a wonderful document
and undoubtedly written by men who
have had railroad experience. 1t is
remarkable in this respect-it gives
such good foundation to go on. What
the railroads needed was a start in this
direction and the rate bill is all that
could be desired in that respect.
1T is not possible to get a perfect
law in one year and if satisfactory
measure is got up inside of two or
three years the railroads will be salts
fed. It takes time to make laws that
cover every detail of the subject for it
is a slow process"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
So PAROLEs GRANTED.
state Penitentiary Board Shows
AIodicum of Mercy.

Leavenworth, Kan, Aug. 9.-The
board of directors and the warden Of
the Kansas penitentiary sat as a parole
board and heard the pleas Of twenty
one applicants for parole. It was de-
cided to recommend six for paroles,
which Will be granted unless protests
are received after a notice has been adj
vertised for one month in the county
in which they were convicted. One Of
the six cases passed upon favorably is
that of a prisoner from Cherokee
county. who came in on an indie
terminate sentence for stealing two
chickens. The board decided that one
year was long enough punishment for
such an offense
Grove Huntley, an Oklahoma pris-
oner under a life sentence for killing a
neighbor, who was called to his chick
en- coop at 2 O'Clock in the morning to
quiet a disturbance and was shot. was
recommended to Governor Frantz for
a parole Huntley was convicted on
circumstantial evidence
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
POLITICIANS 70 SPEAK.
Harris, Overmyer, Fitzgerald and
Jackson ut a Picnic.

Girard. Kan. Aug civilian A
Harris was the guest of Chairman W.
H. Ryan here Tuesday and at the re-
quest OF many of the business men an
informal meeting was announced at
night and Colonel Harris was invited
to make an address. George w. Brown
Of Cherokee was chairman.
The address was a discussion of bus
mess questions from business man.
point of veiw and the speaker was
frequently Interrupted by applause, es-
Roosevelt against the special interests.
Senator Harris talked chiefly on the
railroad question. The audience was
made up of Republicans and Democrats
and number of women.
The Crawford county Democratic
central committee met here and set
the date of the county convention for
September Is at Pittsburg. There was
a full committee representation. Sen
ator Harris was present and made i
brief address.
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the transportation. This provision,
railroad attorneys maintain, interferes
with private contracts, and will be at
tackled on that ground.
The court review provision, these
railroad attorneys say, will be the OBJ
ject of the third line Of attack. This
provision is objected to on the ground
that it precludes the introduction of
testimony at the final hearing, which
had not been submitted at the first
hearing of the complaint.
Within the last few days attorneys
for several of the southern roads have
been comforting here and while it is
evident that they have not mapped
out a definite course of action, it is
clear that they are laying the ground
work for legal opposition to some Of
the provisions of the law. Other SINH
lar conferences have been held in New
York and Atlantic City. 1t is under
stood that a definite line of action, in
which nearly all the large systems will
concur. will be agreed upon before the
law goes into effect, the 28th of this
month.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
MRS. NATION TALKS.
RidicuIes President Roosevelt and
Governor HOeh

Governor HOcn-
Parsons. Kan, Aug. 9.-Mrs. Carrie
Nation recently passed through on her
way to Kansas City and made a state
ment to the press about her recent law
suit with the federal authorities. She
said: L suppose you heard about me
being arrested in Texas charged with
sending obscene literature through the
mails Well l had my trial, and was
acquitted. The prosecuting attorney
stated that there was no improperly
in what I had done. It was all the
work of those Oklahoma Republicans,
whom I accused of selling whisky"
Carrie addressed large crowd at
the depot While waiting for her train
which was late. She appeared some-
what fatigued on account of her traV-
els. but was nevertheless. exultant on
account of her acquittal in the Texas
court and as soon as she had finished
up the matter of dealing with her
trial, she commenced on Kansas mat
ters
She advised her hearers not to vote
for HOch for reelection, as his cleo
ton meant anarchy. She ridiculed
President Roosevelt, who, she said,
claimed to be law enforcer, but who
is in reality tool FOR the trusts.
The most of her remarks were oil
rected to the young men, whom she
urged to abstain from the use of
whisky and tobacco. One ungallant ad-
mirer walked up to her under the pre-
tense of speaking to her about her
baggage and when in close proximity,
emitted a cloud of tobacco smoke in
Mrs. Nations face.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
The appointment is
In Interview General Manager Hurley
SAYS Betterments Are on Big Scale.

In Interview General Manager Hurley
Says Betterments Are on Big Scale.
Albuquerque, July 9-'sThe work OF
boring the new low grade tunnel
through the Ration mountain will begin
probably in about two months" said
General Manager J. z. Hurley of the
Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railway
at the Alvarado last night. "A force of
men is at present employed prospecting,
making preliminary borings and deter
mining the best line for the piercing OF
the range. 1 expect the work of start
ing the tunnel will begin within sixty
days at least
The Improvements now in progress
between this city and Chicago are OH
the biggest scale ever known on the sys-
tenn" said Mr.. Hurley.
1.-The last few days we have been
spending $500, 900 daily for ballast alone
on the entire system. The betterments
are not confined to this end of the line
alone. All the way through Kansas,
Missouri, Illinois and along the whole
east end the work of baIlasting, dou-
BILE tracking, adjusting grades and per-
fecting the roadbeds generally is going
on steadily and the road will be super
ior to anything in the west when we get
through with it. New Mexico is getting
q big bunch of the money appropriated,
and some of the heaviest work along
the railway is being done between here
and La Junta."
Mr.. Hurley said in regard to an in
creased appropriation for the local shops
that while anything affecting the coast
lines was out of his jurisdiction he IN
derstood a very large increase had been
asked for.
There was a big gathering of the
higher officials of the Santa Fe system
at the Alvarado yesterday, one of the
argest held in this city for a long
time Besides Mr.. Hurley and Mr..
Hines. there were in the gathering J.
NJ. Kendrick. second vice president in
charge of operation: General Superin-
tendent R. ]. Parker of the western
grand division; superintendent James
Kurn Of the New Mexico division; SUI
perintendent W. K. Etter of the Rio
| Grande division; Alfred Lowell, super
/ intendent of motive power of the sys-
! TEN: N NJ Rice, general storekeeper;
! General superintendent L L. Hibbard
I of the coast lines; c. NJ. Taylor, me-
4 chanical superintendent of the western
grand division; Chief Engineer c. A.
/ Morse of the coast lines; Superintend-
ent E. j. Gibson Of the Albuquerque
division; ]. H. Drury, master me-
chanic on the New Mexico division;
Trainmaster Payson Ripley. San Mar
cial, and other lesser brass collars"
A special bearing Mr.. Hurley and
/ the east end officials left last nigh
at 9 O'Clock for the east and Messrs
Kendrick, Hines, Hibbard, Lowell anC
the coast lines men will continue west
General Manager Arthur G. Wells
of the coast lines, is in Yellowstone
park for his health, and President Rip
ley is busy in Chicago, otherwise they
might have made the party complete
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-08-09
THE GRAssHoPPERs KNEW.
c. A. Morris. Chief Engineer of santa
Fe. q Jayhawlxer

A western paper prints the follow
ing bit of humor: 1t has leaked out
that even the grasshoppers know that
c. A. Morris. chief engineer Of the
coast lines. is q Jayhawker. Recently
while testing one of the new track au-
tomobiles just put into service on the
Santa Fe for track inspection, Mr.. Hib-
bard and Mr. Morris were spinning
along in the western part of the ter
ritory The track being inspected lay
along the San Jose river valley and the
Kansas pests were thick. They We're
thick on the track and rose in swarms
as the car rushed through them. Many
of them would raise up and fall back
on the occupants of the car, that is
many of them settled on Mr.. Morris.
Why they should show so much affec-
ton for Mr.. Morris troubled Mr.. Hib
bard not a little. He couldn't figure it
out for a long time. Finally Mr.. Nor
ris said: These grasshoppers remind
me of when I was railroa ding in Kan
sas in '76.' Mr. Hibbard had suspect
ed as much and after this staten ent
he was certain of it The grasshop-
pers knew that Mr.. Morris was from
Kansas.
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Rush Practice in Taking Down
and Erecting Tents.
AT TARGET PRACTICE.
Formation for Attack and De-
Tense by Brigades.
Tents Of the Officers Are Now
Lighted by Electricity.

Junction City. Kan. Aug. 9.-The
work of the regiments in the first per
iod OF instruction at the provisional
brigade camp at Fort Riley was finish
ed Wednesday in selection and occu-
patton Of position. This work was
done in the morning by the cavalry and
infantry regiments and in the after
noon the work of instruction for the
artillery consisted of firing for target
practice by the Tenth. Thirtieth and
Twenty-ninth batteries Of field artil-
lery, the first two from Fort Smelling,
Mimi, and the latter from Fort LeaX-
erWo.th.
The Nebraska National Guard had a
varied programme. Its work began
this morning with taking down all of
the tents of the two regiments and af-
forwards pitching them in the COM
pany streets. The guard by regiments
then began its work in outpost and
After this vancouver the national
guard returned to camp. struck their
tents again and repitched them in the
places which they originally occupied.
To-Day the work will be in formation
Tor attack and defense by provisional
brigades with all troops of the camp
participating. This will be the biggest
maneuver tnat the troops OF the camp
of instruction have had since the work
began. The programme for the Ne
braska troops viii be advance flank
and rear guard. tent pitching and in
dividual cooking. 1t will be employed
in the maneuvering both morning and
afternoon.
Last night for the first time since the
camp of instruction was established
the tents of the various officers of the
brigade departments at the headquar-
ters were lighted by electric light. The
signal company from Fort Leaven-
worth had practical instruction in cleo
trio engineering today. The members
of the company, under the command
of Lieutenant Kumpe, set up a port
able electric light plant a short dis
lance from headquarters, put up the
lead wires and wired the tents
Count Gleichen. the military attache
at the British embassy at WASHINGTON.
has left the camp for Washington.
arter spending several days here in
specting the camp and the work Of
the troops. The commissary of the
arkansas national guard. Captain
Oastler of Prescott, Ark, was at the
camp today making arrangements for
the arrival of the Arkansas troops
numbering more than 500. and which
arrive here SUNDAY.