The Jersey City news., 1906-01-11

Degmott in his trolley work, in talking
about the Jerseyman, said that he had
rarely met man who had more nerve
than Mr.. McDermott. He has the
greatest consideration, too,'' he contin-
ued, for those associated with him, and
he is one of the finest men to work with
that it has ever been my privilege to
be associated with" General Harris is
at the head of the National Guard of
the District of Columbia. and man who
is we'll known among the Guardsmen Of
New Jersey
When the delegation from the Newark
Board of Trade was in this city several
weeks ago there were SOME good stories
tcld By different members of the party.
r. W. Jenkinson is one of the best story
tellers inethe board. He kept the mem
bers of the delegation in continual roars
of. laughter as he told one amusing story
after another. He is always the life of
the party when out with a delegation and
he tells his stories in his own inimitable
way and he has no lack of good stories.
George W. Tompkins, another member
of the Board of Trade, told story of an
experience he had in making complaint
to the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
1t was reported to him that the railroad
company was dumping sand into the
''fiat-iron'' in the Passaic River. Mr..
Tompkins wrote to the railroad company,
CALLING the attention of the officials to
the complaint ,and he also wrote to the
engineer in charge of the river and harbor
work. In the course of a week or so
he received word that the material which
was being dumped was coal for use of
the engine to move the draw bridge. His
informant had made a mistake. Mr..
Tompkins made amends SO far as he
could by writing letter of apology to the
railroad officials. but for long time he
had to take a lot of chatting from his
fellow members in the board.
When William D. DAILY. of Jersey
City, was in the House of Representa-
tives he was popular on both sides of
the House. He was deeply interested in
the plan for an appropriation for new
postoffice at Jersey City, and it was
through his efforts that a delegation
from the committee on public buildings
and grounds visited Jersey City as the
guests of the Board Of Trade and made
an inspection of the old building which
serves as a post-office. Judge DAILY had
d great liking for the newspaper men
and would go out Of his way to do a
favor for the newspaper writers of his
acquaintance. He made great fight
to save the life of the condemned muir
derer, Clifford, of Hoboken, going before
members of the Supreme Court of the
United States on Sunday.
In talking about his accepting the
nomination for Congress. Judge Wiley,
of East Orange, said recently that he
had had little idea that he would ever
become member of Congress. At times
when his wife had talked with him about
a Congressional career he had said he
did not believe that he would find the
work congenial, and her surprise was,
therefore. great when he went home and
announced that he had accepted the nom
ination the first time he became candi-
date. AS you know he confined. Il
was elected, and aftea, l received an ap-
pontment as member of the committee
on District of Columbia found that the
work of that committee was exceptional
~ interesting. Then there IS also plenty
Of interest in caring for the wants of
ones constituents and trying to aid the
Old soldiers in their efforts to obtain pen
sions. Altogether. there is much thai
makes many pleasant features about the
life Of Representative, and particularly
one from New Jersey, for. you know, we
have a delegation of able men in the
House and two Senators in the Senate
who are equal TO any in that body, and
feel that our State viii compare fa-
yorably with any State in the Union"
o.
FRANCE ADS RUSSIA