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JERSEY CITY, MONDAY. DECEMBER 22, 1902.
THE CUBAN TREATY.
If the Cuban reciprocity treaty is not ratified by the Senate, it will certainly
not be for any lack of liberality on the part of the Cubans. The treaty provides
for a general concession of, 20 per cent, from the standard duties on botli sides,
but the Cubans add to this reductions of 25, 30 and even 40 per cent, in certain
specific cases. Of course they do not do this with any design to benefit us.
They do it because the Cuban people arc in great and continual need of the
products so favored. But the effect is all the same on our trade. We should lie
able to obtain a virtual monopoly of the Cuban markets for numerous articles,
iron and steel, tools, agricultural implements and cotton fabrics, and the benefit
to out country as a whole ought to exceed by many millions of dollars any trifling
theoretical loss that the beet sugar gang might sustain through the importation
into the United States of the prodnet of the Cuban plantations.
So far ns can be judged from the published analysis, the treaty is an ex
tremely good one. fair and advantageous to both sides, and it ought to be ratified
on the day ou which it is reported to the Senate.
ROAD IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
A local paper on Saturday started a discussion ns to the propriety of improv
ing the Newark Plank road as an extension of the Boulevard, with the aid of
the State Bond Fund. ^
There might be something in this if Newark would undertake to improve
a line of streets connecting with the terminus of the road just beyond the
Hackensack River with any of her own improved thoroughfares, so that a
continuous driving route might be secured between Jersey City and the heart of
Newark. Unless this were done, it would be the duty of every one in Hudson
to oppose the expenditure of any money on the road in the most emphatic way.
Tile scries of streets leading from the road through the eastern, part of Newark
to Broad street at the present time are, upon the whole, the very worst paved
streets in the world. The work of paving them was originally very»badly done
and years of heavy traffic with practically no repairs have made them more
uncomfortable to drive over than a country farm road of a mountain wood trail.
Honey spent upon the plank road with this state of tiling unremedied would be
money absolutely wasted.
It must be remembered that the county has another road improvement pro
ject on its hands, the improvement of the old Belleville road, and of the two this
is by far the more advantageous. It will cost us less: it will open a liner
pleasure region to our people, and there is more chance of its bringing the
business of a farm country to Jersey City.
A NOVEL POLICE IDEA.
Wonderful to say. tlie New York newspapers of yesterday broached for the
first time the proposition that it would be a good idea to hare a real policeman
at the bead of the New York deportment. Tills is n bright idea which has
never occurred to anybody since the commissioner system, with a superintend
ent ns its executive head, was wiped ont of existence by the Legislature at
Albany.
To the plain, ordinary outsider the notion seems sensible, bnt to tlie cranks
of tlie Citizens' Union. "Evening Post" stripe, it must appear nothing short of
revolutionary. Any sort of superannuated military fuzboss or any broken down
civil service freak seems preferable to those theorists to a man who understands
the police business and realizes the needs of the department.
It is barely possible that the crank element will not have as much in
fluence in determining Mayer , Low's choice no*- as they might have had a year
ago. His Honor has been go ng the kid-glove theoretical way since his inaugura
tion. and, vain and suet-brained though lie lie. he must dimly perceive that it
lias not boon exactly successful. He is rather, we should judge, in the frame
of mind to give,common sense a hearing.
Bnt should lie determine to select a member of tlie force to sit in tlie seat
of the persecuted Partridge be might have difficulty in finding oue of any promi
nence, who could be chosen for tlie place with absolute certainty as to liis
honesty and trustworthiness.
The devilling process has gone so far in respect to the New York police that
those whose names have reached the public may lie sharply divided into two
classes, tiic iionenities and tlie suspects. Of course there is nothing to be gained
by appointing from either one of these classes, ami. presumably, if Mr. Low
went outside tlie city for a head for tlie police department there would be a
howl of indignation.
There is a way open to Mr. Low. If lie had any real wisdom and cour
age, lie would look up one Thomas F. Byrnes and offer hint tlie job.
THE POLICE OBSTRUCTIONISTS.
It is not open to the slightest doubt that the obstruction diy the Faganite
gang to the promotion of the eighty-five policemen who are legally entitled to
advancement at this time, is caused by a mean, contemptible spirit of partisan
prejudice. Eighty of tlie eighty-five men on the list are Democrats and the
small creatures who make up tlie present eity administration would die of
spleen if they had to benefit so many men whose votes they caat never hope
to gain.
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NEW TARIFF FIGHT.
The Tariff Committee of the Reform Club, it is announced, is planning a
great conference with a view to starting a new agitation against some of the
crimes and absurdities of Diugleyism. It will agitate for reduction or abolition
of the duties ou all goods controlled by trusts. Chief among them, we are
told, are to be steel, lumber, sugar, conlahrf beef,
j This is a step in the right direction. The times call for aggressive fighting,
but it is idle to shut one’s eyes to the fact that the programme outlined
means In the long ran a battle all along the line against protectionism. The
trusts interested in the products enumerated cannot he separately assailed. The
tariff is a joint stock concern. It is a product of log-rolling, and each bene
ficiary must stand or fail with his neighbors.
The fight for tariff reform can only lie won by arousing public opinion
upon the principle involved and by arousing it to such an extent ns will
terrorize Senators and Representatives in Congress to such an extent that they
will be afraid to obey the orders of their old bosses, the capitalists of protective
Industries. The Reform Club will gain nothing by attacking the tariff in spots
or by temporizing. It must attack all along the line and with ail the weight of
artillery that it can bring to hear.
SOMETHING SAVED.
The Board of Tax Appeals decided on Friday evening not to cut down a few
valuations made by the Board of Fiddlers.
Tire change was so remarknbie and so unexpected that the “Journal” feit
obliged to put a spread head over it.
, WHY SHOULD WE GUARANTEE?
The demands of Germany and England for guarantees before consenting to
engage in arbitration with Venezuela, seem to indicate a plot to make the United
States assume responsibility for the behaviour of its bad little brethren. Of
course, if we guarantee prompt and lcytil compliance with an award attained
through arbitration, we put ourselves in the possible position of having to light
Venezuela or else pay the damages out of oar own oxohecquer.
lTosumnbly, too, if we guarantee the one side, we shall have to guarantee the
other as well, and so we might have to fight Germany or England or both' in vin
dication of Venezuela’s rights. Altogether the arrangement would be a very
nice one for the original parties to the quarrel but by no means safe or profitable
for us. „
What we want to do is keep out of this complication. We cannot get into
it with either honor or advantage. There is no more reason why we shouid
guarantee anything in favor of any of the parties to this quarrel than there
wouid he for us to guarantee the obligations of China or Turkey or any other
half savage country that is being disciplined for crimes against international law.
AMUSEMENTS.
Academy of Musio.
George W. Monroe, famous for his
"Aunt Bridget” series of funny Irish
characters, has ben secured for the Acad
emy of Music, to appear this week in
his new musical comedy, entitled “The
Doings of Mr. oDole.v.” This is the big
gest production that has yet surrounded
Mr. Monroe and it consists of forty
people iu all, including several notable
| vaudeville people, and a singing chorus
j of twenty beautiful and attractively cos
tumed young women. The company in
cludes Raymond and Finley, and Lottie
Burke, John Donahue ad Mattie Nichols,
Anna Ivenwlck, Harry Walters, James
Lee, Edwin Loper, Bessie Claytone and
others. The twelve musical numbers
are original and specially staged. Mati
nees, Wednesday, Saturday and Christ
mas Day.
Eou Ton Theatre.
Manager Dinkins announces a very
strong bill for this week, it being Christ
mas week. Mile Adjie and her famous
troupe of performing lions, five in num
ber heads the bill. Another novelty for
the week will be the Mysterious do Biere
Biere & Co. He is assisted by a corps
of people who present a most remarkable
act. Others on the bill are The Brown
ings, Smith and Powell, Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Young in “A Homespun Wooing,”
Miss Bessie Lamb, The Hollands, Euro- j
peau Aerobats: Talbot and Rodgers and :
the Vita graph, showing new views. Man
ager Dinkins announces that all patrons
who desire to secure seats weekly can do !
so by leaving their names at the box j
otlice, said seats will be held for the j
performance until 7.45; seats can be se
cured from 10 A. M. to 10 P. M. Tel.
11554 Jersey City.
Bijon Theatre
Mr. Hnrry Clay Blaney, the popular
little comedian, who has made an excel
lent hit in the role of “Willie Live,” the ;
war correspondent in “Across the Paci- j
-fie,” is to play a weeks engagement at j
the Bijou next week. He is supported
by ail excellent cast, and the scenery
and mechanical effects, it is said, have
been newly made for this season’s pro- ;
duction.
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NEW PUBLICATIONS
‘The World’* Work ’ for January
The first “World’s Work” of the new
year contains a wide variety of subjects j
written about in the concise, optimistic j
manner which is characteristic of this
magazine. Perhaps the most important
article is Mr. Robert H. Montgomery
story of the American invasion of Cana- ,
da, illustrated with many striking pie- 1
tures and portraits. Mr. Lewis Nixon s
prophecies of the “Battleship of the 1' u
turc” and Mr. Moseley’s views of Ameri
can industrial conditions as he has seen
them during his recent trip through this
country are also very important. Mor
gan Robertson’s article concerning mod- j
ern methods of saving wrecked ships is j
finely illustrated, as are Hamilton Hig- i
day’s story of a “Day’s Work at a Mill- |
tary Post” and,the "Biography of an |
office buiid'iug” told' by Arthur Goodrich. I
The results of the study of American
labor by the Mosely Commission can be
gained from an article by M. G. Cuniff,
who accompanied and interviewed the
Mosely party during its trip. Alfred
Hodder, who is William Travers Je
rome's secretary, writes about the work
of the New. oYrk District Attorney.
Wolf von Schierbrand describes difficul
ties under which Russian newspapers are
published. Thomas R. Pawley, Jr., tells
the dramatic and pathetic story of Gen
eral Toral, the man who failed at Santi
ago: ranklin Matthews writes of New
Hartford, Conn., “A Town Made Idle
by a Trust,” and Prof. Frederic Ogg
furnishes some interesting facts pbout
urban and rural population. Tlier is an
important series of statistics about
American manufactures, a sketch of the
late Herr Ivrupp, and an editorial article
about the “Individual Responsibility for ,
Panics,” besides the usual “March of
Events Among the World’s Workers,”
and some letters from well known
authors, about recent boks they have
read.
The January “Smart Sot."
“The Lieutenant-Governor,” by Guy '
Wotuiore Carryl, the novelette with
which the January number of “The
Smart Set” opens, is full of power anl
fascination.
Following this comes a delightful con
trast in the short story by Justus Miles
Forman, “The Young Person Next
Door”; “The Shadowy Past,” by James
Branch Cabell is a skilful psychological
study. “The White Carnation,” by
Francis Livingston, is remarkable for
lively incident. “Alma Adorata,” by Ed
gur Saltus, is weird throughout. “The
Exiled Star” is by Maurice Francis Egan
“Providence and Miss Green,” by Rosa
mond Napier, is as amusing as it is
quaint. “The Branding of Circe,” by
Helen Frances Huntington, is the thril
ling story of a sinner's punishment.
“Overheard at a Studio Tea,” by Grace
Florence Reed, i9 the amusing narrative
of trials endured by an esthete; “Miss
Darcy in Danville,” is by Ethel Sigsbee
Small. “The Bargain” is by Maud Step
ney Rawson. “Sun in the Valley,” by
Arthur Stringer, is a love story as unique
as It is beautiful. There is, too, a lu
minous essay on “Social Life in Wash
ington," by Waldon Fawcett; and a
laughable story in French is also in
cluded. The chief poems of the number
are contributed by Carmen Sylra (Queen
Elizabeth of Ronmania), J. T. Trow
bridge, Albert Bigelow Paine, Clinton
Seollard, Albert Lee, John Brest Mc
Cann, Felix Carmen, Frank Roe Batch
elder, Thomas Walsh, Paul Laurence
Dnubar, Josephine Preston- Peabody,
Theodosia Gnrrison, Minna Irving, Myr
1 tie Reed and Madeline Bridges.
“Ainslee's” for J( unary.
E. W. Homuug, author of “The Ama
teur Cracksmen,” and other well-known
stories, contributes the complete novel
to Ainslee's for January. It is entitled,
“X* Hero,” and is notable for distinction
of style, charm in the narrative, and ac
urnc-y of insight into human motives.
The late lamented Frank Xorris is in evi
dence by a short story. “Two hearts !
that Beat as onee,” full of the vigor and i
force that characterized his best work.
George Hibbard contributes a good sen
timental story of society life, “The Way
of a Woman.” A most curious and
charming little tale is "The Story of Ig
natius the Almoner,” by H. K. Yiele.
"Difficult People” is the title of a shout
meaty essay by Ella W. Pettle. "The
Marquis Differs” is a splendidly dramat
ic dialogue by Alfred Sutro. An unusual
kind of a £ol story by John OsKison is
called “The Teuaya Water Hazard.”
"Before the Curtain goes up,” by Marion
Ashworth, is a delicious account of the
nervousness of the principals at a society
wedding and1 is written somewhat after
the manner of ‘Dolly Dialogues.” Julien
Gordon contributes the longest story in
this number, under the title, “An tin
sent Letter.” Mrs. Cruger evidently
knows the world of which she writes,
and she writes with convincingness and
courage. Another of the delightful es
says by Dorothy Dix about men in love
is “The Art of Courtship.” Ralph Hen
ry Barbour has written a good dramatic
story, “To the Heights of Fame,” and
Caroline Duer furnishes a very smart di
alogue, “The Artless Age.” The trans
lation in this month's Ainslee's is “Les
lie Wood,” a story by Anatole France.
In it is revealed a masterly picture of
certain phases of French society, with
votee of physical beliefs. “Oavair and
Champagne,” by Ergar Saltus, is an es
say in this distinguished writer’s most
brilliant manner. Will X. Harben, au
thor of “Abner Daniel,” has Written a
very good story of life in Georgia, en
titled “Before the Bar.’:’ “A Stolen Af
ternoon,” Ethel Sigsbee Small, is cute
and pretty, while Lucia Chamberlain's
story of San P’raneisco society, “Whom
Bessy Jaffry made,” is fill of the free
dom and sparkle of the Ear West, Kate
Masterson treats the sterner sex with no
little acumen and impartiality in the very
original essay entitled, “The Hen-minded
Man.” “Patrice,” by C. C. Hotchkiss, is
a melodramatic.- Ainslee's contains about
thirty-four contributions, including some
well-selected poems by such writers as
Arthur Stringer, Paul Lawrence Dunbar,
Albert Bigelow Paine, Harold Mc-Grath.
Richard Burton, Arthur Ketcham, and
many others
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“ Country Life in America ” fox*
January.
Country life in America for- January
stands first among the large and beauti
ful magazines of the month It has to
do with many things that interest the
country lover at this season, and leading
articles are about “Crocodile and Alli
gator Hunting.” “Following the Hounds”
“Camping in the Snow,” as well as time
ly matters of the greenhouse and country
home-making, all illustrated with large
and superb pictures. It is not generally
known that jthe Old World crocodile lives
in the cypress swamps with the alligators,
yet harpooning them in Florida lakes a
thrilling sport. One of the fox-hunting
articles includes a remarkable photograph
of a horse and rider making a high leap
besides various pictures of the hunt.
“Camping in the Snow,” in the Xorth
Woods, the thermometer twenty below,
seems an outing only for the enthusiast,
yet A. Radcliffe Dugmore finds it attrac
tive. and his story with the pictures
shows the alluring side of life in the
woods during the dead of winter. Among
other leading features, “The Cook Es
tate at Lenox” shows one of the pleas
antest of the luxurious homes in the I
Berk-shires, -as seen by Mr. Wilhelm Mil
ler; a practical article deals with prob- I
lems of windows in the country home,
-and a senes of articles are about green
houses that were really built and were
successful with the different sons of
flowers discussed in a practical and sug
gestive way; while Prof. L. H. Bailey
finds ‘The Calendar” touches upon all
sides of out door life, including the usual
practical affairs, and suggests walking
tours rabbit-hunting vttth beagles, and
finding birds’ nests, cocoons, many birds
and animals, and even flowers during a
January thaw. Small but complete nr
j ticlejs are about growing winter flowers
at small cost, inexpensive iceboats, mak
ing skate-sails, crabbing and a hundred
other things for winter and summer. Al
together, the magazine contains many
surprises for the month <*f January and
nothing more beautiful has ever been
printed,
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ST. JOSEPH’S ALUMNI.
The annual reception of the Alumni
of S-t. Joseph’s Parochial School will be
held at Pavonia Hal!, Pavonia avenue,
near Baldwin avenue, on Friday evening,
January 10. The committee iu charge U
working ludefatigablv and the indications
now are that even the great success of
last year will be eclipsed.
SOCIETY TOPICS
Where the Maid Gomes in
for a Lion’s Share of
Seasonable Gifts.
XMAS FITS AND MISFITS
Plaid Gowns for StoutWomen
and R9d Waists for R9d
Hair—Notes of the
Day.
The misfits of Christmas have begun
to arrive and they arc enough to give
one fits. People of wealth, who have
no judgment in Christmas giving, should
hire someone to do their shopping for
them. It seemed such a pity, to send a
handsome silk gown of a big plaid pat
tern to a stout friend, or a pink gown
to one whose complexion is such that
pink makes her look like a bilious attack,
or a red waist to a red haired girl,.or
Paris gloves two sizes too big, or slippers
of police force size to a woman who
prides herself on small feet, or any of
the thousand and one misfits of Christ
mas. One might just as well make
such presents to the maid at once, for
that is where they all go eventually. A
regular Waekford Squeers, Jr., is that
maid. Everything can be made to lit
her, every color to suit her complexion,
and she becomes a sort of human junk
shop at Christmdstide. I.ittie wonder
she can go out on her day off handsome
ly, if neither tastefully or appropriately
gowned.
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Then there is another class of Christ
mas shopper—he or she who suddenly
remembers, forgetting that years have
passed since the victim was last seen.
These unfortunate victims often have
their Christmas spoiled, like the .family
of nephews and nieces to whom the old
uncle, just returned after a long absence,
sent tiny garments to fit little Xo. 9.
whom he had never heard of because
the six he did remember had grown to
young woman and manhood.
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For a long time the bane of the Home
Missionary’s Christmas has been the
missionary box, with its cast off, more j
properly speaking, its fallen off, clothing,
broken tops and other useless odds and
ends. It was to the home missionary
what the old fashioned donation party
was to the pastor, and he was glad after
it was all over. However, in these days
of advancement, the good church people
are learning more sense. With the Nee
dlework Guild insisting on new garments
for the poor, the evolution began, and
the missionary box of today is a very
different affair than that of twenty, of
even ten, years ago. While everything
in it is not absolutely new, it is near
enough not to be full of moth holes,
worn thin, or mended in knots which
would prevent the minister from sitting
down where the mending came in his
underwear.- A truly modern missionary
box was. sent from St. John's P. E.
Church by the Holy Cross Guild last
week. It was probably the most valu
able box of the kind ever sent from this
city and was valued at $500. In it were
perfectly new outfits for the entire fam
ily, consisting of the clergyman, his wife
and five little girls. The clothing was for
the most part made by the Guild mem
bers, and had taken a good part of the
year. The toys were new, and fit for any
child of wealthy parentage; there was
nothing to bo ashamed of in the entire
outfit. If all churches sending Christmas
boxes would follow St. John’s example,
and if they can't afford quite so expen
sive a box, at least insist upon having
everything new, the home missionary’s
life would be less of a burden. Where a
man only gets $500 a year he is not like
ly to have any extra room for storage,
and the rag man has not yet reached the
remote Western towns.
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Saturday was a sort of shopping re
ception for Jersey City women in New
York, and it was most amusing the way
they stumbled across one another unin
tentionally.
“Won't you please wait on me?"
would plead a feminine voice over the
head of the woman in front;of her. “I’ve
ben waiting a very long time, and it
won't take me a moment to choose what
1 want.” (This last in a tone of reproach
meant for the woman ahead who couldn’t
j seem to make up her mind.)
“Why, Mrs. -, who’d ever have,
thought to meet yon here!” the other
would exclaim, turning.
Then they would both haTe a long chat
over things across the Water while the
saleswoman waited patiently and the
crowd at the counter was only prevented
from swearing because of sex.
Or perhaps the meeting would take
place ill the crowded street and the two
would stand and chat while the crowd
coming and going made a circle round
them, heartily wishing that moving side
walks were in vogue.
Sometimes it was in a restaurant,
where the meeting took place, and some
times in was on the cars or ferryboats,
but the place to see and be seen by one’s
own neighbors Saturday was in or en
route to and from New Y'ork.
• * *
The little girls whose grandmothers
looked forward to a rag doll on Christ
mas morning, are now expecting five hun
dred dollar princesses in wax and bisque.
Xo wonder doll playing is going out of
vogue.
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Santa Claus will not hare a very hot
time getting down chimneys this Christ
mas.
• * *
French woman tills how she takes a
semi-weekly bath in twenty pounds of
crushed strawberries to two of raspber
ries. She must be a little “peach.”
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Mere man was adralted t<? the Pilgrim
Scrofula
Few are entirely free from It.
It may develop so slowly as to cause
little if any disturbance during the whole
period Of childhood.
It may then produce irregularity of the
stomach and bowels, dyspepsia, catarrh,
and marked tendency to consumption
before manifesting itself in much cutaneous
eruption or glandular swelling.
It is best to be sure that you are quite
free from it, and for its complete eradica
tion you can rely on
Hood's Sarsaparilla
The best of all medicines for ail humors.
Mothers’ dinner in the 'Waldorf Astoria
to-day. Probably the Mothers felt there
would be a little too much of the pilgrim
about their husbands if they left them
home.
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This feast of Pilgrim Mothers was es
tablished by the New York Legislative
League to celebrate the landing of the
Pilgrim Mothers on December 22, 1620,
and incidentally to sing the praises of
' what the sex has accomplished during
the last year. Mrs. Lillie Devereux
Blake delivered the address of welcome.
There was a silent to-ast to the memory
of Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The
toasts are "Women on the London School i
Board,” by Miss Henrietta Miller, for
seven years a member of the Board;
"The Landing of the Pilgrim Mothers,”
by Mrs. Harriet X. Pancoast, President
of the Pennsylvania Legislative League;
“The Progress of Freedom,” by Mrs.
Harriet Stanton Blatch; “Women in the
Law,” by Mrs. Fanny H. Carpenter;
“The Young Girl of the Future,” by Miss
Josephine Dodge Daskam; “The Legacy
of the Pilgrim Mothers,” by Dr. Phoebe
J. B. Waite; “Women in business,” by
L. W. Law. Miss I.aura H. Chapin will
sing and Mrs. Clinton B. Fiskd, Jr., will
give recitations.
It was urged the other day at a meet
ing of ther Women’s Club Education De
partment that young girls be required to
do more about the house, and relieve
their mothers. Truly with this club run
ning five meetings it would seem necess
ary if anything was to be done about the
house at all.
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While Joseph Hoffman the pianist was
in the midst of a Mozart composition at
■a concert he was giving here before the
nobility at St. Petersburg, a young wo
man, who is his fervid admirer, rose
from her seat, rushed to the platform,
threw her arms around him, insisted that
he should take a bouquet she carried, and
turning to the astonished audience
shrieked: “You should not applan. Hu
man applause is not what this divinely
gifted man wants.”
Humph! Always heard that music
had charms to sooth the savage beast.
Still, its a poor rule that doesn't work
both ways.
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Dr Lorenz, the blodless surgeon, is to
letcure before tile women. Perhaps he
can remedy some of their disjointed clubs
and put them on their feet again.
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Miss Hattie Niese. of No. 32 Gifford
avenue, is home from Miss Dana’s school
at Englewood for the holidays.
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Miss Helen Perry and Miss Vida Wil
liams are also home from school for the
holidays.
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SIMPSON’S ACTIVE CIRCLE
The annual meting of the Simpson Ac
tive Circle, a young men’s society in the
Simpson M. E. Church, was held last
Thursday evening at the home of Mr.
Edward Crookstou, No. 39 Van Keipen'
avenue. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year:—Chairman.
Mr. ,W. A. Conklin: Secretary, Mr. C.
W. Ferguson; Treasurer, Mr. Edward
Crookston.
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( IT !S TO LAUGH,
Xamo Legion.—“Some men," said Un
cle Eben, “takes a heap o’ credit foil be
in’ patient, when they’* only jes' dila
tory.”—“Washington Star.”
Hard to Find.—Beryl—“She says she
won't marry tilll she meets her ideal?”
Sibyl—“What is her ideal?” “A man
who thinks she’s his ideal.”—Baltimore
Herald.
The Hotel of 2003.—Clerk—“Michael
you are through moving those trunks?”
Porter—“Yis sor; in a few minutes.
“Well, when you've finished, stretch the
life-net over the front pavement. Mrs.
Hibawl has just telephoned from the top
floor that her husband has fallen out of
the window.”—January Smart Set.
Serious Enough.—Miss Anne Teek—
“Yes, he proposed to me and kissed me.
but I’m afraid, perhaps, he wasn’t seri
ous about it.” Miss Pepprey—“But
surely he wasn’t trying to have fun.
Didn't you say he kissed you?”
A Mistake.—“You’ve done wrong,”
said Brother Dickey, "to give dat nigger
dat old frocktail coat!” “You think so?”
“I knows so. Hit’ll be de ruination ob
’int! He'll quit workin now, au spen' de
balance er de year persuadin’ hisse'f dot
he got ef call ter preach de gas pel. I
bet you right now lie gone off ter buy n
Bible on the installment plan!”—Atlanta
Constitution.
So thoughtful.—She—“There, dear,
haven't I been thoughtful of you and un
selfish,?” He—“How?" “Why I kept
nil these bills of mine away from you un
til the middle of the month!"—Detroit
Free Press.
MEETINGS
HUDSON; COUNTY NATIONA1* BANK.
Jersey City, N. J., Dec. 12. 1902.
Tho regular annual meeting of the stock
holders of this bank for the election of D.rec
tors will be held at the Banking House on
Tuesday, January 13. 1903, between the hours
of 12 M. and 1 P. M.
N. J. H. EDGE,
- Cashier.
CREDITORS OF THOMAS ROWAN,
ileceasKvl, are, by order of tho Surro
gate of Hudson County, dnjtd October 3,
1902, upon application of die subscriber,
notified to bring in their <Units, demands
and claims against liis estate within nine
months from above date.
EUOENE W, LEAKE, Administrator.
Present claims to administrator, 230
Washington street, Jersey City, N. J.
Warmth and Protection
While laying in a good sup
ply of coal for the winter,
1 don’t forget to lay in a good
supply of Life. Insurance.
Write for particulars , of
policies.
Tht
insaraocs Co /
of Amerioi.
Offioe: 1
Kewark, N, J, 1
JOHN F. DRYDEN,
Prea'dent.
LESLIE D. WARD.
Vice-President.
EDO AH 3. WARD.
1<J V.-President and CouneeL
FORREST F. DRY DEN.
Secretary.
T. Pt. IVBTT.T.T. Supt.. Tel. No. VT>.. J. C....No. Ill Hnr.xtn St.. Jersey Cttv. N. J.
H. R. CROOKSTON, Supt., Tel. No. 3072. J. C...No. 573 Newark ,\v«„ J. C-. N 3.
E. G. JACKSON, Supt., Tel. No. 143 I Union—S. W. core. Hudson ar.'J New are
Sts., Hoboken. N. J.
W. A. ALEXANDER. Supt., Tel. No. S A, Bayonne. .732. 744 Avenue r>. Boy erne.
N. J.
D. KEINHARTZ. Supt., Tel. No. 154 I Union..440 Sprier St.. West Kobokin. N.J.
Jffotel Washington,
Cor. Washington & Grand Sts.
JERSEY CITY, N. J.
WEDDINGS and BANQUETS
A SPECIALTY.
Most Artistic Restaurant and Cafe
in New Jersey. Service Unexcelled.
Untieing Parlors to Rent. Every At
Sfiitiun Paid to Guests.
T. M. CASE, Sr.. Frop
Bassett the Caterer
FRENCH ICE CREAMS
—AND—
NESSELRODE PUDDING
yp Catering for all Occasions
ESTIMATES FURNISHED
China Silverware
CD. Chairs Loaned
WAYNE and GBOVE STS.
Tel. 524 B.
MORROW & DAY
-CATERERS
81 MONTGOMERY ST.
MENUS with estimates for
ail SOCIAL EVENTS, Also
PRICE LIST of ICECREAMS,
FINE CAKES, SAL AOS Etc;,
given upon request. China
Silverware and Chair3
Loaned.
T ESTATJRANT 1 A. M. to8P. M
KINDLING WOOD.
The cheapest place In Hudson County
to buy Hard, Dry Kindling Wood.
5 BARRELS FOR $1.00
Grate wood sawed to order. Prompt
dCllVANDERBEEK & PEARSON.
Greene and Steuben otreets.
BOOK BOOK
— ONCE AGAIN -
WM. BRODERICK CIGAR
Boat For lOo.
NAME STAMPED ON EACH CIGAR
Wholesale Depot
EL. CHRISTO CIGAR COMPANY
91 Montgomer” Street.
DR. T. T. WILKERSON’S
dental parlors.
Finest Workmanship,
Best Materials,
Moderate Prloes
i
Montgomery and Warren Sts
Office hours. S A. M. to 7 P. M.
Sunday, 9 to 12 noon. Tel. o45.
AWNINGS
T.kon Down ond Stored for the
Winter.
Canopies for Weddings and Re
ceptions. Crash and Camp
Chairs for Hire. Waterproof
Wagon Covers and Tarpaulins.
WEAVER'S OLD QUARTERS,
26 28 &. 30 Gre or Street.
HUDSON COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT.
Henry C. Cryder. Receiver ofthe Autowmbll*
Company of America, seal net Albert C. Banker.
In attachment. On OontT»©t*
Notice is hereby gjveu mat a writ or attach
ment was issued out of the Hudson County
Circuit Court against the rights and credits,
moneys and effects, good* and chattels, lands
and tenements of Albert C. Banker, an absen.
debtor, at the suit of Henry C. LrycJer. re
ceiver of the Automobile Company of America,
for the sum of $12.«KK>, returnable on the sixth
d&v of October, A. D. one thousand nine hun
dred and two, and has been served and duly
executed and was returned on the said sixth
dav of October, one thousand nine hundred and
two by the Sheriff of the County of Hudson,
two, oy MAURICE J. STACK.
Clerk.
Dated October 6, 1902 _
u* CHAUNCEY O. PARKER.
the first national bank, jersey
CITY
Jersey City, Dec. 11. 1902.
Notice is hereby given that an election for
eigh- Directors of this Bank will be held at
the Banking House, on Tuesday, the 13th day
of January next.
The polls will be open from 12 M. to 1 P. M.
P a. W. CONKLIN.
Cashier.
CREDITORS OF DAVID TAYLOR. DE
ceased., are, by ord*r of the Surrogate o£
Hudson County, dated September 17, 1902, upon
application of the subscriber, notified to bring
I in their debts, demands and claims against his
estate within nine months from the above date.
CORNELIUS J. CRONAN, Substituted Ad
j minlstrator.
ED VC A TIONA L.
VYh. E. Drake, Founder. A. J. Gleaso.s, "raiilau
DRAKE
BUSINESS COLLEGE
Bay and Night sessions entire Year.
Students may enroll at any time.
Graduates assisted to positions.
RATES EOR NIGHT SCHOOE.
One Year (48 weeks) - - - $35.00
Three Months, - - 10.00
Six Weeks. - 5.0.)
Evening Classes in German, Spanish and
Drawing.
The auove rates offer an uuusu&l opportunity to
yountr men and women employed durimt the day to
secure a Commercial or ohortliand Education.
Catalogue Free. T. G. O'Breln. Prlnrloi
Taylor’s School Dresscutting
Branch from New York City, wili open
at 1-10 Newark avenue. Jersey City.
Groat reduction this week to all. Investi
gate the Taylor's jystem. A pertict-f.t
ttng sle= re pattern free. Apprentices
wanted. Trial lessons free, any or even
ing Taylor's, 14ft Newark ivfpoo.
FOR SALE. '
LARGE CORNER SALOON FOR
sale cheap; low rent; good beer and
whiskey trade: all glass trade; owner
going to Europe. Apply at Feigenspau’s
Brewery. Newark, New Jersey.
AN EXCELLENT PAYING CONFEC
tionery and cigar store for sale in a
good part of Brooklyn. Apply at No.
*>85 Union street. Brooklyn. N. Y.
h AA a jLjAJ.
FEMALE,
OPERATORS—EXPERIENCED STRAW SEW
ERS wanted on ladies- hats; wil
COX & GIBBS MACHINE; PLE.\TY OP
PLAIN WORK, GOOD PRICES; AN EX
CEPTIONAL opportunity Fur a pros
perous SEASON. LEWIS, HIRoCrt & CO
149 GREENE STREET. NEW YORK.
CERTIFICATE OF DECREASE IN CAPITAL
etvcK of 'i iiy tiuoei M mutaccuring uoiupany.
The location of the principal oxiice in ill.*
State is at No. 15 Exchange place, in tne city
of Jersey City, County of Huuson.
The name of the agent therein and in charge
thereof, upon tvnom process against this cor
poration may be served, is The Corporation
Trust Company of New Jersey.
RESOLUTION OF DIRECTORS.
The Board of Directors of The Gabel Manu
facturing Company, 4 corpoxat.on of New Jer
sey, on this sixth day ot October, A. D. 1901,
do hereby resolve and declare that it is ad
visable that the capital stock of the company
be reduced to $75,000, by reducing the p.^r
value of the shares from $100.00 to $25.00 each,
and do hereby call a meeting of the s<ock
holders, to be held at the company’s office,
in the city of Jersey City, on Monday, the
twenty-seventh day of October, 1902, at il
A. M„ to take action upon the above reso
lution.
CERTIFICATE OF CHANGE.
The Gabel Manufacturing Company, a cor
poration of New Jersey, doth hereby certify
that it has decreased its capital stock to
i $75,000 by reducing the par value of the shares
j from $100.00 to $25.00 each, said decrease having
been declared by resolution of the be«rt of
dii-ectors of said corporation (above reci.ed) to
be advisable, and having been duly and regu
larly assented to by the vote of two-thirds in
interest of each class of stockholders having
voting powers, at a meeting duly called by the
board of directors for that purpose; and the
written assent of said stockholders *.s hereto
appended.
In witness whereof, said corporation has
caused this certificate to be signed by it*
president and secretary, and its corporate seal
to be hereto affixed he thirtieth day of Octo
ber, A. D. 1902.
HENRY F. GABEL.
(L. S.) Prasldjnt.
WILLIAM THINK Li:,
Secretary.
State of Pennsylvania, County of Allegheny, H
Be It remembered, that on this thirtieth d-y
of October, A. D. 1902, before me. the su -
scrlber, h Notary Public in and f r s.. \i
County and State, personally appeared Wll.i>.n
Trinkle, secretary of The Gab»*l Manufactur ag
Company, the corporation mentioned L: *-nl
which executed the foregoing certificate. ? it*.
being bv me duly sworn, on his oath savt he
is such secretary, and that the seal affixed
to said certificate is the corporate sea of sa *1
corporation, the same being well knewn to
him; that Henry P. Gabel Is preslden* of sa u
corporation, and signed said certificate and
affixed said seal thereto, and delivered .‘.all
certificate by authority of the board of dir c
tors and with the aseent of at least two-tbi da
in interest of each class of the 8t< ekhol ter*
of said corporation having voting power* as
and for his voluntary ac*. and d eO. and tho
voluntary act and deed of said corporation, la
presence of deponent, who thereupon subscribed
his name thereto fus witness.
And he fur.her says that the assent hereo
appended is signed by at least two-thirds in
interest of each class of stock hold ~ r > of raid
corporation having voting powers, eith-r in per'
son or bv their several duly constituted at'
tornevs in fact, thereunto duly authorised in
wrlUn*. ALtLtAN B. ANGNEY,
Notart’ Public.
My commission expires Feby. 28th. 1908.
(Seal.)
(Hero follows certificate Frothonorary Alle
gheny County as to authority Allan B. Angnay
to take acknowledgment.)
STOCKHOLDERS* ASSENT TO CHANGE.
We. the subscribers, being at lea>t two-thirds
in Interest of each class of the stockholders of
the Gabel Manufacturing Company huvir.g vot
ing powe.-s, having, at a meeting regularly
called for the purpose, voted In favor of de
' creasing the capital stock of the company from
$75,000 bv reducing the par value of the shares
! from $100.00 to $25.00. do now, pursuant to th«
statute, hereby give our written assent to said
change.
Witness our hands this twenty-seventh day
of October, A. D. 1902.
Stockholders. No. of shai <■»,
Henry F. Gabel . 10O(
Mrs. M. F. Gabel . 4'.*
Geo. McC. McKee.,.,. rd
\V. A. Selling .. 7«
Fr. Rueff —.«. H
Kenneth K. McLaren . ?
William Trinkle . «
A. L. Heddaens . i4
J. C. Graham . H
STATE OF NEW JERSEY—DEPARTMENT
OF STATE.
I, S. D. Dickinson. Secretary of S ate of the
State of New .Terser, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Is a true copy of the certiorate
of decrease of c/.nltal stock of T^e Gabel
Manufacturing Comnmv, and the endorsemen t
thereon, as the same Is taken from and c m
pared with the original filed in mv o*T'e. or
the tenth day of November. A. D. 1908 and
now remaining on fl> therein,
i In testimony whereof. I h*»ve here
unto set my hand and aff x>d mv
(3eal.) official seal, at Trenton *his tenth
. day of November, A. T). i«nt
• 6. D. DICKINSON.
Secretary of State.