Honors for Assemblyman Madden

New York, 1895

Fully five hundred business men tendered Assemblyman John P. Madden, of Long Island City, a rousing reception Saturday evening upon his return from Albany. Mr. Madden was met at the Hunter's Point ferry by his constituents and, amid fireworks, music and blazing bonfires, was escorted through Jackson avenue to the Court-House. Many stores and dwellings along the line of march were decorated in honor of the occasion.

At the Court House Mayor Sanford presided. Addresses were made by Judge Duffy, Thomas C. Kadien and Matthew J. Smith. Assemblyman Madden, amid the cheers of his friends, spoke briefly of his efforts in behalf of the people whom he represented.

Mr. Madden succeeded in having a bill passed reducing the price of gas in Long Island City from $2 to $1.25 per 1,000 cubic feet. Another was the measure to reduce the fare on the Thirty-fourth street ferry from three to two cents.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 24, 1895, p. 1.