The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-18

HERMANN P. HEYDT. petition IN q re-
quessted them to attend meetlDg to be held
at Cranes Hall, on the evening OF July 9th,
telling them at the same time that, II the
clerks would all work together, the move
ment was bound to succeed. On the APP
pointed evening large number OF Clerks
In the city were present and Herman r
HeYdt was chosen to act as president, with
John Goodman as secretary and w. Abra-
hams as treasurer. committee was then
appointed to visit the merchants and
secure their signatures to the petition fer
early closing. This committee, after a
hard battle have secured the sig
natures of ffty-three of the lead
ing merchants, among whom are !:
Lewis Hart, clothing; Z. A. Wittenberg,
fancy goods; Lewis Israel, halter: J. A,
heath, halter; Geo. Ellington, crockery;
T. j. Drescber, grocer; Lewis Wiederman,
grocer; III. Driesen, clothing; H. Abrams.
gents furnishing; Christian Coll, tailor;
Reed Brothers, Stationery; Virgins q Abel,
hardware; Chas. Schmidt, painters mate
rails; A. Mcbride, tea store; Kinkead
Bros, tea store; j. Cudihey, tea store; J..
Taylor, tea store; Great Atlantic and Pa
cific Tea Store; G. W. Wright, butcher;
Chas Stein, butcher; Ell. Peterson, butcher;
and G. Hertel, butcher. Among the paer-
chants who are i'll strong opposition to the
movement are Ettinger bros, dry goods;
M. Steinman, gents furnishing; Conditt
Bros, crockery; A. Simon, dry goods; and
RyscZynske, the slice dealer, who got very
angry when visited by the committee, and
said he was the boss of his own shop, and
would not shut up at o'clock under any
circumstances. The Association has Lad
cards printed, bearing the inscription,
'sThis store will close at O'Clock P. NJ on
and after July 10, 2 which will be put up in
all the stores that are in favor of early
closing. A transparency will be paraded
through the str6ets on wagon, bearing
the following request ''The Early Clos
ing Association request the people of Ho-
boken to aid them by making all purchases
before s o'clock, with the motto, "LiYe
and Let Live. under it. Since the Assoc
citation was organized (barely two weeks
ago. its members. ip has increased until at
present it numbers hfty-fve, and is steadily
increasing.
President Heydt, whose picture we pre-
sent with this article, is about twenty one
years Of age, is medium sized, and is a
blonde. He has long head for one of his
years. ana will prove good leader for the
Association if lis members will stick by
ulm. w men flSlteu ny Inc AIIi.EH D rep
resentative, he obligiagly gave the points
from which this article is written, and
concluded by saying that as he had started
this movement, he would make a success
of it, even though it took him whole year
to do so.
Another meeting was held in Cranes
Hall last Wednesday evening, and another
on Thursday night, and it was readily seen
that ~ any If the tncrcball trfiel fllaf the
movements should be defeated. The Assoc
ciations members have been working like
TrojaDs all during the past week, deter
mined, if possible, that the movement shall
be an accomplished fact by to- morrow
night; and with this end in view, walking
advertisements have been sent forth In all
their glory, end circulars spread through
the city, asking the people to give the
stores a wide berth after 8 o'clock. and
their request should, and will, no doubt
be complied with.