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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
THE cITY,s SOCIAL EVENTS.

A Birthday Party at the Home of Mr.
Edward Clark.
A delightful reception was given by
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Clark last night
as a pleasant celebration of the ami
versary of Mrs. Clark's birthday.
Their handsome residence, Nc. 81
Duncan avenue, was tastefully decor
ated with flowers, and presented a
pretty appearance. Miss Jessie Van
Wrinkle and Miss Edith Martin re-
ceived with Mrs. Clark.
The costumes worn by these ladies
were exceedingly beautiful. Mrs;
Clark appeared in a gown OF pearl
cashmere, with pearl decorations.
Miss Jessie Van Wrinkle wore a becom-
ing dress of pink crepe de chine. Miss
Martin wore a handsome Directoire
gown of white lace and lavender silk.
Dancing was the chief amusement,
and for this good music was provided
by Cranmer. Morrow & Day served
supper. Some hands at euchre were
played during the early portion OF he
evening, and handsome prizes were
given the successful ones.
Among the guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Sheppard Clark, Mr. and Mrs.
Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs. Th&nas Glib
son, Nj. and Mrs. Charles Shaw, Mr..
and Mrs. Eddy, Mr.. and Mrs. Mitchell,
Miss Aikens, Misses Lulu, Jennie and
Laura Cable, Mrs. Lyons, Miss Jessie
Lyons, Miss Hutchings, Miss st. Clair,
Miss Barricklo, Miss Fannie Grey,
Miss Mamie Albeit, Miss Chiffon,
Miss Ella Brown, Miss Flo Van Win
kle, Miss Mamie Condict, Mr.. Leon
Albeit, Jr., Messrs. Bennington and
Thomas Bedle, Mr.. Frederick Carter,
Mr.. Lyons, Mr.. Charles Thomas, MI.
Arthur Brigham, Mr.. Edward "A.
Bennett, Mr.. William Barricklo, MI.
w. H. Hall, Mr.. Crane, Mr.. J. q, ID.
Matthews, Mr.. Farley, Mr.. Grier and
Mr.. William Bibbs.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
AMUsEMENTS.
.sLost in New York"

"Lost in New York" will be played
at the Academy on Monday, Tues
day and Wednesday of next week. 1t
is one of the successful tank" dramas,
and has drawn great houses on the
road. The company has been mater
tally strengthened since the. play
started on its travels, and now in
cludes some exceptionally clever peo-
pie. Patrice as the ''waif," and Flor
ence Slower as the blind mother, are
particularly deserving of praise, and
in pathetic scenes play well together.
With the assistance of the much
maligned tank and the real steamboat
many realistic effects I produced,
which are interesting, and help the
progress of a play of this kind.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
ESSAYS AND MUSIC.
The Forensic Society Of the High chool
Gives an Entertainment.

The Forensic Society Of the High School
Gives an Entertainment.
The Forensic Society of the High School
gave a musical and literary entertainment
in the assembly room last night to a large
and appreciative audience.
The programme embraced violin solos
by Miss Russell, F. Decker and Mr.. Har-
rison, a piano solo by E. K. Nicholson and
a vocal solo by Miss Buchanan. Recita-
lions We're given by S. Franz and A. E.
Woolsey. x cantata entitled George
and His Little Hatchet" was cleyerly
sung by A. Mclean, E. j. Franz and Miss
Lamberton. The Grafton on ''The Power
of the Press" by L. D. Lorich, was a
splendid effort. G.. F. Eye read an enter
The question, "Resolved, That the an
nexation of Canada would benefit the
United States" was debated by G. c..
Kelly and E. j. Franz in the affirmative,
and by e. K. Nicholson and Q. w. Snod-
grass in the negative.
The entertainment wa successfully
managed by H. S. Culver, o. w. Snod-
grass and C. G. Kelly.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Troubles of the Miners.

TERRE HAUTE, Ind, May 4, 1s89.-The
bituminous coal operators and miners of
Yesterday agreed on a scale of sixty-five
cents forpne moFah, with the understand
ing that the conference committees are to
continue their efforts to arrange a scale
for the year. The failure of the Illinois
miners and operators and the Indiana
block coal people to agree IN terms was
the chief cause for the temporary agree
ment of yesterday.
BRAZIL, Ind, May 4, 1ss9.-The block
coal miners yesterday rejected by a.vote
of 26S to ], 172 the scale of prices prepared
by the operators. In another delegate
meeting here next Thursday it will be de-
cided whether or not the difference will
be submitted for arbitration. Meanwhile
all work at the mines has been suspended
and 1000 miners are idle.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
. Great Improvement in
the Decoration Of House
holds in Recent
Years.
OSCAR WILDE'S GOOD WORK.
Women Who Have Become Expert
Artists and Decorate Their
Houses Themselves.

The Editor of the JERSEY CITY
NEWS presents his compliments to the
ladies Of Jersey city, and respectfully
dn0ites their cooperation IN making
this column q feature Of general inter
est and utility. Information and sug-
gestions are earnestly solicited, and
assurance is gioen that all conmatnS-
cations aoaU gecei0e Immediate and
careful attention, and a0iU be regarded
as strictly confidential If the aoaateas so
desire.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

The amount of bad taste exhibited
in this country from about 1900 to
1876 was something marvellous. One
house after another was put up by
builders on one general plan. What
could be more hideousfo instance, than
the monumental, bare white marble
mantelpieces SO often seen? Nowadays
we have wooden mantels, with lovely
embroidered or painted draperies and
tiled open fire places.
One large mirror over the mantel
and a few paintings in massive frames
suspended from directly under the
ceiling by heavy cords were the usual
thing in the way of decoration in good
drawing rooms. Now these frames are
seldom used unless they happen to be
appropriate. At present frames are
really works of art themselves. They
are blue, pink, green, silver, gilt,
wood, or plush indifferently, and
greatly help to ornament the walls.
OSCAR wILDE's WORK.
Oscar Wilde, as the apostle of
beauty, came evidently to fill a need
and he did an immense deal of
good. Since his time almost every
one has made some effort to have
home look pretty and artistic and has
adopted his idea that great expense is
not necessary to effect this end, and
that taste may be used as a substitute
for money. Cheap japanese articles,
which would have been con
sidered most ordinary thirty
wears ago, are now freely
used in the most expensive houses.
And many women, in consequence
of the general taste for the decorative,
have become quite expert at painting,
and display their skill on scarfs,
manteI l~ambrequins, and in some
cases on the panels of the doors. And
in some houses almost every article in
the house will give evidence of the
taste and skill of it's mistress. Chairs
are trimmed with ribbon and tides.
Large chairs have ornamental
cushions and back rests. Baskets are
quite a feature. They are t~astefully
trimmed, and are used in a variety of
ways. They are hung on gas jets by
the side of bureaus for "catchalls. !"
Those made of brown and green will
low are still more elaDoraUely Ofna-
mented to hang on walls.
ONE RESULT OF AN EARTHQUAKE.
1t is rather curious that most of
these baskets in use here how are inn
ported from Italy, and are n of the
results of the terrible earthquake
which devastated Ischia a few years
ago. 1t seems that a Neapolitan lady
having compassion On the restitution
in which many of the people of Ischia
were left, taught them how to plat
the durable and pliable Italian straw,
and furnished them herself with mod
els and designs for baskets, wall bags,
picture frames, easels and other
articles, and their work has been so
much admired and has been in such
demand all over the world since, that
the inhabitants of the little island are
really placed on a more substantial
footing, as regards supplies, than ever
before.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
"Chicken in the Barn Yard"

A pleasant ''Chicken in the Barn
Yard party was given last night by
Mr.. and Mrs. Brice Collard for their
daughter at their residence, No. 81
Clinton N The game occupied
the guests until eleven O'clock, when a
collation. was served by Morrow Il
Day. Dancing followed. Some OF the
guests were Miss Moore, Miss Helen
Moore, Miss Van Glider, Miss Dray-
ton, Miss Scott, Mr.. w. Clements, Mr..
Lee Clements, Mr.. Samuel Drayton,
Mr.. Scott, Nj. Moore, Mr.. Ring and
Mr.. Smith.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
nIrs. Rarrett,s socinble.

A pleasant sociable was given last
night by Mrs. Edgar Barrett, of Sum
NIT avenue. Dancing and music made
the evening a pleasant one for the
guests. Supper was served at mid
night.
Among the guests were Mr.. and Mrs.
William Sheppard, Mr.. and Mrs. j. d.
Hull. Miss Ella Dickinson, Miss
Mamie Sieney, Miss Bessie Mason,
Miss Jennie Sterling. MI. Horace
Clark, Mr.. Henry Thompson, Mr..
Charles Miller, Mr.. William McFar-
lane and Mr.. F. E. Allen.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
win Want His Salary Raised.

Mrs. Frontpew-I think it is shock
ing-the interest ourminister is taking
in baseball. Why, / say him out play
ing yesterday afternoon with a lot of
boys from the college.
Mr.. FL don't know that there is
anything wrong about baseball.
Mrs. FL don't say that it is really
immoral, but by and by he'll get a
curve pitch, as they call it, and either
leave the pulpit or want $40, 900 a year.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

passed into the hands of the Philiis-
tines, and-well, it was not like the
banquet.
Now comes the browning proof or
almost idiotic incompetence. The
stands ought to have netted to the
Centennial treasury something like
800, 600. Every seat was occupied,
and that was about the amount OF
money they represented. What is the
fact? Why only $50, 600 is Forthcoming.
The same insane blindness governed
the distribution and cancellation of
the tickets for the stands that placed
those for the ball in the hands OF
sidewalk spectators at fifty cents
apiece.
Where nobody comes out clean,
McAllister may at least feel proud OF
being the only snob in New York who
has some leaven of business talent in
his composition to save him from utter
contempt.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
contempt.

THE Newark Grand Jury has done
wisely in indicting a Newark saloon
keeper for carelessly giving a boy a
drink of poison in mistake for a glass
of sarsaparilla. The community is
altogether too tender to the men who
kill others by accident. Their immu-
nifty from the punishment their reck-
lessness deserves only encourages
others to a total disregard of the safety
of their customers. Only the other
evening a fellow in the north section
of the county shot at a target and
crashed bullet through the skull OF a
baby in arms. 1t is about time for
the authorities to set a terrible ex-
ample before these careless takers of
human life.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Hints for Housekeeners.

liable ScaffS about tWenty-1Our
inches wide and embroidered in colors
are laid on the white table cloth to
give color. The doylies should match.
A handsome new set of luncheon or
tea table napkins embroidered in blue
had the name of a different month in
each corner, with a Cupid over it en-
bellished with appropriate emblems.
On the april" he was holding an
open umbrella over his head.
Lace of every kind is SO much used
now for trimming table and best linen
that everyone who crochets has a
piece of lace on hand now.
Scarfs and doylies are pretty when
covered with embroidered blue forget
me-nots.
Pretty work bags are made by sew
ing pieces of bright colored ribbons
between Turkish gold embroidered
squares, these are sewed on the fiat
round Japanese baskets. A row of
the ribbon is doubled to form the
upper edge.
Some of the recent menu cards have
painted on one corne small figures in
old Continental costumes.
Handsome tall lamps have their silk
shades less rounded than in the old
style of parasol cover. The edges are
finished with successive rows of loops
of No. 3 ribbon, four inches deep.
One of those immense artificial roses,
with leaves, is fastened on one side.
A new, pretty picture frame is quite
wide and flat, and is covered with old
rose plush, studded at intervals with
a.Ix-o, a ~, ~, do lxC Annfhnr Of no1a
green, was covered at unequal short
ent sizes.
C~andlesticks of the brass griffin de-
sign, which were much used seven or
eight years ago, have been revived.
A pretty design for a bureau scarf is
to work a border in blue or other color
entirely around the edge, and to di-
vide off the centre space into squares,
embroidering each alternate square,
and filling the vacancies with antique
lace squares. Both ends are trimmed
across with antique lace.
A table scarf embroidered with
white and yellow daisies is effective
to use with white and gold table
china.
Lie i0WSSU pdDleCiOtIlo duQ napkins
are trimmed around the edge with
antique lace.
Very different from the old style of
painted furniture are the new enam-
elled bedroom sets. These are in
light blue, white and gold, yellow and
pink, and are very expensive.
Large high sideboards are not in as
much favor now as stands of fanciful
designs. They are considered too
monumental.
A favorite pattern of embroidery
for the linen squares for the middle of
the dining table is punches of grapes
with leaves and tendrils.
Great attention is being paid now
to the DECORATION of halls. As many
pictures and ornaments al can be
spared, are hung on their walls.
Mantle lambrequins are being
arranged for summer, with figured
China silk. They are made quite deep,
with a wide bordering, and finished at
the bottom with good sized silk tassels.
They are often looped on both sides.
Old fashioned ilagree silver cake
baskets, when of a suitable shape, are
fitted with tins and filled with ferns,
and grasses for the centre of the table.
The low round baskets with very
high square handles, trimmed with
ribbon and silk, continue to be
favorites for flowers.
Flowers arranged in fans are fire.
ouently seen, but are too formal.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
I'm was quite Unnecessary for Gov

TT was quite unnecessary for Gov
ernor Green to utter any contradiction
of the virulent ISLANDERS which Major
Halstead directed against him. At
tacks OF that kind invariably recoil
on those who launch them.
Governor Green's standing in the
regard of his fellow citizens is alto
gether too high to be affected by
vague and groundless accusations
springing from obscure sources,
Who is Major Halstead, anyway?
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Hens Eggs Laid on Good Friday.

st is a singular fact, said a laS
yesterday, that a hens egg which Is
laid on Good Friday will never spoil
like any other, but may be kept for
years, and when opened will be found
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
The Charleston,s Bell.
[From tAe San Frnncisco BnNetil

[From The San Frdncisco ButIefin.]
The large time bell of the cruiser
Charlestonisno not composed of ordinary
metal, and there is quite a little story
connected with it. A few days before
the bell was cast the patternmaker ex-
pressed the sentiment that it would be
a pity to use ordinary metal, and sug-
gested that each workman contribute
ten cents in silver to enrich the com
position and give a superior ring to it.
The entire force at the works e
sponded to a man, the sum realized
being $3.50, nearly all in ten-cent
pieces.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

THE School Board held a meeting
last night. 1t was memorable as the
last which Director Benson would
attend in an official capacity. l twas
a genial and pleasant gathering, and
the Directors before adjourning
passed resolutions congratulating
themselves and the teachers.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

workers in the church affairs of st.
Johns.
Mrs. d. f. Mitchell, of Mercer
street, will give a musicale next week.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

Miss Jessie Wilson, Of Grand street,
will go to Boston Monday, to remain
several weeks.
Mrs. William A. Harrison, of Ber-
gen avenue, is entertaining guests
from Albany.
Mrs. Joseph Noonan, Mrs. HetR sr-
ington, Miss Hope and Mrs. Curley
are engaged in arranging a strawberry
festival, the proceeds of which will be
for charitable purposes.
Mrs. Brice Collard, of Clinton
avenue, is one OF the most active
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Physiological Item.

[Fron, the TerTe Haute Eapress.l
Wibble-Did you ever know any
ones hair to turn gray from sorrow?
Wabble-Can't say that I did. /
have often seen an old widower's hair
turn from gray to black about even
or eight months after burying the
partner of his joys and troubles.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

Advertisements, Subscriptions and Newsdealers'
Orders received
HoBoKEN-No. 21 Newark Street @. H. Jackson.
UNION HILL. Fischer, No. 90 Palisade Avenue.
BERGEN POINT. W.. Dobson, opposite RAILWAY
Depot.
BAYoSNE-J. II. Brewer, No. 4s1 Avenue D,
FIVE CoREERs-G. W. Pheiffer, No. 6S Newark
Avenue.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

TIE JERSEY Cry NEWS Single copies, two
cents subscription, six dollars per year postage
free.
THE SUNDAY MORNING News Published every
Sunday morning single copies, three cents sub
s~cription, one dollar and fifty cents per year.
postage free.
Entered in the post office at Jersey City as
second class mail matter.
All business communications should be ad,,
dressed to THE JERSEY Cry NEWS COMPANY all
others to the Managing Editor.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Doctors and Death.

Doctors in one respect differ very
materially from death, which is said
to be no respecter of persons. They
may be equally fatal; many people are
unkind enough to say so, but at least
they kill with courtesy
Just read the story of Mrs. Dow
denis death in Hoboken, as told in
yesterdays JERSEY CITY NEWS. One
doctor let her die because he had
another case, and made it a rule never
to take two together lest he should
not be able to do Justice to both. Elk
quisite sens of justice, which con-
signed Mrs. Dowden to an untimely
grave because the doctor was a consci-
entious man!
Then come the other learned gen
tlemen who were summoned to assist
her. One would not come because
somebody had insulted him, and an
other would not touch the ease be-
cause he was afraid of insulting some
one else.
The fact of the matter is, a law
ought to be passed rendering ever
doctor who refused to answer a CAN
liable for homicide in case the patient
died.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
BOARD WANTED.

YOUNG MAN WANTS BOARD IN EPISCOPAL
i family, where there are children Or young PEG
pie and music. Clerk, Jersey City News Office.
WANTED-BOARD IN A QUIET, PRIVATE FAM
w lily; breakfast and supper, and room to my
self; state terms. j. T. B., Jersey City News Office.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
MAY A, 1889.

This paper Is Democratic in principles
u and d. Independent in its Ute1OS on all
local questions. <
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
REAL
For Sale.

DOR SALE-oN WILTON, BETWEEN MAPLE
Il and Lafayette sts, elegant new two-story base
ment Houses; nine rooms: fully improved: bay
windows; possession Immediately; price, $500;
reasonable terms. Apply to L. Broderick, Builder
No .27 Van Horn st.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04

HAVING completed their reform
work by discharging all their en-
ployes, the Board of Freeholders will
now proceed to unreform things by
re-appointing them all.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
The Horror of 1t.
[From Puck.l

The Happy Bride-Why, Mamma,
what are you crying .for2 Every
thing is so lovely, andeverybody's been
so good to mel Come and look at my
presents, dearl
The Wise Mamma-1t's the presents
I'm thinking of! Every family with a
regiment of unmarried girls has sent
YOU the most horribly expensive things
and now they'll be getting married,
and you and Charles will have to
scrape and starve to give each of them
something handsomer stihi PRESENTS!
o Angelina! why didn't you elope?
Mrs. Astor's Reception Room.
Mrs. William B. Astor's reception
room is a snug, small, sumptuous
apartment that looks out on Fifth
avenue through a single window,
cased in ebony wood and smothered
in hangings of turquoise blue silk and
indigo tinted lace. The walls are hung
in turquoise silk, with a decorative
dado and a canva painted ceiling, and
the ebony finish of the woodwork is as
beautifully polished as a piece of onyx.
In the centre of the parquetry floor is
an odd design of small Persian rugs,
inlaid as it were in a field of garnet
terry. Precious rugs drape the small
divans, and superb specimens of needle
paintings are shown in the chair ove
ings. The most attractive article OF
furniture is a small upright piano of
light mahogany, beautifully embel-
lished with panels of carved silver,
symbolic of music and song.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
LOST N FOUND

r ~osT-FRIDA AFTERNOON, ABOUT THREE
IL o'clock, a cushion rail case for billiard table.
Probably dropped from truck going from Grand to
Brunswick, Bake Co., $50 Broadway, New York
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
FURNISHED ROOMS.

FURNISHED ROOMS FOR GENTLEMEN, NO. 2l
Il Warren street, corner of Grand.
ELEGANT ROOMS, WITH OR WITHOUT BOARD;
H bath; low prices. No. 4&9 Henderson street.
EOR RENT-HANDSOMELY FURNISHED ROOMS;
Il singly or en- suite; five minutes from ferry.
No. oil Washington st.
FTO EFT FRONT ROOM, FURNISHED; FOR
i one or two; terms moderate. No. ISL Pavonia
ave., second floor.
INV FURNISHED
l. wanted Immediately, with first class board,
with use of piano. Address, stating terms, j. P. D.,
Jersey City News.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
FOR SALE.

BARLEY SIDE BAR WAGON AND HARNES
Il nearly new; also Horse, 156 hands high. To
be sold for want of use. Reilly's Real Estate Office,
No. 453 Grove street.
EIRsT ICE BOZ FOR SALE.
Il 426 Second street, J. C..
A MAL GROCERY, MILK N sToRE
mot an every day chancel Address Wilfred Law
renee. Wholesale Confectfoner. 291 LIST St. j. @.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Floors To /

ITO L~ET.-SECoND FLOOR, NJ c. 239 MONTGOMERY
l. street. Private house. hot and cold water.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
stores To Let.

EoR s~ALE.-CoRNER LIQUOR STORE, TEN
T. Years, Lease, rent, ss5 per month; cabinet fix
corner Newark and Clinton, Hohoken.
A RARE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY-TO LET,
IN the old established paper hanging, oil cloth and
carpet store. Apply at No. 2S5 Hudson street, New
YOrk.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Female.

VXTANTED-A GIRL FOR GENERAL HOUSE
w work; small family. Apply at No. $40 Grand
street.
ATANTED-A GIRL IL TO ID YEAR OF
w age, to DO light work and run errands for a
small family; reference required. 16l st. Pauls ave.,
Jersey City Heights.
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
PUBLISHED EVERY AFTERNOON
JERSEY CITY NEWS COMPANY,

No 80 MONTGOMERY STREET,
wELDoN BUmDINe.9
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-04
Lease for Sale.

r EASE AND FIXTURES OF AN OLD ESTAB-
L. lshed corner Liquor Store. Apply to p. L.
Rodgers, 76 Newark ave. Jersey City.
EOR SA~LE-LEASE FIXTURES OF AN OLD
Il established corner liquor store. For particulars
apply to P. Rodgers, No. 1876 Newark avenue, corner
Germania avenue, Jersey City.