The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-29

thusiastic applause by their excellent
marching and soldierly bearing.
| The President stood uncovered as the
veterans marched past, and when about
half the procession had passed in review
Governor Green entered a four-horse car
riage and joined in the line Vice Presi-
| dent Morton followed in the next carriage.
The ladies of the Presidential party We're
driven to the train which brought the
party from Washington, and after being
tracks, it conveyed them to Elizabethport.
| THE PARADEs.
| At nine O'Clock the President took the
seat of honor on the reviewing stand
| built on the lawn in the rear of Governor
| Green's mansion and reviewed the process
| sion.
The parade and procession was the most
| imposing ever witnessed here. Nearly
five thousand men were in line. The first
division was composed Of five companies
of the Third Regiment, New Jersey
| Militia
Second-Members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, $500 strong.
| Third-Lodges of the Ancient Order OF
| Odd Fellows, the Junior Order of Ameri-
| can Mechanics. Knights of Pyth1as,
Knights of st. John and thirteen boys in
| Continental uniform.
| Fourth-The Ancient Order of Hiber-
mans, 800 strong
| Fifth division, called the Department
| of Agriculture, made a striking and pic
| turesque feature of the procession Thls
was the Granger-F Farmers division. There
were numerous floats carried in this dl-
| vision, representing comparisons between
| farming 100 years ago and today. There
\ were men in line in old time costume
carrying scythes and sickles, boys going
to mill with bags of grain, and groups OF
| farmers with old fashioned agricultural
| implements, such as wooden mold board
| ploughs. cradles, fails, etc.
| The Fire Department of Elizabeth, ten
| companies strong, with their engines ana
| apparatus, made up the sixth and last
| division.
| FOLLOWING WASHINGTON PART WAY.
| The President and the parade was sup
posed to follow Washington's exact route
to Elizabethport except that, instead OF
| going around through the old Railway
road, they were to 60 straight through
| the present Railway avenue to Broad
street, but they did not know where
| Washington sailed frOm--every one mad
made mistake
| Leaving the house of Governor Green
| who is descendant of Hannah Boud1not,
| always referred to as Hon. Elias, and
| descendant in the female line from Rich
1 ard Stockton-they turned into RahWay
avenue at the old house where Judge
John De Hart lived at the time of the
revolution and before Judge DE Hart
was appointed to be the first Chief Justice
| of New Jersey when Richard Stockton de-
| clined it, but the Judge declined it also.
/ 1t was then that Robert Morris was ap-
| pointed.
| At the corner of Broad street the parade
| left on it's left the site of Sam Smiths
! Tavern, where Washington received the
| people of Elizabeth in 1889. Across Broad
| street is the old house which was then the
| Thomas Tavern, kept by Edmund Disney
| Thomas who took from Elizabeth the tirst
New Jersey company that went to the
| Revolutionary war.
! PAST THE FIGHTING PARSONS CHURCH.
Swinging around into Broad street the
procession went down past the old PresDy-
| terian Church. where James +. Caldwell,
| the Fighting Parson, used to hold forth.
| He it was, when the wadding gave out at
| the battle of Elizabeth, rushed into the
| Springfield church and, bringing out an
| armful of hymn books, gave them to the
soldiers, crying;-"Now, boys put Watts
| into 'em."
| It was from the steeple of this church
| that a flag was flown on the day after the
| battle of Lexington, and from this steepie
| flag has flown whenever anything good
has happened of great importance to
Americans.
In this congregation, at the breaking
out of the Revolution, were Elias Boud1-
not, President of the Continental Congress;
| William Livingston, afterward Governor
of the State; Abraham Clark, who signed
the Declaration of Independence; four
generals, three colonelS and forty COM
missioned officers of lower grade.
INTO EAST JERSEY STREET.
When the line came to the beautiful
arch of evergreens and scarlet it turned
into East Jersey street past the old house
where, from 1854 to 1899, the Widow
Graham kept her tavern. The widows
ledger is still in existence, and bears on it
nearly every historical name in Elizabeth,
and shows that man in those days con
sumed terrible quantities of rum and of
punch. 1t also showed that Lord Sterling
did not pay his bills, but still owed 9350
when the widow died.
Down East Jersey street is the house
where General Scott lived and died. In
Revolutionary times Surgeon William
Barnett lived here. He was the Widow
Graham's best customer, many pages Of
her ledger being taken up with his ac-
counts.
Just beyond used to be creek, but it is
now Scott place to the south and Madison
avenue to The north. On the other side of
this creek Elias Boudinot, the Honorable,
lived when Washington was in Elizabeth,
and he lunched there after the reception
at the tavern.
1uC -Olu CllAhtt ASOo eto tietV AOASIcOn
is still in the possession of Miss
Boudinot, of Bordentown, and
will be used at the luncheon
of the Lawyers Club in New York, to-
morrow. The house is today just as it
was then, except the upper story-the
same old knocker is on the same old door,
and the rooms have never been rear
ranged.
HOW WASHINGTON SAW A WEDDING.
At the corner of Catherine street is the
old house built by the Colonial Governor,
| William Belcher, in 1850. 1t was after
ward occupied by William Peartree
| Smith, and there his daughter was mar
ried in October, ITS, to Elisha Boudinot.
This wedding was so important that
| Washington came down from Morristown
| to be present. Alexander Hamilton, then
| twenty-one years old, was the best man
| and master of ceremonies Sentries were
| posted all over the town with instructions
| to tell Hamilton of any attack. One
| came, but it was of slight Importance, and
no one in the house knew of it except
| Washington and Hamilton. After the
Revolution Colonel Aaron Ogden lived
there. He was descendant of John Og-
| den, the head of the Jersey Associates,
| who settled the town in 1854 and named it
| for the daughter of George Carteret. La
| fayette was received there in 1924 and
| slept there. NJ
DOWN TO HAMILToN's OLD SCHOOL
The procession tnrned south through
| Spring street to Elizabeth avenue, and