The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-17
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T|ON.
local PICNIC GROUNDS.
Preparations All Over the
County for an Unusually
Active Season Of
Outing.
EVENTS ALREADY BOOKED
Picnickcrs May Make Their Choice
from the Lists Given Below OF
the Affairs They Want to Attend.


The picnic season, which is always
popular one hereabouts, is SO close upon
us that / made a stroll among the public
pleasure resorts i'll the county yesterday
to see what preparations are being made
for the entertainment of pleasure seekers
Appearances indicate a summer of un-
usual activity on all sides.
CALIFORNIAN PARK ENGAGEMENTS.
Caledonian Park will be lighted with
Chinese lanterns and fireworks Saturday
night. It will be opening night. The
frequenters will no doubt be pleased
to see the condition of the park.
The grass is in good condi-
ton, the trees are in blossom and
the fences and most of the build ings have
been repainted
Alre ady merry go round" man has
arranged to locate his tireless animals
and cane and ring men have received
their privileges. Chowder makers, clam
bakers, ice cream fiends and peanut vend-
ers have done the same thing.
The engagements for the Park thus far
made are as follows:-
Zouaves; Decoration Day, P. Fl. O'Neill
Association; June l. Bakers Liberty As
sociation June 3, First German Evan
gelical Church; June 8, Hog. Butchers
Association; June 10, Fifth Street Ger
man Church; June 49, Lorillard Debating
Society; June II, O'Connor Association;
June IS, Erie and Pennsylvania Railroad
EMPLOYEES; June %, Court Pavonia of
the Ancient Order of Foresters; June 30,
Fourth Regiment Drum Corps; July 8, M.
H. Harney Association; July 4, Scottish
American Games; July 8, J; J.. Connolly
Association; July 10, John F; Butler AS
sociation; July Is, Pickwick Pleasure
Club: July 20. Hudson County Associa-
tion; July %, Abbatoir Association;
August 8, John Norton Association
IL, Truck Drivers Association, and on
September 2, Labor Day, the Labor
Party's picnic.
AT KRoEBEL's PARK.
Kroebel's Assembly Rooms and Park on
the cliff at the corner of Franklin street
and Ogden avenue, is a favorite resort
with the German societies of the neigh
borhood, especially Hoboken. The park
has been undergoing series OF improve
provements since last season and the
grading is not yet entirely finished. The
main dancing pavilion is 80x7O feet;- the
floor is of hard wood and smooth as glass.
The substitution of gas for oil lamps Is
among the new features.
Proprietor Kroebel's engagement book
for this season is rapidly filling up.
These are some Of the picn1cs to be held
in his park during the present month and
following
20, Prize Bowling and Shooting by the
Schuetzen Club of the Heights; May %,
German Workmens Association, of Ho-
boken; May 25, Rosedale Pleasure Club,
of New York; May 30, Merry Companions,
of the Heights; May 30, Summit Baseball
Clubs Picnic; June 3, Union Pioneer
Club, of Hoboken; June 10, Red Men,
Hudson, Washakey and Washington
Wigwams' tri-union picnic: June II,
Junk Mems Athletic Club; June Is, Glen
dale Pleasure Club; June H., Silver Cliff
Pleasure Club; June 1s, Hudson County
American School, of Hoboken; June 90,
P. H. O'Nein Association; June "a, Stove
pine Guards, of Hoboken; June %, Lin
coin Lodge, Knights and Ladies of Honor;
June 26, Prof. Beck's Dancing School;
June 27, Foresters; July 3, Foresters; July
4, Italian celebration
ONCE CHIEF COOK IN A ROYAL KITCHEN.
Probably one of the finest equipped
music resorts in the county Is that con-
nected with the hotel erected In 1881 by
DIETRICH Pohlmann, by the side of the old
elevator, at cost OF nearly $4,000 The
hotel is built upon bed Of solid rock.
The walls of the main building contain
million and half bricks and are twenty
two inches thick There is nothing cheap
nor common to be seen about the prem
ises; even the walls of the barroom and
others are painted in oil.
Mrs. Pohlmann, the widow of the late
DIETRICH Pohlmann, manages every depart
ment. She was once chief cook in the
royal household of the King of Hanover,
and have it from one who knows, among
the upper class of Germans her cuisine is
\ hot of
Delmonico's. The resort Is extensively
patronized by wealthy German societies
who are fond of and can appreciate good
music.
A WATER RESORT.
In the Gre enville section of this city
the chief enclosed resort for outdoor re-
creation and pleasure is Charles Am
nue., but short distance from the Bay
onne line. The entrance to the park is
at the corner OF Seaview avenue, and the
property extends several hundred feet
along the latter to the Morris Canal.
There is plenty of room beneath the
dozens of maple, oak, chestnut and
locust trees which dot the park for
thousand or more pleasure seekers to take
exercise. The other attractions include a
handsome dancing pavilion, 100 feet by so
feet; a rifle range, numbering ten gal
leries, 200 yards long, and $50 foot range;
an air gun gallery, baseball grounds,
a neat lawn and restaurant. The canal
is spanned by good bridge, and on the
beach are facilities for boating and bath
ing. There are also accommodations for
horses and vehicles within the park
During the afternoon and evening of
Monday, May 20, the proprietor will cele-
brate the opening Of the season with a
patrons To date he has booked the fol-
lowing events:-M May 80, picnic of the John
Walsh Association, formerly the John
Mccarthy Association; June TO- festival
of the United Singing Societies OF Jersey
kranz, Jersey City Schuetzen Liedertafel,
Lafayette MRnnerchor and Greenville
Lyra; June II, picnic of the Zinc
Works Unterstitzung Verein; July 4,
games and picnic of the Greenville Turn
ers; July 25, picnic of the Andrew Doerr-
shuck Associations; August 6, outing of
the Plymouth Chowder Club; August 10,
picnic Of the Frank Merkle Association;