The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-13
PERSONALS.


superintendent Ford has been busy of late il
getting the Assembly Chamber in shape for the
next session, 1t is almost done, and it looks like
a new place. The desks have all been var
nished and new green covers put on the lids
New ratings have been put around the tops of
the desks and each one numbered. The name of
the member occupying a seat will be placed on
the desk in such q manner that it cannot be
taken off. The Speakers desk and the furniture
in his room have been upholstered, and the old
members will scarcely know the place when
they go to Trenton in January. The Senate
Chamber will be fitted up in the same manner.
Fred w. Merrell has been appointed Postmas-
ter at Morris Plains, Mr.. Clark, the recent APP
pointee, having resigned by request, in order
that Postmaster General Wanamaker might full
fill a promise made to Mr.. McCurdy during the
campaign last fall. In consideration of Mr.. Clark
resigning he was given the appointment of Spec
ial Agent under Superintendent of the Census.
General John Watts Kearny has shaken the
dust of Kearny off his shoes, and betaken lin
self to New York to live.
The Easton Sunday Call has the following
horrid item in the personal column:-"Mrs
Robert t. Ballantyne is visiting Mrs. Ann
lIhSN CA1 ~ V1Ao1y ivy $50 NtF
had made in thirty-four years, and to guard
against accident she was furnished with a card
bearing the following:-'Mr. Policeman. this is
my Aunt Tillie. See that she gets back to
Easton.'"
The new Rolling Mill property at Rockaway is
for sale. 1t is nearly new, and complete with an
equipment of rolls, furnaces, engines, turbine
wheels, hammer, heater, etc. There are two
- IA 4 fAo r;fI- On OfhnT,
factories, three dwellings,. shops, etc., in COM
plete repair, and a new stone dam across a
branch of the Passaic river, making it one of the
most desirable mill sites in the State. And yet
we are protected.
Chancellor McGill is fond of walking, and does
as much of it as business will permit.
United States Commissioner Muirhead is one of
the best equestrians in the county.
Colonel P. Farmer Wanser is an expert rife
shot, and has won many badges,
President Gates, of Rutgers College, has been
elected president of the New Brunswick Ballot
Reform Association. The association numbers
some active, influential and determined citizens
among its members
Chancellor Pitney has granted an ~injunc-
ton restraining 7. L. Lane, of Summit, N. j.,
from publishing the Summit Record. The Record
was started in 1888 by Newton Woodruff, who
transferred it to William H, De Forest a year
later.
Governor Green has appointed Colonel E, A.
Stevens, of Hoboken, one of the commi ssioners
to fix the boundary line between New Jersey and
New York, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Professor George H. Cook.
Burlington county officials and taxpayers are
complaining Of the large number of homeless
men and women they are compelled to feed in
the winter, and during last winter the county
prison at Mount Holly was crowded with tramps
of both sexes. Many prominent citizens and
taxpayers of both counties advocate the estab-
lishment of workshops. which they believe would
greatly diminish the number of tramps to be
found each Winter in those counties.
President Charles NJ. Bache, of the United
States Coast Survey, has been at Cape May for
a few days, studying the effects of the recent
storms along the coast.
Mayor Pratt, of Camden. has nearly one hun
dred applications for eight places under the
police patrol system, which will be ready for
operation about the first of next year. There
will be two patrol houses, each of which will
have two drivers and two handy men," About
twenty-five PdLtOi pOASo VIII ~ SethNOhN
about the city,
Major Il. G. Woolman, the newly-elected AS
semblyman from Camden, says that he will
present a marriage license law to the coming
Legislature.
1t is the fixed impression of some of the MEM
bers of the Republican State COMMITTEES that
that eminent hustler, Frank A, Mcgowan.
OF Trenton, should give an exhibition of his
powers by hustling himself out of the Repub-
lican party 1t is also the opinion of the same
gentlemen that Alex G.. Cattell, who is not a
hustler, and another leader, whose home is in
Essex, and who shall be nameless,' y should
speedily, and with great precision, follow the ex-
ample which they claim Hustler Mcgowan should
set. Who is the Essex man?
The latest enterprise at Dover is the raising
of capital for the location Of the Continental
Dynamo Company, of New York, in that
place. The capital necessary is 1000, and it
was raised by fifty.six subscribers in amounts
from 500 to $500. The company have secured
the ground necessary from Nathaniel Mase. 1t
has a frontage of ss5 feet on Richard avenue
and is 200 feet deep, extending to the Central
Railroad, and has 285 feet railroad frontage,
The land will cost 81 1880. The company will
erect a building i5oxiso feet and eighteen feet
high, to cost $4,000. MIR. Schumacher is presi
dent of the company sN8sS
The New Jersey visitors registered at Washing
ton AREA. D.. Burgesser and wife, of Newark,
at the Normandie; w, H., Clark and wife, Of
Elizabeth, at the StsJannes, and Leroy Marceron,
of Jersey City, at supplies ~ 4ff88
do you call Brldgeton q slow placer aslSs'the
Bridgeton Evening Netvs. eWell, well. Now let
us see what is booked for this ,week-a very ordi-
nary week, tpo;-+SemitCentennia celebration 1f
West Jersey Presbytery; meetings. of week Of
prayer; military drama, three evenings; illus
trated lecture on Johnstown; concert of Y. NJ.
G. A. Course; Ingelow entertainment at the In
stltute; meeting of City Council, meeting Of
Board of Freeholders, and, of course, a wedding
or two and a dozen or more social events.
Bridgeton managers TO keep moving. and the
fall season is starting IN very briskly." Plainly
only a murder, a i~ynching, and two or three
burglaries are necessary to place it abreast
with the age as a live town.