The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-26
PERSONALS.

PERSONALS.
Thomas Hall, the dealer in masons' supplies, is
furnishing the material for the new buildings of
st. Lucy schools, the Halls of Records, Christ
Hospital and the new buildings being erected by
D. e. Cleary at York and Henderson streets.
The financial condition of many Burlington
county farmers is such as to excite general
alarm. Land has deprecated in value from
fifty to seventy-fve per cent, and hundreds OF
foreclosure suits have been started.
The Delaware rose above the piers and docks
at Bordentown Saturday.
Corporal William B. Harris, of the Sixth Reg
iment Gun Detachment, was the recipient OF a
Yorktown medal from the Adjutant Genera,
yesterday. This medal has be en- in the posses
sion of the State for eight years, and was taken
from the State House during the late fire, some
three years ago. Corporal Harris lives at Had
donfie d.
Two South Laurel street Bridgeton business
men are in trouble. For a whole half day they
worked on a body of water that had been flood
ing their cellar. They worked with a will and
in that whole time the stream never went down
an inch. The mystery has been explained since,
The water run back through a cellar window as
rapidly as they worked it out at the cellar door.
Edward A. Pearson, the promoter of the
Orange Mountain Land Company scheme, sailed
for Europe Saturday morning on the steamer
Umbria in the interest of the company. He has
promises of additional English capital and hopes
to return in two months with the scheme on a
solid financial basis.
Senator Mcpherson and family have left their
country home at Belle Mead and gone to Wash
ington, where they will remain for the winter.
Congressman Buchanan has gone to Washington
also, taking his family with him.
Burglars were around Ridgewood Saturday
night, having effected an entrance into two
different places of business, but at neither of
them was any loot secured. At one, three holes
were bored into a safe, and yet they did not get
it open. In this place a hat, a piece of fuse and
some tools were found, and it looked as if the
thieves had been frightened off. The robbery
has been reported to the police here. The way
he work was done makes it appear as if the
hieves were amateurs in the business.
A painful accident occurred at the game of
foot ball between the Orange High School team
and the team of the Young Men'sChristian Assoc
citation, which was played on the grounds of the
Orange Athletic Club, in East Orange, Friday
afternoon. Horace Gill, a member of one of the
teams, was violently kicked on the shin by one
of the PLAYERS and his leg was broken. Young
Gill is of a very light build. He is son of
George H. Gill and cousin of Charles Gill, Yale's
famous foot ball player. The high School team
defeated the association team by the score of 10
too. Only one-half was played on account of
darkness.
Mr.. Edward W. Whitehead, chairman of the
Executive Committee of the Essex County
Democratic Committee, stated to a reporter
yesterday that the County Committee had paid
up all the Indebtedness incurred during the last
campaign, and that of last years campaign
also.
Governor Green presided at the meeting of the
Society of the Sons of the Revolution in the His
torical Society rooms, Newark, Saturday after
noon. 1t was decided to, celebrate the battle of
Trenton with a banquet on December 26. A
committee was appointed to make the necessary
arrangements. 1t was reported that there were
living at present forty sons of Revolutionary
soldiers and thirty-four widows. Mr.. John
Whitehead was appointed a committee of one to
Interview as many of the sons as possible, and
also requested to prepare papers ON Cyrus Con-
dit and Samuel Hayes, two Jerseymen who were
prominent in the Revolution.
The Watervlet Arsenal, of Troy, N. Y, re-
Gently called for bids for supplying it with
certain tools, and nineteen of the leading tool
builders of the country tried to get the con-
tracts. The price of L. Gould & Eberhardt, of
Newark, was the highest, and yet they received
orders for four of Eberhardt's patent drill
presses and one automati gear cutting machine
with rack cutting attachment. This is good ties
timony to the merit of these tools.
Congressman Lehlbach, of Essex, will proba-
bly, leave for Washington on FRIDAY next. IT
suppose the Republican caucus will be held on
Saturday, :" said Mr.. Lehlbach yesterday. ct ex-
pect to vote for Mr.. Reed, of Maine, for Speaker,
though l should feel perfectly satisfied with the
success of any of the other candidates. can't
tell what will come up in the House of most local
interest; but personally l want to see the post
office building well started on q good basis.
What committee positions do l expectP What
the Speaker will give me-
Building is active in Dunellen, but the place is
kept back by the bad street lighting.