The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-19
PERSONALS.
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The directors of the New Jersey Training
School for the Feeble Minded, located at Vine
land, are seeking to create an endowment fund
Of S2s0,c0O or more. This one of the most worthy
of our charities and we trust they will succeed.
In a little card which they have issued they
say:-"There are many very worthy feeble
minded persons OF both sexes in New Jersey and
other States, for whose support there is no pro-
vision whatever, or very little. 1t is utterly i'm
possible to erect new buildings, or make extern
sive improvement or repairs out of our current
income. For the lack Of sufficient and suitable
facilities many applicants, who strongly appeal
to our sympathies, we are compelled to refuse.
Legacies could not be more worthily bestowed.
Brigadier General Mutt, who commands the
Second Brigade of the Atlantic, Patriarch Mill
tant, of the Odd Fellows, is a handsome gentle
man of fine presence.
The Salem Standard tells it that:-"James
Matlack Scovel remains cheerful under last
weeks defeat, though he admits that twenty-six
years of defeat on State issues has taken the
spring out of his enthusiasm. but not the force
or vitality out Of his republicanism. Jim wanted
to be Clerk Of the Supreme Court, and he still
has the want on hand, ready to exchange for
any kind of an Office"
1t is now known for q positive fact that ex-Sen-
ator Blackwell and the Roeblings have disposed
of their interest in the Trenton Horse Railroad.
City Surveyor Havens has been engaged to make
a plan of their road, and it is now believed that
| the road will fall into the hands of outside CAPT
tslists. Whether this be SO or not, there will be
a change in the management.
The largest gathering of florists that ever
.;z;Ax1 C.-.efk ,a- 4horo a,, rI,,, s.aI NV rtiohf af-
tending the opening of the new club house
erected by John N May, who was last year pres
ideut of the American Horticultural Society, and
who is proprietor of the Pine Grove Nurseries.
Members, to the number of sdo, two of them
from the remotest parts Of the United States,
were present. Mr.. May is known as the pioneer
rose-grower of the State. His clubhouse con-
tains bowling-alleys and a well-stocked library,
over which is a large hall in which will be held
s%emi-monthly meetings of the New Jersey Social
Union of Florists, a society composed exclusive
ly of those engaged in that business, which was
organized by Mr.. May a few months ago, and is
now in a aourishing condition. At each meeting
an essay on horticulture is read by a selected
member, after which there is a debate on the
matter at issue. Mr.. Mays greenhouses cover
over eight acres, and are supposed to be the
largest in the State.
The reorganization of the Newark Underwrit-
ers' Protective Association is not progressing as
fayorably as was anticipated a week ago, and
fears are expressed by representatives OF some
of the prominent companies that the present
effort will prove Intellectual
William Burgess, one of the proprietors Of the
international Pottery at Trenton, has in success
tut operation q down draught regeneration kiln
which is destined TO prove of great value in the
pottery business. In this kiln no cold air is
taken in and no heat is lost. The fresh air re-
quired for combustion is first heated TO a tenn
perature Of from 600 to 1880 degrees by heat
formerly wasted in passing offaby the chimney.
Mr.. Burgess claims that by the new appliance a
| glost kiln cen be fired in fifteen hours which for
merly required thirty, and such firing can be
done at q less cost than that of western potteries
using natural gas.
The farmers of Warren and Sussex counties
have organized vigilance societies for the pro-
lection Of properly against fire-fends. Men will
be employed to watch property, and the origin
of all fires will be rigidly investigated. Thous
| ands of dollars worth of property has recently
been destroyed in the two counties by incendi-
AIRY fires.
EA-JuQRt IT,. w. OlCNeuSt WAO ACNANhSt Ills
Willingness to accept the position of Essex
County Counsel, will be appointed OF the first
meeting of the new Board.
Mr.. Charles E. Coleman, of Jersey City, form
erly of Dover, died at the home OF his mother
in-law in Roekaway Valley, last Sunday, aged
twenty e years. He was hunting the Thurs
day previous to his death and was on his way
home when taken ill. His death was caused by
peritonitis. Mr.. Coleman leaves a wife and
three small children. The funeral was very
largely attended; the interment was made in
RockGway Valley Cemetery.
Prof. Washington Hasbrouck, LID, form
erly principal of the Normal and Model Schools,
Trenton, N. j., while walking in the streets of
Newburgh, on Monday last, was attacked W it'll
vertigo and reeled and fell to the walk. Assist
ance was quickly rendered and he was conveyed
to the residence of Dr.. Monfort, where he and
his family are boarding. Although Prof. Has
brouck is sixty-five years old, it is thought that
no serious consequence will result from his i'll
ness and fall.
Mayor Haynes, of Newark, got off a good joke
Friday night on the Republican Aldermen who
refused to vote money to print his message last
year. When he sent them copies of this years
message, with his compliments" he selected
those which had been printed in German. The
Democrats all got English copies.
Phillipsburg is overrun with tramps; it is said
that from 200 to 800 pass through the city daily.