The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-25
A GREAT RAILROAD MOVE
TIE RENNSYETANIA,S SCHEHE OF
Through TRATEL.

THE RENNSYETANIA'S SCHEAE Or
THROUGH TRAVEL.
The Majorities for Governor In the the
Counties--A New Catholic Church
Dedicated at Gloucester City.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company is
planning great improvements all along
the line that will materially reduce the
running time between New York and
Philadelphia, and will.probably change the
face of affairs around here so essentially
sthatthose who knowit nowwill scarcely be
able to recognize 1t a few years from now.
The company has arranged with the New
York elevated railroads to run a spur 10
the ferry at the foot Of Courtlandt street
where they villa pass to double-deckeo
ferryboats that are to be put on the llne,
cross to this city, unload upon the elevat-
ed railroad at the foot of Exchange place.
and thence be whizzed on across the
meadows on the new line, into Waverly,
through Elizabeth and New BrnnsWlcK
southwark. That as little obstruction as
possible may be encountered the tracks
are to be elevated in Elizabeth and New
Brunswick. !.
The Waverly and Passaic Railroad
Company, which is really a bantl1ng OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company,
after having purchased, through MI.
Arthur Devine, of Newark, nearly all the
land they desired on the Newark salt
meadows at from 81, 500 to So, 700 per acre,
have been compelled, through Messrs.
Vredenberg & Garretson, their attorneys,
T. give notice that they will apply TO
Judge Depue on Saturday, December IA,
for the appointment of three commission
ers to examine and appraise a plot OF
ground in the lower part OF the TWelItn
ward, Newark, containing one-th1rd OF
an acre and belonging to Harriet and
Thomas j. McElhose, and assess Inc
damages by reason of the taking and oc-
cupancy of the same by the company.
The price asked for this lot by the own
ers is $4,000, and as the adjacent proper
ties have already been purchased by Mr..
Devine from the estate of the late Cephas
Woodruff, Frederick B~onykamper, Jabez
Cook. Samuel w. Thompson, Martin
Bross, Daniel Lyon, Catharine Stucky
and others, for about one-fifth that
amount per acre, the company regarded
the demand of the McElhoses as exorbl-
tant.
When the company get possession of
this tract they will W a strip Of meadow
land 300 feet wide, from Waverly to a
point in the lower part of the Twelfth
ward, and this will give them the neces-
sary space for their eastern terminal yard,
and all freight trains coming east Will
be halted there, while trains bound west
will be made up in the big yard on
the meadows just west of the Hacken-
sack River. No freight trains Will
be run through Newark, after the
new cutoff is completed, save those
destined for the freight depots there, and
the cars composing each train will be
drilled into their proper places at the
Wayerly yard or on the meadows, II
will be run into Newark with a shifting
engine. The new road is being con
strucJed on q bed of light ashes brought
from New York in scuws by the contract
ors, Messrs. B.. N. and j. +. Stanley.
This ashes is mixed with gas-house lime
to thoroughly disinfect it, and while the
fine gives 1t a pungent and not very pleas
II odor, various Boards of Health have
pronounced it wholesome. 1t requires
several years to make q solid dirt road
across a soft meadow, while with ashes, a
sufficiently solid bed is secured at n fill
ing. The Riparian Commissioner have
given the compan permission to extend
the line of solid filing to a point even
with the outer end of The Government
dyke, and the work of building a pier
head and filling in behind it with ashes
will soon be begun by the contractors.
A New Catholic Church.
st. Mary's Roman Cotholic Church, at
Atlantic and Gloucester streets, Glouces-
ter City, wal dedicated yesterday by
Bishop O'FarrelL. He was assisted by
Dean Fitzsimmons, of Camden, who was
deacon of the mass; Father Daley, of the
Church of the Anunciation, Philadelphia,
sub deacon; Father Peter Sharonm, of
Philadelphia, master of ceremonies, and
Father Kelly, assistant rector of St.
Mary's Church., Gloucester, celebrant.
There were also present Fathers Murphy.
of Woodbury.; Ward, of the Sacred HeaIt,
Philadelphia; Shuhag, of Vineland; Sigel,
st. Peters Church, Philadelphia.
The Majorities by Counties.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, has
summoned Senators Werts, Adrain, Mar
tin, Cranmer, Baker and Rue to meet at
the State Capitol at Trenton tomorrow to
canvass the recent vote for Governor in
New Jersey. TIL returns as filed with
the Secretary of State give Leon Albeit a
plurality of 14,262 over General Grubb,
and a clear majority of nearly $500 over
all.
The pluralities by counties were as fol-
lows, Mr.. Albeit having carried eleven
counties and Mr.. Grubb ten:-
ALBEIT.
Bergen........... S23 Morris. =. ....... 100
Essex.......... S75 Somerset. ....... 270
Hudson. .........19,5 Sussex........... S77
Hunterdon. ...... 1854 Union...........- 701
Middlesex... +. 1902 Warren ........... !, 653
Monmouth. ...... 1,474 -
Total %, 644
GRUBB.
Atlantic. 5T2 Gloucester....... 435
Burlington. >. ....1,6lS Mercer."........ PSI
Camden ..-..-.-.s 1924 Ocean ....,...... 81
Cape May...-.... 3O3 Passaic.. 1882
Cumberland. ....- S74 Salem ............. 1872
Total 9,39a
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REAL ESTATE TRANSACTIONS.
Official Record of Last Weeks Transfers
and Mortgages.
JERSEY CITY.
Christina Wengle to Mary Hansen, lot IS,
Blk Is, map Baldwin q Gilchrist ........ 81, 800
Catharine E. Currin to Patrick Sweeney,
beg where II S, lot IA, blk 504 inters W S,
lot liz. ....." 1850
Thomas NJ. Gopsill to Diederick Bischoff,
lot 81, map 6S, lots sold at auction. ...... 400
William Robertson ct Tx to L. A. Opyke,
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