The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-14
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Alderman James Chasey, of Chicago, has pur-
chased from the Town Committee the new Town
Hall site at Long Branch, at Broadway and
Morrell street, for 81, 800. Alderman Chasey's
purchase will necessitate the selection Of an
other site, when better judgment will probably
be shown and a more desirable location chosen.
A site in the vicinity of the Knights of Pythias'
new building on Broadway will now, it is
thought, be the unanimous choice of the COM
mittee.
While plodding with the mail from Sculltown,
Salem county, to Swedesboro, at $96 per year,
George Trumbull received word a day or two ago
that he had fallen heir to $4,000.
Complaint was made to Mayor Haynes Thurs
day morning that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company had removed the flag houses from
between the tracks at Elm and Green streets to
the public street outside the railroad fences. The
Mayor and the Street Commissioner FASTENED to
the railroad tracks, and, as the Common Council
and the Street mint had not given permits
sion for the removal, the flag houses were over
turned in the street and the railroad company
was notified to remove the distractions within
two hours, as section 1853 of the revised ordi-
nances provides.
McGinty is likely to be apprehended and locked
up. 1t is reported that a Passaic City joker
went before a local justice of the peace, and
made a complaint against zone McGinty" for
being a disorderly person and a common
nuisance. The story goes that the Squire took
the complaint, and issued a warrant, which he
handed to a constable, who is now out looking
for McGinty.
Congressman McAdoo intends as soon as OPP
portunity offers to introduce a bill to American
ize the United States Navy that is to say, to pre-
vent the enlistment of aliens in the naval service
of the United States. The bill provides that no
person shall be enlisted in the naval service of
the Uuited States who is not an American citizen,
either by birth or naturalization. The bill will
not operate against those who have regularly de-
clared their intentions to become citizens of the
United States. Aliens now in the service shall
not be permitted to re-enlist after the expira-
ton of their present term of enlistment unless
they qualify themselves by naturalization. The
personnel Of the United States Navy is said to be
largely alien the present time, and it has been
asserted that the American language is hardly
ever heard on board American ships.
Among the aspirants for the vacant Judge
ship that will occur this winter in Warren
county are Judge Garfield, Dir. Bergen and ex-
Sheriff Van Campen- All are good men,
General Grub is to be invited to attend the
banquet and ball at the inauguration of Cover
nor-elect Albeit, with his daughter Effie.
The old Trenton Academy Society has been
disso lived, and the $81, 900 receivedfo for sale of the
property has been ordered divided among the
stockholders.
The Freshmen of Rutgers College attempted
to have a class picture taken by Patch at New
Brunswick Thursday, but were not particularly
successful. When the members of the class had
arranged themselves in a group the Sophomores
bore down upon them and scattered them to the
four winds. The Freshmen were soon grouped
again, when just at the critical moment a
shower of water descended upon the class from
the third story of Queens College. Other at
tempts to have the photograph taken were in
terrupted by showers of door mats and chips
until all but one of the plates were used. Just
as the cap was removed for this a bushel of corn
cobs was dumped on the students; and the plate
showed these and the Disguised faces of the
Freshmen with great distinctness. The attempt
to obtain a picture was then given up in despair.
The field and STAFF of the First Regiment gave
Colonel Campbell a dinner at Davis restaurant,
Newark, on Thursday evening, and presented
him with a handsome piano lamp.