The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-12-07
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

c. Asa Francis, of Long Branch, has been
elected to the position of Secretary of the Long
Branch Board of Education, made vacant by the
death of ex-senator Thomas G.. Chattle.
The following fourth-class New Jersey Post
masters have been appointed :-R. L. Mcdowell,
Cranbury; j. W, Newell. Eatont own; B S.
Pearce, Manasqan; H. E. Hathaway, Monmouth
Junction.
Congressman Bergen will have quarters in
Washington at the Richmond during the session
of Congress.
Robert Sewell, of Camden, has been appointed
a cadet in the United States Military Academy.to
represent the First New Jersey District.
Department Commander George c. S. Bogert
presided over the fourth annual encampment Of
the department of New Jersey Sons of Veterans,
held at Hackensack Wednesday. After a supper
provided by the local post, the delegates assem-
.zed in Company Cs armory, where they held a
ball to raise money to buy a soldiers plot in
Hackensack Cemetery. An intermission was
taken during the ball to publicly install the
newly elected officers.
Ex-senator W. B. Miller, of Cape May, is re-
covering from a slight attack of paralysis.
No caucus of the Essex delegation to the Legis-
lature has been called yet, and it is hardly prob
able that one will take place until the night be-
fore the organization just before the general
caucus. Then the battle royal will be over the
office of Ssrgeant-at-Arms, for which Patrick H.
Corish, Adolph Holzner and William Harrigan
are candidates. The fight will be hot and hard
between Messrs. Corish and Holzner. William
e. Ross, of Sussex county, would like to be Ser
geant-at-Arm nm also, but will be content with be-
ing made assistant unless the Speakership
should go to Essex, something that seems TO be
rather improbable.
Postmaster John Engel, of Hackensack, has
been notified by the department that free deliv-
cries will be granted to that Town as soon as
possible.
The following anecdote is told by the Newark
EceniR0 Netrs; it is probably less true than
amusing is a boy in a Newark private
school who seems conversant with local history,
although young in years. Yesterday the teacher
WAS putting the youngsters Of the class through
their lessons relative co the rulers of the United
States and cities. "Who is the Mayor of Newark
and what are his duties?' was the question.
Mayor Haynes, commonly called Picnic Joe,' -
came the ready answer; land his duties is
shootin' at targets and eatin' with soldiers"
The answer as to the duties, according to the
lesson, should have been ITO enforce the laws of
the city as enacted by Councils and the laws of
the State" having a local bearing.
There are only two members in the fight for
| the presidency Of the Senate. Senator Henry II.
| Nevius, of Monmouth, and Senator George 4.
| Cranmer, OF Ocean. Senator A. f.. r. Martin
| will be content with the Craftsmanship of the
Municipal Corporation Committee, to which he
is entitled by virture of the fact that he is the
the only Republican representing a large city.
Senator Edward T. Mcdonald, Of Hudson, also
wants a place ON this committee.
The Newark Free Library has now been open
seven weeks and not a single book out of the
large number issued has been stolen or multi
ated, and most of them have been returned in
as good order as they were in when taken out,
Sixty-eight and one-half per cent. of the
volumes taken are fiction, and the remainder
principally scientific works.
The residents of L~indenwold are complaining
Of the unhealthy condition of the place, ocea
sioned by a large pool Of water on the south side
Of the railroad. The water is said to have deyel
oped malaria to an alarming extent. One family
n the past three months has expended over 500
in doctors bills. Superintendent Dayton, OF the
Camden ana Atlantic Railroad, offered to con
struct a drain under the roadbed to the nortl
side of the track if the residents of the plac'
would lay a drain from the railroads. property
to a natural waterway $50 feet beyond, but whit
some are willing to accept the offer others ar,
indifferent to or oppose the offer.
The. Hudson River Tunnel Company has con
tracted for an enormou cast iron pipe to hol(
Up the mud under the river while The workmei
are digging the tunnel. The pipe is known as
shield by tunnel builders. It will be forced int
the mud by hydraulic pressure. Worknen vii
then dig out the mud inside of it until the,
reach the end, when it will be driven ahea,
again. Up to Tuesday 2,os5 feet had been dul
on the Jersey side of the river, and on the Ney
York side 200. WORK on the New York end /