The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-06
NEWS OF H0B0KEN.
YESTERD4Y,S W1RM WE1THER
BRINGS CROWDS TO THE CITY.

DAkAAtO 70 C1COHDo ~ III C1LLs
The River Walks Were Gay with Young
P-eopic-Success of Madam Jurisch's
Concert and Fair-The Cobine Case in
the Council.
Judging from the vast crowds of
humanity that visit Hoboken on Sun
day there must be some strong attrac-
ton. At both Jacobs and Cronheiln's
excellent performances were given,
and there was as much beer put away
as will be consumed in the balance of
the week. Thousands of people anne
owe from New York on the Pennsyl-
vania, Christopher and Fourteenth
street ferries. Then the masses divided
and went in different directions.
Union Hill and Jersey City Heights
were the destinations of q portion OF
the people, but the majority of them
stayed right in Hoboken.
The little city has a reputation, and
one that she is proud Of. No other
city would be proud of it, but He-
boken is peculiar. The destinations
OF most of the thousands were SOME OF
the three hundred saloons that Ho-
boken possesses although only about
seven-eighths of q mile square. Many
weary New York toilers ONE over to
picnic in the picturesque and histori-
cal old Elysian Fields, and they are
the same people who every Sunday
pay the ferry company six cents,
which is the entire cost of their out
ing. Armed with baskets, which con-
tain very substantial ! lunches,
the mother gathers under
her wing her brood Of chicks, and to
Hoboken they come for a days enjoy
ment. With what regret that woman
sees her most luxuriant picnic ground
being gradually lessened in size to
make way first for the excavator and
after him the builderl Slowly but
surely the grounds are going which
now prove a benefit to hundreds of
poor people who cannot afford to go
elsewhere.
The River Walk has one perpetual
stream of pedestrians. Here again
are the children, enjoying themselves
to their hearts content ON this happy
spring Sunday. Some of them are sit
ting on the messy rocks, letting the
waves ripple over their feet. Some
chubby young rascals have borrowed
their neighbor'sdog, and are endeavor-
ing to push the animal into the water.
He comes out some yards further up,
and proceeds to shake himself over a
pretty girls red dress, as she in slowly
p~romenading with her sweetheart.
The girl looks annoyed, but the young
man looks daggers at the dog, which
has crouched into some nook, as if in
fear of being sem into the water
again. 4
BY SYPHILIS cave there is a restaurant
which dispenses beer, cakes and ice
cream and bottles of soft stuff 1t
has covered benches for the customers,
and every seat is engaged and several
people are waiting their turn. From
here the view is pretty. Passing to
and fro along the river are myriads of
rowboats and yachts. In the row.
boats are boys of all ages, some of
whom are experts at aquatic exercises
and others are clumsy. There is only
one accident, whereby three boys get
a dipping. They are none the worse
for it, as they are dragged into some
other boat, and when they are taken
ashore declare they are the coolest
boys in the gang. Policeman Dan
Fenton is deputed to the post, and is
quite busy keeping the mob of small
boys in order.
1t would not be fair to mention the
boys and babies and not say a word
about the girls who were there in
countless numbers, and were really
the life of the scene. There were lots
of beautiful girls, dressed in pretty
and MANY colored dresses. There were
yellow dresses, blue, pink, green,
brown, red, black, and other colors
which a man cannot be expected to
know.
Up at the end ofthe walk, near the
Elysian Fields, the New Jersey Yacht
Club boys were having their own kind
Of a Sabbath observance. The boat
clubs also had a great mafiy boats on
the water. And so it went on through
the day, but at about eight o'clock the
walk was clear, except for a few stray
Cling couples, who were billing and
cooling in the Lovers Bower
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