The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-09
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

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Westfeld is planning for a large and handsome
brick clubhouse, with library, bowling alley,
tennis lawn, billiard room and ball grounds.
Articles of incorporation of the New England
Brewing Company have been filed in the County
Clerks office. The corporation is to do business
in Massachusetts and has a capital of 81 ,500,0 900.
Anderson Price, of Rutherford, is the only Jer-
seyman in the concern.
The Citizens ticket won at Red Bank on Mon
| day over a regular ticket for Commissioners
The usual primary was run by the Uptown
Gang and the ticket was almost entirely DEM
o~cratic. There was dissatisfaction, and q half
dozen prominent men selected a Citizens ticket.
The latter ticket was popular, as most of the
voters are against the management of primaries
by any clique. The Citizens ticket was elected
by a majority of s32, the total vote being $50.
Mayor Van Cleef complains of too many sa~
looms in New Brunswick.
The Peddie Institute graduating class this
year will be the largest In its history.
The Passaic Council has decided to buy the
Paulison Castle property for public purposes at
a cost of $4,000.
The NeaD Jersey STANDARD, q weekly paper,
which has been published at Red Bank for
thirty-five years, was sold on Monday by its
owner, st. George kempson, to David Bell, of
Matawan.
Bishop Turner, who presided over the African
Methodist Conference at New Brunswick, COM
plains bitterly because a number of delegates
who wished lodgings for themselves. and families
at the hotels have had great difficulty in obtain
ing any kind Of quarters because of the preju-
dice against colored people in that city.
A jealous Christian woman in a PIainfeld
prayer meeting a few evenings ago prayed earn
estly that the Lord would convert those poor,
miserable sinners who play dominoes and check
ers for a pastime,n and several in the gathering
cried Amen
The Paterson Board of Trade has decided to
take definite steps to force the Dundee Canal
Company to do its part of the work of making
navigable the Passaic river. Ex-senator Griggs,
counsel for the Navigation Committee, will be
| c,,ac cd IN ndyfca fha hact notIrca IN rtrrc,xa ~,
compelling the Dundee Company to live up to its
obligations.
The May term of the Monmouth County Court
opened on Tuesday, Chief-Justice Beasley pre-
| siding. The principal business of the court was
the examining of license applications. Out of
300 applications only sixty were granted, the
others being either laid over or refused. All of
the Long Branch hotel and saloon license APP
plications were laid over.
During a thunder shower lightning struck the
house Of G. Bennett, near Eatontown. The
lightning entered the roof and stunned a young
lady sleeping In a room below. a picture on
the wall was shattered and nothing left of it
but a few pieces of glass. The glass had been
melted and the scorched semblance of a well
shaped human hand was left where the picture
had hung.
A syndicate has been formed of New York,
Elizabeth and Brooklyn capitalists, with the OBJ
iect Of securing a franchise to build an electric
railway in the northern part of Elizabeth. There
are already three. other companies in the field
who want precisely the same territory through
which to run horse railroads. The syndicate,
however. processes to have the consent of a
majority OF the properly owners concerned.
The report which the Elizabeth Board of
Trade intends to present to the Union county
Freeholders relative to the work being done on
the county roads, severely condemns the man
ner in which the paving of Morris and Railway
avenues is being performed. The Morris avenue
Job Is characterized by the Board as a waste OF
money. 1t is alleged that the engineer APP
pointed to superintend the work is rarely at his
post and that the inspectors are all young and
inexperienced men, who are practically at the
mercy Of the contractor.