The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-21
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.


For several days the woods which surround
the Tumbling dam, some distance from Bridge
ton, have been robbed of timber. Friday night
the woods were set on fire, burning considerable
of the underbrush and spreading toward the
pike, where there are several dwellings, before
it was put out.
A farm near Pennington, that cost its owner a
few years ago $1s,5sO was sold Monday, March
81, for $500.
]. c. Pumpelly, president of the New Jersey
Society of tho Sons of the American Revolution,
delivered an address before the Massachusetts
Society at Lexington. Mass, on Saturday, the
occasion being the 114th anniversary of The Bat
tie of Lexington.
Much dissatisfaction prevails among the
militiamen in Elizabeth over the recsnt orders
issued by General Plume doing away with the
annual reginental inspection. The guardsmen
object to being deprived of the only day in the
year when they could all meet together and
have. a regimental drill.
Three boys ran away in their snowy uniforms
from the Haddonaeld Military Academy last
Wednesday and got as far as East Camden,
where kind-hearted Baker, Clymer took them in
and fed them. Learning their tale OF woe, a
mingling Of military anil civic discipline that
made life a burden, he sent word to Haddonfield
and the embryo soldiers were taken back to
school in tears.
The teamsters working for Shandley & Bro,
the Elizabeth contractors, who are building the
county road from Elizabeth to Railway, struck
Thursday for an advance of 81 per day. New
men will take the strikers places.
Prosecutor Gourley, of Passaic, has refused to
audit Recorder Greaves' last bill for fees for
issuing warrants and taking dispositions. The
Recorder has always received these fees,
amounting to between $500 and $500 a year, but
the Prosecutor has discovered that a law pas sed
in 1888 deprives Recorders or Police Justices of
such perquisites. The Board of Aldermen has a
right, under an existing law, to increase the
Recorders salary to 81, 300 a year, and this will
probably be done.
The New Jersey A. NJ. L. Zion Conference at
the Willow Street Church, Trenton, Saturday
listened to the presiding elders reports. In the
afternoon the various committees met and con-
suited upon the work consigned to their care.
In the evening the Rev. Elijah Hammet, Of
Jersey City, delivered an earnest address to a
large congregation.
Benjamin Van Brunt, of Seabright, has a con-
tract to build a pier for George F. Baker, presi
49, - ~ - 0tiOh1 ou14As u "a
opposite his summer residence at Monmouth
Beach. The pier win extend into the ocean 800
feet and will be eight feet wide. Mi. Baker will
use the pier for fishing purposes and the outer
extremity will be fitted up as a pavilion. The
pier will also be fitted up for landing his hand
some pleasure yacht. Van Brunt has a ontract
TO build a similar pier for ex-senator Garrett A.
Hobart and William Barbour, of Paterson, for
the benefit of themselves and families.
A joint building committee from the lodges of
Free Masons in Paterson, has accepted plans for
q Masonic temple. The land has alIeady been
bought for So. O00, and the cost of the site and
building will be $102, 900.
The Princeton Freshman class has agreed
upon class caps and canes. The canes will cost
S. each. The stick is French crab with a silver
cord running around from the head, which is
plain, over eight inches down the cane. The cap
selected is a yachting cap with an orange band
n front. and the monogram sP. C., 49," in
orange.
The Elizabeth River is lined with boats, loaded
with hemp and other stock for the use of the
cordage works, on Elizabeth avenue. This looks
Ike -resIn,inS business, after sixteen weeks,
idleness.
AT the Red Bank Odd Fellows celebration on
April % veterans jewels will be presented to
Captain John A. Worthley. Collector Esek
White, John Sutton and James S. Throckmor-
ton.
A meeting of the surviving commissioned and
nen-commissioned officers of the Twenty-ninth
Regiment, New Jersey Volunteers, will be held
in the arnory, at Keyport, on April 20, at ten
a. m.
The Hackensack Republican says:-''No build
ing for residence ever put up in Paterson has
called forth such varied criticism as the block Of
elegant houses built for Mr.. Peter Quackenbush,
corner of Broadway and Carroll street. Pater-
son has not, until very lately, been accustomed
to much variety in architecture, hence the I'M
usual appearance of the Queckenbush row has
excited much curiosity and comment. The
houses constantly improve on acquaintance, and
when entirely out of the builders hands and the
lawns made, their unique and refined appear
ance will contribute greatly toward the inn
provement of that neighborhood."