The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-03-16
ABOUT THE CITY,
The Condensed Pirate Does
Up His Fellow Citizens
in Rainbow Co10TS.
PAULus HOOK ERs.


President SomeTs, of the Street and
Water Board. while stalking through the
marsh of the South Cove grant Monday
directing the gang Of workmen employed
in fence building operations reinlhuseA
one of pictures of Napoleon dragging ms
artillery out of the mud, just before tne
battle of Waterloo.
After SO many chestnut stories OF ex-
cited individuals buzzing around a letter
box for fire alarm, it is hard to pelieve
that Clerk McCutcheon, of the City Cot
lectcr's ONCE, should mistake the letter
box III front OF the City Hall for one, when
he found Doyle's saloon aiife IueSusy
morning: bnt Mr. McCutcheon tells the
Joke upon himself, and as his deep admir-
sttion for the resort which Mr.. Dsyle had
made SO attractive TO thirsty politicians IS
theme OF his own, his story must De
credited.
Il IS difficult to say exactly whether
some of the men employed at work on the
new Police Headquarters building drive
the majority of spileS in the BARRIERS cell
lar or Jake kramer's saloon.
Inspector Lange. of the Police Depart
ment objects strenuouSIT to having any
one doubt his word. The Inspector prldes
himself upon being man in every sense
of the word, hates a har, and would ngnt
IN q minute the man who would attempt
TO place him in that detestable category
Mr.. Henry Bernstein, the polite and al
fable superintendent of Proprietor Gus
taye Metzier's Boston Clothing House,
has been mistaken upon more than one
ball room occasion for French dancing
master
Proprietor Newman, of Cooper Hall. it
is said. has organized a staff Of assistants
and walters for his ballroom patrons who
have assumed military titles. They are
as follows rigadiec General Joseph
A. Newman, Colonel" Isaac Newman,
4.Colonelu George Weisenberger. Major
William Gernant, Captain james Matt,
Lieutenant, ]. Ehrman, Sergeant Y.
Goldstein, s'Corporals - C. Biuggel and q.
The balls given during the past week
at Woods Hall aud Cooper Hall have
been largely patronized, notwithstanding
tits Isent
His Honor, Mayor Cleveland, is becom-
Ing quite frisky in his old age. During
the past few weeks he attended many of
the social entertainments in the city. He
hoves in sight with the regularity Of the
boy on the wooden horse of a Merry-go-
round"
A few more such improvements as the
Thayer building would add immensely to
the metropolitan appearance OF Mont
aonlery street.
Two men were overheard discussing
the other day the methods of news gath
ering adopted by the Journal, which
made quite a story out of the death of a
railroad brakeman in Kentucky and dis
posed of the death Of brakeman who
was buried in the river beneath three
cars, almost within stones throw Of the
Office, in three lines.
President Thurston, of the Park Conn
1ufssiDners, has met more real estate
agents since he agreed to accept the posi-
ton than he ever dreamed were in Jersey
City.
L is stated that Martin Ward ence gave
= warrant i've cents. The report has
never been verified.
Bob Shaw with whfskers resembles
forest filed with an underground of
bushes and briars Take shave, Bob,
and make a barber happy.
There is . no more popular host ii this
state than George De Revere His is an
open house to all his friends, and anyone
who has been to Taylor's Hotel knows
what that means.
that he does not own Jersey City. This
Is sad, for should it become known that
he cannot block up street, it might in
jure his business.
John Il. M. Kayl0r, recently assistant
clerk of the Board of Finance, is now en-
ployed as a Pullman car conductor be-
tween Kansas City and San Francisco.
While Chick" Welsh was busily en-
gagged a few days ago in examining q
handful of shamrock that had been sent
him from Ireland and wondering how he
should display it St. Patriek's Day, man
entered the station house, saw what he
Deutschs' Welsh nearly tainted, but.
grasping the loved shamrock tightly but
lovingly, he replied:-..Nix come arousev
and the German mad a fit