The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-19
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

Mr.. and Mrs, Charles s. Furst and daughter
Ruth, have varied their programme this year
for enjoying their summer recreation, and in
stead of settling in one place for the season
have started in July ] with two weeks each, at
the West End Hotel, Long Branch, then at the
Prospect House, Bay Shore, Long Island
the season at the Grand Union Hotel, Saratoga.
Mr.. Furst reports deriving great benefits from
judiciously using the waters.
Egg Harbor City's population increased $50
since 1880.
Fire from a gasoline stove Thursday damag ed
Thomas Sharp's house at Vineland.
The new beach pavilion and railway station
attached TO the Cape May Point Home were
opened with interesting exercises Thursday.
Part of a needle which ran into the right foot
of Mrs. Archibald Mccall, of Camden, five years
ago, came out at her right elbow on Thursday.
John Lang, Of Egg Harbor City, captured a
big pine snake Thursday, making fourteen of
the reptiles he has secured this suHmeI
An election to settle the question of whether
liquor shall be sold under q license fee OF less
than $1,000 will be held in Lawrence and Downe
townships, Cumberland county, on August &c.
1t will be the first under the Werts law.
Donald Mackay, president of the National
Bank recently organized at Englewood. has
bought two lots on Paiisade avenue, on Which
rumor says an elegant home for the bank will
be built.
The annual picnic of the Burlington County
Grangers. under the auspices of Columbus
Grange, will be held at Browns Mills-in-the-
Pines on August 20
as foilows:-New Jersey-H. G. Young. Murray
Fill; Constant lie Due, Paisley; H.. G. Heide,
South Atlantic City.
President Gates, of Rutgers College, is to meet
a committee of the trustees of Amherst College
this week to announce his decision on the call
extended to him recently to the presidency of
that institution. In case Or. Gates leaves
Rutgers a probable successor to the presidency
10 Tr Algtiu Scott who now 0pcIIDias the chair
of history and eonStltutional law at the college.
A preliminary &junction has been granted
Miss Mary A. Tayf0r, of Gloucester. prevent ing
the sale Of three houses Of that place valued at
S., GOO. The houses belonged to the estate of the
late Treasurer Green, but Miss Taylor claims
them on the grouud that Mr.. Green had present
ed them to her before his death. The deed was
never recorded, and it is the opinion among
many lawyers thai it is therefore null.
For years it has been the custom of Thomas
b. Pebble g. Co, the Newark trunk and bag
manufacturers, to give their employees a days
vacation every summer at the firms expense.
On Saturday the workmen of the firm, with
their antilles and friends to the number of ! 500,
went to the Atlantic Hotel, South Beach, S. J.,
bills for boats, music and dinner, besides allow
ing the men their days wages. James A. Bai-
mister, the shoe manufacturer. also gave his
employees an excursion to Bay Cliff. Over one
Thousand persons participated.
The Special Tax Commission appointed to re-
wise and equalize the existing tax laws and re-
port to the next Legislature expects to begin a
tour of the State on or about September 10.
Public hearings will be given to the several
cities and the important question will be con
sidered with all its local bearings.
The New Jersey farmers are endeavoring to
have q place assigned them for the exhibition of
farm products in the museum that is to be
placed in the quarters now occupied by the State
Library at Trenton The exhibit made at the
Centennial is at The State Arsenal, and they
want this put OF exhibition as a nucleus.
A NAVY Mathodict church will ba dodiootad ~
Seabright on Sunday. The church is free of
debt.