The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-04
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

A new steamboat is to be placed on Lake
Hopatcong, next season, twenty feet wide by
eighty feet long, carrying three hundred pas.
sengers. It will be light draught, and will run
down to the landing station and avoid the trip
up the canal and through the locks.
Fifteen liquor.shop keepers and hotel men
have paid 500 each into the Plainfield City
Treasury for license fees, and they will, accord
ingly, renew the sale of liquor, which has been
restricted for one year. Many handsome hotel
bars have been put in. one bar alone costing. it
is said, 5000.
A railway is proposed along Saddle River.
Justice Gage, of Dover, has been fined $500
for nlalfeasance in office.
William Clark, of Elizabeth, has been APP
pointed receiver Of the City Railroad of New
Brunswick.
At the Republican City Convention held at At
lantic City, the following nominations were
made:-For Mayor, the incumbent, Samuel D.
Hoffman; Recorder, Joseph r. BARTLETT; Alder
man, Robert Strand; Treasurer, Chalkley s
Leeds; Assessor, Henry Wooton; Collector of
Taxes, james Stoks; Councilman-at-L.arge, j. G.
~Frambes; City Marshall, A. T.sFaunee; Overseer
of the Poor, Henry @. Norman. The election
takes place on March II next.
City Solicitor Frank Bergen, of Elizabeth, has
resigned that position and Frederick C. Mars has
been elected to fill the vacancy.
County Clerk Jonathan Hand, of Cape May
rounded out his full fifty years of service in that
Office, when he relinqulshed it to his successor,
Edward L. Rice.
The Kruger Ice Company was Incorporated in
Newark, Saturday, with a capital stock of $780,,
900. The corporators are Gottfried Kruger,
Peter Hauck, Michael L. Barrett and Edward
Schichhaus.
A pigeon shooting match for $3.50 a side be
tween Assemblyman Campbell, Of Long Branch,
and Colonel Frederick q. Loeb, of Philadelphia.
took place Saturday cd the grounds of the Cen
trail Gun Club at Long Branch. The conditions
of the match were fifty birds each, az twenty
eight yards rise, under the American Club rules.
Mr.. Campbell won the match, killing forty-three
birds, to thirty-four killed by Colonel Loeb.
The political fight for the Democratic nomina-
ton for Mayor in Orange is getting hotter and
hotter, and there is at the present time a pros
pect that there will be three tickets in the field,
a straight Democratic one, with Alderman Miles
A. Hanchett at the head; a straight Republican
one, headed by Joseph B.. Bray, and a ''citi-
zens' . ticket, which will be headed by the pres
emit Mayor, George H. Hartford.
Camden night schools have closed.
Westmont and Collingswood are to get water
from Haddonfield's works.
The price of ice has been advanced to 81 for
100 pounds in Piainheld
Arthur Cramer, about eighteen years old.
while working on a roof in Beverly, Friday,
struck his knee accidentally with a mallet, from
the pain of which he tainted and rolled from the
roof to the ground below and was seriously in
jured.
In the sales at auction on Saturday of securi-
ties on the New York Real Estate Exchange
were S 5000 city Of Elizabeth consolidated seven
per cent. bonds at 100 I-2.
1t was stated on creditabIe authority, Satur-
day, in Newark, that the Philadelphia syndicate
which recently purchased the lines of the Essex
Passenger Railway system, had concluded an
arrangement for the purchase OF the Newark
and Elizabeth line and the Orange CroSstown
line. This purchase. if contaminated, will give
the syndicate entire control of the existing street
railroad lines in Newark, Bloomfield, Orange,
Montclair, Belleville, East Orange, South Or
ange and Irvington. A new line, to be known as
the rapid Transit road, is now in course Of
construction IN Newark.