The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-29
NEWS IN NOTES.

The consistory of the Bergen Reformed
Church has taken advantage of the vaca-
ton to have the church thoroughly reno
vated and the organ pipes reprinted.
Services will be resumed on Sunday, Au
GUST 81; Sunday school at half-past nine
=, m: regular services, at which the pas
tor will ~oficiate at eleven a. m. and halI-
past seven p. M.
THE front of the Title Guarantee Com
pany's building is beginning to rise from
the Montgomery street sidewalk WIN
great promise of grace n beauty. Inc
terra Gotta pillars to support the great
arch. which is to be the principal feature
OF the front, are beautifully moulded.
The water in the canal these times Is
abont the color of coffee with milk. A
rreasy scum floats on it. 1t has about as
unhealthy a look as one can well
imagine.
Turner & Benefits store is very strik-
ing in It's new dress of sky blue; but Us
car Wilde would have q ft if he saw 1t.
"Primary colors, faughr' says Lady Jane
in Patience"
The men who put up the new telegraph
pole on Oakland avenue have neglected
to relay the flags which they took up.
Has the Street and Water Board no sine
curist it could compel to watch such
work and prevent such outrages on the
public?
The box containing a lamp GU a Hobo
ken car fell to the floor while the car was
iolting over the car tracks at Grove street
this morning. No one was sitting pc
meath the box, and so no one but the car
company suffered.
THE receiving basins require attention.
Pools of filthy water lave formed at the
southeast corner of Gregory and Mont
gomery streets and the southwest corner
OF Montgomery and Hudson streets.
They have been there since the RAIN STORM
several days ago.
Grove street now is no better than IL
was before the street was patched up sew
eral months ago. Similar complaints have
been made about other streets which
have been patched. The query or the IN
terested citizens is, Does the Board EN-
ploy inferior workmen or is 1T anxious TO
convince property owners that the only
way to secure a decent street is to have it
repaved. not repaired.
Mrs. Aines Ryerson that was-she Sc
cured O. divorce from her
quietly married a few days ago at Asbury
Park. Many friends are surprised, as it
was understood that the wedding was not
to take place until next winter, and the
nuptiaI knot was to be tied in the First
Baptist Church. Her second husband Is a
well-to-do merchant.
T.. C. Brown & Co. will occupy the new
store fitted up US an annex to the old in q
few days. The repairs nave almost been
completed to the new store, which was
occupied for several years by Turner q
Bennell.
Assemblymau Mullone, who has been
at Asbury Park, is again in town, and
is looking after new theatre building.
The p. II. O'Neill Association will nave
its annual outing or September 10.
Duke & Ramsay. proprietors,, have IS
sued invitations to their friends and pa
irons to attend the opening of their new
ly renovated bowling alleys, billiard, pool
and sample rooms on Monday, September
/. Labor Day. Prize bowling from two
until twelve p. m, open to all boWlerS In
Hudson county.
The decorations in stone which beauti-
fy the archway above the doors of st.
MichaePs Home will repay inspection.
All the c~ulverts on Arlington avenue
beyond the railway bridge are stopped up
with the sand that many rains have
washed into them. They are absolutely
ignored by the Street and Water Board
sinecuristS.
The estimated cost of the improvements
to St. Francis Hospital is $3.50, 000.
There is a store on Hoboken avenue in
which cigars and ~gunpowder are sold
over the same counter.
Bottle Alley is again coming to the
front.
The eleven men who were engaged in
making a connection for a fire hydrant on
Pavonia avenue yesterday morning will
probably nn1Sl UnelE WOTK lOu&y.
The universality with which the ordi-
nance requiring lights to be placed on
street distractions at night is disregard
ed is attracting the attention of police
captains.
George Meyers, a small boy, residing
with his parents at No. go Gardner ave
nue, was jumping over some barrels near
his home yesterday, when he slipped ana
fell. He broke his arm and disIocated
his collar bone. He was taken home and
attended by DIR. Wilkinson.
Grocer Henry Offermann. of No. 121
York street, is worried over the loss of
an order book. The book was lost on
Grand street, between Warren street and
Jersey avenue, Tuesday. Mr.. Offermann
will make the person who found it a neat
present il it is returned to his store.
The Rev. James Smith, Joseph Smith.
and the Misses Mamie and Sadie Smith
will return from the Jatskills to-
morrow.
Superintendent Speicher, of the fire
telegraph, was busy today erecting a new
pole in front o. the County Jail, and
placing fire telegraph wire on it.
Sheriff Davis is expected home Satur-
day night or Monday morning. 1t is be-
lieved that with his arrival politics will
become lively.
The condition of West Newark avenue,
from Summit avenue 10 Tonnelle street,
is O disgrace TO this city. The holes in
the street are absolutely dangerous to all
compelled to drive on that thoroughfare.
Cornelius Reardon, an Erie Railroad
brakeman, was crushed between two
freight cars of tram No. 221 this morning
about nine o'clock. He suffered contu-
sion OF the head and chest and was taken
to St. Francis Hospital. where he now
lies.
About half-past eight this morning a
crate Of glass fell upon Michael Hicks, a
'longshorefnan employed at the Red
Star dock, crushing his leg. Hicks
was taken TO st. Francis Hospital.
George Meyer, of No. SO Gardner ave-
nue.. while jumping over some barrels
near his residence at ten minutes to one
p. M. last night, fell and crushed his
arm. He was attended by DR.. Wilkinson
and sent home.
LAFAYETTE.
Marcus Bollhardt. the builder who
threw up the contract for the new sta
ton house of the Fourth precinct police,
sailed for Europe yesterday on the Nor
MAMMA of the Hamburg line. A large