The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-07-13
HARsIMUs KINKS.

James Roche is probably the closest
reader of political news in the city.
General Passenger Agent Newman,
of the Erie Depot. says Greenwood
Lake and Shohola Glen are becoming
more and more popular as Sunday
retreats for Jersey City people. The
excursion trains are always crowded.
Captain Christy Smith is signing
for the erection of a cologne factory
in the neighborhood of the Grove
street police station.
The sunken lots in the vicinity of
upper Fourteenth street should be
filed in. 1t is wonderful that they
have not had pestilential diseases in
the days gone by; still that does not
indicate they will always prove harm
less.
Charlie Noelkess flowers bloom as
they have always bloomed in summer,
and his front yard is the most pic
turesque in the neighborhood.
Bartender William Laverty, of the
Park House, demonstrated his pop
ularity when he and his bride We're
serenaded by $50 friends Thursday
night, many of whom were members
of the Union Club.
Justice of the Peace w. D. Connell
is nursing a corporation; so is Under
dertaker Michael J. Boylan.
The Park House is a veritable rem
devious for ring politicians. Feeney,
Mclaughlin and Connolly and other
ring lights spend many an evening
amid the jovial companionship of the
Union Club members.
The Second precinct police are
knocking the stuffing out of the gangs
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that section for the past few years.
1t is anticipated that ex-PoIice Com
missioner Tom Nugenr, the newly
appointed sergeant at the Grand
street police station. with his new uni
form. will Inonopolize the chances of
the entire array of Grove street bellies.
Justice Zarechi refust to talk poll
tics last Tuesday.
Charlie Baker allowed barber to
snapper his hair, and now his heads
| full OF flies.
Johnny Wiseman. the new clerk of
the Board of Education, is rapidly
getting there.
AROUND THE ELEVATOR.
Ex-Freeholder ADJ Smith, who
created such sensation some time
ago in the literary world with his
poem ON OSCILLATION, has foresworn
poetry forever and returned to his
former business. One of his jealous
rivals declared that he had given up
butchering poetry and had returned
to his legitimate business of butcher
ing cattle Like all men OF genius the
ex-Freeholder is not the least moved
by such sianderous remarks. 1t IS to
L L Ia hi. will 1sst
stick to his resolution and desert the
muse entirely, but will occasionally
refresh the public with his poetieal
gems
Gus Humbroch, the Franklin street
saloon keeper, has one of the finest
collection of paintings in the city.
They hang in his saloon and are adj
mired by visitors from far and near.
Gus himself is an enthusiastic camera
hend and has taken some really excel
lent photographs. His work does not
at all resemble the majority of the
blurs turned out by the average anna
teur photographer, but is as well exc
cuted and finished as much of the
professional work seen these days.
There are many people in Jersey
City who have an indistinct idea that
the Fourth district is the region OF
beer gardens and goats, picnics and
Iawlessness. They are not aware that
many of the more beautiful avenues
in the city are in this district, and
that it contains many mansions
beautiful from an architectural
point of view. There is no portion of
the city which affords finer view of
New York and the harbor than Pail
SADIE avenue in the vicinity OF the
elevated railroad station. From that
point, on clear day, an unobstructed
view can be had of the river and
lower bay to the narrows. 1t over
looks Hoboken and the lower portion
of Jersey City and commands all the
principle buildings of New York.
with the Brooklyn Bridge looming
up in the back ground.
One of the attractions of the Fourth
district now is Jack Dnnn's mustaclle.
1t is OF the most approved fashion
and Of silky brown. 1t is the spec
l,si admiration of the maidens Of that
section of the Hill and the envy of
every other man ia the district. The
next Attraction to Jacks mnstache is
the new and attractive manner in
which Alderman and Tax Commits
sioner Prigge parts his hair, although