The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-10-12

house. This was once the residence of
Mrs. Corbin, the sister of General q. S.
Grant. who was frequent visitor at the
place when 1t was his sisters honle.
General Grants niece Clara Cramer,
daughter of the ex-minister to Switzer-
land lived there with her aunt number
of years, and was well know in social
circles. A few years ago she mar
ried Partisan jew, and since
then has resided in Paris.
paused a moment at Baldwin avenue,
hesitating which way TO go. Then walk
ing down one block l again came TO Mag
nolia avenue. On the block between
Baldwin and Chestnut avenues are nu-
merouS pretty frame cottages with neat
yards about them. In their midst Is the
large elegant cottage of Frank Gallery,
with beds of late gay flowers about it,
The hall passes through the centre of the
house and is inlaid with blocks OF marble.
Next this residence but fronting on
Chestnut avenue is the handsome house
of Contractor Allen, whose pretty
daughter Laura is quite an expert horse
back rider.
ON PALIsADE AVENUE.
AS I passed this house l decided
to leave this part of the hill and
continue my walk along Palisade avenue
It requires but q short time TO reach this
avenue from Chestnut avenue, and when
rison estate, could not but reflect for a
moment about the past giories
of the McAdoo residence which adjoins
it, and was once one of the beauty spots
of this portion of the Heights 1t is now
a tenement and a most dilapidated one
The next noticeable place [ came to was
the tall square mastic house which
stands on the brow Of the hill and over
looks the lower part of the city and the
Bay. 1t was once the home of the Con-
gers CT Congers, Rockland Lake fame,
but has now become the property of
Henry Spielman. New York silk i'm
porter. The grounds about the house
are very beautiful, and the location adds
much TO the pleasantness OF the resi-
dence. There are large number of resi-
dences on this side of the avenue, all
with fine grounds carefully kept. The
most costly of this group of houses
is said to be the large Queen
Anne recently built by brother
OF the late Otto Witche. In this
cost nearly one thousand dollars, and the
other appointments of the residence are
quite as expensive. Farther on, on the
opposite side of the street, came to the
large square house of q peculiar yellow
fish brown color where the family of r.
II. Steel resides. The house seems much
too large for the grounds which surround
1T, but the interior is very beautiful. |
was now in sleepy Waveriy, as this part
of the city is known and the interia of
the place and the look of settled duliness.
convinced me the name is well de-
served Long before reached Reservoir
avenue | saw the immense brick house OF
Q. f. Staples made doubly conspicuous by
its white marble trimmings. It is direct
~ opposite the handsome cottage of ex-
Mayor Taussig, whose grounds adjoin
those of the well known Heppenheiine r
house. This latter is having extensive
repairs put upon it, although it seemed
to be perfection before. The exterior is
not particularly handsome, aud The house
is much too near the street to look we'll.
but within it is a marvel Of delight and
beauty. EIDDA.