The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-02
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE

five villages, and the business has nearly doubled
in the past four years.
Horseback riding has become quite the fad
in Passaic with the young people, and there are
some excellent riders among them. 1t is almost
needless to say that their faces are tinged with
the rosy glow of health that this sport induces.
III is no unusual thing to see parties of six and
eight on the road at a time, and many pleasant
br5ishes take place in the course of these rides.
The sport is certainly getting very fashionable
there.
"a Now would be a good time for the Ocean
I county Freeholders to remind Senator Blodgett
of his promise to make a span in the railroad
bridge over Shark River. The trains are not so
numerous at this season as to prevent the work
being done, and unless something is < done soon
the river, the great attraction of the place, will
have been completely ruined, and property will
depreciate in value and the county will lose con-
siderable by way of taxes. 1t is too bad that
such a productive and beautiful sheet of water
should be ruined, when a very little expense
wonld save it. The oyster ground is well nigh
destroyed and scarcely q fish can get into the
river.
Mayor Male, Of PlainHeld, organized the first
fire engine company in .Jersexs City That was
away back in the thirties.. This item will
interest the people of Plainheld and Jersey City
and possibly the firemen about the State, but
what will interest perhaps the entire country is
the forgotten fact that he designed the plans
for the ferry bridges upon which so many mill
lions of people pass to and from on ferry boats,
and planned them SO well that no material i'm
proyement has been found during the many in
terveulng years. They show that the active old
gentleman's head was as level then as it is today,
when he, nearly half through the eighties, is
s~tillllale and vigorous, as we all hope he may
long continue to be, a blessing to the commu-
nifty.
Englewood is anxious to assume the dignity of
a long article by an expert, discussing both sides
of the question: Next month Luther Schafer,
first Mayor of Bergen's only borough, will ad-
dress the people Of Englewood and tell them
about the delights of borough government. Mr..
Schafer is a specialist on boroughs and mayoral-
ties; he is also a liberal talker. and will give En-
glewood all the information he possesses.
There is considerable talk in Hackensack
about a notice printed in one of the local papers
that application will be made to the Legislature
to increase the salary of the Prosecutor Of the
Pleas in Bergen county. 1t is said that Prose-
NutOi Shhpbcl Will U dGC6pb TcdppOlntluelG
at the present salary, $500, and that his success
sor would be Peter W., Stage, who has consider
able criminal practice, has acted as Prosecutor
occasionally when Mr.. Campbell had other
pressing business, and is a young man of am
bilious tendencies and push. Some of the polit-
ical leaders in the Democratic party are averse
TO according MIR. Stage the prominence he would
attain as Prosecutor, hence they will endeavor
m tatniu Mr. Cannpbplt nv addinr %S0O 20 III,
salary.
A large number of his friends have urged Mr..
Stephen Wiseman to be a candidate for Sheriff
of Passaic, next fall and Mr.. Wiseman has taken
the matter into consideration with the probabil-
ity that he will accept. He thinks that he can
sweep Pompton, of which he is mayor at present,
and he has every confidence in his ability to
carry the Sixth Ward.
Ex-senator Crowell Marsh, of Princeton. has
secured the elegant country seat near Princeton,
omprising 100 hundred acres of rich farming
land with extensive buildings, spacious grounds
and residence, formerly the home Of the late
Paymaster j. S. Gulick. Mr.. Marsh and family
will occupy their new property the, coming
spring,
The merchants of Bridgeton, as well as of other
places in South Jersey feel keenly the effects OF
the glassolowers' troubles in a financial way.
1t is related that a Camden man, suspecting
that his wife was playing detective on him. and
finding himself followed by q yelled lady, bought
hastily some antique eggs and pelted the yelled
figure with them. The lady was not bis wife.
Tableau.
After thirty-seven years service as editor of tn Q
Warren County Journal Adam Bells lays down
his pen and turns the paper over to Martin
SiInerson, his grandson, an enterprising young
democrat. Mr.. Bells writes q valedictory
which is touching in its simple modesty. He
says;-'Itis with great reluctance, indeed, that
we take this course. After having been a news
paper publisher for thirty-seven years, and here
in Warren county for nearly twenty-three
years OF the time, we are thankful for the EN-
enlargement we have received all these years,
and here in Warren county we have been aided
by our party in many ways, that gave us much
encouragement. = Among the reasons for
our taking this course are, we have rounded
seventy-seyen years. hearing poor, and getting
a little lazy, aud. perhaps, somewhat doty, and
knowing full well that the Journal needs
younger blood to keep it up to the required
standard Mr.. BELLS win be followed into bis
retirement by the cordial good wishes OF his
large circle Of readers and friends.