The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-21
OUT ON THE ROAD.
People and Things Seen
About on a Spring
Sunday.
VIEWED FROM THE HEIGHTS.
A Panorama Of the Bay Caught
While the Sun Was Shining.

more perfect day than yesterday was.
The weather was so genial and inviting
that it filled every church in the morning
and every promenade in the afternoon.
Everybody who had an Easter outfit was
out, but here and there an unfortunate
could be found whose Easter rig comes
on the Fourth of July--or some other
| day. No one could stay in doors who had
the physical ability to get outside and
look in the windows of their neighbors'
houses while walking down the street.
Jersey City has never been able to sue
cessfully prove to the unsuspecting pub
! lie chat there is not a single street in Il on
| which a man may take his trotter and
come home really pleased with his drive,
1 but even this fact did not prevent hu3-
dreds of people from trying their luck q.
| escaping loose stones on Garfield avenue
and the Old Bergen Plank road yester-
| day, by going to the Shore House, or
| Charlie Nunn's for some oysters. or from
crossing the Kill Won Kull to Staten
Island, where delightful roads are IN
abundance.
While enjoying the delightful weather
it suddenly occurred to me that perhaps
| some Of the ghosts that roam about the
New York Bay Cemetery, vainly endeav-
oring to settle the dispute among Peter
1
| with the pleasant sun and instead
OF wandering about at mid
| night make change and skip around In
broad day light to give a fellow a chance
to look at them. For that reason went
! to the cemetery and in the course Of human
events expect to get to cemetery again
unless the wide ocean should suddenly
| deprive this city of my valuable assist
i ance.
Garfield avenue runs through the ceme-
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over tt disturb the bones of those who
have ceased to go to horse races and out
| for pleasure. But yesterday there were
| no trucks, and the ghosts were not dis
turbed, and failed to see single one
! during the three hours wandered on the
! avenue.
/ Something else of interest," however, I
did see, and that was men, women and
children out driving. The men were Of
all sorts and descriptions, young. old and
willing to be young-the same might b6
safely said of the women.
4 One of the first I noticed was C.. H
Johnson, the tinsmith. He had with him
his wife and drove good road horse, but
not a trotter He had scarcely passed by
when Fred Klein, the insurance man,
trotred past he bowed and resumed his
survey Of the bay, which presented a
beautiful aspect from that spot. The
i water was deep blue in hue, and from
Caven Point TO Constable Hook small
craft of all descriptions could be seen near.
the Jersey shore, while in the distance,
steamers and coasters were constantly
passing to and fro, making one continual
and beautiful moving panorama
The next pleasure seeker to drive by
was Street Superintendent Phil Tumulty.
He had surrey and his family filled it.
Soon after Assemblyman John b. Kelly
fitted by behind trotter that meanL
business, and then Undertakers Moran
and McNulty, rivals in business and
friends otherwise, went scooting along
behind a fine bay mare. just behind
them came ex-Sherif Heintze and family
in surrey drawn by sturdy but
sedate horse, and but a short time after
4 President John p. Feeney, accompanied
by Police Captain Christy Smith, had q
brush with John Boyd, who had Lady
with him. Following them came DR..
Neyins and Freeholder Hennessey. and
then on the sidewalk passed George Bow
ley and John w. Aymar on bicycles.
They had hardly gone out of sight when
County superintendent Cannon and fam
lily trotted by closely followed by William
Montgomery. Henry Wood in a buggy
fitted by and ex-Alderman SteltLaan with
his family, in a landau, passed by, and
then / saw Fred Ballard behind q 2s30
mare doing her best to get Fred down to
Bergen Point for dinner.
Jaky Cornell and his wife were next in
line and Jake drove horse that can do
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Fred Payne and family also took =
drive and SO did Butter Dealer Thrasher.
Grocer julius Witpen gave his family an
airing in landau and they appeared to
enjoy the prospect of oysters at the Shore
House. John Brinkman and Fred Hauck,
carriage manufacturers, advertised their
work behind beautiful pair of blacks,
but Samuel Larry, the expressman, passed
hem without trouble.
p. j. Condor with friend trotted
merrily along and had some oysters and
''blue paper" at Charlie Munn's. and
John Mosher, in different sort of a
wagon that he uses nightly, appeared to
enjoy the drive.
The man who looked happiest was the
ii Rev. DR.. De Concillio. He was Id s :
buggy with Ed. Croke and the horse was
able tto get there" Following them
were George Williamson and wife, and
| Just behind was c. ID. j. Noelke with his
family. Mr.. Noelke looked magnificent
! in his new white box coat. John A. VIII
and his family also went through the
4 ghostly grounds, but they were passed by
Harvey Marsh, who had bay trotter
/ that is a trotter. | also noticed John r.
J Shannon and Mrs. Shannon in a buggy
J | enjoying the sweets of life.
! What saw while among the dead and
living convinced me that q boulevard
cannot be built too soon. There were
many people who wanted to speed their
horses that feared to do SO, owing to the
: bad road.