The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-01
ABOUT THE CITY.
The Condensed Pirate Does
Up His Fellow Citizens
in Rainbow Colors.
CITY HALL BLUFFS.

Whatever else 5uay be said of City Col
lector r. H. O'Neill no one will denv
that there is blunt honesty of purpose
Iii all his political transactions. Mr..
O'Neill was bred in a school which
teaches strong party utilization. His fight
tor the supremacy of his party in the
Board Of Alderman Tuesday night amid
the jibes and jeers of a Republican lobby
was noble one, despite the lack OF keen
edged rhetorical weapons and the en-
barrassmenb he must necessarily have
felt at the treachery of one of has party
colleagues.
Perhaps no one is more anxious for the
completion OF the new Police Headquar-
tiers Building than Justice Stilsing and
his court officers The crainped quarters
In lutte rear room buck OF the spacious
Coopers' Hall are not adequate Tor the
constantly increasing business transacted
In the First District Police Court. AS
soon as the doors are thrown open u curl.
ous throng of idlers surges In; nonopo-
Lies the few seats and packs the aisle
and entrance to the. exclusion. Of wit
nesses and even policemen. The latter
alone can make entrance to the room
after court Is called. Women Of refined
sensibllities who have the misfortune to
DO subp0ned as witnesses, even when
accorded q seat, are jostIed by crowd of
toughs, and u chagrined blush has more
than once been seen 10 mantle the face of
the Judge as he observed, perhaps, the
wrap or the bonnet OF some refined
woman half dragged from its wearer by
the jDstliiig OF the usual Police Court
lobby. Detective Bob Pearson, the eff
cient officer Of the court, deserves great
amount of credit for the order he keeps
under the existing circumstances.
1t is rumored about Police Headquar-
tiers that foot race has been arranged,
in which the three heavy-weights OF the
force will be the contestants. Billy Luy-
ster has reduced mis- weight TO 400
in anticipation of the match; Patroiman
Stuckey tips the beam now at $50. and
Patrolman Miller looks decidedly in trim
at $50. Betting is said to DO heavy in
favor of Luyster.
A gentleman wants to know if one-half
of Ien-dollar bill, containing the num-
Der and signature OF tbs United States
Treasurer IL altogether valueless.
Who would ever have thought that
John H. McCutcheon aspired to honors
in the baseball arena? And yet it Is said
the clerical force of the City Hall nine
depend almost entirely upon him TO knock
out the White Star nine In the match
that has been recently arranged.
The workmen who are laying the foun-
dation for the new Pennsylvania Railroad
station in this city are experiencing con-
siderable difficulty with the water which
pours into the trench with low tide. Two
powerful pumps are kept at work pump
Ing OUT the water. AT Inc eflQ OF the SLA-
ton nearest the river q dam OF bags flied
with sand has been constructed, which,
the workmen say, keeps the water from
coming in from that end Of the trench.
Where the water which enters from the
upper end comes from the worklnen don't
say.
The Aldermanic Chamber is enlivened
these days by the merry click of the type
writer Manipulated by three ninible
fingered and sylph like young ladies'.
They are engaged in copying the registry
lists and poll books OF the city to be'used
in the great Mayoralty fight
The Morrow u Day dude has recovered
somewhat from the depression into
which he was recently thrown by the de-
parture of the queen of the black eyed
fairies for pasture new. The new queen
is said to have met with rs much Iavor
as her predecessor, and a boom IN cream
puffs and cocoanut pies IL confidently ex-
pected 60 start in there soon.
Fred Nissan is disgusted. He says
horse racing is played out for everybody
but the bookmakers. lie even Threatens
10 reform and not hit on any thing but a
full hand or better
The Telephone Company has succ eeded
in finding q rival OF Rip Van Wrinkle
who would, If afforded a chance, exec
the record of Rip as q sleeper. Thefin
sleeps at night at the Telephone Com
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