The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-26
rHE SUNDAY MORNING NEWS JANUARY ae lsgo

=
for December, az appreciatiye sketch Of tht
Scientific iabors and attainments Of The Hate Or
George II. Cook, State Geologist Of New Jersey
The Passaic city Council has voted to built
sewers to drain a large tract in North Passaic,
1t is reported that John T. Blair has bought
the Waldo Racing Park at Kansas City fol
! $1,000. In May, 1857, this property could have
been sold for $i,5oO,oo0, but the offer was re-
fused.
A question has been raised at the Navy De
partrnent as 60 whether Samuel L. Moore &
Sons, Elizabethport, the lowest bidders, have
the necessary plant for the construction Of the
two 600 ton guuboats and the Naval Academy
cruiser, for which their bids were the lowest re-
ceiyed. Secretary Tracy will order board of
officers to VISIT their works and report as to
| whether they are now prepared to undertake
| the contracts, OF can be within three months.
Messrs. Moore & Sons accompanied their bid
with letter, stating that they had entered into
contracts for a number Of machine tools and
would be fully equipped within three months
The bids of this firm are regarded by the de-
partment as being extraordinarily low, and it is
not believed that much profit can be made on
any Of the vessels at the prices offered.
General James f. Rushing is ser.iouly III, at
Trenton. He was not expected to live on Thurs
day, but was pronounced better yesterday.
The Meyer Rubber Company's shops at New
Brunswick have been closed because of the
slight demand for rubber shoes, owing to the
open winter.
MIS-. Della Stewart Parnen is said to be again
suffering the pangs of poverty in Bordentown,
the aid furnished her by her friends not suiicing
TO pay her debts.
The President has appointed as Census Super
visors Arthur B. Pearce, of Paterson, for the
First Census District of New Jersey; John Bum
stead, in the Second, and Richard T. Starr of
Salem, in the Third district. The President has
approved the act increasing 10 $1,000 the salary
Of the Supervisors.
William Blake, of Englewood. the popular
lecturer on "How to Get Strong, and well and
favorably known in the Oranges, told good
story in Brooklyn this week at the expense of
Princeton dude" He said that the reason Mrs.
Langtry was such a beautiful woman was be-
cause she was not afraid to exercise. She lived
on a farm and had six athletic brothers and
what they did she did. It was that which made
those beautiful arms, neck and shoulders She
thinks nothing of walking ten or twenty miles
day. And SO il is with the daughter of DR..
McCosh, who being asked one day by one of that
detestable specimen of Americans called the
dude If she would take walk with him, re-
Piled with pleasure and walked him from
Princeton to Trenton and back. That dude was
completely sub-dude'' said Mr.. Blake, 'and
never asked that young lady to take walk
again" Mr.. Blaikie was right except in one par
ticular. Mrs. Langtry did not live on a farm
She lived until her marriage in the Deanery at
st. Heller, in Jersey.
Mrs E. H. Snyder, the wife of Assembly
man Snyder, who has been i'll with diphtheriai
is now convaleseing.
Judge Van Syckel yesterday decided that the
law depriylng Elizabeth Councilman Of salaries
was unconstitutional, being special legislation.
This leaves in operation the old law which al
lows Councilman $500 per year The city has
paid no money to its Couneilmen since 1855, and
they now can claim with interest, over $4,000
The New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company at
New Brunswick has shut down Tor two months.
An organized effort viii be made by the
sportsmen OF Middlesex county to protect the
fish in theponds near New Brunswick
Joseph Tllotson, formerly editor Of the En-
glewood Times, has made public his prospectus
of new independent paper to be published and
to be known as the Englewood Press
Mayor Rankin, Of Elizabeth. has instructed
the Chief of Police to notify all street vendors
who have stands for the sale of nuts or fruit on
the leading thoroughfares that they must re-
move the same by Saturday night One OF them
has run stand for seventeen years. The City
Council is to be petitioned on his account