The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-26
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

The recently organized Spring Lake and Sea
Girt Land Company has decided to purchase all
the property owned by the Spring Lake Beach
improvement Company and the Sea Girt Land
Improvement Company which lies east OF the
railroad at Sea Girt and north of the encamp-
ment grounds. A temporary organization has
been formed upon the subscription of $4,000,
and a permanent organization viii be effected
April i. The number of lots to be purchased is
1875. and the capital of the company is to be
S7Oo,00o divided in 500 shares, to BE- paid for in
ten per cent. installments.
An active boycott has been started against
Postmaster John G. Cramer, Of Cedar Run
Ocean county, because he was app ointed TO dis
place Fergus, another Republican, but who had
prohibition leanings. Citizens employ a boy to
carry and fetch their mail TO and from Mana
hawkin.
Several years ago tanks were laid on the
northern end of the railroad bridge over the
Shrewsbury u at Red Bank to enable engines of
fast trains to take up water without the usual
delay at the tanks near the station. They are
to be taken up and laid near Long Branch. The
Red Bank wator Works will lose $500 a year
by the removal.
James r. Minugh, of seabright, who pur-
chased a $4,000 ice machine a few weeks ago, is
building a large factory for the manufacture of
artificial ice. He is also having an artesian we'll
bored TO supply water for the machine.
Although the Monmouth county fair grounds
have been sold, it Is said a fair will be held next
fall as usual, at Freehold.
The Pennsylvania Company has refused to re-
ceiys chestnut ties on the Belvidera Division of
its road. Nothing but walnut and oak ties will
be received in the future.
The New Brunswick Rubbe r Company has de
clared a dividend OF five per cent, and will start
up the works again on the slst inst, as will also
the New Jersey Rubber Shoe Company. These
two works will give employment to over one
thousand men and women who are now idle.
The rubbsr buslness was not long depressed.
judging from this early res umption of work in
the New Brunswick factories.
The Rev. E. NJ. Carton, pastor Of the Summit
Methodist Church will in future deliver a short
sermon of five minutes duration ever y Sunday
morning before the regular services. This short
sermon is delivered especially for the children
of the church, and Or. Carton has been prompt
ed to make this innovation BY the discovery tn 1t
of the 500 male conyicts now confined 10 Sing
Sing Prison more than ninety per cent. attended
/ Ghlu6t IifOV III h~h ~iAHAASSR hN N~NS
youth. BY giving this extra five minutes to the
children of his Sunday School the pastor hopes
to prevent the possibility Of seeing any Of the
children Of his church become inmates of State
prison.
Negotiations, which as yet have assumed nc
definite character, have been carried on by the
English syndicate and the Newark Gaslight
Company aud the Citizens Gas Company for
some time past, and Eugene yanderpool sailed
on Saturday to bring about. ii possible, the sale
Of the two companies. 1t is said that 81, 600, o0t
will not buy the works
A very considerable burglar at Woodbury. cut
out a pane of glass in Hannah Lippincottas dry
goods store and carried 1t inside, where il
should not get broken. He did not carry of
much.
Evan Adams, OF Pleasantville, has installed
his one hundred and twenty-sixth housekeeper
For the last seven years Adams has been a wild
over, aud during that TINS has imported from
Philadelphia intelligence offices one hundred
and twenty-five honsekeepsrs, and on last Wed
nesday he was slagged in the most professions