The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-10
ABOUT THE CITY,
The Condensed Pirate Does
Up His Fellow Citizens
i'll Rainbow Colors.
DOWN TOWN TALK.

people, who it is reasonable to suppose
are most directly interested in having
them removed, kick when efforts are
made to get them out Of the way This
is far more strange than that there should
be fight between the Board OF Alder
men and the Street and Water Board as
to who should bear the expense; but both
Boards are short of money and In urgent
need of the few paltry dollars. Patrol
man Crawford suggested to q brother
patrolman a few mornings ago plan to
get rid of these miserable monuments Of
a misgoverved city. The patrolman told
his companion to blow his breath hard
against the rotten hulk, not that he
thought this would have deeayibg
effect upon the already rotten trunks. but
because he believed hard blow was all
that was required to loosen ii from the
dead roots But the experiment failed
Let's haze her down anyway said
Crawford. 1T might fall on someone
ana involve tht city in u suit for damages
Well get 1t cleared away before the
morning pedestrians come along" Both
giants took of their coats and hurled
their hercuiean strength against the
trunk 1T cracked and groaned and was
almost on the verge of tottering when a
mutf1ed voice came from a third-srory
window across the street Look out for
those telephone wiresn If he'd kept his
mouth shut the man whose voice
frightened the officers away, and who Is
said to be one of the greatest kickers
against letting the tree stand, might by
this time have been freed of a menacing
nuisance.
II the policemen who patrol Van Worst
Park are to be believed, there is nothing
SO badly needed as electric lights In that
retreat right in the heart OF one of the
most arlstocratic portions of the city A
stroll through the dark avenues in com
pany with Patroiman Skiff one night last
week revealed to the eyes of a SUNDAY
MORNING NEWS reporter some scenes that
did not speak well for the modesty of the
numerous young girls who sat there with
their beaux. While many nice people en-
JOY the cool retreat these warm summer
evenings. the great minority who monop-
Ollie the settees are toughs all the way
from the Lava Beds to Gammontown.
1t must have been consoling to the
three Big Indians who coached all the
way to Coney Island one night last week
to find at three O'Clock next morning
"Cabby." whose head had been turned
by Coney Island beer, had lost his way
home and finally found himself a mile or
two from where he thought he was and
driving in the wrong direction. But JUS
tlce Weed and Big Chief Jake don't let
little trifies like that worry them.
There is much speculation among the
City Hall people as to the identity of the
derbilt's nephew among the fair sex at
the Catskills, and who got left on poker
and had to write for s25 to get home.
DIR. Gray, City Physician for the First
district, is a fisher among Jerseymen.
Together with mis- aniable wife he
hooked sixty perch at Barnegat one day
last week
1t IS long, long time since crime Of
any description has taken place in the
Pennsylvania station. Not many years
ago the depot was fayorite stamping
ground for pickDockets, confidence men
and other sharpers, and a profitable one
it was, too, for those gentlemen. But
now all that has changed and the most
unsophisticated are as safe ia the big
waiting room as they. are in their own
homes. This is all due to quiet, unHs-
summing man who moves about among
the passengers apparently paying no
heed TO anything about him and com
muning with his own thoughts. This
quiet man, however, has his eyes wide
open and sees everything going on
around him. He is Detective Peter Nor
ris. and more genial and gentiemanly
policeman never captured a law breaker.
He has been in the employ of the COM
panv only few years, but in that short
time has succeeded in Kidding the depot
of criminals.
Those who have had occasion to pass up
and down Montgomery street. near Green.
of late wears, have been astonished to see
the old brick pavement which extended
from the journal building to Green
street, torn up and replaced by substan-
tial blue stone flags The old brick pave
menu had been there for almost that in
definite period designated by Blackstone
as time whereof the memory of man
runneth not the contrary" and one would
expect to see it taken away about as soon
as the old rickety building it surrounded.
The bricks had Il peryerse habit of get
ting out of repair and allowing pools of
water to gather about the uneven surface
of the pavement, which made walking
over 1t very disagreeable i'll wet weather
There are rumor5 a1oat that there is
going to be glee club limited--to two
formed soon in the ChancerY Chambers.
Tom Haggerty, the Chancellor's sergeant
alarms, possesses q picturesque mezzo
soprano voice, and Vice Chancellor Pit
ney's sergeant has bass which would
make Myron Whitney turn green with
envy. These two. it IS said, are about to
unite for mutual improvement vocally,
and some great singing is expecting from
them during the coming term.
May the guardian angel, whose special
duty it is to flap its wings over Lake
George, guard it against the invasion
from the Palma Club. If it does not the
poor old lake will socn be convinced that
cyclone has been anchored for the sole
purpose of turning things upside dow n
The invaders from the club are the tai
ented Charles Carrick; the humorist,
William Carter; the great reformer, VIII
liam Carrick; the financier, Nelson Edge;
the gallant, James Ogden; the electric,
Robert Elliott and the orator, George
HeaBev. All are under the medical at
tendance of DIR. Watson. The latest tele-
gram from the lake states that already
the boys have turned its hue to crimson.
AROUND HAMILTON PARK.