The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-22
PERSONAL AND NOTABLE.

PERSONAL ANbN Notable.
Overtures have been made to the various
jewelry manufacturers Of Newark for the sale of
their prbperties to a syndicate, part of the pur-
chase price to be taken in stock. There are
eighty-one jewelry manufacturers in the city.
New York and Plainfeld capitalists have COM
bined for the introduction Of a street railway in
PIainfeld. For years many citizens have fought
the proposition to destroy the beautiful drive
ways, which comprise one of tine city's greatest
charms, Councilman Smith, however, recon-
mended the gran ting of a franchise at the last
meeting of the Common Council.
The East Orange Water Company, at an ex-
pense of 81, 200, most of it spent in litigation,
succeeded in carrying its Belleville avenue water
main over the Morris Canal. The Canal Com
pany officials, the property owners and the
Water Company officials have had a conference,
the result of which is that the main will be
changed and run under the canal.
The Press Register, a Republican morning
newspaper published in Newark, will be sold I'M
der foreclosure of mortgage today. The mort
gage is for $500 to secure a bonded debt for
that amount. The paper has lost much money.
1t is understood that the paper will be bought in
by Republicans already interested in it and its
publication continued.
Cards are out for the wedding Of Lieutenant
Wilmot E. Ellis, Fifth United States Artillery,
formerly of Trenton, to Miss Seddie Clark,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Willis E. Lauderdale,
at the Church of the TRANSPORTATION, West
Philadelphia, on Monday, April E. at eight
O'Clock ?. m.
Plainield's Common Council is perfecting an
ordinance raising from 500 to $500 the license
fee for quart house, where beer may be sold
only to be drunk off the premises, and compel
ling every driver of a beer wagon to carry a GER
tiicate that he is licensed and to show it on de-
mand. Heavy penalties are provided.
Lieutenant Colonel Lee, of Keyport, has been
elected successor to Colonel Ropes, Of the Third
Regiment.
Fisher Pidcock, Of White House, has failed
with heavy liabilities and no assets. He is a
brother of the ex-Congressman.
Henry NJ. Doremus, of Newark, failed in the
grocery business for about ST., 900 about seven
teen years ago. His creditors compromised for
twenty-five per cent. Mr.. Dorcnius has since
been paying a little each year. Last Tuesday
night he gave a dinner to about eighty men.
Among them were his creditors. Mayor Haynes,
on behalf of Mr.. Doremus, gave each creditor a
check for the full amount of his claim. Mr..
Doremus is a leading Republican politician and
ex-Assemblyman.
Samuel 81. Grey, of Camden, has been ap-
pointed as counsel for the Pennsy lvania and
West Jersey Railroad Companies in the South
ern district.
At . recent meeting of the Southern men in
Princeton College a club, to be known as the
Southern Club of Princeton College, was per-
manently organized. A constitution was
adopted and the following officers were elected
President Edgeworth B. Baxter, 80, of Georgia.;
vice presidents, r. B. %Snowden, 30, Of Tennes
see, and E. A. Poe, Of Maryland; secretary, John
H. Sealy, '91. of Texas; assistant secretary,
William A. Guild, '93, of Tennessee; treasurer,
John NJ. Brennan, D2, of Kentucky; Executive
Committee, Baxter, L. B. Cooper, '91, of Ten
nessee; B. Phinizy, '9s, of Georgia and Harris
Lindsey, 80, Of Tennessee.
The Mercer County Board of Agriculture con-
vened in annual meeting at the Court House at
Trenton Thursday. Samuel B. Ketcham, presi-
dent of the Board, made an address 10 which he
claimed that adversely had overtaken the farmer
to such an extent that crops were selling below
the cost of production, and that as about one
half of the population Of the country was en-
gagged in agricultural pursuits, what affected
them must seriously affect other branches of
trade and industry in the decreased consump-
ton OF manufactured products. He thought the
tariff laws ought to give the farmer the same
protection as they do the manuf acturer.
Henry Baum, of Paterson, who leases the
grounds around about the Passaic Falls and runs
the hotel on the place, has been filling his ice
houses in a manner that is considered unique.
The spray from the cataract falls in dense vol
umes ON the ratings that line the roadways on
the brink Of the chasm, forming masses Of ice
that accumulate to a thickness OF from six
inches to a foot in a sin gle day, Mr.. Baum a
few days ago gathered fifteen tons Of this ice,
aud Wednesday he reported harvesting five tons
more.
Albert Glass, q German hostler at the Com
mercial Hotel, in Someryille, it is said, accom-
plished the feat of devourlng three dozen raw
eggs, shells and all, inside Of an hour Thursday
For M~ayor;-Robert DdVis.
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