The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-07-14
PLEASURE DAMPBNED.
Rain and Clouds Made Sum
day Quiet Ashore
and Af1oat.

4AS 00AA 49,
crowded yesterday with pleasure seekers.
Hundreds of promenaders enjoyed the
cool breezes and splendid scenery in this
vicinity. The threatening weather had a
tendency to keep the usualSunday crowd
away but O large number notwithstand-
ingbraved the elements. The few carriages
which were put showed that the weather
had a dampening ardoron the owners OF
horseiesh, but when the sun appeared
about four o'clock several rigs could be
seen. The road, although q trifie muddy
in some places, was in n condition Tor
driving. The rain had laid the dust nice
", and one could drive u as far as Fair
view without getting covered with it.
AT Schuetzen Park, Union Hill, n Ger.
man volksfest was opened. The crowd
here was a family one and everybody
seemed to know one another. The fest
will be continued today.
Kings Woods, of course, had Its usual
Sunday contingent. This park never
look prettier than yesterday. The rain
drops on the trees giistened like diamonds
in the sun. The green sward. was not
very wet owing to the dense shade OF the
grand old trees.
THE WATER THEIR ROAD.
Complaint is frequently heard that
Hudson county has no first class drives,
that there is no pleasure in keeping fast
horses in this city, because there are no
roads within a reasonable distance which
afford sufficient opportunities for exer-
cising the animals or taking a pleasur-
able drive. No complaint, however, is
ever heard from the yachtsman or de-
votee of the oar, for there are few cities
SO favored as Jersey City is with facil-
tiles for indulging in aquatic sports of
every description. In fact, the same can
be said OF the entire county.
The nOrfharn section has the Hudson
River on the east and the Hackeusack,
with the several creeks which flow into
it, on the west. Hoboken has all the
water way it needs for boating on the
Hudson. The Newark Bay, New York
Bay and Kill Won Kuli furnish Bayonne
and Bergen Point all the facilities they
desire in this line.
Jersey City, however, is more favored
than other portion Of The county. Both
the Hudson and the Hackensack are at
her command, while those who live in the
Greenville section have the smooth
water of the lake-like Newark Bay, and
the rougher swell OF the New York. Bay
at their disposal. The residents of lower
Jersey City have still old Broadway left,
which in the halcyon days of'the Hudson
Boat Club was the crack boat. race course
in this vicinity, and over which access Is
gained to the Hudson River, Just above
the Central Railroad ferry.
Then there is that arm of the bay, which
sweeps in around the Communipaw
shore, and is locally known as Commune
paw Bay, and which is by all odds the
most popular boating and sailing ground
in the city. Its broad expanse Of water
stretching out to the Long Island and
Staten Island shores, affords ample sea
room for the amateur yachtsman to
manoeuvae his craft without running up
IN shore o. fouing some fellow yachts
man. The larger yacht clubs recognized
the superior a0eyahtages of the body of
water, and have located their houses
along its shores.
A GREAT EVENING RESORT.
Every fine evening this portion of the
bay is dotted with every description of
sail boat, from the trim forty-foot sioop
OF the yacht club to the leaiSy hatean,
with a bed sheet figged OF a pole, of the
irrepressfble small boy. Light row boats
propelled by the ~aqnatically ambi tious
young man skim over its smooth surfa ce.
while heavier boats, with pretty damsels
in the stern, creep out more leisurely to
salute Miss Liberty. There is o
certain spell exerted by this tall
woman of bronze as she rises
out of b water, and In silent
majesty holds aloft her torch, which is
heightened by the male moonlight, the
blinking lights of the crafts skimming to
and fro in the distant channel and the
subdued hum which comes from the
great cities beyond, and If the young man
resting on his oars within the shadow of
Miss Liberty'storch says something senti-
mental to the pretty maiden in the stern,
can blame him?
The threatening weather of yesterday,
together with the stiff e~asterIy breeze,
which ruffied the surface of the water
until 1t was ~verychoppy, had the tendency
to keep people on shore and the Bay
was comparatively deserted. On the
II udson however, along the northern end
of the county, the boat club boys came
out in force aboutf1ye O'Clock. All of the
Hoboken Club had their shells out. The
Actives, Roseuales and Valencias all had
o AIRED b-argesoutand looked splendid.