The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-04
BEER AND MUSIC.
How the Combination Went About
the Elevator Yesterday.

Beer and music as a compound | had
often wished to try and Yesterday an op-
portunity to crafty my desire was pre-
sented. I boarded a a bound for Pohl-
mans, and after % short ride, arrived at
that place Of changing fortunes. Push
ing pen the swinging doors / beheld o
large pavilion open on three sides and en-
numbered with tables and chairs. Wait
ers with spotless shirt fronts ambled UNI
ceasingly around the tables, and on q
raised platform were ten musicians, VINO
discoursed strains sweet n otherwise.
AT long intervals upon the walls
roughly lettered placards of brown paper
old the visitor that 1t sacred concert was
in progress. In the nus which | heard
while there I could discover no especial
sacredpess, unless it was the sanctity Of
great age At the tables were seated all
sorts and conditions Of men and women.
There were family r~arties, gay young
fellows and pretty girls, who evidently
worked during the week. Beer seemed
to be the prevailing drink, and not UNI
frequently q black bread sandwich or d
pretzel accompanied the beverage.
CAUGHT By A WEB LIKE HANDKERCHIEF.
Over to my left, at a table, sat two
working girls, and facing them at the
next table We're two yong men. evidently
grocery clerks. Their Prince Albert
coats were decorated with boutonieres of
red flowers and green leaves,
and their faces were shiny. ana.
smiling. The girls looked with admira-
zion upon these SWANS and some way or
other, l know not how, the delicately
scented, cobweb-like handkerchief
of one of the girls was blown
over to the table where
the young men sat. Both made desperate
efforts to secure it, and the successful
swain carried it to its fair owner, VINO was
blushing violently, y made some appro-
pirate remark. She giggled a little and
thanked the obliging youth, and they
were soon engaged in conversation.
The swain was soon Joined by his COM
panion, n q waiter lowered about sug-
gestively until he received an order for
four beers. The people at this resort were
apparently respectable. There was no
boisterous talking or disagreeable con-
duct. It seemed a quiet family resort,
and as / left iJ the band were struggling
with some buried memory
AT KEsSLER'S HALL.
| next sought kessler's Hall, a resort
half French and half German, located on
Central avenue. When / entered the
hall a plump young woman, dressed in q
long black lace gown. with abbreviated
sleeves, was singing some dirty on a
stage raised about four feet above the
body Of the house. A long gallery ran
dEOuHu Inc room on a leFel WIN Inc
stage. Down in the body of the house
was g party Of six men, all but one
drinking beer and gazing at the
singer with an enraptured gaze.
This place was not so well
attended as Pohlman's. There were
some small parties sitting at the tables,
among whom there wandered a man
peddling long thin rolls of bread sprink-
led with carroway seeds. l asked him
the name of the article ana he told me,
but l cannot remember the name. A
withered old woman, bent, wrinkled Int
feeble, tottered about from table to table
offering for sale punches of flowers, but
she met with scant success. She did not
look grieved at her failure to sell her
wares, and seemed to have outlived
most of the feelings which cling to hui
manity. The contrast between this with
cred dame and the flowers which she
held in her serawny hand was pathetic.
When I turned my eyes to the lady on the
stage she had just bestowed a bewitching
smile upon the party of six prep
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