The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-06-15

from Sineac bridge. Another good place
Is under SiBgae bridge, and at times the
reef just below Two Bridges affords good
bass fishing in the swift water Bass,
piekerel, yellow perch, carp, catfish, sun
fish and daee are all caught in this stretch
Of the river. A little more than mile
below the bridge at Singac the river
rinches between the solid wal Is OF trap
peck after flowing over Beatty's dam
gorge and under the great and rotten
aquedHct which carries the Morris canal.
A BEAUTY SPOT
This IS In the pretty village of Little
Fails and here it is that the river presents
its most beautiful scenery. 1t continues
its wild course down the steep incline for
three miles, and then enters the outskirts
of Paterson 1t is three and three-quar-
ter miles from Little Fails TO the great
falls at Paterson, and the river is smooth
and safe for canoes for nearly half Of this
distance Below the falls In Paterson the
river takes q northeastern course for
about three miles and then abruptly
turns to the southeast for two miles,
when the southern course begins. The
river runs on the borders of Paterson for
seven miles in an inlky stream, much of
which is shallow and rapid. 1t widens
out for q mile or more above Dundee
dam, forming Dundee lake. a dirty pond
Dundee dam it PUSHES away for half
mile OF more and then flows
quietly through Passaic. Two and a
quarter miles below the dam the river
makes big loop, running half mile to
the west before turning toward the south
again. Then it takes southerly by east
erly course to the Morris and Essex
bridge IN this city. from whence the
course is nearly due south to Market
street bridge, below which It MAKES al
most half circle to the east and north
east to the Steel Works, where it begins
to sweep in reverse circle to Point No
Point, where it turns sharply to the
south and flows in in that direction into
the bay.
THE DISTANCES
Going back up the river we find the
distances as follows Prom the Newark
and New York railroad bridge TO the
Plank road bridge, three-quarters of a
mile Thencesto She bend the same dis
lance. From the Plank road bridge to
Market street bridge, three miles. From
Market to Centre street bridge, three
eig1ths OF mile. From Market street
bridge to the Morris and Essex bridge
seven-eighths of mile. From
the Market street bridge to the
Erie bridge at Fourth avenue, one mile
and three-eighths. From the Erie bridge
to the Greenwood Lake bridge, one mile
and 1ve-eighths, and the following meas
urements from the Erie hridge:-To
Belleyille bridge, two and thfee-eighths
miles; to the Newark Water Works, three
ami one=fourth miles; to Avondale
bridge, four and one-eighth miles; to ID. !,
i. Il w. bridge at Lyndhurst, five and
one-sixteenth miles; TO the Erie main
line bridge, six and three-fonrths miles;
to PassAic bridge, seven and one fourth
miles. to Garfield bridge, nine and
one-eighth miles, TO Dundee dam, ten
and one-fourth miles. In the opposite
direction the distances from Centre street
bridge are as foliowes-To the Newark
Bay lighthouse, five and three-eighths
miles; TO the Central Railroad bridge,
eight and Ehree-fourths miles. to the Ber-
gen Point light, nine and rhree-fourths
miles; to Elm Park, ten and one-eighfh
miles; to Bergen Point wharf, ten and
one-fourth miles; to Bay Ridge, sixteen
miles. These distances Hre put in not
because they belong entirely to an article
on the Passaic River, but because they are
of value to yachtSmen and others. They
are from state surveys and government
charts. and may be regarded as accurate.
ALToeETHER A REMARKABLE STREAM
The Passaie River is d beautiful stream.
There are stretches that cannot be ad-
mired because Of the way man has des-
troyed their natural beauty, but these
reaches of the river are short and their
lack OF natural attractions are Offset by
the beauty of other stretches near by
Nothing could be much more attractive
than the beautiful scenery on the Passaic
between this city and Passaic. nor the
upper levels of the river between Singac
and New Providence. Passaic Falls is in
O measure destroyed by the proximity Of
water work buildings and smoky mills.
and Little Fails is being rapidly blasted
out of all semblance TO its former rugged
beauty The work is being done there to
other meadows above Of the back water.
which stays there through many months
Of each year. and for the same purpose.
the reef at two bridges VIII be dredge1
and blasted away. This win altor Tshe
river considerably, and will probabgy de-
stroy great deal of its natural he6uty,
but it will not make it less attractive 70
canoeists and anglers, to artists and pho
tograpners or to the scamps who snare
pickerel and net bass.