The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-05-25
STEAMER DAY.
Busy Scenes Yesterday
bout the Hoboken
Ocean Line
Piers.

On Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday
in each week, River street is the busiest
thoroughfare in Hoboken. On these days
the big oceanliners of the North German
Lloyd and Hamburg-American Packet
Steamship Companies sail for Europe,
and the hustle and confusion attending
their departure are sight well worth
witnessing.
The Ems, of the Bremen line, sailed
yeterday, carrying big complement of
passengers and the usual busy scenes
were enacted AS early as eight o'clock
the Hobokea ferry boats brought over
hundreds of tourists, some in coaches,
others on foot, and the journey up River
street to the steamers pier was one which
they have cause to remember.
On all sides were fakirs of every de-
scription, cabbies and baggage carriers,
and the din made by their confusion of
voices would be calculated to drive an
ordinary person to say something rash.
From this hour until ten O'Clock, the
time set for the departure OF the steamer,
the passing crowd increases, and IT ls es-
timated that on an average of 1000
strangers were in Hoboken yesterday.
| QUAINT CHARACTERS.
Two of the characters of River street
who attract much attention-and dollars
are an elderly woman accompanied by a
| pretty young girl who is said to be her
| daughter. They occupy bouquet stand
| at the corner of second street, and their
ability as saleswomen cannot be denied,
as it is said that on good day their
receipts amount to $50.
Further down the street are the steam
ship tinware fakirs. Several of these i'm
provised stands are erected on steamer
| days when the steerage passengers are sup
| piled with cooking utensils and other
articles in the tinware llne which are
necessary for an enjoyable steerage pass
| age if such thing is possible.
While | was watching the passing
I panorama policeman on the street called
4 my attention to two well dressed looking
| young men who lounged carelessly on the
corner OF First street. Each carried a
i satchel.
If you want an ITEM said he, lust
watch them two fellows. They are TWO
of the cleverest and slickest young gentle
| men in this town just present. Them
satchels are just bluff. They are con-
fidence men and are always laying for
| victims here on steamer day, but they
know that | am Oh to their lay and Will
not attempt to work their game while
am here. will step around the corner
and you can watch them"
AS soon as the policeman had bis back
| turned the demeanor of the two careless
looking, indolent young men suddenly
underwent a marvellous transformation.
They were all life and activity. One of
| Cueui WdlkeQ 10 Lue corner VI 4NcNtIlA
street and kept vigilant eye on his pal
on the next corner. The pal eagerly
| scrutinized the face of every passer by
! and inside of ten minutes had picked out
a prospective victim.
Approaching bewhiskered individual
who looked every inch jay" the conti-
dence man greeted him, shook his hand
and engaged him in conversation, but
the fellow was not the jay that he looked
| ana he could not be worked. He passed
on toward the ship.
Two other passers by were halted, but
! with no success, and the policeman re-
tuning the confidence men met, COM
pared notes and left the street.
During the past six months these con.
fidence men, am informed, have worked
number OF people on this street. The
police have not as yet caught them dead
to rights but expect to. The business OF
the confidence men has fallen off consid-
erably, however, owing TO their being
known by the police, who have special
orders TO watch them
/ GOOD FOR THE BEER JOINTS.
On the middle of the block. between
Second and Third streets and just 0ppo-
site the entrance to The Bremen Dock, is
a row of concert gardens and saloons.
Steamer days are gala days here The
places are decorated with flags and bunt-
ing. and music from half dozen bauds
fills the air. The places are filled with
tourists slipping their favorite beverages
and awaiting the time set for the depar.
ture Of their ships.
ON THE PIER.
u | journeyed up the dock. The scene
was an unusually busy one. Cabin and