The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-09
Chronicles Of a Perfect Sum
day in the Parks
and Drives.
CROWDS VISIT THE eyPsIEs
People Who Drove and People Who
Walked---A Daring Horse
woman.

dust and added o freshness to the trees
and shrubbery. Flowers bloomed in bril-
liant profusion everywhere and pleasant
breezes waited their delicious perfumes
In every direction.
It WAS an outdoor day with the people.
Van Worst and Hamilton Parks were
crowded from noon till late in the even
ing. The laughter Of romping children,
the splash of fountains, the musical twit-
ter of the birds in the green branches
overhead, were summer symphony. The
grounds were an immense green velvet
carpet with shifting figures in colors of
old gold.
All the suburban resorts were thronged.
Hundreds hocked through the gates of
Schuetgen Park, and family parties mo-
nopolixed the favorite hooks of that
i pretty German retreat. Many on the
Hill sought the peculiarly picturesque
grounds of Caledonian Park. and the
various concert gardens between South
Bergen and Bayonne were we'll patron
lied even where There was neither beer or
music.
Every car that rolled on in the direction
of Greenyille was packed and jammed.
The side platforms of the open cars were
lined with persons unable to secure seats,
and in one instance a boy was observed
arstraddle Ehe rear bumper. His fare was
demanded and paid
49,
AT THE CEMETERY,
The main walks through New York
Bay Cemetery during the afternoon were
filed with sLrollers; some admiring floral
decorations, others carrying baskets of
fresh flowers with which to decorate the
graves of departed loved ones. Many
strolled as far as the Bay Shore and stood
In groups admirIng the broad expanse of
blue water dotted here and there with
Tine sky was cloudless. The distant
shores were covered with dense green
foliage. The bay scene never looked
prettier.
An incessant stream OF vehicles rolled
along Arlington aud Ocean avenues dur
ing the afternoon. There was but little
racing and trials of speed; and though
many mettIesome steeds brushed swiftly
by, the occupants Of the vehicles seemed
mainly absorbed In the beauty OF the
surrounding scenery and yistas. Intensely
picturesque. Even Chairman Mike
O'Donnell, of the Democratic County
Committee, and City Collector T. II.
O'Neill, who with two other gentlemen In
double seated turnout logged merrfly
Y,
a discount, and Tom Fallon, seated
behind a nobby little animal,
pointed out to his friend an
ornamented tombstone. An old Indy i'll
black, seated in o ''yaller'' dog-cart
drawn by milk-white pony followed two
indicted election officers until they were
beyonds the limits of the city of the dead.
No disrespect to the old lady, boys, but
the picture suggested the fact that the
spooks and hobgoblins Of the cemetery
were pursuing you Tor colon1zing repeat
ers from the graveyard.
Some half hundred persons. perhaps,
howled along the avenue before
two staruesque figures, draped with
white linen busters and crowned
with white Fedoras, loomed up into view.
Muldoon. Mr.. Kelly, held the
reins of the stopper behind which
they rode. Mr.. Frank Gal
lery, looking very inch a contented
family man, went By in his magnificent
equipage, and p. E. Martin and family
in q similar rig followed q short distance
behind. Other men whom noticed with
their families were James z. Hall,
prominent mason; Real Estate Dealer
Fred Spengeman, VINO drove handsome
span of blacks. and p. Z. G. Young with
his dark bays. .Bill" Kern, in a crush
top, was again on the road with his trot-
Ter, and looked as though he was spelling
for q race. MessrSs Denton s. Shaw, in a
black blackboard, had ont the same sign.
Henry Steffen and Lewis Wood drove
leisurely along behind trim looking sor-
rel as though they were drinking in the
beauty of the scenery about them.
THE LAFAYETTE GIRL ON HORSEBACK.
Behind these came a pretty appariJiOn.
A fair looking maid in neat-htting rid
ing habit. wearing brown felt hat, was
mounted upon a brown and white cir
cus'' pony. She turned the pretty ami
malls head toward the gate of the drive
leading to Ocean avenue. As she passed
beneath the arch, framed with honey
suckles and roses, she gave the animal a
sharp eut with her whip. The pony
reared upon its haunches. Another cut
brought 1t to the ground again, and ex-
tehding its shapely neck it started off on
adead run down the hard. level avenue.
The mniden sat like a statue. with her
brown hair streaming wildly back in the
breeze.
.sBy heavens, she is an expert little
horsewoman,n exclaimed a man in an
thcrity, standing IN the cemetery Office
door; 'sbut she had better not do that
again. This isn't public race track
She was from Lafayette
Half an hour later few strokes Of the
greaJ bell over the Arlington avenue gate
announced the approach of funeral
turned and observed a white hearse bear
lug small white casket covered with
HpWefs. - long SLfeAin OF coaches fOl-
lowed. One OF them bore a bereayed
family. Amid all the brightness OF the
sunshine and flowers which animated the
hundreds whom I had seen bowling for
pleasure along the avenues, thc occu-
ntsof this sornhre-looking vehicle were
bowed dowu with grief by the dropping
of flower fairer in their sight than the
most beautiful that ever bloomed.
GYPSY ENCANPAIENT.
The village folks OF West Bergen had a
treat In the nature OF y gypsy encamp-
ment, located on vacant lot at the foot
of Belmont avenue Though small, it at
tracted many of the curious among the
strollers to that locality. The encamp-
ment consisted Of two families, with
some half-dozen bronzed faced children
just how many were allotted to each fam
ily1 could not ascertain. These royers
possess two pack wagons, jaunty viii
lage cart and several fine looking horses.
Que Of the men, handsome looking
Bohemian in a blue and white striped
Shirt lay under "a tree answering
the questions of q number Of boys. lie
said ne hailed from Newark and made
his living by trading horses There were
no scissor grinding appliances or chicken
feathers III the vicinity OF the camp. The
Two women told fortunes l hardly
think these female astrologers hail from
such foreign place as Newark They
We're dark skinned aud wrinkled, wore