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Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
ANOTHER STEP FORWARD +!
Passaic's Remarkable Growth
and improvements.
OF THE "NEWS''-
BOGERT BUILDING--THE NEW
HOME OF THE PEOPLES
BANK & TRUST co.

Half a thousand citizens and
visitors thronged the halls and
offices of the News-Bogert build
ing last Wednesday evening and
inspected the new structure, the
completion of which marks an i'm
portant epoch in the progress of
Passaic. The building is five stor-
les high, with elevator, pneumatic
tubes, and other modern improve
mentS.
Owing to unexpected delays the
Meas new equipment was not
ready for inspection however a
good idea of its new home was OBJ
tainable. The Peoples Bank will
occupy the first floor, and are al
ready doing business there. Their
desks, safes, vaults, ETC., are entire
ly new and of the finest rnanufact-
ure, and the officers received a
great deal of well-deserved COM
mendation from the admirlng cit1-
zens. 1t was the Banks opening,
and from the gathering of bankers,
butchers, lawyers, bookkeepers
and merchants, printers and re-
porters which one met on every
floor, the appropriateness OF the
Banks name" Peoples Bank
was forcibly suggested.
The banquet was spread on the
top floor of the Bogert half OF the
building, and from tables groan-
ing with their weight of salads.
sandwiches, cake, cream, coffee and
wine, dusky caterers pleased the
elmer man; and t he Banks
guests departed, wishing it a long
and prosperous career in the best
little city in New Jersey.
The NeaOs will probably be " at
home" in its new quarters during
the coming week.
THE cITY's PROGRESS.
The opening of this building is an
important event in two years
period of improvement that we
defy any city in the State to equal.
During the two years that will
close with this month the great
Botany worsted mills and
mammoth Okonite works have
been erected, Edo Kip built three
brick business houses on Main
avenue, Judge Simmons has erect
ed a fine brick building, and the
First National Bank people have
built a handsome four story granite
structure, and adjoining it Ex-
Mayor Willet has built the double
brick building occupied by the Free
Public Library and Peter Van
Wrinkles mammoth hardware
establishment. West of it there is
now building the new post-office.
Further down the avenue is the
News Bogert building above men
toned, and the Malcolm and Bird
building srecently opened.
On Washington Place Fred
Whitehead is rapidly pushing to
completion his big hotel and opera
house. On Jefferson street the
New Reformed congregation has
erected one of the costliest church
es in northern New Jersey.
On Prospect street stands the
new P. C. w. and A. A. club house,
and on the top of the hill Paulison's
Castle is being converted into a
city hall.
There have been numerous
buildings erected, including resid-
ences and school buildings.
The Baptists are now busy re-
building their church, which was
burned. Besides these, new sewers
have been built, a new electric rail
road has been constructed, and
many of the important streets
macadamized.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
MIRTH AND MUSIC.

Saturday evening October 3rd VII be
an occasion of ninth and music at the
Club House. under the auspices OF the
Passalc Temperance Club. The enter
tainment will be first -class in every res
pect and will introduce the following
celebrated talent: The Ivanhoe Banjo
Ouartette, Miss S. Louise Tooker. sop
rano, and Judge" VIM. B. Green.
Tickets are selling rapidly. Seating
campaci ty is limited, so secure tickets at
once.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
Brief Matters Of Record.
PERSONAL AND OTHERWISE.

The Passaic County Courts open
ed last Tuesday.
Otto Laue is home from his va
cation, which he spent in Michi-
gan.
LII. Grear would prove a win
ming card for the County clerk
ship.
Mrs. C. F. Wilken, of Westervelt
Place, spent Sunday with friends
in Brooklyn.
Clifton Chapel will be opened
for the season tomorrow and Rev.
Vim Manchee will officiate.
The first of the Passaic Library
Association concerts passed off with
success and appreciation last even-
ing.
The big parade of the Walter L.
Mains shows takes place ct 10 a. m.
sharp, at Passaic Wednesday, Sep
tember 80.
If you want first class plane,
get Cages Self Setting Plane made
by the Gage Tool Company, Vim
land, N. J. It is the best.
Elk Senator Joseph Tucker Gro
well, relative of editor Wander
hoven, died at his home in Rah-
way last Tuesday afternoon.
New heating apparatus will keep
the Methodists warm this winter,
and another season will see the
church handsomely decorated.
In the Six Ward Republican
primary in Paterson last Monday
Williams was nominated for Sena-
tor and Smith for county clerk.
Miss Maggie Meade, daughter of
the proprietress of the Mead House
has gone on months visit with
friends in Sullivan County, N. Y.
The ball game to-day between
the P. A. C. and the Unions is ex-
pected to be an unusually interest
ing one as it will also be the last
of the season.
The Athletic organizations of
Passaic are preparing for the chilly
months and propose to keep the
dull season in sports alive with
football, skating, etc.
The prayer meeting at the Pres
byterian church next Wednesday
evening will be conducted by Mr..
Chas. NJ. Wilcox, and the topic is
ssThe Voice of God"
A sneak thief entered the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. E. T.
Dubois on Garden street last
Monday and got away with valu-
ables worth about $4,000.
Mr.. and Mrs. Albert Martin, of
Lincoln street, have both been
very i'll during the past fortnight
with the twenty. one day fever.
We are glad to note their i'm
provement.
Miss Georgia Barstow, Miss
Nettie Barstow and Mrs. O. S.
Freeman and son have gone to
"Woodside Villa" Sing Sing
Heights, N. Y, to spend Sunday
with Mrs. Freemans parents.
100 horses, 20 ponies, tableau
wagons, a separate bands, five
drum corps, groupe Jubilee singers,
long line of cages and dens in the
parade of Walter l.. Mains shows,
at 10 a. m. at Passalc September
80.
There was a meeting Thursday
evening of the Dundee Presby-
terian Society, in the parlors of the
Presbyterian church. Reports in
regard to raising funds for the
purposed new mission building
were heard.
The sudden death on Elm street
last Saturday afternoon of Miss
Emma Hass, the beautiful nine
teen -year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fide1 Hass, of Lexington
avenue. was one of the sa6dest it
has been our lot to record. She
was a member of the Presby-
terian church and was well known
and likedby many. Death was caus-
ed bv hemorrhage of the lungs
brought onby sudden fit of cough
ing, and the funeral was held on
Tuesday.
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26

Happy and content is home with THE Ro-
chester a lamp with the Hght OF the morning.
CAL on Rochester Lamp "a a. Park Place, ~. n
Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
VOL. XIV. NO. 2O9.
ST.. 20 A YEAR IN ADVANCE

The RECORD has for its Constituents the people
of Passaic City and suburbs. The advantages which
Il for those who wish to bring their
to the attention of the people obvious. No city
along the Erie is growing more rapidly than Passaic.
New houses are springfng up in all directions and
II Is field which merchants In all lines Of business
would do well to cultivate.
Forfurther information, address PASSAIC CITY
RECORD, 2zs Main Avenue. Passaic, N. ].
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13
What Are the Dog Dayso

The dog days last from the begin
ming of July to August II. The popu-
lar theory is that they are so called be-
cause dogs then go mad; but the notion
is etymologically false, besides being
untrue in fact. Dogs, strange to say,
are rather less liable to rabies then
than at other times. "Dog days" is
really translation of the Latin "dies
caniculares"-the twenty days before
and the twenty days after the beliacal
rising chat is, appearance in the morn
ing just before the SUM- of the star
Sirius, whom the Romans called "Cani-
ouia, or "little dog" The ancients
attributed most marvellous influence
to this star-our "dog star" and sac
rificed brown dog to it to appease it's
rage. If this we're not done they
thought that the sea would boil. the
wine turn sour and the dogs begin to
grow mad, the bile increase and all
animals grow languid It is unneces-
sary to say that. in the course of some
ages, Sirius will rise ut midwinter in
stead of at midsummer. Perhaps some
wiseacres, like those who are ready to
believe Ill dog days and new moons
changing the weather and similar i'm
possibilities, will then give him credit
for the frost and snow. -Broo kun
Eagle.
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NINA MARRIEs AN ITALIAN,
MINI Van Zandt- Spies Second Romantic
AlIiance-A Feature of the Past. =

MINI Van Zandt- Spies Second Romantie
AuIance-A Feature of the Past. =
Nina Van Zandt-Spies was recently
married in Chicago to Stefanp 8.
Ne1ato, and thereby hangs romantic
1tof 55..sss-
It will be remembered that Nina,
then girl in her teens, married by
proxy August Spies, the anarchist,
after he had been sentenced to death
for his share in melting the anarchist
riot. After Spies death, his widow,
almost distracted with the excitement
attending her lovers trial and subse-
quent execution, turned her attention
to the study Of languages in the hope
that it would keep her from dwelling
on the terrible ordeal she had passed
through. She became an accom-
plished linguist. About six months
ago she became acquainted with Ste
fano Malato, an Italian journal
ist. Malato could not speak word of
English, and was naturally attracted
by the beautiful young woman who
talked his own language SO we'll. Mrs.
Spies became interested in Malato, and
undertook to help him learn English
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allure.

Here is a story Mark Twain recently
told an English interviewer who
wanted to learn all about American
humor: "a clergyman in New York
was requested by man to come ever
to Brooklyn to oficiate at his wife's
funeral. The clergyman assented,
only STIMULATING that there must be no
delay, as he had an important engage
ment the same day. At the appointed
hour they all met in the parlor. The
room was crowded with sobbing peo-
pie. The clergyman stood up over the
coffin and began to read the service,
when he felt tug at his coattails, and,
bending down, he heard the widower
whisper in his ear: we amt ready
yet Rather awkwardly he sat down
in dead silence Presently he arose
again, and the same thing took place.
A third time he arose, and the same
thing occurred. But what is the de-
lay? he whispered back; why are you
not ready?' She amt all here yet.
was the very CHASTITY and unexpected
reply; her stomach's at the apothe-
cary's'o
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The City OF Morocco.

The streets are narrow, without
names, and crooked. and the houses
without numbers, like all those of
Morocco towns The population is
estimated at $4,000. The city is di-
vided into two parts, each with it's
walls and gates. One quarter is ex-
clusively for Jews and the other for
Mohammedans. The Jews are kept
strictly within their own division at
night, and none of them can walk by
their gates into the Mohammedan
quarter without taking off their slip
pers, and some of the more fanatical
of the people place hot Goals in their
path, SO as to burn their feet as they
walk along. There is no regular po-
lice to keep order. yet we have never
seen brawls in the streets, nor have we
heard that the people do much serious
damage to one another.
The climate Of Morocco is consid-
cred particularly salubrious The
summer heat is tempered by the snow
capped Atlas, which raises it's high
summit just behind. while the album
dant supply Of excellent water, which
passes through the city, contributes
much to the health of the people. AS
it rained nearly every day during our
sojourn in this country. we found
Morocco at this time of the year par
ticularly dirty, the rains having made
the streets SO muddy that they all
seemed like running sewers.
However, during our stay we visited
the principal bazars and shops, which
we found we'll stocked with Manches-
ter and native products. Some Of the
people were gathering up the mud
and storing it in their shops to mend
their houses with. We passed through
several markets full of people, and we
examined every kind of work which
they were pleased to show us. Here
there ore markets for all sorts of in
dustry. There is the slave market
which is held every Friday; also IL 8
skin, oil. grain and other markets.
Here we have street where old shoes
are mended and new ones made and
exposed for sale, there street for old
clothes, and others for saddlery, IRON
mongery, grinding mills, gunsmiths,
daggers and swords. The pottery is
truly Moorish in character. Fruit,
charcoal, cooscosoo have markets of
their own. Bread and meat have
their peculiar quarters. Carriers go
about with skins supplying the thirsty
with drlnk.-BtGckaGood's MAGAZINE.
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and at the same time perfect herself in
Malato's native tongue. The sequel
has had it's conclusion in the wedding.
Mrs Spies gives version of her mar
rage to the anarchist that has not been
published before. At the time it was
generally SUPP osed that she was
desperately in love with Spies.
She says now, however, that
the marriage was made under
pressure from her parents and by the
advice of Spies attorneys. They
thought that the wedding would throw
an atmosphere of romance about the
condemned man and secure executive
clemency for him and save his life.
The girl was then but II years old.
AS every one knows, the sacrifice was
made in vain.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

knowledge of geography proved that no
natural passage existed, men and ma
lions turned their attention to the solu
ton of the problem of an artificial strait.
The decade just passed saw the gigantic
attempt of De Lesseps to saw asunder
the continent at Panama, and saw as
well his gigantic failure.
At this moment new attempt is I'M
der way, this time at Nicaragua, and the
Hon. Warner Miller, Of New York,
President of the Nicaragua Canal Con-
struCtiOn Company, gives the following
interesting account of the enterprise:
For fifty years it has Deen contem-
plated that an interoceanic canal should
be constructed. Repeated surveys have
been made by both the War and Navy
departments from Tehuantepec to the
Isthmus of Panama. The result has
been always in favor of the Nicaragua
route. Several treaties have been ma5e
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and the United States has been persist
ertly in favor of the building of the
canal.
When the Panama canal project was
preached committee was sent to Paris.
Admiral Ammen, Mr.. Menocal, and
other scientific gentlemen composed this
committee. They strenuously argued
for the Nicaragua route, but in vain.
The attempt at Panama was made. The
result every one knows.
The Maritime Canal Company of Nj
caragua was finally incorporated Feb.
20, 1889, by act of Congress, after Mr..
Menocal had secured the necessary con-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

plenty of water for lockage. The dam
makes 12O miles Of slack water naviga-
ton.
For twenty-five years the harbor es
Greytown has been closed. An ugly bar
stretched across It's mouth high above
the water, SO that you could drive over
nearly it's whole length. Our first prob
lem was how to reopen the harbor.
The plan adopted was the construction
of breakwater at right angles to the
bar and 1000 feet long. Our success is
most complete. One thousand feet have
been completed, and at once the current
began to attack the bar, cut it down and
broke through, giving a depth Of nine
feet of water. We bought the entire
dredging plant Of the Panama Canal
Company comprising the eight largest
and most powerful dredges in the world.
They were towed uD by steamers and set
to work deepening the harbor, discharg-
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

cession from Nicaragua. OF this COM
pany l became president one year ago.
The work has gone on very quietly for
two years in making preparations. Sew
enty-ive engineers have been making
during these two years most careful sur
veys and studies. For every mile of
canal at least forty miles of lines have
been thoroughly measured, surveyed and
explored. We have figured to the last
cubic yard that is to be excavated of
earth and of rock. Some figures may be
of interest. The total route from ocean
to ocean will be 169lS miles OF this
neerlY 102 miles are natural waterways,
forty miles of deepened channel, twenty
six miles of canal proper through cuts,
and three-ouarters of a mile of locks.
The amount of earth excavated will be
81, 500, 97l cubic yards, of rock Ii, o2s, $50
cubic yards. During these two years
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ing the excavated material over the
breakwater. Soon after we had four
teen feet of water On the bar. Dec. %,
1890, large three masted schooner
sailed into the harbor that for a quarter
of century had been closed. Jan. a
large seagoing steamer entered the har-
Dor In three or four months we shall
have twenty feet Of water over the bar
In order to successfully carry out the
work it was imperative that railroad
should be built along the line of the
canal to carry forward ma hinery and
supplies. In eight months it was done
It was wonderful piece Of work. It
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

was built through water from three
to four feet deep Trees were felled and
piled up across the line of road, making
a sort of cribwork or corduroy road. On
this cribwork longitudinal logs were
laid. On these were the cross ties of
creosoted wood, brought from the United
States, carrying the rails. As fast as
the road was built q construction train
was run, bringing sand from the sea-
shore, which was dumped on the crib
work until the whole was converted
into a high. broad, solid and ballasted
roadbed, over which heavy trains can
run at the rate of twenty miles or more
per hour. This railroad will be con-
tinued to the great rock cut, seventeen
miles from Greytown, and will be of in
calculable value in this, the most diff
cult part of the work. Thus we have
already successfully solved the two
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Figures.

had discovered Sol America, Column
bus under royal charter from Ferdinand
was sailing along the Honduranian coast
seeking. as though instinctively for the
strait there. A generation later, jacques
Cartier, sailing up for days the mighty
stream of the ST. Lawrence, thought
that he had found 1t.
In later centuries, when the better
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

the whole right OF way has been COM
pletely cleared Of vegetation, a task Of
no small magnitude.
The canal begins on the Atlantic side
at Greytown, at the mouth of the San
Juan River. For the first twenty miles
it does not follow the river, which is
very tortuous and circuitous. but strikes
across In straight line to Ochoa. where
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

The amount of coloring matter stored
in coal is such that one pound of the
mineral yields magenta sufficient to
color 500 yards of flannel, aurine for
100 yards, vermilion for 2, 500 yards,
and alizarine for 255 yards of turkey
red cloth.
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WATERWAY suf-

w ALEX w q I SUI
ficient to carry the
fleets Of the world
from the. Atlantic
to the Pacific, north
Of the equator. has
been the quest of
mankind for nearly
400 years. At first
it was believed
that such a pas
sage really did ex-
list, and in 1902,
five years after he
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13
ACROSS THE MUS.
FACTS ABOUT
THE BIG CANAL.

Details Regarding the Construction and
Prospects OF the Nicaragua Waterway
Building New Town and Dredging a
Now Harb2r at ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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1t meets the river At Ochoa dam will
raise the water of the river to the level
Of Lake Nicaragua. This lake is the
key Of the whole problem. Its surface
Is 10 feet above sea level. It is 100
miles long, As miles wide, and varies in
depth from 80 to $50 feet. 1t furnishes
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13
He Thanked the Lord.

A Connecticut pastor on a re-
cent Sunday, after telling God in
his long prayer the grim story of
the theological defections that signalize
our time, finally found what seemed to
him place of rest in the feeling that
took exactly this form Of expression:
art orthodox - on1reqotionaList.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1891-08-13

MICS,
New York to east entrance Of Nicaragua
Canal. ...................2, o2l
Liverpool to eGst entrance Of Nicaragua
Canal. ....................:.. ,763
Hamburg to east entrance Of Nicaragua
Canal; ..,............... :i.......5 ,219
Amsterdam to east en- trance OF Nicaragua
Canal. Observation-Disclosures, 904
Havre to east entrance OF Nicaragua Canal. 4, S74
Cad1z to east entrance of Nicaragua Canal 1870
New Orleans to east entrance Of Nicaragua
Canal ................... Il, 30s
San francisco to west entrance OF Nicara-
qua Canal. a. TIC
Valparaiso to west entrance OF Nicaragua
NoAioA .&,0lS
Callao to west entrance of Nicaragua Canal i, 5S1
Portland to west entrance of Nicaragua
Victoria to west entrance of Nicaragua
Albuquerque weekly citizen. (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1891-19??, 1891-01-10

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