The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-31
RECORD OF THE YEAR
What Has Happened in Jer-
sey City During the
Past Twelve
Months.
1 MANY PROMINENT MEN DIED
Any PROMINENT MEN DIED
How the City Has Grown and How
lis Renewed Prosperity Was
Brought About.
MANY NEW BUILDINGS ERECTED.

uc OlQ Jcdip WutCn olCS WlOH tOudg ,
was more than eventful one for Hudson
County. Though it made most decided
advance in Jersey City's progress, and
though during the twelve months past
the municipality has made a long and
rapid stride forward, it has been visited
with more than its share of calamity and
has been called upon to mourn the pass
ing away of many of it's most prominent
sons.
The opening month of the year was a
direful one for Jersey City. Each citizen
now living will carry to his grave re-
membrance OF the fatal January "a, 1891.
First came the fire in the tenement
house at Greene and Essex streets, in
which Henry Gusemann, u Sugar House
employee was burned to death as he lay
asleep on lounge III his apartments.
Then in the evening came the death of
struck by a locomotive at the Barrow
street crossing of the Pennsylvania
Railroad while on his way to the fire in
Bottwood's hardware store at Grove
street and Pavonia avenue. at which
Chief Henry e Farrier, of the Fire De-
partment, met his death.
Three days before that DR.. Pierson
Rector died from blood poisoning con-
tracted while attending a charity patient.
On January l 4. little jimmy Halloran.
only nine years old, died from the effects
of liquor which had been given him by
older persons. Thomas G. Kipp, once a
member of one of the largest grocery
houses in New York. committed suicide
at his home on Eighth street on Janu-
ary 8.
Miss Mary Albeit. daughter of the
Governor. held notable reception at her
home on Montgomery street on the 18Th,
and on the Is h the Bar Association ate
its annual dinner at Taylor's Hotel. On
the 21st Governor Albeit opened the new
gymnasium of the Y. NJ. c. A. by send
ing the first ball down the tenDln alleys.
On the 7th, Germany through Secretary
Blaine complained to Governor Albeit of
the action of the HobOken police in TAX
ing several seamen by force from the
German steamship Elbe, and on the 25th
occurred storm which laid low the tele-
graph and telephone wires for miles
arohnd.
St. Aloysius Academy's new building
was dedicated on the 9th, and the Argus
was sold out on the 18th. In the month
of February the city lost two of its PROM
inent clergymen. The Rev. DR.. Suydam
resigned from the Park Reformed Church
and the Rev. DE-. William r. Duryea left
the Lafayette Reformed Church and ac-
cepted q professorship in Rutgers Col
lege, while the Rev. J. Lester Wells came
10 the Tabernacle as assistant pastor.
Coroner NJ. j. Boylan died and the great
strike at Clark's Thread Works at Har-
rison began.
IN THE SPRING.
During the month of March the Meth
odsts celebrated Wesley's Centennial
throughout the county. A conspiracy to
break out of the Hudson County Jail was
discovere ed and frustrated. Joseph Wiki
inson, once q wealthy man, committed
suicide at the age of sixty-three years to
escape poverty. Mrs. Helen johnson of
Lafayette was burned to death, her
clothes taking fire as she rocked her
grandchild before the stove. The
long. almost indeterminable war between
the Rev. DR.. Chapman. rector OF Grace
Episcopal Church, Greenville, broke out,
and the downfall of Pastor Freund. of
of HoboKen, occurred. The Argus build
ing was destroyed by fire. John Hay and
Michael Haley were burned to death In
an oil fire at the Tide Water Oil Works
at Constable Hook. The disastrous fire
in the Passaic Zinc Works in Lafayette
also occurred during this month.
The O'Neill Association gave a grand
bail IN Woods Hall and ex-Sheriff Davis,
Michael s. O'Donnell and Frank KIM
merly were made police justices. Jewell
Ter Walters safe was broken into and
50, 600 worth of jewerv stolen.
AErll WAS II IdI tIlDTc eVtublul IuOuUu
It began with an event OF much interest
10 the taxpayers of the city. On the
first the Board of Finance sold 81 100000
5 per cent. assessment bonds, and
$3.50 900 5 per cent. water bonds at 100. o.
The proprietors of the Hoboken theatres
were arrested on bench warrants, and an
end was put to Sunday theatricals in that
city for time. On Sunday morning. the
fourth the city WIS Mortified to learn of
the particulars of the brutal murder, the
night before of Mary Hallinger by her
husband Edward Halllnger. the ex-prize-
fighter and ex-minister.
The bricklayers went on strike, and
the Grand Army men celebrated the
twenty-fifth anniversary of their order.
A fire occurred in the gas works from
which certain portions of the City were
in total darkness for one or two nights
Ann O'Deia Dis Debarr, the spook
priestess, disappeared mysterlously from
Taylor's Hotel after sending word to
the newspaper offices tnat she was
goiug to jump off ferrvboat
County Engineer Harrison filed the
plans aud survey OF the new County
Road. and Director-at-Large Bruggemann
refused to sign the park bombs.
Philip MoDecker shot Mrs Catherine
Barth, with whom he had eloped from
Germany on The German steamship
Elder, at Hoboken, and then shot himself.
Both died almost instantly. Angelo
CaputO killed Rosa oIHVefO, HIS InOCneF-
.n-law, in Hoboken, and was himself
killed by Angelo ChiricEh hello, his
eighteen year old brother-in-law. The
latter made his escape and was never
arrested
The controversy between the Board of
Street and Water Commissioners and the
Jersey City aud Bergen Railroad Com
panv broke out and the hearts Of the resi-
dents of the Heights were made sad by
the Withdrawal of the electric motors.
Joseph Keuler. young man from New
York, was riding by the Marion station
IN Pennsylvania railroad car with his
prm out of the window when his arm
struck some projection and was literally
torn from it's socket. Suen Yee, a pretty
Chinese girl, ran away from mission
ury's family in Greenyille and married
An Phoon, Mott street Iauudryman. A
new building which was in course of
erection at Erie and Fourth streets col
Iapseh Sunday afternoon and coming, rs
1t did, the next day after the Park Place
horror. created considerable consterna-
ton throughout the city. Fortunately.
however, no nne was Injured.
] he LehighValley Raj road consolidated
all the small roads under which 1t had