The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-07-23
CITY NOTES.

Inc l~aOcrnacle Lawn SociaDle Will DC
held this evening on the Tennis Grounds,
Varick and Bright streets. Refreshments
will be served. Music will be by the New
Jersey Military Brass Band
The adjourned meeting of July IS. OF
the fremont Club will be held at the
club rooms on Central avenue this even
Ing at eight o'clock.
John McGee, OF No. Is Seaview avenue,
while at work yesterday in Ling's Spin
ming Mills. caught his foot In the machin-
cry and had his toes badly lacerate d be-
fore his foot was extricated.
The elevated railroad str ucture through
Hudson City il being painted white.
The Pioneer Democratic Assoc iation
will have an excursion to Lyon Grove
on Sunday, August 2.
The Fourth District Democratic Asso-
citation will have a picnic at Pohiman's.
on August 10. Great preparations are
being made. Tickets are now out.
The Board OF Education meets tonight.
Que Of the double tracks OF the Mer-
chants Express Company Of Newark
broke DOWN this morning at the Junction
of Grand street and Communipaw ave-
nue.. Travel was delayed half an hour.
Thomas Flynn from 81 Sudley street,
and james Codora. from 90 Baxter street,
Philadelphia. were arrested early this
morning, providing around private houses
on Bergen Avenue. Justice kimmerly
committed them to Snake Hill for thirty
days.
Charles Gean, of No. 4s Kesrnev ave-
nue., was arrested last night on Kearney
avenue, as a suspicious character. He
was sentenced to thirty days imprison-
ment at Snake Hill.
Mary Gehrs, OF No. 81 West Side ave-
nue., was before Justice Kimmerly again
this morning charged with assault upon
Bertha Kuutz, Of No. 80 Walker avenue.
The woman was put under 500. bonds to
keep the peace. She was fined SIS on
Monday last for selling liquor without a
license.
An unsuccessful trip was made with
the storage battery motor again last
but had to be pulled up the MONTGOMERY
street hill. The car Is not a success.
Lafayetts.
There is a gang of toughs that makes
the vicinity of the Pacific avenu bridge
its headquarters, and people are con-
PEELED 10 give the place a Wild berth at
niglt. Early yesterday morning a young
man was attacked by the rutians. who
demanded his money. After a short
struggle, he broke away aud started to
run, and as the gang was evidently
afraid TO follow him, he escaped. The
young man had a large sum of money in
mis- possession and the gang must have
known It.
The Thomas J.. Kelly Association start.
ed on their annual chowder trip today.
They will 20 to Donnelly's Grove.
-Communipaw Tribe of Red Men was
organized Tuesday night, in Lafayette
House. Their next meeting will be held
August 16.
Weak fish are running well in New
York Bay. An extra large number were
caught yesterday.
Miss Lulu Clapp Of Pacific avenue is
now at bennington, VT, where b will
spend the summer.
The patrons of the New Jersey Central
Railroad will be glad when the new sta
tion is completed at Communtpaw. the
platform at the old station is much TOO
short, and complaints are made about 1t
every day.
GreenviIle.
Bay View Lodge, f. and A. NJ, meets
tonight in their rooms at the Belvidere
House.
The Union Circle will 60 to Greenwood
Lake next Sunday for a fishing and put
ing trip. Mr.. @. e. Wecknef, Miss K.
Darmstater, the Misses Kriessr and
Mr.. and Mrs Haverman will be among
the party.
August Zeugner. of the Belvidere
House. has completed a new ice box or
which he is very prond. The ice is broken
and placed in three zinc feeders which
extend down the back. Mr.. Zsugner will
not have the idea patented aud says any
one can use 1t. He claims il requires
OhSJ ~ hNAA no ~ 81 al OA4AhdAJ
box.
Captain Birch, the Mang Brothers and
Stewart Miller are gong OIL a fishing
trip to Roseville next week.
Next Tuesday the jolly Lot Social Club
will have a sailing party TO Curry's
Woods. They will leave Ulrich's at two
o'clock in the afternoon and return for a
dance on the pavilion ia the evening.
Mr.. Charles Gossmann. of Danforth
avenue, will start August 9 for Europe,
where he will spend five weeks sight see
ing.
The third annual clambake of the La
Grippe Club will be held on Thursday,
July 30. at Great Neck, L. l. There will
be a regular meeting of this club at the
New York Bay House this evening, aud
final arrangements will be made.
The Scandinavian Singing Society will
hold its first picnic next Saturday after
noon and evening at Greentille Schuetzen
Park. New York aud Brooklyn singing
societies will attend.
The residents on the lower end of
Bergen avenue complain about the bad
condition of the drinking water. 1t has a
very disagreeable smell and is full of
smsll particles OF dirt. 1t Is a long while
since the plugs were blown off in this
neighborhood. ana that is probably the
cause OF the trouble.
The reading rooms at the corner of
Pacific and Communipaw n are
DctuG wei phtionA1C L ny tut gOQuR men.
Lart night about twenty were o observed
scanning the various periodicals and
books.
A truck belonging to the Merchants
Express Company broke down this morn
ing on Grand street. near the junction.
The Greenville cars were COMPELLED TO
jump the tracks. 1t was "a half hour be-
fore the obstruction was removed.
West Bergen.
The street at the lower end of Culver
avenue is in a very bad condition. 1t has
sunk in ssveraA spots, and should be at
tended to at once. 1t is a dangerous place
for a Wagon to pass at night.
The letter box needed at the West Ber-
gen station has not yet made its appear
ance. Some action regarding it will prob
ably be taken by the Improvement Asso-
citation at the next meeting.
Nothing will be done regarding the
binding of the South Bergen Reformed
Church until September. The stock is
being taken up very slowly.
1t is not likely that a double horse car
track will be laid along West Side ave-
nue. until the electric system is put in
use.
The boys evidently think they will have
no further use for the DID school house,
now that the new one is being built
They made another attack upon it re-
Gently aud broke a number of the win
dows.