The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-15
CITY NOTES.

The annual meeting of the Board OF
Trade will be held at their rooms over
the Second National Bank tomorrow at
eight p. m. for the election Of ofice1s and
reception of reports.
Grsenviiie.
The annual meeting of the Reformed
Church was held last evening at the
chapel on Ocean avenue. Mr.. Garth
waite and Mr.. Oliver were elected elders,
aud Mir. III. N. Walker and Mr.. Currie
were elected deacons. The treasurer Sub
mitte6 q, report. showing the congrega-
ton to be free of debt. except the morr-
gage on the new church ediice.
Small boys set fire to the underbrusn
on the Bay View Cemetery property
heal Gator avenue last evening. Truck
No. 4 was summoned, and after a hard
tight the fire laddies quenched the flames.
The annual meeting of the Reformed
Sunday school tomorrow evening prom
ises to be interesting. There are four
candidates for the office OF Superintend-
emit, aud lively Times are expected. The
candidates are as follows:-Messr Il. M.
Kyle, S. l.. Harvey, Homer Brooke and
Clark.
The rapid transit matter will be dis
cussed by the Citizens Association at the
next meeting. The prOspec OF obtaining
this much needed improvement are grow
ing brighter again, and the citizens In
tend to agitate until the end desired Tor
is attained.
THE residents in the Woodlawn section
are making Il great run on the new Van
Nostrand place station. The station Is q
great Improvement and will be the means
Of starting a building boom in that Sec
ton.
Vereln are hard at work arranging Tor
the Christmas dinner, which will be
served to the inmates of the Raymond
Roth Altenheim.
Mr.. William Rose, of Avenue E. met
with a painful accident last evening. In
passing beneath Il hanging lamp at his
residence his hat struck the lamp, which
fell and exploded. A large piece OF glass
cut a large cash In his left hand. The
wound was sewed by DR.. Limeburner.
The fire was extinguished with a few
buckets of water. Damage, $40.
The regular meeting OF the 4. M. Y. A..
Ath letic Club will be held this evening at
the rooms No. SO Linden avenue. The
arrangements for the stag racket will be
completed.
The new council of the Jr. o. U. A. M.
will be instituted at Bamber Hall the
first week in January, n the members
expect to have the biggest kind OF a time.
The council starts with a mem bership or
forty, and Organizer Refining Is very much
gratified at the result OF his efforts.
West bergen.
at is rather surprising said a promi-
lent business man to a JERSEY CITY
NEW reporter last evening. That more
light is not provided on West Side ave-
nue.. near the railroad station. 1t Is
there that a suficiency of light is partic-
ularly needed, yet it is really the
gen. A miserable oil lamp is placed IN
front of Greenleaf's store, but that is all.
1t Is not enough to show truckmen the
dangerous railroad bridge SO that they
can lower their heads. when they
attempt to go beneath IN dark nights"
The gentlemen hit the nail squarely on
the head. The residents say That there
should be more lights M not sickly
looking lamps either. At present West
Side avenue has gas lamps as far south
as kearney VENUE, but that Is as Tar as
the main reaches. 1t should be continued
as far as the station at least. so that the
Newark and New York Railroad Com-
pany might take advantage of 1t, and
shed q little more light around the sta
tion. Owingto an insuf1ciency OF Light
it is extremely dangerous to climb the
stairs leading to the station AFTER DARK
for elderly people especially.
President Somers of the Street and
Water Commissioners says that notice
has peer served on all owners of property
whose sidewalks are in poor condition to
have them repaired within a stipulated
time. This time has now expired and the
Board intends to do the work aud charge
it to the owner. provided theB GARD OF
Finance will advance the money.
Mr.. P. j. Kelly is erecting two dwell
ing houses on West Side avenue, near
Lexington avenue.
Mr.. Charles Brandt Of Bergen avenue
left Yesterday for a trip through the
South. He will spend three months
amoug the cowboys in Texas.
1t is reported that 800 shares have been
taken in the projected building
and loan association. This, if true.
should give it a good start, and no
reason exists why it should. not be a sue
cess. What this section needs is improve
ment, and it cannot be secured more
quickly than by joining an association
That will encourage and foster it. A
meeting to form 4 permanent ~oraaniza-