The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-07-05
THE 0S AND THE MACS.
Tickets for the Excursion to Iona
Island Sell Well.


Seven hundred and forty membersl
Other propositions to be. yet acted upon.
The Macs are booming.
The plans recently drawn for the new
club house are not satisfactory. The new
club house is to be an ornament to the
northern section of the city. Il will have
brown stone front. There is to be q
| gymnasium hall. equipped with ali the
| latest gymnastic paraphernalia.
Five thousand tickets for the coming ex-
cursion to Iona Island on July % have
been distributed among the members,
| and the reports coming IN indicate that
every ticket will be sold. Three barges in
| addition to the large and elegant steamer
COLCHESTER have been chartered. Ed.
Kenny And James O'Connor have pur-
chased the bar privileges for $f55, the
largest amount ever paid for such prIvi-
leges in Hudson county.
The desertion of the rooms on We'd
nesday and Saturday evenings. which has
for some weeks been potherin9 the
leaders, has at last been satisfactorily ac-
counted for. The boys are all keeping OIL
the right side Of their best girls The ex-
cursion takes place on July %
The genial standard bearer mas been
spending the past week with his family
at Asbury Park.
Since Manager Billy Quinn has re-
| turned from four weeks trip through
| the West, The baseballists of the assoca-
lent work in the field. The husUling lit
tie captain, p. H. Connolly, is anxious to
redeem his position in the schedule OF
ssassocintionn games
An elegant cabinet for the blue silk
campaign banner IS being built.
Notwithstanding the excessive warmth
of these july evenings the literature de-
partment of the association is well pat
rouiEed. A long table, covered with
leading periodicals., occupies the centre
of the cozy assembly room, and around
this almost every night gather young
members anxious TO know what Is going
on in the outside world This feature OF
the Mclaughlin Association is u worthy
one, which can be emulated by rival Or
ganizations with considerable profit.
General Superintendent NJ. T. Staples
of the Erie Railway has presented the
Association with an elegant crayon por-
trait OF Governor Leon Abbe5t. che por-
trait Is handsomely framed IN carved oak
and occupies prominent position among
the portraits that adorn the walls of the
assembly rooms.
Directly across from Governor Abbett's
picture the stolid countenance of Allan
L. McDermott looms up in siKty-five
dollar frame, presented 10 the Association
by President Feeney of the Police Board.
1t Is the solid picture of solid man in
solid frame. Mr.. Feeney Will also pre-
sent the Association with q portrait OF
Prosecutor Winfield. The large crayon pol-
trait of the standard bearer that al reused
such intense enthusiasm when displayed
at the McLaughlin concert at the Academy
last winter also adorns the walls of the
coy room.
Frank p. Casey, who engrossed the re-
solutions passed by the Association
lamenting the death of Fire Chief Farrier
has just finished engrosstng a set of reso-
lutions that are to be presented to the
family of the late Counsellor Hugh L.
Hughes.
Terry Mcdonald is considered 'sthe
architect of the Association.