The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-05
CITY NOTES.

Inc lake.,
CITY NOTES.
The graduating exercises of the class of
'01, Of the Jersey City Business College
will be held ut the Tabernacle
this evening at 5 o'clock. Thomas
IL Kavanngh will be The salu-
t~alorian ard Florence Philbrook will
make line valedictory address. John A.
Walker and Erastus Wiman will make
addresses,
Mr.. Frederic Dean begins Il course of
lectures on Saturday morning. November
Z, AT Behr Brothers, Hall, No. 81 Fifth
avenue, on "The History of Music" and
will be illustrated by vocal and instru-
mental ~soloists. Mr.. Dean will give five
lectures. one each consecutive Saturday,
his first being on "Palestrina and His
School,"
slPhillip Hughes. a young hoodlum.
who lives at No. 16S Eleventh street, was
held by Police Justice O'Donuell this
morning for beating his aged mother.
The Mayors office was filled with
Raudily attired men, women and chill
dreu from the Italian colony this morn
ing TO witness the wedding of Peter
D'Alassio, of No. 1888 Fifteenth street,
and Angela Rita Cobpala, of No. 339 First
street.
Thomas Peirski. a Polish workman en-
ployed by the PENNSYLVANIA Railway
Company. was held in $500 for the Grand
Jury by Police Justice O'Donnell for
| striking Antonio Marinno, a fourteen
| year-old coal picker, in the head with a
shovel. He accused Marino of "pegging"
stones at him.
Contractor Byrnes yesterday had Com
muuipaw avenue swept and the ashes re-
moved. The residents intend giving him
a vote of hanks =.
Peter Miller, of Bergen avenue. a we'll
known New York photographer, died
last night from general debility.
Lafayette.
Wedding bells will ring at the residence
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ritcher on Pacific ave-
nue. next Thursday evening. Mr.. Richard
Hitler and Miss Annie Ritscher will be
the participants in The ceremony which
will be performed by the Rev. p. e.
Blight of the Lafayette NJ. f Church.
Misses JENNA and Julia Dean OF John
son avenue will leave tomorrow for an
extended trip through Pennsylvania.
They will visit relatives at Philadelphia.
Pittsburg aud Wilkesbarre, n will be
absent four weeks.
Fhe Cecilia Pleasure CLUB will be
reorganized for the season al the resi-
dence of Mr. Charles Post. on Van Horne
street, this evening. Officers will be
elected.
John Blair, while drunk last evening.
attempted to jump from the Pacific
avenue bridge into the canal
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policeman, who locked him up in The
Fourth Precinct station house.
Thieves visited the Central Railroad
yard, last evening and stole several brass
journals.
A petition is being circulated by the
property owners on Lafayette street for
the improvement of that t~horoughfare by
paving and curbing.
Greenville.
V,ha raorlor vnnutbIv rnraption of tho
Greenville Dancing Academy will be held
tomorrow evening at the Belvedere Hall.
The Thiesen Amateur Orchestra will
meet this evening and complete the de-
tails for the joint concert to be held next
Thursday. sss
The annual meeting and election of the
Sixth District Citizens Association will
be held next month. President Harvey
saws he will not be a candidate for office
this year and Reuben Simpson will in all
probability be elected President. That
energetic worker, Mr.. j. Baldwin, will
be elected secretary.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad will cross
Linden avenue on il trestle. 1t would be
better II the tracks were laid at grade. as
the trestle will not be more than six feet
above the grade of the avenue. How
wagons aud other vehicles will pass
under remains to be seen. Linden ave-
nue. is the only road leading to the New
York Bay Shore, between Chapel and
Gates avenues.
The old Gautier homestead, Greenville's
oldest landmark. will not be torn down
this spring. The railroad company will
not use tie property for some time and
have decided to let the old historic land
mark remain until the Ian Upon which it
stands is needed for the extension Of the
road.
A plank walk has been laid upon the
llehigh Valley Railroad trestle across the
Newark Bay and now Greenvillites take
this means Of reaching Newark. instead
of going via the Newark and New York
Railroad.
The "kaffee klatsch'' at the Y. M. c. A.
rooms this evening promises to be a big
success.
Rev. Jesse M. Gilbert, A. NJ. will lee
ture at the Linden Avenue NJ. e. church
tomorrow evening. The subject will be
Crooks on Winch People Spill" These
lectures are proving to be interesting and
instructive and the lecture committee Is
pleased at the financial success.
West bergen.
The class meeting at the M. E. Church
last evening was we'll attended. Mr.. w.
II. Beach conducted the meeting in an
int eresting manner. The meetings are
very enthusiastic. and many new faces
were seen last evening.
The new office which is being erected
by the West Side Cemetery Company on
the grounds near West Side avenue is
rapidly nearing completion. II is built
OF brick, and tends considerably to beau
tify the already beautiful grounds.
The Lamps and Lights Committee of
the West Bergen Citizens improvement
Association lis endeavoring to secure a
few lamps for Morton Place and Fiske
avenue,
Hardly a day passes but the drivers of
trucks heap maledictiops Oh the West
avenu railroad bridge because they
cannot pass beneath it. The driver of an
express wagon became very indignant
this morning because he had to take off
part of his 10 d in order to pass beneath
it. Notwithstanding that complaints are
made daily, the railroad people move
along in the even tenor of their way aud
seem entirely oblivious to the fact that
the low bridge is al intolerable nuisance.
The janitor for the new school has not
as yet been appointed. Several West
Bergeners would nave nj objection to
being appointed. 1t is a lucrative and
comfortable position, and naturally there
are many who aspire to it.
The Epworth League. Chapter l ,S04.
will meet in the NJ. L. Church this even
ing.
Mr.. William Darmer, tue bicycle racer
of the w. b. A. A., can be seen daily on
West Side avenue training for the indoor
bicycle races which will be held in New
York during the winter.