The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-15

| cross over TO i1ODOktn ASAk1s u SAVING
Of sOmo fifteen minutes
Inasmucn us the majority of the stock
of the jersey City and bergen Rtilroad
Horse Car Company is controlled by the
Pennsylvania +. r. Co., and seeing
also, That tue Hoboken ferries will catch
Pennsylvania ferries, the result will be
one OF two things, namely, the building OF
an IL" road parallel with Montgomery
street, and branching north aud south up
Bergen avenues; or the running OF local
rapid trains OF the structure OF the new
IL" OF the Pennsylvania Railroad i'll
order TO retain the passenger trafnc That
might be lost by the North Hudson Eleva.
ted, carrying the passengers to the HOBO
ken ferry.
PARKS M DoULEvARDs.
Another great DRAWBACK, aud Il
which has driven a great many wealthy
property owners away, is the lack of Il good
road. People who are wealthy aud own
fast horses like to have a q to drive
them on. But this pleasure, like many
others, is denied to citizens of Jersey
City. When SO inclined. they must either
take the Annex boat to Brooklyn, or the
Twepty-third street ferry for Central
Park or the Boulevards.
But. there is one consolation-it cannot
be forever thus. Citizens have already
realized the necessity for a new departure
in this aud other important respects. Let
us nope tuab buC WOlh aitooNy O0Soh
shall be carried out to a speedy compile
tion.
Jersey City at last seems to be awaking
| from her trance; she has left the hyper
mating period behind. After all the
| gloomy things that have been said it Is
| pleasant to record that the city is on the
eve of great activity and municipal enter
prise.
For instance, a new Boulevard is in
course of construction, which will run
the entire length of the county, from Ber-
gen Point TO the Bergen county boundary
line, a distance of eighteen miles. The
Board of Freeholders have got over
all their difficulties of a legal nature. and
are now waiting for the Commits
sioners appointed by Judge Knapp
to report. Under the act, the
Board of Freeholders are authorized
to issue bonds and to condemn property.
They have already laid the work out in
six sections, for six different contracts.
The route is established, and the maps
approved and arrangements made to con-
denim property. The prospects are that
in a year the greater part OF the road Will
be in shape to be driven over. rms
Boulevard runs along the westerly slope
of Jersey City and Bayonne, and to the
north it comes out in front of the Gutten-
berg race track.
Another great detriment to the good
name of the city will speedily be re-
moved. The city is without parks, worthy
of the name. There are two parks, So
called-Hamilton and Van Worst. We
call them squares" in New York. All
this In time will be remedled.
So, after all. Jersey City has the
promise of a future. Her past has been
clouded. She may yet emerge into the
sunshine and take her place among the
queen cities of the Atlantic seaboard.
When this happens 1t will be one OF the
wonders of the age.
If something could also be done to i'm
prove the condition of the streets. what a
blessing it would be. Without a reform
| OF this Kind all other efforts to make the
city ~presentable and attractive will avail
but little. Those unsightly cobble stones
must go first and be replaced by some
other substitute or process more in keep
ing with modern methods. Then bring
out your broom brigade and keep them
at it. Then all good citizens will have
cause to rejoice and be exceeding glad.
for assuredly the millennium has come.
SOME sUMPTUoUs B
In my peregrinatiOns about town, L
learned that Jersey City was preeminent
for one thing:-her stables were the most
| elegant to be found anywhere. That must
be a proud distinction! 1t has already
been noted that fine buildings of any kind
are conspicuous by their absence. An
exception must be made in the case of
these stables. That which has been denied
to man has been vOuchsafed to horses.
Like the Roman Emperor Caligula, he
who was educated "tor the destruction of
tn Roman people, whose favorite horse
was stabbed in a palace, fed at a marble
manger with gilded oats, was made u
member of the College Of Priests, n
afterwards raised to the Consulship; like
Caligula, there are tn who consider
their horses worthy of consular honors.
And Alexander the Great, in remem-
brance of his Bucephalus, built a city near
the Hydaspes. which he called after him,
Bucephalia.
These ~palatial stables belong to express
compan ies:-Adams, on Montgomery
street; Wells Fargo & Co., on Pavonia
avenue. AS a boastful citizen remarked,
"they are a pride, a credit and an orna-
ment to the city"
! II some enterprising and public spirited
citizen would build and endow q college,
or a library, or an art gallery, or all
| three, these boosted stables might be en-
durable. But in a city where there are
neither art galleries. libraries or colleges,
these equine establishments are very
much of u reproach.
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
Public buildings there are none at all
that can be mentioned favorably. The
building called by courtesy a city hall is
not to be compared with Adams Express
stable. Police Headquarters is the most
recent municipal buildiug-buil5 last
year-but who would him of calling it
an architectural triumph? The building
of a new city hall is contemplated. Let
us fondly hope it will be a municipal
monument that will reflect credit on the
city. 1t is to cost half a million dollars.
So far as my memory serves the city is
without public baths. The small boys
are even debarred the privilege and
pleasure of taking a header from
a string piece. as there is no dock open to
the public. Russian and Turkish baths.
l presume there must be; but they have
escaped my notice. Reading rooms, if
such there be, succeed in hiding their
light under a bushel; for l have not come
across any of them. The people may get
along without reading, but, parbleu,
they must certainly eat. But where are
the restaurants? OF such 'there are but
few of any kind and none of name"
There is not one restaurant in all Jersey
City such as would rank as third class in
New York city. There is no oyster house.
no cafe, no beer gardens, and but few
ice cream saloons l pity the couple who
nave to do their counting in Jersey City.
How can n young man be expected to
gain the affections of his girl in a city
where there are no parks. no gardens, no
shady promenades? Why, even Gold
smiths Deserted Village'' was not be-
hind hand in these particulars; for
the poet describes
The hawthorn bush. with seats beneath the
shade,