The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-11-18
SOCIAL EVENTS.
How the If Camera Club Came By Its
Name-Weddings TO Come.

how phe II Camera CluD" Came by lGs
Name-Weddings to Come.
The running gear of a Court House ear
got out of order III some way last night
just as it was crossing Jewett avenue.
and for full five minutes the passengers
had to wait, while the small boys of The
~neighborhood amused themselves By
playing tag over the rear platform. All
at once an urchin paused midway.
fsGit onber Harrison, fellarsl' said he.
"Where?' they all shrieked.
Elm der car-him wild der whiskers,
seef'' and with that he burst into the car,
and with an air of familiarity tinged
With awe, exclaimed:-"How d do, Presi-
deutan
But the youths evident desire to ex-
tend his sympathy where it was needed
was all wasted. The man addressed did
not even smile, It was Mr.. &. p. NAL
lory of Park street. People have noticed
the resemblance before, but it is probable
that Mr.. Mallory has never yet had q
better chance of posing for the Chief
Execute i've than he had last night.
Mr.. 4. Herbert Potts is an amateur
photographer of renown, and last night
he went TO an exhibition of lantern slides
to compare notes. On the programme
was a poem about life in Bengal. Iltustra-
ted by scenes in the jungle. As the picture
of a huge yellow and black, Princeton
coloreG animal was thrown upon the
scene, Mr.. Potts's face suddenly assumed
that iust-after-election LOOK, and in q
hollow tone he groaped, "TammangHf
Apropos, the curious name of the If
Camera Club has an interesting origin.
When the society had yet no settled Or
ganization, Mr.. A. B. Gpilford, whose ex-
perience as a photographer was not large.
would go the members who knew more
fhor he liza op6 nck ofort1otin ok1r%
his work. They would always reply, IF
You had done SO and SO, it would have
been just righJ.n aud .That would be
frst-class. IL it wasn't SO weak" and IF
you had just doue this one thing, you'd
have had q splendid p~icture,n until he
came to the conclusion that the longest
word in photographers language was
;.If,1 and moved that it be adopted as the
name of the Clue.
The first Assembly of the season was
given at Foye Hall on Monday evening.
The date was originally announced as
Monday, Nqvemhe 81.
The usual harvest of THANKSGIVING
weddings is close at hand. Ga TuesdaY
next there are to be two, one at which
sister of Mrs. Livingston Clifford, Mrs.
Bonnell and Mrs. Peter Henderson, will
be the hrIGe. and the other at which Miss
Game, of Seventh street. will appear in q
similar capacity,
The performance of sThe Serious
Family at the 2, g. A. @. Clubhouse
next Thursday night (phanksgivlng) is
eagerly awaited BY levers of amateur
theatricals. The photographs OF the
company which adorn the various shop
windows ofour thoroughfares are ealing
attention TO the play in a silently conyinc-
ing manner.
Owing to the Schubert concert on Mo-
yember 80, the accustomed meeting night
of the Fortnightly Musicales, Mrs. Rob
ert G. Lyle will entertain the members at
her residence. MOI .5uydam avenue, next
Tuesday evening. Tue composers are
Chuck, Greig and Lasssn.
Miss Ethel Potts, who is at boarding
school in Connecticut. VIII return to
spend THANKSGIVING with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Herbert Potts, Of Mag.
uolia avenue,
The Alpha Sigma Of the Jersey City