Passaic City record., 1892-02-13


Paterson is to adopt a Police
Signal system.
The Union Loan and Building
Association will meet next Tues
day evening.
Miss Fanny Berdan, daughter of
r. R. Berdan, and Mr.. John Trim
BILE. will be married on Tuesday
next.
las. Driscoll's seed store is ira
yelling up Bloomfield avenue and
will be planted opposite Levi
Aldous' shop.
Workmen have begun rebuild
ing Speer's warehouse which was
burned last fall. The new build
ing will be in design the same as
the old.
Smart boys can make money
selling the special Washington's
Birthday edition of the RECORD
next week-Put in your applica-
ton n0N
New Jersey may be little but
she is never small Of course she
is in the front rank. Beat her if
you can. Easier said then done.
passaic is in New Jersey.
]. E. Christie has fine specimen
of the Sullivan County wildcat in
his store on Washington Place. 1t
belongs to C. E. Gundlach of the
Prudential Life Insurance Co.
Benz. F. Taylor, a bright young
man who is not afraid to look you
in the face, made the RECORD office
a pleasant call on Saturday. He
is active in the work of the Y. M.
c. A.
Look out for the RECORD next
week-the Washington Birthday
number. 1t will be as patriotic as
the flag which in fair weather
floats DER the Post office over the
way.
The Lodi oil cloth factory,
which was started by Rev. R. M.
Oxford and Edwin Armitage, has
shut down. Some say because of
too many spooks and others say
because of too close competition.
1t is reported that there have
leen more cases of sore throat ard
dlphtheria in Hackensack this
winter than for a similar period in
MANY years. The cases were not
of very malignant type however.
A statement just issued by the
New York, Ontario & Western
Railroad shows growth of annual.
surplus from 2,o26 in 1881 to $Ioo-
43o in 1891; passengers carried in
1881, 326,67o; in 1891. zoos, ,2I5, in
crease of 2o8 per cent.
A dreadful condition of things is
reported to exist at the Botany
Worsted Mills of Passaic. They
call for immediate investig alton,
if not by the Legislature, at least
by the Factory Department.-Pat-
eyson La6or Standard.
The work of rebuilding the rail
road bridge at Passaic Bridge with
an iron one is progressing rapidly.
The foundation of the draw is
being laid and the span over the
top is nearly completed. There
are few more interesting studies
than this art of building new rail
road bridges without delaying
trains.
The first of the spring series of
concerts of the Passaic Library
Association was given last Friday
evening, and was pronounced
success. The committee who have
these concerts in charge have
labored hard and deserve more
than Il passing notice-and we
hope to do them justice in a future
issue
The Presbyterian prayer meeting
next Wednesday evening will be
conducted by Mr.. W. A. Willard,
and the subject of the occasion will
be twenty-five Years of Sunday
S.hool." Iti:expecte the meeting
will be an unusually interesting
one. Certainly Mr. Willard is we'll
v:r Ell in the ay-School work
of the Church.
Fred Owen, one of the young
men employed as clerk in the
Passaic National Bank, is utilizing
his spare hours by representing
the RECORD in Passaic He is a
deserving and enterprising young
man, one of two commendable sons
of a widowed mother. We be-
speak for him the encouragement
and success which his industry de-
serves.
The Dundee Preshxterian