The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-25

| could easily be dispensed with and are at
/ best only beershops and dives, harboring
disorderly people and constituting thehi-
selves headquarters for political heeiefs,
| loafers, fallen women and the very best
places imaginable to send anyone down, as
| rapidly as possible, the broad way that leads
| to destruction
| Princinal among the places accounted
respectable at the upper end OF the avenue Is
( Colonel Browns.
| This old-fashioned inn. conveniently ad-
| joining the Freeholders' offices and the Court
House, is resort for the otllclals ana The Tlhi,
ployes of these public institutions Inc
| 'sColonep' everyone knows, and his place Is
clean neat, and with some pretenslons to be
a meteorological museum. The old fossils
collected there are of the inert stone variety
principally Almost opposite is Louis Hell
| ier's place, on the northeast corner OF Oak
land avenue much patronized by Court
] House people and politicians. Carl Ruemp,
ler's, opposite to that, is also politicians,
stamping ground, and both houses are well
conducted places.
In the same category may be placed Fack-
ert's saloon almost next to the JAN, on the
south side of the avenue. and also Vines
house and Henns alleys, hlgner up to"aras
| the Corners
A VISIT TO THE DOOMED DENs.
On the cross streets and within short
distance from the avenue at this end are
dozens of smaller places where liquor OF I,
kind is sold. and which, after July l, VIII
cease to exist.
They are pretty much all alike. There is
some sign outside of huge glass with the
legend SCHOONER, &C." and the alluring IN
yitation, Free hot lunch every day.
In one of these saloons which a NEWS re-
porter entered was found a motley group or
the great unwashed, both male and female.
The sticky, griny little bar counter with
%l,c1t t1,aa Of
glasses had stood, was ornamented at one
end with small glass case containing three
boxes of villainous locking cigars, half a
dozen packets of chewing tobacco, and lew
boxes Of cigarettes. The other end was
devoted to the free lunch, consisting OF a mys-
terious looking, slckenlng-to-5ne-sne COM COM
pound called ''Beef Stew" a dish with some
pickles in it, a few crackers, some slices OF
an awful member of the ''wurst" family and
a bottle of vinegar floating in which was q
score of flies looking sorry that they We're In
it.
What with the sickening fumes OF the
"lunchn - stale beer and rank tobacco, the
Mace was the reverse of being agreeable.
Mistaking the reporter for an opulent polltl-
clan. the bartender, greasy, blotchy faced
youth. with hair plentifully oiled and plas-
tered over his forehead generously asked
the too willing group at the tables what tney
would have when the visitor demanded
existing circumstances The occupants of
the dirty tables came to the bar, chorused
ssMy regards and each made some original
observation to the effect that the weather
was warm that the times were hard and
other equally interesting pieces OF valuable
information.
NO LACK OF SALOONS HERE.
Clustered together as closely as the places
where LIQUOR is sold are at the western end
of Newark avenue, the condition OF the east
ern end is more remarkable, If one could
plant one pointer of big compass on the
Pennsylvania depot and describe half CIR.
Gle the diameter of which would be 250
wards. more than 100 liquor selling places
could counted
On Montgomery street alone, from the
ferry to Warren street, which distance prac-
tically means three blocks OF business con-
cerns since tive blocks on che north side are
used by the railroad, there are precisely
twenty-nine houses licensed to sell liquor.
Five of these are hotels, three are whole
sale places, one is a restaurant, while the
remaining twenty are saloons
For the credit Of these concerns, with put
a few exceptions, they are all respectable
and admirably conducted houses.
Below is a cut showing the location OF
these places, and Of those on York street,
within the same points, from the Terry TO
Warren street, are included There are alto
gether forty-one licensed houses in that
small compass. Outside OIL these prlnclpall
streets. on the cross streets running north
and south, the First Aldermanic is more
than generously provided with emporiums
of wet goods.
The numbers below the diagram are only
used to identify the locations, and do not
represent the street numbers.
P R. R. FERRY.