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The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
NOTICES.

TO AMELIA C. MACOMBER. HENRY K.
Macomber, her husband; Ellie G, Winant,
James j. Winant, her husband; Louisa {.
husband; Sophie c. Henderson,, Charles Hen
derson, her husband
You are hereby notified that at a public
sale made by the City Collector of Jersey
City, on the 18th day Of April, 1894, The Mayor
and Aldermen Of Jersey City purchased for
the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars
and ninety-four cents G550.s4 ALL the land
and real estate situate in Jersey City, in the
County of Hudson and State of New Jersey,
fronting on Beacon avenue, which is laid
down and designated as lot sixty-three (63).
in block number five hundred and sixty-nine
$3.50, upon an assessment map annexed TO
a report number eighty 800, made by the
Commissioners Of Adjustment appointed in
and for said City by the Circuit Court of
which report and map was filed in the Office
Of the City Collector Of Jersey City, on the
and said sale being made pursuant to the
provisions of an act of the Legislature OF
New Jersey. passed March 30th, 1856, en-
titled:-
IAN Act concerning the settlement and col
lection of arreages of unpaid taxes, assess
ments and water rates or water rents in
cities of this state, and imposing and
levying a tax, assessment and lien in lieu
and instead of such arrearages, and to en-
force the payment thereof, and to provide
for the sale of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you APP
pear to have an estate or interest in said
land and real estate, and unless the said
land and real estate shall be redeemed, as
provided in said acts, before the expiration
of six months from and after the service
hereof, a deed for the same will be given
conveying to The Mayor and Aldermen of
Jersey City the fee simple Of said land and
real estate according to the provisions Of the
said act.
Dated Jersey City, N. J., November s. 1894.
H MAYOR M OF JER-
SEY CITY.
PETER F. wANsER-
(Seal.) Mayor.
Attest: JOHN E. SCOTT.
City Clerk.
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CITY NEWS NOTES.

Trinity Chapter NO. 2,7s4, Epworth
League of Trinity M: q. Church., York
street between Washington and Warren
streets. will hold a dime sociable this
evening. There will be a literary pro-
gramme consisting of recitations, solos,
some excellent violin music, ETC., com
nsencing at eight o'clock. After the
programme refreshments will be avail
able for the social hour"
The Board of Education meets tonight
The Autumn Leaf Pleasure Club will
give a ball at Kessler's Hall, Monday
night.
of the fact that Adjutant Hicks, who
was to speak, was not present.
Tonight, weather permitting, there will
be a parade. Friday night there viii be
n conservation meeting, and next Thurs
day night Adjutant Hunter will swear IN
a number of converts and receive them
as full-fedged soldiers.
The Rev. A. c.. Dixon, D. D., of Brook
lyn, will deliver a lecture on temperance
tonight at the Bergen Baptist Church.
The meeting will be under the auspices
OF the Y. P. S. C. E. of the church.
Dickinson Council, Royal Arcanum, will
give an entertainment and reception this
evening at Crescent Hall. The Crescent
Thespians, will appear in Above the
Enterprise Council, Companions of the
Forest, will give their second annual en-
tertainment and reception this evening at
Foye Hall.
The fair of the Bethel A. M, E. Church,
at Excelsior Hall. is a success. The
ladies did a good business last night.
Mr.. William H. Beach lectured at the
Bergen Mission last night on the subject
of temperance.
The annual election of officers OF
UNIQUE Council, Royal Arcanum, will be
held at Arcanum Hall tomorrow night.
There will be some hot contests.
The Executive Committee of the Good
Government Association will meet to-
night in Arcanum Hall.
T1nr mn nTlC0EQTS AT either Inc
Fourth or the Seventh precincts this
morning.
THE Bergen Republican Club met last
night and transacted routine business
: IN the absence of President Landrine,
yice-President Deterle presided.
A new sewer is being punt at johnston
avenue and Grand street.
Farragut Guard viii have q dinner to-
morrow night at Vreeiand's, No. 5S1 Ber-
gen avenue.
The Coal Dealers Association met last
night n elected j.. w Beach to the
Executive Committee. 1t was decided tc
make arrangements for the annual din
ner and also for an excursion to be held
in Tune next.
Samuel Herring, of Newark avenue and
Third street, a lab0rer employed by the
Adams Express Company. fell off a
wagon on Greene street this morning
and sustained a fracture of the skull
This afternoon the Board OF Freeholders
will make another batch of appointments
and a host of officials are on the anx1ou:
seat
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A MILLION DOLLAR MORTGAGE.

A million dollar mortgage was recorded
In the Registers office this morning. 1t
was given by the Union Traction Com
pany to the Metropolitan Trust Company
OF New York to secure the issue of bonds
to the amount of 81, 900, 900. These to
bear interest at five per cent. and to ma
ture December l, 1924. and redeemable in
gold.
This nice little sum of one million
dollars is raised for the purpose of en-
aiding the Union Traction Company to
pay to the Town of Rutherford for fran
chises for a traction road. 1t is also to
meet certain debts against the corpora
ton.
The mortgage deed has been sent t o
Bergen and Essex counties to be recorded
there as well as here.
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Coffees and spices, to Henry Hanly, for
the sum of $2,471.90.
Compressed yeast, to tIeischmann q
Co., at Csc. per ID.
Clothing, to Ignatius Noonan. for the
sum of 81 ,340.
Coal, to James Coyle, for s425 per ton.
Dry goods, to 1gnatius Noonan, for
Fresh meats, to Michael Smith, for
Fresh eggs, to Brook & W~eidemann,
for the sum of $S17.
Feed, to Thinker & Hannibal, for the
sum of 81, $751; rs.
Flour, to Thinker 6 Hannibal, for
THE sum of 5000. :
Fish, to Abe Post, for the sum Of
s. 1900.
the sum of $5,006. -
Hosiery, to Joseph Vincent & Co, for
the sum of 1887, 90,
Hardware to Virgins & Abel, for the
lumber q Dodge 8 Co, for the sum
Leather, to E. A. Gerdy, for the sum
Ice for County Institutions, to F. Nc
DerIaott, at $3.50 per ton.
Ice for Court House n jail, TO ed
ward McDermott, at IS per ton.
Lime and cement, to James I. kali,
for the sum of SS92.
Miscellaneous. to Virgins & Abel. for
the sum of 1887.
Notions, to Joseph e, Vincent 4 Co.,
for the sum of $4l9.05.
Oils. to Jarvis underhill, for the sum
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PRESERVING THE OoRsETs.

She who knows enough to keep a bot
tie of ammonia on her dressing table
and use it generously has learned a Sc
cret about the preservation of her corr
sets that will be worth money to her.
The way to manage them is to give ones
corsets a sun bath not less than three
times a week, and about once in seven
DAYS go over the entire surface with a
stout nail brush dipped in a soapy mix
ture of ammonia and water. With such
care ones stays remain sweet smelling
and Immediately clean until the bones
are worn and twisted past use. When
it is possible to afford more than one
pairp, the a~lternates, should be kept
neatly and firmly rolled and laid away
i IN a sheet of tissue Observation-Disclosures
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LEGAL NOTICES.

TO ELIZABETH FARLEY, JAMES FARLEY,
her husband, Mary Hogan, Minnie Hogan,
Anna Kirwen, John Kirwen, her husband,
John ]. Hogan, James Hogan. Elizabeth Har-
rigan. William Harrigan, her husband, John
Hogan, Mary Hogan, his wife, Anna Hogan,
Anna Dillon, Joseph Dillon. her husband.
Lawrence Mccormack and John Nelson and
Mary Hogan.
You are hereby notified that at a public sale
made by the City Collector of Jersey City. on
Aldermen Of Jersey City purchased for the
thirty cents L the land and real estate
situate in Jersey City, in the County of Hud-
Paul's avenue, which is laid down and desig-
mated as lot eighty-seven lSD, in Block num-
Der five hundred and aixty-seyen (56D, upon an
seventy-nine GS, made by the Commissioner
of Adjustment" appointed in and for said city
by the Circuit Court OF the County of Hud-
son. a certified copy of which report and map
was filed in the Office Of the City Collector of
Jersey City on the 18th day Of April, 1892,
said report and map and said sale being made
pursuant to the provisions Of an act of the
Legislature of New Jersey, passed March sOth,
1886, entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and COL
lection of arrearages Of unpaid taxes. assess
ments and water rates or water rents in
cities of this state, and imposing and levy
ing a tax, assessment and lien in lieu and
instead of such arrearages, and to enforce
the payment thereof, and to provide for the
sale of lands subjected TO future taxation
and assessment"
And the several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you APP
pear to have an estate or interest in said
land and real estate, and unless the said
land and real estate shall be redeemed. as
provided in said acts, before the expiration
Of six months from and after the service here
of. a deed for the same will be given convey
ing to The Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City
the fee simple of said land and real estate ac-
cording to the provisions of the said act.
Dated Jersey City, N. j., December 4, 1894.
THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OF JERSEY
F. F. wANsER.
(SeaD Mayor.
Attest. JOHN E. SCOTT,
City Clerk.
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VALLEY RAILROAD
Leave Penna. R. ID. Depot.

7.I2 "A. Nj. daily Tor MAUCH CHUNK and
Intermediate stations. Connections except
Sunday for PoItsville and Reading.
S:sS A. ". daily for GENEVA, ROCKIES.
TER, BUFFALO. NIAGARA FALLS, sUS.
cipal local points; dining car to Suspension
liza A: NJ. d-ily. fer MAUCh CHUNK aud
intermediate points; connections for Reading
and Harrisburg.
lis P. NJ. daily. except Sunday, for Ell
MIR and all intermediate stations; con-
Chair car to Wil&esbarre.
4:22 P. NJ. daily, except Sunday. for L. & p.
JUNCTION and the principal intermediate
stations. Pullman buffet parlor car to Wilkes
barre. competitions for Pottsyille-
4:S2 P. NJ. daily, except Sunday, for SOUTH
and intermediate stations.
5:32 P. NJ. daily for EASTON and inter-
mediate stations.
6:16 P. NJ. daily for BUFFALO. NIAGARA
L and all points west; Pullman sleeper
vestibuled train, New York to Chicago; sleeper
to Buffalo and Torontos connections for
Reading and Harrisburg.
6:42 P. NJ. daily, except Sunday, for MAUCH
CHUNK and intermediate stations.
9:1z p. I'd. daily for ITHACA, GENEVA.
ROCHESTER,. BUFFALO. FALLS
and all points West; Pullman sleepers TO
Chicago and Buffalo; chair car to WtlkesbaFre.
Tickets and Pullman accommodations at
Pennsylvania R. r. Depot.
The New York Transfer Co, will call for and
check baggage from hotel or residence through
to destinations. $40
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-13
GREBNVILLB BUILDING AND LOAN

At the annual meeting of the Green
vile Building and Loan Association last
evening, the following officers were elect
ed:-President Michael O'Connor; Vice
President, A. j. Lignot; Secretary, Rich
ard Routh; Treasurer, David Hale; Trus-
tees, E. r. Adams, Samuel Ross and
Theodore Havemann; Directors, John 5.
Southern, d. P. Brown, John j. Hill,
James Thompson, Thomas Cogan, Gus
tave Be~chstaedt, Richard Uldrich, Val
entine Holzappel, William H. Trevert,
Samuel Graham and Louis A. Kreiser;
Auditors, Jules G. Jaccard, William H.
Robidoux and Thomas ]. Fitzgerald.
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tsale No. 21Ss.l
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
missioners on Monday. December "a. 1894, at
IL o'clock A. NJ, for the construction of a
twenty-inch vitriied pipe sewer in Griffith
street. from the west side of Milton avenue
to the sewer under the east sidewalk of the
Hudson County Public Road, in accordance
with specifications on file in the office of
the Chief Engineer, corner of Jersey avenue
and Mercer street, where blank forms of bid
and agreement of sureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About $50 lineal feet of twenty-inch vitrifed
pipe sewer.
About % cubic yards of concrete.
About $50 cubic yards of rock excavation.
Time allowed for the completion of the work.
sixty 600 working days.
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be subject
to the remonstrance OF the owners of the
property liable to more than one-half the as
sessment therefor.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
yelepeS, endorsed Proposals for sewer in
Arthur, Esq, Chairman of Committee on
Streets and Sewers" and handed to the Clerk
of the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating to sealed
No city official will be accepted as surety.
nor will a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z, Chapter 1874, OF the Laws of 1891,
under. the terms whereof no contract shall
be binding upon the city or become effective
or operative until the bondsmen offered by
the contractor have been approved as to sutfi-
CORPORATION Counsel. the President of this
Board having power to examine the proposed
bondsmen under oath.
BY order OF the Board of Street and Water
GEO. t. BouToN,
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

Sealed proposals will be received at the
Office of the Board of Street and Water Com
II o'clock A. NJ, for the Improvement OF
Virginia avenue, from Ocean avenue to Jack
son avenue. in accordance with specifications
on file in the office of the CHIEF Engineer
corner of Jersey avenue and Mercer street.
where blank forms of bid and agreement CT
sureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About 600 cubic yards of earth excavation
About 50 cubic yards of rock excavation.
About 100 cubic yards of earth filing.
About 400 cubic yards of sand or gravel me-
ing.
About 2,17o square yards of stone paving.
About $50 lineal feet of new curb stone.
About 60 square feet of new bridge stone.
About $500 square feet OF new tagging.
About 80 square yards of re-paving.
About $50 lineal feet of reset curb stone
About 100 square feet of relaid bridge stone.
About 5000 square feet OF relaid Tagging.
Time allowed for the completion Of the work.
The making of the above improvement faA
award of the contract therefor wiz. - Sab
ject to the remonstranee of the owners OF the
property liable to more than one half the
assessment therefor.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed, Proposals for Improvement
of Virginia avenue. directed to John E. Nc
Arthur, ESQ, Chairman OF Committee on
Streets and Sewers" and handed to the Clerk
of the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating to sealed pro-
posals.
nor viii a substitution of sureties be allowed.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z. Chapter 1874. OF the Laws of 1891,
under the terms whereof no contract shall
be binding upon the city or become effective
or operative until the bondsmen offered by the
contractor have been approved as to suficiency
by this Board, and as to form by the Corpora
ton Counsel, the President of this Board har-
ing power to examine the proposed bondsmen
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO, T. BouToN,
.ar "a- 0ieLAs
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Dated Jersey city, December
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

-
Sealed proposals will be received at the
office of the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners on Monday, December "a, 1894, at
II o'clock A. M, for the construction of a
twenty-four-inch brick oval sewer in Waverly
street, from a point about five hundred feet
east of Central avenue; thence running west
erly along Waverly street to and connecting
with sewer in Central avenue, in accordance
with specifications on file in the office of the
Chief Engineer corner of Jersey avenue ana
Mercer street. where blank forms of bid and
agreement of ~sureties must be obtained.
ESTIMATE OF QUANTITIES.
About $40 lineal feet of twenty-four inch
brick oval sewer
About % cubic. yards of concrete.
About 200 cubic yards of rock excavation.
Time allowed for the completion of the
work. fifty (50) working days.
The making of the above Improvement and
award of the contract therefor will be subject
to the remonstrance of the owners of the prop
erty liable to more than one-half the assess
ment therefor.
Proposals must be enclosed in sealed en-
velopes, endorsed, Proposals for sewer in
Waverly street." directed to 'tJohn e. Nc
Arthur, Esq. Chairman of Committee on
of the Board in open meeting when called for
in the order of business relating to sealed pro-
posals.
The attention of bidders is especially called
to Section Z Chapter 1874, of the Laws of
1891, under the terms whereof no contract
shall be binding upon the city or become
offered by the contractor have been approved
as to sufficiency by this Board, and as to form
by the Corporation Counsel, the President Of
this Board having power to examine the pro-
posed bondsmen under oath.
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
Dated Jersey City. December Z. 1894.
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Dated Jersey City, December L 1894.
CORPORATION NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that on the twenty
seventh day of November. 1884. the Commits
sioners of Assessment and Chief Engineer
filed in the office of the Clerk of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners their pre-
liminary assessment map and report for the
change of grade on Columbia avenue, nom
Zabriskie street to a point five hundred reet
north of Lincoln street.
The change Of grade is to be made as fol-
Beginning at a point on the northerly curb
line of Zabriskie street. thence northerly on
an ascending grade Of 2.SS feet per hundred
feet to the southerly curb line of Lincoln
street; thence from the northerly curb line
of Lincoln street to a point five hundred
feet north thereof, on an ascending grade OF
is feet per hundred feet.
The land to be assessed for said improve
ment may be described as fo}loNs-
Columbia avenue, from Zahriskie street to a
point about Ave hundred feet north of Lin
coin street.
And that the seventh day of January. 1895.
at eleven O'clock A. NJ, and the meeting room
of the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners are hereby fixed as the time and place
when and where the Board Of Street and
Water commissioners Will meet to hear and
consider any objections to said report o.
to the improvement which may be pre-
BY order Of the Board of Street and Water
GEO, T. BouroN.
Dated Jersey City. December I. 1854
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Dated Jersey City, December Z. 1894.
CORPORATION NOTICE.


Notice is hereby given that on the twenty
seventh day of November, 1894, the Commits
sioners Of Assessment, filed in the office of the
Clerk of the Board Of Street and Water Com
missioners, their final assessment map and
report for the construction Of an lS-inch vitri-
fed pipe sewer in Poplar street, from a point
about ninety feet east of Summit avenue to
and connecting with the sewer now built in
Central avenue, and the same is now open
10 public inspection in the office of the Clerk
of said Board.
And notice is also given that the. following
streets or avenues, or particular sections there
of. are included in said assessment
POPLAR street, from a point about ninety
feet east of summit avenue to q point about
one hundred feet west of Central avenue.
And that the seventh day of January, 1895.
at II o'clock A. NJ, and the meeting room OF
fine BOARD of Street and Water Commissioners
are hereby fixed as the time and pace when
and where the Board of Street and Water Com-
missioners viii meet to hear, consider and
adjudicate upon all objections to said assess
ment and report. AN objections thereto must
be presented In writing
BY order of the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners.
GEO. 7, BouFoN.
Clark
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COURT OF PARDoNs MEETS

The Court of Pardons is in session this
afternoon at Chancery Chambers. The
application for a Communication of SEN
tence to Imprisonment for life in the
case of Theodore Lambert, of Camden,
who was sentenced to be hanged, was
refused. Benjamin Warn, of Monmouth
County, who was sentenced to a long
pardoned. The court took a recess at
half-past one O'Clock.
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THE GAR A

The word ezar is not derived from the
Caesars of Rome. 1t signifed king amogn
the ancient Scythians and was in use
among them long before Rome was
known to these barbarians of the North.
The title czaroWitz among the Tartars
signifies prpince of son of the Gar
Fyohange.
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Sale No. 4254.)

TO AMELIA C. MACoMBER. HENRY K.
Macomber, her husband; Etie C.. Winant.
James j. Winant, her husband; Louisa c..
Van Wrinkle, John Edwin Van Wrinkle, her
husband; Sophie C. Henderson, Charles Hen
derson, her husband, and John McArnerny:-
You are hereby notified that at a public
sale made by the City Collector Of Jersey
City, on the 18th day of April, 1894, The Mayor
dollars and ninety-seven cents ($992.9O ALL
the land and real estate situate in Jersey
City, in the County of Hudson and State Of
New Jersey, fronting on Beacon avenue,
which is laid down and designated as lot
fifteen Q5), in block number five hundred
and s~ixty-fve 1851 upon an assessment map
annexed to a report number eighty $50, made
by the Commissioners of Adjustment" ap-
pointed in and for said City by the Circuit
Tonrt Of the County of Hudson. a certified
COPY of which report anu map was fled
in the office of the City Collector of Jersey
port and map and said sale being made pur-
suant to the provisions of an act of the Leg
isiature of New Jersey. passed March Both.
1886, entitled
IAN Act concerning the settlement and col
lection of arrearages of unpaid taxes, as
sessments and water rates or water rents
in cities of this state, and imposing and
levying a tax, assessment and lien in lieu
and instead of such arrearages, and to en-
force the payment thereof, and to provide
for the sale of lands subjected to future
taxation and assessment"
And the. several supplements thereto.
And you are further notified that you ap-
near TO have an estate or interest in said
land and real estate, and unless the said
land and real estate shall be redeemed, as
provided in said acts, before the expiration
Of six months from and after the service
hereof. a deed for the same will be given
co1veving to The Mayor and Aldermen of
Jersey City the fee simple of said land and
real estate according to the provisions of
Dated Jersey City. N. j., November 8, 1894.
THE MAYOR n ALDERMEN Of JER-
SEY CITY.
PETER F. WANsER,
(Seal.) Mayor.
City Clerk.
tSa,e No. 1900
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MARRIED IN THE STATION HOUSE

Father Sheehan, assistant rector of
st. Patrick's Church, last night married
John Sweeney and Mary Driscoll, in the
Communipaw avenue court room Act
ing Captain Snow and Justice Doug
lass were the witnesses. Mlary's IA
ney consented to make Mary his wife,
so Justice Douglass was called and dis
charged him. He was not allowed to
leave the police station, however, I'M
til he had kept his promise.