The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-21
WASHINGTON'S DAY.
The Many Social Events to Take
Place This Evening and
Tomorrow.

Tomorrow.
Tomorrow every citizen will celebrate
Washington's Birthday in one way or an
other. Farmer Dunn promises good weather,
and if he keeps his promise, Jersey Cityites
will be happy. There will be no end of the
opportunity for enjoyment as varied as pos
sible. The theatres will have holiday mat
inees, and one good thing Is that both the
| Academy and Opera House have strong at
| fractions booked.
Tonight there will be a number of recep-
tions and entertainments, among them
being:-
The Arion's masquerade ball at their club
| house.
At the Carteret Club a stag. The pro-
gramme is as follows:-George Payne, mono
| 1ogue artist and banjo. performer; the Will
Hams, Bill and Mamie, sketch team; John A..
Hogan, German comedian; the Grimes, John
and Clara, song and dance artists; Prof.
Silverberg, pianist.
Clinton Council, No. IL, Jr. 0. U. A. M,
/ will hold their fourth annual entertainment
and reception at Hasbrouck Hall.
inaugural reception of the Crescent Thes-
| plans at Crescent Hall.
Supreme Councillor Fl. H. Morse of the
| Order of Chosen Friends will visit, at Roche's
| HalE, Washington Council No. Z, this even
| ing. An invitation entertainment and recep-
ton will be given. This array of talent has
been engaged:-Boughton Il Hart, sketch
artists: c.. ]. Duncombe, comic singer; Miss
Naomie Midelot, evolutionary entertainer;
Walter Smith, humorist; Frank J. Higgins,
| eiocutionist; Miss Nealie Hagen, ~reciter;
| Mrs. Josie Clark, soprano soloist. The COM
mittee in charge of the entertainment COM
tprises:-Messrs. Mahoney, Powers, Shipley.
| Frank La Pointe, Barr, Logan, Dunn n
Bailey, Mrs. A. T. Hunt, Miss Bellinger,
| Mrs. OLeary and Miss Bailey.
Ladies' Duncan Social Club at the Avenue
House.
Concert at the Lafayette M. E. Church.
Employees of Lorillard s. Company's box
| department at Opera Hall.
Central Railroad Signal Men at Belvidere
| Hall, Greenville.
Teutonia Maennerchor at Pohlmann's.
Rattle for a silver watch at the rooms of
Schiller Council, No. 80, Order of Chosen
Friends, at No 40S Palisade avenue.
masquerade and civic ball at Kessler's Hall.
Among the events for tomorrow pay be
| mentioned
Grand musical and art entertainment
under the auspices of ~Encampment No. 81,
Union NGUGTdu LGRIOu, dU uu6 IdDcILdClc.
Part first-Address, by Colonel E. Donnelly;
overture, selected, Jersey City Banjo Club;
song, Sherman Bummers, Entire Nous
Quartette; humorous r~ecltals, Prof. b. F.
johnson; Banjo trio, Westinghouse March,
Sousa, arranged especially for the Jersey
Home, Miss Marge Ward; the Versatile
| Entertainer, Prof. Geo. A. Bernard; selec-
| ton. from Robin Hood, De Koven, Jersey
| City Banjo Club. Part second-Illustrated
lecture with s~tereoptican views, by Rev. j.
Lester Wells, subject, Historic America"
Columbian Exposition, 1894. Each picture
| will cover 400 square feet of canvas, and
will be beautifully Illuminated with Oxy-
| Hydrogen light.
The old P. II. O'Neill Association intends
| celebrating Wa%shington's Birthday in a
royal manner. A social stag has been ar
ranged for this evening, and such pronli-
nent speakers as William McAdoo, G.. Bragg
| Fielder, Samuel Perkins of Georgia, Ex-
| A~ssemblyman George A.. Heaney, Joseph
Nj. Noonan, Daniel Kerwin of Kentucky,
| and William O'Brien will make addresses.
The spectacular pantomime, Cinderella"
which was given at Hasbrouek's Hall three
times last week for the benefit of the poor of
| Jersey City, will be repeated at the same
hall tomorrow night. The characters are
assumed by the little New York ''stage chill
dren" who are the victims of Commodore
GeffyS CruSaue. Lucy are tue DupliS VI MI.
Carl Marwig, the famed dancing master,
and many wonderful fancy dances are intro
duced in the third act of the pantomime.
The title part is taken by Zelda
Sanders, one of the organizers of
the Anti-Gerry Society. She is a
graceful little dancer, her veil dance be-
ing especially beautiful. Among the other
attractions is the charming little character
artist Georgia Bryton. She is an English
girl, and gained fame at the Alhambra
Theatre, London, before coming to this
country. n -
to make a. day of it tomorrow, starting at
half-past ten o'clock in the morning and
keeping it up till midnight. The bicycolo
board will be kept going all day. T~hirty-ive
prizes viii be given to those making the
highest scores. From half-past ten O'clock
A. M. to six o'clock ?. NJ. there will
be an entertainment by twenty of the
| far famed Midway Plaisance beauties. OF
course there will be an intermission of an
hour or two for lunch. Wonderful sur
| prises are promised the boys, and none of
them except the committee knows exactly
be. At six o'clock the midway beauties
have to fill an engagement in New York.
| The boys will again take recess to get their
supper and will return to enjoy the following
| excellent programme Duet, mamie Come
Kiss Your Bonny Boy the Misses Haspaul;
| Spanish dance, three-year-old Miss Ruby;
mandolin and dances, Marian E. Varge;
| speeialties, Miss Hennessy. The clubhouse
hall has been fixed up and decorated for the
occasion.
Lecture on the Passion of Christ illus
trated with stereopticon views, at st. Peters
Church, by Rev. j. f.. x. OiConor, 81.
Cosmos Club Ladies' Night at the Hotel
| Washington.
Lecture at Pavenia Hall by Mgr. Seton on
| washington and His City, for the benefit
of the relief fund of Zabriskie Post.
Shooting and bowling festival of the w.
| d. DAILY Association Of Hoboken at Pohl-
mans.
Outing of the Ellis Association of Hoboken.
CHAPLIN ENTERS AN APPEAL