The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-12
TO MOVE UPTOWN.
The New Jersey Club to Sell
Its Property and Seek
Other Quarters.
FATHER OF NEW JERSEY CLUBS
Too Far From the Residences Of
Its Members--History of a
Famous Institution.

bers of the New Jersey Club last night
the prevailing sentiment among the mem
bers was that a move uptown would be
better for the health of the club. There
| were not enough members present to
form a quorum to debate sue an i'm
portant question, and it was agreed to
hold the annual meeting on October "a,
when the officers will be elected and
the question of changing headquarters
settled.
The reason for the change is that the
bulk of member live uptown and it is,
to say the least, inconvenient for them
to come so far down town. Hence a
great nan of the leading members have
come to the conclusion that it would be
better to locate the club, say in the
neighborhood of Van Worst Park. 1t will
be necessary, therefore, to put up the
present property, son Grand and Greene
streets, for sale. The club is financially
in a sound condition, owing not a dollar
to any tradesman and plenty of sound
men behind it If it wants to buy a whole
block for a club house.
THE FATHER OF CLUBS.
The New Jersey l was started
twenty years ago, and is the Oldest
chartered club in the State; It may then g
Clubs in the State" At the time Of
its formation the neighborhood around
the clubhouse was the dwelling place
of Jersey City's haut ton, and as a con-
sequence the rooms of the solid looking
clubhouse were the headquarters of the
social and political world of the city;
Many a political scheme has been SNAPPED
in the rooms of the clubhouse, and nearly
every scheme was for the better IN.
terests of the city. The members were
essentially representative men many
of them holding high positions
in the State and nation. Here are a lew
well known names of the club members
in 1S75:-Leon Abbets, President; An
a fTsM 4 4. P eaaada; s x1se ryes7 ". s N Ell
son, A. A. Gaddis, the late Gen. Dudley
S. Steele, United States Senator j. K
Mcpherson. Judge Marcus B taer rs eel;
S. Scudder, Geo. w. Cassidy, Andrew
Barricklo, Orestes CLEVELAND, A. Il; Wal
lis, A, Clerk I; Negus, F. Q. MathieAsTSe en
Freeman A. Smith, ]. Lamb, BENJAMIN
and D. S. Gregory, VIM. Hogencamp, the
late Archibald K. Brown, B. G; ClarR'
Augustus Zabriskie, B. F. Woolsey, b.
l.. ]. Gordon, F. P. Ganter, w P. Doug,
lass, D. q. Culver, Thos. E. Bray and
Political HEADQUARTERS
With such prominent folk visiting tne
clubhouse nightly and daily, for an oia
member informed the writer thai ourl faS
lunch, it is not to be wondered tha5
political schemes were contrived ana
executed. 1t would have been petter
nerhaps if some a never been origin
aated. but the bull of them produced a
lasting benefit on Jersey City.
This Father of Clubs commanded nc
small influence then on the po y
Nearly all the chief city ofhcials eath an
to lunch, dine and seek amusement WIN
in its hospitable walls, and tor 1ta ny
caucuses there and made up the STATE
which the people at large accepted or
rejected, as the case may have been: A.
night every room was cf6wd eece W1ti alone
from the ordinary sources of club reVenue
amounted on an average TO s famou s
month. Their +o mssagS he W Who is lucky
enough to receive an, invitation 10 a
New Jersey Club racket" talks ABOUT II
six months after, and the remaining 81
be next one. Their hospitality IS I'M
bounded and in the best OIL Styles Lie ~
style. rpc
When the club started it comprised the
leaders of the Democratic party, a.
though it was not a political Cup N .ne
present sense of the WORD, RepuO here
belonged to it, and strange TO say 'b bate
never was a clash even during tne no,5
test campaign. The Democrats w9rH 4be
their little plans in one room anu 'i in
pani,hIicans engineered their schemes III
anather> In the billiard rooms and caro-
rooms politics were t~abooed. nrouor,,
It's first President vas him Il; r. Cow Mal Leon
am Ahba ~ W s, Nelson, Col. VIM. F. Tay3
lor, Andrew Barrieekloa; Peter pf f6e B eInb. Nv Iua
<. Bedeii, who has been three years IN
that honored capacity.
'""' OTHER CLUBS START.
AZ the New Jersey Club was excius
sively an old- fash sFfar f thu cares ape e Of q
b buslne dsvi h npreferred to rest quietly it had
no attractions for yeun a1e meR' IN mh Bowling wing
on tg sen These younger people
81 ne eity tb eEanehe ear qar tns and M Palma ina
sSs1y he IVY Witch are growing in wealth, popu-
larlty a and i ePaS aoes not 4 intend enter err
Ne" into Competition with these CLUBS
Because its III ain ms are e sntiFslKl eshe Of It's
It .nl hars he clubhouse should be further
Up town, and ,t2 aeo %eIsrs. A. iey x. BedeIl,
PUSH Srnnan. w. H. Henderson. Z.
Lawrence, H. 4. Pearson ear advo "a: ea the re-
anua1 at the next meeting.