The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-07-09
OUR SUMMER CAPITAL
Programme Of Camp Week AT
Sea GiPt-The Cover
nor's Ball.
Snecial to tie Jcrseu Citu Nenrs.


SEA GRIT, July 0, 1894.-Sea Grit has be1
while Governor Werts, as Commander.ins
Chief Of the National Guard, is attentive to
his military duties, he is not neglecting the
business of the executive department and
State affairs are considered on the broad
porch Of his hospitable cottage.
There has been some general change in the
arrangement Of Sea Grit which will make it
more sociable for the Governor and his
Cabinet. The White House is no longer a
part of the camp ground. 1t liz outside of the
lines, and this insures to the Governor a
certain amount OF privacy. He will
be honored, of course, with a sentinel,
and during his presence the Governors
flag will float over the camp grounds. The
Governors personal staff will no longer be a
part of his military family. They will take
care of themselves. Those of them who de-
sire to remain in camp will ''put up" at the
new club house of the New Jersey State
Rifle Association. Here they will also en-
terrain their friends. Quality Row."
which was the delight of the politicians who
visited the camp on big Thursday, will be
no more. Free lunch and free drink have
become a reminiscence. This change is gen
orally approved by the State Military Board
because it will do away with the side-show
feature of the camp.
REVIEW EXT SATURDAY.
The Governors first official act as Com
mander-in-Ch lie will be to review the
regiments as they march into camp next
Saturday. On Sunday he and Mrs. Werts
and the Misses Werts will attend divine SER
vice and hear one of the regimental Chap
lains preach. On Wednesday it is expected
that Captain Willard c. Fisk of Company
D, Seventh Regiment, New York. will visit
the camp, with his officers and men in
fatigue uniform. They will be entertained
by Governor Werts and Essex Troop.
Captain Fisk, while in command of a New
York company, is a well known Jerseyman,
having been Private Secretary to Leon Abb
bett when first elected Governor of the
State. He is now a Riparian Commissioner
On Thursday, Governors Day, there will be
the usual turnout OF elegantly dressed men
in imposing drags and ~wagonettes.
H BALL.
The Governors ball, which is the princi-
pal social event of the summer capital at
Sea Girt, takes place on the close of Cover
nor's Day. 1t is given by the military and
personal staff to the Governor n Mrs.
Werts, and is made a State affair by the
Reception Committee, bidding all families of
prominence to come and dance in the big
dining room of Colonel Maltby's hotel at
Spring Lake. This year the preparations
for the ball are more extensive than ever be-
fore. The decorations are to be tropical
and to be the best efforts of Ribsams and
Johnson of this city. The Seventh and
First Regiment Bands are to furnish the
music.
The Executive Committee Of the Gov
ernor's staff for this event consists of Col
onel Anthony r. Kuser, Colonel Michael 7.
Barrett, Colonel John T. Van Cleef, Colonel
A. w. Dickinson, Colonel G. A. Sterling
and Colonel George Pfeiffer, Jr. The Re-
ception Committee consists of General
William S. Stryker, General Bird w. Spen-
Ger, General R. A. Donnelly, General Will
lam S. Heppenheimer, General John D. Nc
Gill. General Edward P. Meaney, Colonel
Joseph D. Bedle, Colonel c.. F. Loutrell,
Colonel II. r. Perrine, Colonel Robert Ad-
rain, Colonel j. II. S. Clark and Colonel
Leon Albeit, Jr.