The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-12
~GREENVILLE GOSSIP.

The robbery at Judge Hudspeth's resi-
dence on Saturday morning has caused
the residents of G~reenville to pay more
attention to their windows and doors.
The police have frequently found fault
with the residents because a large num-
Der of them did not secure their doors
and windows before retiring. Conse--
Greenyille a profitable field. The advice
of the police might be worth following,
but the average post OF the Firth pre-
square, and it you'd be an easy matter
for a burglar to force any n or
door and loot the premises before the
policeman would have made one tour of
his post.
What is needed, the Greenville residents
say, is a larger police force. The night
platoon of the precinct consists of but
nine men, and these few men must cover
a district which extends from the New
ark and New York Railroad Cut to the
Canal, a distance of over two miles, and
distance of one mile. This district is
thickly populated, and there are few
houses which would offer disappointment
to a burglar in the way of chattels.
was arrested by the Fifth precinct po-
lice. who have suspicious that he Is a
board at a large boarding house on Dan
forth avenue on Sunday morning. repre-
senting that he was employed at Wen
learning that he was not employed there
the police arrested him. When searched
at the station house the only things
found in his pockets were a large num-
Der of keys.
Mr.. Peter C. Vreeland, proprietor of
Metropolitan Hall, appeared before His
Honor Justice of the Peace LANCER yes
terday and swore out a warrant for the
arrest of Jacob Schultz, charging him
with obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Some time ago Schultz secured
fourteen dollars from Mr.. Vreeland for
the purpose of opening a boarding house.
The scheme was never launched, and
SABLE SABLE E GeVS Martin rsiaF' viii 'a Serve se0H the; war
h third annual entertainment and re
Jr. O.. u. A. M, held last evening at
cess, a large number of people being
present. The entertainment was an eX-
cellent one, and among those who parti-
cipated were:-Edward Barry. comic
songs; Anna Lechner, soprano solos; Her
Quartette, R; Bischofi first tenor; A.
F. L.. Reuter-, second bass: Robert Hen
songs; George Rehan, either solos; Jos.
Pilsen, Rotations; Charles Herig, solos;
W. E. D: Crane, whistling solos, and
charge of the event was as follows
William S. Sotheren, Chairman; Joseph
Hampton, Eugene Sayles, Henry S. Boos,
John H. Tyrrel.
The fifth of the series of popular lee
lures at the new No. 10 School will be
given tomorrow evening by Mr.. J. Perry
Worden. The subject will be, Touring
in England, Scotland and Ireland on
Next to Nothing" The lecture will be
handsomely illustrated with s~tereopticon
views and promises to be entertaining
as well as instructive.
The subscriptions at the regular meet
ing of the G~reenville United Building
and Loan Association last evening
John Dunn of No. 1876 Claremont ave-
nue., while boiling a pot of tar on his
kitchen stove yesterday morning set fire
to his RESIDENCE. The fire was easily
~extinguished. The damage is slight.
Thomas Whitaker of No. 119 Jersey
avenue while working on a pile driver
at the Morris Canal, at Dwight street,
yesterday morning, lost his footing and
fell into the Canal. He was fished out
of the muddy stream by his fellow work
men, and, beyond a ducking, was none
the worse for his experience. Last night
he started out to celebrate his narrow
escape, and at ten o'clock Chanceman
Merrltty of the Fifth precinct found
him h~ilariously drunk at Ocean and DAN
forth avenues. Merritty arrested him.,
and he was given a berth in the sta
ton house prison for the night.