The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-30
Citizens OPPOSE II.
Bamber Hall to Be Turned
Into a advantageous
Opposition.

The property owners on Linden ave-
nue.. Greenv:lle. and the member of the
Linden Avenue NJ. E. Church are up in
arms against J. Trembly, who today
succeeds .Uncle'' John Morrell as man
ager of Bamber Hall, at Nos. 81 and SO
Linden avenue. Mr.. Trembly, who halls
from Brooklyn, proposes to open a saloon
in the hall. and for this reason the citi-
zens are opposed to him. TIL members
Of the church are interested in the fight
because the roof, which now covers the
hall. at one time covered their place of
worship, which was the first Methodist
Church in Greenyille and one of the first
OF the city, having beer erected as early
as 1886.
When the present handsome edifice at
Linden and Ocean avenues was completed
the old church was sold to a MIR. Bam-
Der, Of Brooklyn. The structure was re-
modelled and converted into the present
commodious hall. The top floor was tit
ted up as a lodge room, which is now
engaged every night by the various
Greenviiie Lodges, and in this room stands
the wheezy old organ which disturbed
the nerves of those attending the SER
dSvices in the old church. The floor below
rJwas converted into a large hall, which
tfor many years was occupied by the now
gdefunct Greenville Y. NJ. C. A. One-half
kof the large store on the ground floor
was used by Uncle John Morrell for
his cigar business, while the other half
was leased by the Building and Loan
Associations.
With ouch quiet tenants as the lodges,
Y. M. C.. A.. and building and loan as
sociations, the church people found no
objection to the uses to which Uncle
John put the building. Uncle Johns lease
Of five years expired yesterday, and to-
day LOT tee n oWa lfsSas W WEE e DsJEcT.
When the church sold the property to
Mr.. Bamber, it retained the plot at the
was the bury.ng ground of the church.
Many of Greenville's most illustrious dead
are inferred there, n the monuments
Ing. The graveyard has never been sold,
nor have any of the bodies been re-
moved, and the fact that it is a cemetery
Board of Aldermen in the protest against
the granting Of a license to Trembly.
The matter was fully disguised at a re-,
Arcanum, (which meets in the lodge
rooms upstairs. Several ct the members
citizens in the fight against the saloon.
1t is said that when the church sold the
property to Mr.. .Bamber 1T was agreed
that LIQUOR would never be sold on the
premises.
Pastor e. F HSll, when int si,y weal by J.
said that he had heard that restrictions
had been placed on the property. but
President Reuben Simpson. of the Board
Of Aldermen, who was a prominent mem
place. had informed him hat no r~estric-
tions were made.
CITIZENS LOOK TO REUBEN.
Mr.. Bamber, who first converted the
church into a hall died some time ago,
in-law, Mr.. e. 3. Blohm, also a resident
Of Brooklyn. Mrs. Bember has since
sole owner. 1T is alleged that he is back
Ing Trembly.. Although the application
for a license has not yet been made, Mr..
Trembly is confident that the Board of
Aldermen Will grant it. He has already
stocked the piats with a bar and para
phernalia necessary In the business. The
citizens who are opposing him pin their
faith on Reuben Simpson, and will re-
Ecuest him to use his influence in pre-
1 venting the granting of a license to FreIn-