The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-15
WINTER PLANS.
Carteret Club Prepares an
Attractive Programme
for the Season
1866.
VAUDEVILLE FOR THE LADIES
Billiard Tournament Exciting
Much Interest-ActiVe
Committees.
VAUDEVILLE FOR THE LADIES

A very MODEL or a clup mouse
Carteret Club on Bergen avenue, when
has begun IT'S winter season in right
earnest.
The club is named after Sir George
Carteret because of his gallant defense
of the island of Jersey when he was Gov
ernor of that gem of the Channel IS
lands. This same Sir George Carteret.
whose escutcheon with the motto, Loyal
ct Devoir,n adorns the ~all of the iec-
ture hall in the clubhouse. bought from
James, Duke of York, brother of the
merry monarch, King Charles Ill, OF
England, in 1864. ssall that tract of land
to be called hereafter Nova Caesarea, or
New jersey The selection, therefore,,
of the name of Carteret is singularay
appropriate. BY the way, a copy OF the
original grant is in the possession OF
one of the members and a copy OF an
other document, signed by Governor Car
teret, hangs in the library of the club.
OH, MY! HOW COZY.
The present building, at the corner Of
Church street and Bergen avenue, is a
recent building after an ancient model.
Its style is of the Queen Anne period and
is a specimen of that period when COM
fort and not ornament was the thing TO
be considered. Ornament, however, has
not been forgotten. The staircase is pan
elled and wainscoted in dark stained
pine and in the hall is an old open hre-
place with dogs and andirons suggestive
of the old times when people sat around
the log fire at night, told chestnuts and
roasted them.
WINTER PREPARATIONS.
During the long summer lays when
most of the member were at rne noun
tains or by the sea shore h tewar
and his assistant began with the clean
ing. Carpets were torn up and furniture
was swathed in ~swaddling clothes; the
ceilings were w~hitewashed and the walls
corner was forgotten and when the mem
bers began TO assemble in the clubroom
as the nights were becoming longer, they
D as a new pin. In the meantime. the
various committees had met and mapped
out a plan of campaign, as it were. to
capture the interest and OF
consisting of Messrs. Garwood Ferris, Ed.
w. Gritten, and John Headden, Jr, put
their heads togethe sr,; and : evolved now II a n pil-
gress and which makes the billiard room
a very lively place nights.
Then the card players received a lit
tie attention and they, too, are playing
DELIGHTFUL EVENING.
Following suit Messrs., ". ". Coffin,
vised a series of entertainments, a few
of which have already taken place, and
nave been highly successful. The COM
mittee invited Murat Halstead, the well
known editor of the STANDARD Union
and Cincinnati Gazette to talk about
Washington's early life in Ohio. Then
as a pleasing contrast a few nights ago
the Hindoo Fakirs amused a fashionable
gathering and lately Cranmer's orchestra
discoursed sweet music. much to the en-
joyment of the members. n committee
will repeat the musical entertainment
Along lin the early part of December
there will be a concert by the English
Ballad Company, who very justly y
tee. Throughout all the entertainments
the object OF Messrs. Coffin, Hulshizer
and Inglis has been and will be to make
them of the highest ORDER, so that the
ladies may attend them and by their
presence accord sympathy and support
to the club. AS a novelty for the la
Christmas week, give a vaudeville show
of the strictly best kline and one at once
refined and amusing. This event wiz I'M
doubtedly add 1ustre to the well di-
rected efforts Of the committee
OFFICES AND COMMITTEES.
Not only are the Games and Entertain
ment Committees doing their best to
make the club life attractive and bright
the winter season, but their colleagues
on other committees are giving every
attention TO the work coming peIore
them. The club is growing, is popular
and prosperous, and that after all is
not to be, wondered at when one peruses
the following list of officers and com
ittees:-President, 2. +. g. Young;
Vice President, John J. Toffey; Score
tary, E. P. Clarke, and Treasurer, James
Trustees-W. w. Coffin, Garwood Fer
T,s' W Seaa It. NJ We Z. Staples.
Finance Committee-John M. Jones, J.
Warren H~ardenbergh, Judge George T.
Entertainment-w. W. Coffin, =. E.
Hulshizer. Jr., Roy Inglis.
Games-Garwood Ferris, E. ". Gritten,
John Headden, Jr.
Membership-W. P. Westcott, James 3.
Throckmorton, R. H. Myers.
Literature-F. J.. Mallory, $. r. Scott,
G.. B. Thurston.
A. Salinger, w. L. Pyle, William Fred