The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-21
SOCIETY VIEWS ART
Fashionable People at the
Exhibition in Has
brouck Hall.
PICTURES OF HISTORIC INTEREST
Superintendent Poland to Be
Married Next Week.-Mrs. of
the Social World.
PICTURES OF HISTORIC INTEREST

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Among the beautiful things to be seen
| at the Ar Exhibition at Hasbrouck In
| stitute this week is a collection of draw
ings by August Will. which should be OF
| interest to every resident of. Jersey
| City. The drawings are all of places in
| Jersey City. some dating back as far as
| 1856. Mr.. viii has interested himself in
making drawings of all the old places in
Jersey City as they were years and
years ago. Really, when looking at
the drawings. any one unacquainted with
this city would exclaim, What a beau
tiful city Jersey City must be-" And
beautiful it is, according to Mr.. Wills
| drawings. One pen and ink sketch was
made in 1853 of the corner of Summit
and C-ommunipaw avenues, showing in
the distance the bridge over Communi-
paw avenue. AT that time the corner
was in the midst of fields, and the
bridge over the little brook rested on
huge rocks. Another sketch, also made
in 1859, shows the bridge and grass
| grown rocks. There is in the collection
a sketch of the triangular corner OPP
| posite Hasbrouck Institute as it ap-
peared in 1858. On the corner there used
to be a little house surrounded by beau
| tiful trees and flowers. Only some of
the trees now remain.
Where the junction of Grand street
and C-ommunipaw avenue is now there
were in 1858 numerous large rocks and a
beautiful little brook which ran through
to the corner of Aston place and Park
street. Mr.. Will has made two sketches
| of this brook. one of the rocks and
| brook at the Junction which he made in
| 1858, and the other of the corner of AS
tor place and Park street, which was
done eight years later. There is one
pretty sketch of Summit avenue, made
in 1861, which shows Sandy Hook in the
distance. AT that time there was a
clear open space from he Hill to the
shore. and people could see across the
water far out to all the points of in
tereSt.
CORNELISON AVENUE IN 1860.
In 1860 Cornelison avenue and the old
Mill road were in the midst of woods,
woods such as we have no longer in Jer-
sey City. OF this place Mr.. Will has
made several drawings showing the
roads from all points of view. There is
avenue which shows the then famous
cedars. In it is also the old Jersey City
Gemetery. and Mount Pleasant, with
s aopenea of the eoo old INK WORKS on cres.
cent avenue are interesting. The first,
in 1860, shows the buildings with their
tall smoke stacks, almost entirely sur
rounded with weeds and fields. The Sec
ond, in 1868, shows the same buildings
after they had been improved by fencing
and. streets.
The residents Of Duncan and West
Side avenues would be greatly surprised
g Il - - @-~t - fha,rL 50 al EpI fnnon.
streets as they were in 1864 as drawn by
Mr.. VIII. With hardly a house in sight
the streets are picturesque and pretty,
Where the handsome houses now stand
there were then fields, brooks, rocks
and trees. all jumbled together in a most
A large drawing shows the corner Of
Ocean avenue and Forrest street. in 1879
looking toward Lafayette; In the dis
Bridge. having the first two wires sus-
pended from them. 1t is needless to
say that Lafayette is hardly the same
Van Horne farm, in 1856, is of historic
as we'll as artistic value. 1t shows with
the farm the bridge which at that time
M ybRggg sTt 6 eIT Sae z aso RgEEur1FuL SPOT.
Any one who thinks Jersey City is not
a beautiful city and has not lovely spots
sketches Mr.. viii has made of the New
ark Bay shore. and the fast disappear
ing Currie's Woods. Certainly the peo-
pie Of Jersey nrsyysr CITY s for tb saank MANY Mr;
points Of historical interest and spots Of
beauty hitherto unknown. !.
exhibition Of the Keramic Art Club.
The china is in many cases priceless,
Of z its great E other is Of value both
I I9s on Of q blue itie ware, loaned y Mrs.
This china ranges in age from 177s to
1920. There are plates, sugar bowls, a
saucer and a pitcher in primitive dec3 g
Iapn,ey s1 dseoration' a platter Of the series
Of the SBeauties of England" several
bowls q mil h,nn ns Plate aa q ten plate Plat
saucer, tiles from Broack, and a Dutch
pottery tankard of the time OF. William
and Mary. In Worcester porcelain Mrs.
Wait also exhibits a tea set Of the year
1900. willow pattern plates, a Lowestroft
saucer. a French Sevres vase and plate,
g Sas Rog ana p 3 Thn ana tea yass' By 1 she kinas
ness of Miss Kinds, one of the original
Wedgwood pitchers is also on exhibition;
d set of Loytoft in sixteen pieces.
Mrs. Martha Sargent exhibits a pew
ter porringer of 1850, an old bowl and
a French. plate. cup and saucer of 1910.
Mrs. Irwin Cadmus has loaned a guam
tity of old blue china. A. pitcher having
on either side the portraits of Washing
ton and Lafayette is loaned by Mr.. w.
p. Hamilton. and an Interesting number
IS a Chinese plate of 1900 loaned by Mrs.
Taylor.
early Bohemian glass loaned by Mrs.
William Mllirheid. 1t bears no resem-
blanre to the Bohemian glass of today.
and looks very much like a glass of wa
terry milk.
Anyone can spend hours proftablv at
the art exhibition and not exhaust the
sights. The exhibition this week is in
deed the finest ever seen in the city. and
reflects great credit upon its originators.
NEWS OF THE SOCIAL WORLD.