New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-05
HUDSON COUNTY.
JERSEY CITY.
THE TROLLEY COMPANY MUST GIVE BET
TER SERVICE.
UNCLAIMED wARRANTs-coAsTING on GLASS
HOUSE HILL-THE MERRY TWELVE

HOUSE HILL-THE MERRY TWELVE
NOTES AND SCRAPS OF NEWS.
1 No movement begun in Jersey City under Mayor
lWanser's management has given more general az"
hearty satisfaction than the determination OF l"e
iStreet and Water Commissioners 10 cohpei INC
Consolidated Traction Company 10 carry OUT 10
agreement with the city in regard 10 iurhishins
proper travelling facilities and equippns lis cars
with proper safeguards. President McArtnui az
commissioner Cone. who have personally Peue'u
themselves to that the reforms demanueu arc
carried out have the backing OF the other mem
hers OF the board and tie support OF the public
During the recent storm the company maze niue
or 10 effort to accommodate trainc ana the 'eS"
mony OF policemen shows that during the STORM
there from go to 1000 persons detained a 'ie
8, ar.ir r-place for hours OF course some cars
were run but packed as they were each carrying
all that could possibly be crowded into IT, there
was augmentation rather thah oiii'"i'iii'e
OF the crowd. because while the cars might carry
away two or three hundred every thirty minutes
the ferrypoats from Cortland and Desbrosses SIS
mere bringing additions TO the crowd every ten
minutes Those who lived in lower Jersey City
walked, OF course, rather than walt, out Ior 'he
people who lived on the Heights there was no re-
lief They were compelled TO wait. and II was TINS
lack OF facilities when they were most needed thal
compelled the Street and Water Commissioners 10
take action Commissioner Cone has said that I'M
less the company carried out its agreements VIII
the city. steps would be taken TO place tie ha'ieE
In the hands OF the city law olliceis, a"u par
ticulary with regard TO the compah! -ahuIe "
equip it's with Tenders.
The settlement of affairs in the Hudson county
Freeholders Office at Jersey CITY for the year just
Closed reveals the fact that there are many war
rants there awaiting persons Who nave never caneu
for them; not warrants for the current year. pu'
warrants that were issued in some cases. as long
ago as 1885. They not all small warrants
either, such as a man might easily forget, because
one is a warrant for 81. 400. 1t was drawn on sep
TENDER 3, 1859, and is TO the order OF AUSTIN oie!'
for binding maps The only explanation OF the mat
ter is that Nj, Bey was a New-fork binder anu
that he is dead. STILL it is strange that his hers
found no record of the transaction among his books
and papers. But perhaps the strangest case OF al
Is that warrant 70: $50 %. to the order OF the
New-York and New-Jersey Gaslight Company. has
lain unclaimed since July, 1855. The oiiis var!
from 81 400 to g. and amount in all to about Sov
Sheriff Toney found his Christmas dinner OF turkey
and CHECKER. 50 productive of good results among
the prisoners under his charge in the County jan
thai he repeated the bill OF fare on New-1edTs
Day. The Sheriff says the enjoyment ne Witnessed
on Christmas ana New Years among mis- usually
unhappy guests amply repaid MIN for the expense
he ncurrs.
Jersey City has lost two of its most popular and
Woodworking ministers in the last week The Rev
u. j. Ellison. of the Bergen Baptist Church mas
gone Indianapolis where he Will preside over the
First Baptist Church. The Rev. Theodore Heisis'
known as the First Baptist Church, VIII continue
10 live his old home No Ala Jersey-ave.' jersey
decided to enter the held OF journalism and mas
accepted a position on The Examiner lie Will
One OF the merriest places in Jersey Gty since
the recent snowsorm is Glass house ILL., M, ar nd
while the holidays lasted residents OF the neign-
%en. coasns conpaned that the place was
q Babel But when tobogsdn-slide was made on
memories o. ihe'r youth. They didn't do it many
times however The climbing up h HI again s,n was
memory ~ ,., 49,, ,,,..,on ava
City. fed neary three hundred poor persons on New
" Lis and II vI = Bend PSn1; N les: n,
civ has Is for the sAe os pare
q 'c court oicas it meets for the purpose Of eat
ing dinner every New Years Eye When It was
FIX pieces each and every member got piece of one
Of The bills. When the CLUB meets each member
niitsed together II any member fails to appear or
has lost his ticket. he must pay for the supper per-
member who may az have lost his Substituting
Def BE- Of n9 hs as far no
a consequence each member has had to pay Tor MS
own The d'ener "a. ev Societies Of jersey City will
celebrate the birthday OF Geofrey Chapcer on Non.
arranged the s life sa snd a To Ss
e ns sGs Ths WI" "
That frost In Florida should affect Jersey City
In any way seems remote possibility. but tnat
IL does Is the fact The Jersey City Printing Com
pany supplies millions OF wrappers for the orange
crop. and in consequence Of heavy frost IN Fi3r,
ida which ID said to have greatly damaged the
orange crop many orange growers haXe counter Yer
from Deland says that the entire orange crop rs
destroyed. and that no more wrappers VIII be
needed this season. go
The new armory Of the 4th Regiment will be
officially opened February O. and ball VIII
be given In the armory February %. The pa
tronesses OF the ball will be Mrs George ]. Werts
Nee Marcus Peach Mrs Martha b. Stevens, Mrs.
E. F c. Young, Mrs Jonathan Dixon Mrs; Ed-
win A. Stevens, Mrs John stevens, Mrs. John )
1offev Mrs. William Brinkerhof, Mrs. Il. X
Psnsborn. Mrs George F. Perkins, Mrs George B.
Fielder. Mrs Louis ,ApgaT' Mrs George T smith
Detwilier Mrs: Robert G. Lyle. Mrs. James VII
kinson Mrs. Job H. Lippincott Mrs. Charles x
Cannon Mrs. Charles c: Stimets: Mrs. Abel l.
Smith Mrs Frank !. Vanderbeek Mrs Henry Nor.
ton Miss Louise Edge. Mrs. f.. V. II. CHORD and
|. Mrs IL IL Abernethy.