The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-08
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The New York Bay Yach II met
last evening at its home on the shore
of the bay after which it is named. Com
modore w. p. Vreeland presided. Rol-
tine business was transacted n the
committee reports showed the club to
be in a good financial condition. The Off
GERS of the club for the present year are:
". r. Vreeland, Commodore; H. w.
Harms. Vice Commodore; f. r. Grady.
Recording Secretary; d. A. Woodruff, FL
nancial Secretary; O.. P. Vreeland, Treas
urer. The trustees are Messrs. B. l..
Stowe, J. b. Hay, A. G.. Armstrong, Will
lam STAFFORD and G. w. Judson. A
special meeting will be held shortly for
the transaction of important business. At
the regular meeting on The first Monday
in April the programme of he season S
regatta and cruise wall be mapped out.
There bids fair to be quite an exodus
of G~reenville people to Lakewood within
the next few days. The Rev. c. D..
Chapman. pastor Of Grace Church, and
Mrs. Chapman are already there, Mr..
Chapman returning weekly to attend to
his church duties. Mr.. and Mrs. X mes
Hassell, were also at Lakewood last week,
but have returned. Mr.. and Mrs. Will
lam Outwater are still there, but Mrs.
Becker of Garfield avenue has returned
after a two weeks stay, accompanied by
Miss Jones and Miss Dickson. They
followed a fox while there. Mrs.
James e. Sullivan and her son, Stacey
Sullivan, will leave tomorrow for a stay
at Lakewood, and Mrs. Thomas Cogan,
with her daughter, May, and her sister,
Mrs. CARING. will leave IN Saturday.
Miss Eva Conway will leave for her
home in Vicksburg, Miss. in a few days.
Miss Conway has been visiting her aunt,
Mrs. James I'll. Grady. of No. IS Avenue
e, since last summer. Miss Bertha Grady
will accompany her and remain in Ficks-
burg for a few weeks.
Miss Fannie Outwater of No. SO Ave
nue. e VIII take a trip southwark in a
Few weeks. She will stop at Brunswick,
Ga, and Vicksburg, Miss.
Mr.. Arthur Duhme, at one time presi-
lent Of the now defunct Greenyille Y.
az. c. A, is travelling through Florida
in search of health and recreation. Mr..
Duhme has been ailing since last fall, but
continued at his work until he became
too i'll to do SO any longer. Some of
the towns visited by him were ST. All
gustine, Gainesville. Muletree and jack
s~onville, in the last named of which he
witnessed a game Of ball between the
first and second teams of the New York
Baseball Club. Mr.. Dullqne is fully recov-
cred, ne writes. and has increased won
derfully in strength and avoirdupois.
Every day seems to increase the
chances of Mr.. Henry Gotthardt in his
contest for Alderman for the one-year
term for the Seventh ward. His oppo-
nent is Mr.. Christian Lauer, the Min
kakwa candidate, whose youthfulness is
a serious drawback to him. The act that
he is comparatively unknown outside of
his own precinct in West Bergen also
counts against him.. On the other hand,
Mr.. Gotthardt has been a prominent fig
ure in Greenville Affairs for many years.
He is known as a capable and ener-
getic business a He must ave been
born with special faculties as an Or
g~anizer, for he is a charter membe of
the two Greenville Building and Loan AS
sociations, one of which is ten and the
other twelve years cid. He also organ
lied the Greenville~Turn Verein and was