The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-05-23
VHHELMEN'S 9AVERuS
Quaint Places to Stop on Near
by Roads New Brunswick
and Nutley

On Sunday, the 18th, the Newark sSun-
day Call" Cycling Club made a run to
New Brunswick and a mighty pleasant
run it was. The day was none TOO
warm and the party greatly enjoyed the
trip. The stop at New Brunswick was
made at the Mansion House. The paper
gives some interesting points on sthe trip.
J. C.. Reiss captained the run. Among
those who followed him were j. N.
Fearey, John Clark, w. w. Gray, P. c..
Walsh, Jr.. David c. Petit, John Ennis,
Budd Voorhees,, Auguste Moreau, Peter
Bey and a representative of the "Call."
New Brunswick seems to be a popular
point for wheelmen in this section. The
hotels did a thriving business last Sunday
in furnishing dinenrs and refreshments.
In one hotel sixty wheelmen sal down to
dinner. There are few hotels on the
good roads in this State where a fair
kind Of a dinner is served to wheelmen
and the suggestion is freely given that the
hotel keeper VINO will be the first to
give agood table d'hote dinner at a reason
able price will soon find himself on the
road to prosperity. There are many
places in New York where a substantial
meal is given for fifty or seventy-fve
cents, with a bottle Of California claret,
and there is no reason why it could not
be done in a country hotel. The owner
of such a place would not have to de-
pend on country trade alone for whee!men
ride seven days in the week.
Here is another free suggestion to the
purVeyofS OF Wheelmen'S comforts. After
a long ride or a short one, either, for
That matter, a rider longs for a refresh
ing bath Now, why can't some enter
or In sheds on the grounds a series of
douche baths? Half a dozen small closets
each equipped with a douche, would prove
cheerfully pay any price, from ten to
twenty-five cents for the delight of stand
ing under a water springler for five min
utes.
There is on quaint and delightful stop
ping place known to comparatively few
wheelmen in this neighborhood, and
jealous enough Of it not to wish it TOO
widely advertised, for it would then be
overrun with visitors and would soon
Essex county between Newark and Nut
ley, and about 800 yards off-well it's off
the main road and to reach it you lave
to travel over 9 rough and rugged cow
path which neeessitates you getting off
your wheel, Then you come to a quaint
little vine-embowered cottage of rambling
dimensions. A big carriage shed and 4
beer sign are the only outward indica-
ttons that the place is a public house.
Under the trees and .arbors are green
painted tables ana CHAIRS, and back of
the house is a long refectory in which
there is a piano. The presiding genius
of this place is a large and rosy German
woman with a limited vocabulary of Eng
gifsh. There is a husband lying around
loose omewhe but he is not sufficient
ly prominent to be identified among tho
German visitors who are always to be
found there.
The mistress of the little manse is as
good natured as she is round, and that
is saying a great deal. Most of the pat
rons are German families of the sedate
kind. who go there for a picnic or a
lunch. Therein les the attractiveness of
the place. There is a charm in the
homeliness and seclusion of the place, but
the lunch is what catches most of the
visitors. The rosy hostess serves a typ
ical German lunch, consisting of German
cheese, ham or bologna of the same
nationality, with rye bread at libitum.
S~mearkase, or pot cheese, as it is var
iously known, is served in generous por-
tons. Then there is a bottle of home
made wine, white or red, made from the
grapes grown on the premises. The price
charged for all his is 50 astonisfingly
small that were it to become generally
known the place would be overrun with
visitors, and in less than no time all
the stout hostess homemade wine would
be consumed. She would nave to take
down those cool arbors to make room for
extensions. She would employ walters
and bartenders and give inferior food.
the place would become like any other
of the numerous road houses. No. its
too good q thing to give away.