The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-01
GREENvILLE GOSSIP.

Greenyille Building and Loan Assoeia-
ton NO. 2, met in the Lenlbeck building
last night. Quite a number of books
IN the new ninth series were sold. The
total of the nights receipts was 81. $3.50.
Greenville United B. and L. Associa-
ton l~naugurates a new series on Monday
evening, April s. This association re-
Gently issued loans for the erection of
houses on property on Linden, Danforth,
Greenville and Gator
The Greenville Reformed Church is
still without a minister. A member of
the consistory is authority for the state
ment that Rev. c.. J. Allen is still the
choice of that body. The South Bergen
Chassis will come together in the early
part of this week to decide on the regu-
larity and authority of the call. Mr..
Walkers minority report is expected to
be an important factor
The balmy atmosphere of the past few
days has exerted a moving influence on
this section. The trees and shrubs are
beginning to bud and in a few weeks
Greenville will again resemble a country
town. The metamorphosis takes place
annually at this time. Usually the grass
shows green as the last snow ~disappear
before The warmer ray of the sun, but
the severe season just past has affected
it more than any winter since the mem
orable year of the blizzard. The sod
is grey and dead, but in a week experts
say it will show as brilliant a green as
in midsummer
AAS - ii fdQ dppdIGilI III tJIe
number Of house hunters from New York
and that vicinity, which each spring
visits this section in search of homes.
Last spring they We're few and many
residents We're driven away by the con-
dition of the drinking water.
The macadam roads of the Boulevard
and Garfield avenue were severely tried
by the heavy snow falls of the past
month. Both are ~roughened and filed
with ruts, as a result. Not much re-
pairing is needed, however. The Boule-
ward repairs are already under way. be-
ginning near the Newark Ind New York
Railroad bridge.
Electric lights along the new macadam-
lied roads on Arlington and Garfield
would greatly add to the utility
of that road after dark. Avenue D.
Bayonne, which is a continuation beyond
the canal of Garfield avenue, is well lit
for its entire length. It offers a good
roadway for bicyclists on the eastern
side of this section. A half mile of poor
roads lies between it and the Boulevard
along here and these cyclists prefer it
for a run to the Point.
Few people living in Jersey City know
where Constable's Junction is. Those
who live within a stones throw of it are
ignorant of its whereabouts. 1t is the z
formed by the separation of two branches
Of the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Brown
place, one to run parallel to the Centra,
Railroad tracks and the New York Bay
shore to Bergen Point and the other tc
cross Greenviile and Newark Bay. Two
signs and switch tower mark the spot.
The signs differ slightly with regard to
the name, n styling it Constable
Junction and the other applying the
pcssessive So to the first word.
There is to be plenty of digging up
and closing Greenville streets this spring.
Sewers are to be laid in the west end Of
Danforth, Linden and Gator avenues. in
Greenville avenue, the Old Bergen Road
and under the sidewalks on the Boule-
ward.
The tickets are out and a large num-
Der already disposed OF for the concert
of the GreenvilIe Liederkranz in Giebers
Hall next Monday evening. The last
rehearsal will be held tomorrow evening.
The programme is made up of German
folk songs by Buhr, selections from
Flotow's operas of Martha and
sStradella.', a .New Song War on the
Wartburg." and a humorous cantata
called "An Hour with a Gesangverein."
These include solos. duets, a trio. d quar-
tette and full chorus
The Hudson County Schwaben yerein
will hold its regular monthly meeting
tomorrow evening at the headquarters
at No. 529 Ocean avenue Business In
connection with the annual picnic to be
held in the Greenvilie SehIetxen Park
on Labor Day n the day following Will
be transacted.