The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-07-13


which is constantly gaining in popularity
among Jersey City people. It is a
beautiful place. and is constantly being
improved. The approach TO Lake Hopat-
cong is so steep and through such an
unloyely country. that people who go there
for the first time are apr to think some
mistake must have been made, and that It
Is a myth. When arriving there one
gees up a steep hill which looks as If 1t
never would terminate, through a thick
wood, along a road almost too narrow to
turn around and go back, and when one
finally reaches the top and Hopatcong,
the wonder is how that eautiful lake
ever got there and by what miracle it was
discovered. TIL lake itself is large, and
winds in and out little coves and about
small Islands. 1t is we'll Shad-
ed by innumerable trees. There are
a number of good hotels and many cot
tages, some belonging to very well known
people.
The people of the place are now agitat-
ing for good roads, good bicycle roads.
and also a trolley. Part of the lake has
many good wheeling roads, but the greater
part is Still to be -macadainized. 1t has
been decided by the authorities to ma
cadamize a boulevard all the way around
the lake, and this work is now going on.
Many bfcyclers nave discovered the
beauties of Lake HopatcoEg, and bicycle
clubs have frequently stopped there. Re-
Gently the Joint Club Run of the Union
County, Jersey City, Clio, Hudson County,
Linwood, Riverside, Harlem, Staten
Island. Irving and Ammo Wheelmsn made
its Stop Six at the American House,
and took dinner there.
The lake has recently been stocked with
wall-eyed pike. Two hundred thousand
CT them were put in the lake. and the
fishermen in the neighborhood are antici-
pating good sport. 1t is said that cold
water produces the gamiest fish of all
kinds, and the people of Hopatcong boast
that their bass are ahead of other New
when people catch perch they think they
ave struck a bass.
There are a number of Jersey city peo-
PIE already at Lake Hopatcong. and 1t
is probable that many more will visit
there before the summer is over. Mr..
and Mrs. William P. Underhiil and Mr..
and Mrs. Elmer UnderaiIl nave taken
a cottage for the summer, and they and
their little children anticipate a happy
summer.
Mr.. Jerry Meyers has been for several
weeks at his summer home. Claremont.
and he expects his mother and sister 10
spend the summer with him.
-
Mr.. and Mrs. William Underwood and
their daughter, Mrs. Samuel Burrows
Parrot are at their summer residence.
Hill Crest Cottage. Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Seward Davis will probably spend part
of the summer with them.
Mr.. and Mrs. Sip and Mr.. Sips mother.
Villa. where they will remain for the
summer months
Mr.. and Mrs. W. w. Farrier and their
son are at the Hotel Brunswick, Asbury
They will remain there during III
summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Calvin Stimets
and their children, Bruce, Jean n Con-
stayed with Mrs. Stimets' parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. s. G. Negus, at their cot
tage, North Asbury Park, for a few days
after the Fourth They have now gone
TO their summer residence. Highgate,
Vermont.
Miss May Booraem of Philadelphia is
part of the summer with her
cousin, Miss Frances Booraem, at the
cottage at North Asbury Park.
Captain and Mrs. A. ]. Newbury re-
turned to their residence. Clifton place,
This last week from their summer cottage
At Waretown. New Jersey. They are
members Of the Universalst Church, and
they were in attendance al the Y. p c.
Convention. A number Of their Ware
town friends stayed with them so as to
attend the convention meetings. Captain
ind Miss Newbury and Miss Oakley viii
return Immediately to Waretown.