The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-02
Society gopits.

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to her own value, be II eyer
81 small. and her citizens are beginning
to take an active. Interested pride IN nei
scenery. They have began 10 scosn.A
her dormant beauty, awaiting out eas
finishing touches of modern mpfovsipsns
While there is nothing 50 plciuies41
as the ~unimproved country, with pstA@ps
here and there on the long, WlnoiAs ~
road. a house, there is morning So unptN
4,,rasa,e as that same country improves
Nv tho hand of man. into what IS caAisu
a;+Y and left half finished, or, worse
rat neglected after it is finished rms
= s,,st the trouble with Jersey Ciey.
..Tba last place God ever created, az =
- often the ungracious remark OF heI
avn citizens. The trouble is neither win
,ts bcing the last place. nor with ~
creation. but simply with those cltizens
themselves who after spelling its rustic
beantx 10 Ii their convenience. expect
the Lord to keep it in a habitapie con
dition.
perbans # was through the Keramic
Artists that this pride was u
They first discovered Jersey cry -
toric value and began to pant neF -
point of interest on placques' tnen VT,
Harriet B.. Eaton. prominent IN poeh oua
Volumes and Woman's clup. "roee
nook describing these sites, the proceeus
from the sale of which will fArther y
improve the city, as they are pressnaea
10 fbe Woman's Club to help II ou1iuius
clubhouse. Next the Town Anipfoe
ment department sprang INTO active p
~ nH the
istence. and discovering that nelthef eus
u;,as nor the rains from heaven were o.
snfseient force to clean the streets put
their own hands to the piow.
Another proof of this awakening pfide
s,as IN tbe number of handsome residences
going up all along the BouieVaio
DENTAL streets of the Hill
~ Harry Iauterbach's residence, Gli-
ford avenue and Boulevard. is no" az
most complete and VIII be reaus
eeiye its owner by October !.
Just opposite Mr.. L~auterpacnss res
dence. on the other side of the B~ouleValo,
ss MI. HarnIton's new house, wnlen WA
also be completed in October It IS a ren
frame and brick residence with green
trimmings.
Further up the boulevard. the second
door from Glenwood avenue and opposite
his own residence, Mr.. E. F. G. Young =
building a handsome home for his daugh-
ter. Mrs. George Smith. AS yet only the
foundation is laid. so that the building
will probably not be ready for oeeupany
before spring.
Mr.. ]. E. H~ulshizer, Jr., is also extern
sively improving lis property on CLIFFORD
and Bergen avenues, while his stable at
the rear Of his residence, on Belmont
avenue. promises to be a structure IN
keeping with his house.
Add to these the new golf clubhouse.
situated at the foot of Clifford avenue on
West Side, and any number Of houses
springing up all over the city. and the
prophecy for the future must be "a city
OF handsome dwellings"
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Preparations for the Woman's Club an
nuaE breakfast In October are already
afoof, and the programme is being pre-
pared as rapidly as possible. One Of the
toasts on tlis occasion will be responded
to by Mrs. Cynthia Westover-Alden of the
New York Tribune VINO VIII give a talk
on the Woman's Congress at London, in
which she participated Mrs. John A
Walker and Mrs. John L, Scudder will
also be among the number responding to
toasts-
DR.. and Mrs. P. J. Koonz, with their
three daughters, Misses Anna, Beatrice
and CIarice, of No. 80 Clifford avenue,
~returned home Tuesday after a three
weeks stay at the Ailenhurst Inn, Allen
hurst, as did also Miss Katharine Crow
en-, Mrs. Koonz's sister, who has been
staying with them.
Misses Anna Beatrice and Clarice
Koonz and Miss Katharine Grower left
during the week for the Catskills, where
they viii remain over Labor Day, after
which Miss Koonz will visit friends in
Monfclair, going on to Deal Beach, where
she will visit Mrs. George Young at her
summer home, and returning home about
the middle of September.
49, :
Mr.. Samuel Reid, for several years a
resident Of Bentley and Bergen avenues,
will leave the city, with his family, next
week, for Minnesota, where he will re-
side. The Misses Reid will probably be
frequent visitors In Jersey City, how
ever, during the winter months.
Mrs. Frank Stevens. Of Clifford avenue,
left yesterday for Lakewood, where she
will spend September.
Mrs. ]. Howard Slater, Of clifford ave
nue., IS summering in the A~dirondacks.
The party of YOUNG ladies. among whom
We're Misses Grace and edna Toffey. Jes-
sic Perry and Minnie Nelson, who sailed
for a European tour the latter part Of
june, will start on the ocean voyage homo
next week.
Mrs. Gordon and Miss Belle Gordon, o.
Magnolia avenue, are at Mount Kisco.