The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-12-31
new YEARS DAY
How Jersey City People
Will Usher in
1902.
WATCH NIGHT SERVICES
Stage, Dances and Parties
of All Kinds Scheduled for
Tonight and Tomorrow.


the celebration Of the advent of 1902 will
begin tonight when watch parties will be
held all over the city. All the clubs will
he kept open for the 1902 watchers, and
there will be private house parties in
nearly all the residences on the Heights.
Hundreds will go to New York to hear
over hundred new years, and II the
crowd becomes big enough the P. r. R.
will probably run extra boats to accom-
modate the rush.
Everybody may as well try to make up
his or her mind at once to watch the
new year in. Anybody unsentimental
enough to retire on such an occasion will
not be allowed to sleep as punishment.
At midnight the city will be a perfect
bedlam with the blowing of horns shoot
ing of guns and shouting. Trinity bells
will be set ringing, and if the din of horns
is not too great may be heard on this
side of the river. But whether or not
Trinity's bells are heard Jersey City can
not miss the moment the new year
springs into existence, if only from the
footing on the river. All the boats will
send forth whistles and snorts of an
nouncement at once, or as near "at once"
as possible, and there will be fireworks
to illumi late the sky.
The day-tomorrow-wil be celebrated
with the closing of all business houses
except places of amusement, and with the
usual new years calls and parties
At the Jersey City Golf Club-the finals
in the Meyer Cup contest will be played
and the cup awarded.
While the old year is struggling in the
throes of death tonight the congregation
of the Claremont Presbyterian Church
Will meet in the church at Claremont and
Ocean avenues, and Pastor Sruchell viii
call the last roll of the year. Efforts
have been made to have every member
present, a personal invitation having
been sent to each by the pastor. An en-
joyable time is anticipated. An elaborate
supper will be served
The New Year will find the Greenvil;e
Camera Club well prepared for it tomar-
row. There IS not much that the old
year has produced hereabouts that the
club has captured and when nineteen
hundred and two shows his face tomor-
row the club intends to take snap shot
of him first thing. For those friends who
desire to see the latest photograph tbs
members will keep open house tomorrow
at the clubhouse, Greenville Scluetzen
Park.
There will be watch night service this
evening at tine West Side M. e. Church
ON West Side avenue. Each member of
the congregation has been requested to
attend
The S. o. T. O., a social organization of
the Heights, has arranged banquet Tor
New Years tonight at Otto's Hall, No.
5s7 Newark avenue. An elaborate menu
has been prepared and big time is ex-
pected.
There will be a watch nightserylce COM
mencing at $3.50 o'clock this evening in the
Hedding Methodist Episcopal Church on
Montgomery street, near Barrow street,
under the auspices of the Epwortn
League. The pastor, the Rev. Joseph A
Owen, M. A., will preside and also make
a short address. There will also be ad-
dresses by the Rev. Henry {. Cronin.
DID, of the Second Presbyterian Church;
Mr.. H. a. Mescham, Secretary of the Jer-
sey City 7. M. c. A.. and Mr.. E. Burton
Smith OF the Epworth League. From ten
till eleven o'clock the hour will be spent
in a social manner. All are invited to az
tend
The members of the Jersey City Club
will sit up tonight and welcome in the
new year The Entertainment and Re-
ception Committee has provided a stag
performance for the members, and a good
programme has been selected. Pipes and
tobacco will be provided for all members.