The Jersey City news., 1902-11-17
LIVE NOTES
ABOUT TOWN

One Jersey City young man who went
TO the Princeton-Yale football game on
Saturday has ever since been saying
hard things against the thrift of the
average resident of the delightful uni
versity town. To stranger 1t seemed
as if almost every male resident of the
town above eight years was on the street
selling sandwiches. fruit. peanuts, flags,
ribbons and everything else at greatly
advanced prices. The young Jersey City
man in question was seated in the train
after the game waiting to go home. In
the turned-over seat with him We're
three young ladies bedecked from head
to waist with yellow chrysanthemums
and yellow and black ribbons. If they
felt bad over the defeat of Princeton
they did net show it but kept up lively
chatter which could be heard all through
the ear.
At one time young urchin. who look
ed as though he was a model Sunday
school scholar. came through the car sell
ing apples.
"Oh. want an applet exclaimed one
of the young ladies.
$50 do l." exclaimed the others in
chorus. and the young man called the
youthful vender up. They were rather
measly looking apples, suspiciously like
some last years holdovers. and the
young ladies had considerable. difficulty
in making selection. Finally all, in
Guiding the young man. We're supplied,
and then the latter asked, "How much y
Forty cents" replied the boy.
How muchr' exclaimed the young
man in wide-eyed astonishment
Forty CENTS" repeated the youth
without turning hair.
For a moment the young man looked
mad and the three young women paused
in the act of biting into their apples,
holding the fruit suspended half way TO
their mouths. But the young man hesi-
tated only moment and passed over
four dimes. His feelings were not re-
heved when man with an unctious
voice in the next seat remarked
Forty cents for four apples-you can
buy whole tree for that"
A prominent member of the Martin
Fife and Drum Corps of the Heights,
was recently measured for a new pair
of trousers by a tailor on Summit ave-
nue..
He received the trousers Friday and
when he tried them ON he found q busi-
ness card of the tailor in the pocket, but
was bewildered at the following writing
on the back:
''34A the long in the middle;
''33 the thick in the waist;
''23 the thick on top of the knee;
''1S the flick on the knee;
.1S1a wide on the bottom cord seam"
The items upon investigation proved to
be the tailor's measurements.
Automobiles were as thick as flies
in summer time on the Boulevard yes
terday. As they whirled along TO and
from Bergen Point curious old man
who. although too poor to own a ma
chine, seemed perfectly contented inbeing
able to walk, gazed thoughtfully after
them.
II wonder what those letters mean,"
he remarked. pointing to the initials
which each ownr thinks it his duty to
display on the rear of his auto"
oh" quickly responded young man,
''you see they have various meanings.
That one there with the initials H. r. r.
is owned bv his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales. The initials 'G. S. L.
on the enc in green stands for God Save
Ireland and the r. D. on the back of
that red one across the way means ]
suppose that either the machine or the
owner is a red devil.
"And what does that one with Fl. S.. B.
stand forY' asked the old gentleman.
The youth paused for a moment and
then exclaimed "Oh, that must mean
that the owner is prominent member
of the Hoboken Schuetzen Bund
"Talk about medicines broke in the
sea captain. who was one of party that
gathered in the smoking parlor of local
club ''Some years ago, while l was at
sea, I had medicine chest containing
about fifty bottles. Each bottle was
labeled with different number and each
was for certain ailment or disease, the
number of which l found by referring
to small book.
Whenever one Of my men got sick.
! simply found out what allied him: then
l locked in my book for the number of
the ailrnent and gave the patient dose
out Of the bottle bearing the same NUM-
Der. Now it happened one day that
member of my crew got something the
matter with him which l found could
be knocked out by bottle No. 13. But
when secured the bottle / discovered
that it was empty. Now, what do you
suppose we did under the circum-
stancesT
Not one in the party could guess.
''Why, slyly replied the captain, "we
simply mixed the contents of bottles Nos
@ and Z and saved the mans life"
Mr.. Joseph Kaiser, the proprietor of
the Columbia Hall, Greenville, received a
valuable rattlesnake skin yesterday from
/ fr;ar,d ;,, LrIar;Jn rl,o sl-fv, to, n.-ar ST