The Jersey City news., 1902-07-14

for retirement until next October. Chief
Murphy would like to have him post
pone making his application for several
years. He says that the department
cannot afford to lose such faithful Off
Ger as 'Chick."
William Mullins and Dennis O'Brien
will leave Wednesday for Monticello on
ten-days' vacation. Both young men
are employed by the Well-Fargo Ex-
press Company.
The clouds of soft coal smoke which
have hung over the city at night for sev
eral weeks have led the editors of var
ious New York papers several times to
telephone their local representatives -
hurry up story about the fire in their
territory.
John r Roche and George J. koch,
residents Of New York but both very well
known in Jersey City. will sail for Eu-
rope on July -. They will sail on the
North German steamer Bremen and re-
turn about September |.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Q. Cole of Sum-
NIT avenue, returned yesterday freia
Salem. Mass, where they attended The
annual reunion of the Thirteenth Massa-
chusetts Regiment. Mr.. Cole is meni-
Der of the regiment.
Mr.. and Mrs. McGeown, of No. 80
Orient avenue, are spending the summer
at Delaware Water Gap.
Sergeant Thomas Howell of the Fir, t
precinct, returned to duty yesterday al
ter am enjoyable vacation of twelve days
at yineland, Perth 4Amboy and other
points of interest.
Assistant Sergeant at Arms Albert
Mansfield of the Circuit Court, will
spend two weeks at BaBr Harbor, Me.
An amusing combination was seen or
I w
color edgirl was wheeling baby car
riage which contained white child and
black and white dog. BY the side of
tic nurse walked white girl and hang
ing to the front of the carriage was Ii
tie colored boy.
Mr.. Charles Parker. son of the late
Governor Joel Parker, strelled inr,
Chaneery Chambers this morning to pay
a visit to Vice Chancellor Pitney. a:r.
Parker is bank president in Freehold
and mixed up with more than one trust
company, and when the Vice Chancellor
saw him he took his into his private
room and kept the members of the ba-
waiting nearly half an hour while he
talked bank shop talk with Mr.. Parker.
Passengers on a trolley car leaving
Bergen Point, about midnight, were
treated to short drama just before
starting.
A yong woman who had been trying
to drive ont the heat all 1av, was stand
ing with two young men IN rhe sidewalk.
One had hold of her arm, when in jest
she screamed for help. A stockily built
young man Immediately jumped from Il
ear and run to her assistance. He looked
as though able to take care of himself
and later on proved it. VIXEN he reached
the group, the young woman laughed and
said, Rubber" He said
What did you yell for?"
She replied: For fun
sWell. I'll just take a punch at one
of your friends for fun to even things
up.
He was as good as his word. ard be-
fore the words had left his lips, his arm
the face Of one of the girls escorts. The
pair showed no disposition to come back
at the pugilistic young man and he
boarded the car again, saying:-"I don't
think they'l try to make monkey out
of me again.
Clerk James Blythe, Of the City
Comptroller's office, with his family, left
this morning for Cornwall-on-the-Hu Hud-
son, to spend two weeks.
Deputy City Collector William J.
Davis, Clerk John Bedell, of the City
Collectors $ office; Poormaster Edward
Hewitt and Mathen J Rooney, of the
Street and Water Board office. started
this morning for AGRA, in the Catskills,
to spend their vacation. They intend to