Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-03
CITY BRIEFS


Surveyors wore at work on
Madison avenue yesterday i II pre-
paration for the Improvements to be
made on that t~horoughfare.
The captain OF the barge Don
aid has reported 10 The police that
ninety feet OF hawser and two breast
lines, forty and twenty-five feet long,
respectively, were stolen from his
boat while lying in the stream Tues-
day last.
-. P. Holm has rented the
Bloodgood building at Smith and
King streets and will move there
shortly. The Lehigh Valley office
Will go with him.
Joseph f. Growney has entered
The employ of William Solomon &
Co, brokers'. in New York.
The establishment of the Pro-
gress Wine & Spirit Company at
Smith and High streets opens today.
u. w. Beekman and j. E, Strick-
err are in Jersey City today on legal
business.
The pipe organ committee of the
First Baptist church have selected a
case for the new organ, and it is eX-
pected to be ready by Easter Sunday.
Ambrose Wood and Charles
Woolsey walked out on the Amboy
bridge yesterday to the draw, and
from what they saw and heard, they
predict its early completion,
The ~SiX-year-old son of Joseph
Burginski. of II Elizabeth street,
was badly cut over the left eye by a
%neighbor who threw a stone at him..
His wound was dressed by Druggist
Garben, who said that he cut is a
severe one. The boys father has
made a complaint to the authorities.
Louis Crowell has resigned his
position in the main office of the Lee
high Valley railroad on the docks to
accept a place in the Office of the
Perth Amboy Terra Gotta Works.
The Westminster Cadets held a
meeting in their armory in Rector
street last night. The next meeting
will be held next Saturday instead of
Friday night, when three new appli-
cants for the artillery will be con-
sidered.
-Freia Lodge has decided not to
hold a masquerade ball.
The ordinance accepting the
4 deed of land on Sheridan street from
Cortlandt Parker, in so far as Mr..
Parker owned the land, and direct
ing the city attorney to start con
domination proceedings if negotia-
tons with G. Pardee for his two
strips of land should fail, has now
been advertised the number of times
required by law, and the city attor-
ney can, it is understood, proceed in
the matter.
Because of the great increase
in business in this city during the
past year Mr.. Kaufman, of the
wholesale grocery firm OF Potts &
Kaufman, has decided, il is under
stood, to devote much more of his
time to outside work while the man
againg part will be in charge of a
mar from Elizabeth.
While going down Madison AVE.
nue. this morning n truck, heavily
loaded, became fast in the mud near
Paterson street. 1t took some little
time before the horses could get it
out of the rut.
p. J. Monaghan is about finish
ed with is job of plumbing in the
new post office building.
Wilder Hall was filled last
night and the audience saw one of
the best plays eve produced here,
"a Crown of Thorns." A feature
of the play vas a parody containing
local knocks in about twenty-five
verses.
Complaints of driving on the
sidewalks have been received by the
police from residents on lower
Brighton ven
A well attended meeting of the
Terra Gotta Workers Union, Local
No. n, was held last night in the
Ipoms in the Adelaide building, 1873
18th street.
H. Gregory has his new auto
1t is a beauty. Mr.. Greg
~ook a spin about town yesterday
Ernoon in it.