The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-13
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K~upfrain, which was frequented by
medical students. doctors. lawyers,
t judges and merchants. jim Wambold,
one Of the gifted wamboid brothers,
used to play the banjo and sing. there,
| and Patsey Carrigan spared. He and
! Wambold died in the Essex County
| Asylum for the Insane. Fred Wald-
: mann's place. copied after the Atlantic
| Garden on the Bowery, New York, was
q great resort. 1t stood where the
Lawyers Building and part of the
Telephone Building now are. 1t lad
the first circular bar in Newark, the
first Woman's Vienna Orchestra and IL
had galleries at the front and along the
sides up to the stage. Women were ad-
mitted only to the galleries. The place
; was the nightly resort of lawyers, poll
~ticians, city and county officials, news
paper men and 1900 to 1000 men and
women were In 1t each night. The
brewers, the Schalks, owned the build
ing.
On the north side of the street was
the old Newark Library and the hail
where Keller and other magicians gave
entertainments. for it and the old the
atre were the only places for such en-
tertainments then. l.. Bamberger 4
Co.'S building now occupies the site of
the old library n Lehman's Hotel.
The Goerke Company's department
store is where Hahne & Block had a
bird store for years, and Cyrus Dettle-
bach and others had dry goods stores.
Charles H~olzhauer. druggist, is yet at
Market and Broad streets. and he is
one of Newark's Oldest merchants.
At the southeast corner of Market
a~I DxNo5 ta.4 1870 IT, Il naf1.F
Advertiser building. and it /. the same
as it was during the civil war. on the
opposite corner the First National
Bank erected n fine building in 1872.
and after the bank failed the Firemen's
Insurance Company bought the build
ing. which 1t has Just torn down to
erect a more modern structure. The
ola Getchius paint store is also on the
south side. John Inland kept a beer
place for years where he is now erect
ing a new building. There was years
ago an English chophouse kept then
by John Harbutt. The Morning Reg
lister was published in the old Tom
Corrigan building, in front of which
was a famous well and pump. Thomas
Jones. agent. for the Flanagan & Wal
lace ales, had the old place for years.
Further east was long ago an old
hotel where "Dickey" Port mixed cock
tails and balls of volunteer hremen
were held. William Wtfitty had a gro
Gerry there later. At Beaver street
was the First Reformed Church, the
Rev. DR.. Terhune, pastor. His wife was
Marion Harland, the novelist. Philip
\. Jackson bought the property. de-
molished the church. erected a four
story brick, and the United Electric
Company was located there for several
years. Near the Central Methodist
Episcopal Church was the Spring Gar
den, a beer garden. the only one in the
centre of the city then. At Market and
Mulberry streets is the old huffman
House. a frame known In early Colo
NAL days.
Near Old Advertiser Building.
On. the south side of Market street.
east of the old Advertiser building.
was. the office of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, the cigar stand of
Jabez apd Fred Fearey, the Daily Jour
nal building (Judge William b. Guild,
proprietor), and e to it Dennis Muir
ray kept a popular resort. His hustling
methods made a revival of business in
the block. Henderson's restaurant. be-
low, was a avorite place. George Rou-
baud, harness-maker, is one of the old
est business men in Market street now.
Compton's undertaking place was
where the building of the Essex Press
now Is. DIR. Abraham Coles, author
and poet, lived further east. Whole
sale and retail liquor places We're kept
by Jim Donohue, who had been a suit
Ter in Meagher's Irish Brigade; John
f. Finnegan and others.
Where Beitman's drug store now Is,
at the southeast corner of Market and
Mulberry streets, has been a drug store
Tor seventy-five years. On neither side
OF the block east to Lawrence street
was there any place of note. At Law
renee street Johnston & Murphy had a
shoe factory in the old Owen McFar-
land building. From that point east
to the Market street station of the
Pennsylvania Railroad there We're small
stores and saloons. The Odeon Tt a.
atre was formerly a German Church
building. 1t was run by Ward and
Matt O'Connor. Opposite the railroad
station on the south side of the plaza,
the first lager beer was made in New
ark many years ago.
One of the feature places on Mar
ket street near the old curt House
was the Flavell bakery, for he was a
Second Adventist and used to get on
the roof of his building with believers,
each dressed in white, to await the
last day, after he had given away a
great many loaves of bread.
The Market Street Business Mems
Improvement Association meets at Els
ner's Hall in Market street, opposite
Washington street, which was kept for
years by julius Isaacs. 1t was then
headquarters for Democratic poll
ticians, and SO many Irish and Irish
Americans mingled with the Jews who
patronized the place that the proprietor
was called st, Patrick Isaacs.
The officers of the association are:
w. J. Wakefield. jr.. president: George
\ Sche.ler, first vice-president: A. A.
Sppel. second vice-president; Paul e.
Menk. treasurer; Harry Berger, record
ing secretary: Arthur Oliver. financial
secretary. Board of Trustees-Lee OF
tolengui. chairman; William H. F.
Fielder, w. w. Winward, S. p. Harri-