The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-13

story brick Of Scheller, the jeweleI
who has done business on the stree
thirty years.
East of Lawrence street only four o
five modern buildings have been erectel
in years and these are near the Pennsyl
vania Railroad station. 1t is hope,
that the electric light Illumination ma,
induce real estate owners in the section
to erect modern buildings for store
and offices.
With the erection of modern bushes
! buildings the business of Market stree
merchants increased greatly from Law
renee street west to the court house.
Few OF the merchants and MANI
facturers who carried on business il
Market street from thirty to over fit!
years ago are now alive. If one of thos'
could return from the spirit lnad t
Newark today he would marvel al th'
great changes that have taken place
not only in the style of mercantil,
buildings. but in the way of doing busi
ness. But he would be amazed at TIL,
great electric arc lamp illumination o.
the street tomorrow night, for electric
light was unknown in his time, and il
was the same as regards the telephone
The telegraph, trolley ears and other
modern improvements. And he would
be more than amazed when told that
Market street land that sold at $500 tc
$500 a front foot in his day now sells al
81. 900 to $4,000. and that rents of stores
especially from the Court House east
to Mulberry street, have increased in
proportion.
Getchius, who had a paint store at 1S5
Market street, a few doors east OF
Broad street. 1fty-six years ago, is
alive at the ripe age of more than SO
years, but the business is conducted at
the same place by A. J. Clark, jr. Mr.,
Getchius is almost totally blind, how
ever, and his memory is poor. A. A.
Sippel, who started as a clerk for Juli is
Gerth in the same business forty-two
years ago, and bought out Mr.. Gerth in
1876, is yet in the business at the old
store, a few doors west of Washington
street.
When he became a clerk, Mr.. Sippel
said Yesterday, the south side of Mar
bet street. between Washington and
Plane streets. was occupied by leather
manufacturers and tanners. among
them the STENCILS, the Youngs and the
Utters. Above Plane street to the olo
Court House were small frame and
brick buildings, and there have been
few improvements made since.
How II Used to Look.
on the north side, from the Court
House down to Plane street, were old
frame and brick buildings. The late
Amos Van Horn had a small second
hand f1irDftnra nIaao ~ +Lo ,,.a .
Shipman street, and he trundled arti-
cles from and to customers on a wheel
barrow. After the Civil War he had
a place in a basement near Broad
street. and afterward established the
big furniture place in the middle of the
block from Washington to Plane street.
Colonel Pierson had a newsstand and
book store near, and the office of DR..
Case. a portly man, was near by. He
was head physician of the old Essex
County Asylum for the Insane, where
the new City Hospital now is. and he
was he first to have insane people.
lpale and female, dine in one big room.
A man named Bierman had q shoe
store for years at the corner of Plane
street, where the Jays, now in the mid
die of the block, had a gents furnish
ing store for years. Martin Bur e
now in Mulberry street, had a whole
sale grocery where the Great Atlantic
Tea Company now is at Washington
and Market streets. Later the New
Jersey Freie Zeitung was published for
years in the middle of the block. The
Dentcher Zeitung was later printed at
the corner of Washington street, where
j. Gumpel. clothier. now Is.
On the opposite corner Max Geieer.
now at Ereintnall place and SUNNI
street. kept a drug store, and in the
basement was the German wine place
of George Geibel. Among his custom
ers nightly were Benedict Preith.
founder, owner and editor of the Freie
ZeituDg: the Hon. Theodore Horn.
Julius Steffens. DR.. Kuecher. who ad-
VlSed his patients to drink Geiber's red
and white wine; Jacob Schmid. editor
OF the Beotachter; Koppis. city editor
of the Freie Zeitung; Captain Phil
Sommer, Louis Danenberg. now the
oldest living local newspaper manager
and editor, and Ruckelshaus. who kept
a furniture store. Mrs. Menk. whose
husband, Charles Menk. used to keep a
saloon up at Comes alley, had a Co.'S
tune and mask place, and she and her
sisters were bellies at the masouerades
of the Eintracht, Aurora and other
singing societies.
Former Police Commissioner John
Strahan. and later his brother-fn-law.
James Hodge. kept a clothing store
where Koellhoffer now is. or the north
east corner of Washington street an
old frame building was torn down for
the erection by the Credit System Com
pany of a big structure known since
the failure of the company. which at
one time paid a dividend of 80 per cent.
a year on its stock, as the Metropolitan
building. The State Banking Com
pany. of which Edward S~chickhaus.
was president, and julius ,Stapff. cash
Ter. was on the northeast corner of
Halsey street. 1t was in this bank that
William Scheerer. now president Of the
Union National Bank. was trained as a
fnancier. Gottfried Kruger and Chris
tian ~Felgenspan, brewers, were direct
ors in and large owners of the stock
of the bank, which was later absorbed
by the Union Bank. In the oa sement
was a popular German wine place kept
by a handsome man. who arranged to
and sought to marry there the pretty
daughter of a Springfield avenue brew
er, and he was so disappointed that he
soon disappeared.
where Democrats Met.