Egg Harbor Observer
Year 1. |
Egg Harbor City, Thursday, 7. April 1859 |
No. 23 |
The “Egg Harbor Observer”Published once weekly in Egg Harbor City, Atlantic County, N.J.Office: Liverpool Av., Corner of Arago Street. Printed and Distributed by Louis Bullinger Conditions:Subscriptions - Price for 1 year …………… $1.90= = ½ = ………. $1 Single Issue 4 Cents No-one may cancel the paper without all arrears having been paid. Prices for Advertisements.Up to five lines:Once $0.25. Twice $0.40. Thrice $0.60.
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The Life of the Negro
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may be a rich life!
You, curly-headed man - don't escape!
Be my guest! Step in here!
Give me your yarn and your stories!
Here is my wine for you!
Of sand- and clear water,
Of sea- and land-battles speak!
There! Palm-forests darken;
Hyena and Lion threaten;
On the King's crowns sparkle
Gold, Pearl and precious-stones!
From unexplored springs
Rushes proudly the Niger along;
With a hundred-thousand waves
Bubbles the holy Sea.
The whip sounds, the fetter:
Once more look back!
O steaming, boiling kettle!
O room of the slave-ship!
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Crowds at the gates of the mill!
The sugar cane falls with
The strong strokes of the black man!
The one who knows how
To use the machete with power,
Has also, probably no fear
Of a vigorous swordfight!
On board! The pennants fly!
From Mars, look down here below!
Now is the goal, to attack
The enemy upon the open sea!
Ho! How we shorten the sail!
Ho! How we can board her!
O horrible meeting!
O wrestling man-to-man!
Watching with open jaws
The shark who [would be] their tomb!
A flash and a crash!
They fly into the air!
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to have to swim to the hospital!
Now limping, he suns himself,
the old man around the armory:
Torn away from everything;
For which his heart longs!
To have to waste-away so,
It is a harder curse!
There he stands, old marvels
In his head! -- Let God show pity:
With his ragged clothes
The crowd cackles around you;
Walk past it cooly!
What, are the Nile and Niger here?
And inside it burns as a fever,
And it writhes, as madness to you!
Give me your hand, old warrior!
What counts is, we suffer the same.
Salut! Cape Verde! The Niger!
And - my great regard! [rich thoughts?]
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In the Abruzzi
A Novel by Ludwig Rellstab.
Continuation.
In the church were some fifty people assembled, who had formed a circle around the altar. The newly-arrived one did not immediately go up near those assembled, but rather stayed standing in the shadow of a pillar, in order to hear what was being discussed just then. -- Only one gloomy lamp burned, whose rays could not spread to the sides because blocked by the surrounding circle, so it could not illuminate the whole room, but only the area where the speaker in the meeting had his place, and that was hardly enough to read the document which was placed on the pulpit. So also, no light could penetrate through the windows of the church and betray that one might find a meeting therein, so completely was the room darkened throughout at the pillars of the aisles. From here Pietro il Sasso could see and hear everything that went on, but would not himself be noticed.
"He is missing again today," said the speaker who stood behind the pulpit with the papers, "it will be necessary to watch him closely!"
"Yes, he must give to the Association a new pledge of his loyalty," spoke someone outside of the circle, "or we must think about our safety!"
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"You are foolish." a third voice could be heard. "Who has given pledges as sure as he? Who has protected the Association from all of our great blows? Who has risked his life more often? Who has richer means to support us?"
"That means little," began the first again, "for that reason he has the brightest position of all of us. He feasts as the richest and most distinguished, he lives like a count and prince, we have the work, and the privation" ---
"And the lesser danger," remarked the other.
"Pah! If we are discovered, our heads will fall as well as his! -- He feasts at our expense, I say. -- And thereby he hinders us in every small undertaking which is to our advantage!"
"Yes, you and your kind, because he does not want to have our great purpose stained through your unworthy tricks!"
"Unworthy -- what" started the first.
"Quiet Anselmo, quiet Xaviero -- no blows in the meeting!" commanded the speaker in between them.
"We must live," continued Anselmo defiantly, "who gives us anything? If Pietro does not begrudge us that, which we capture, he may have to worry about us, that we lead a life like his. Whose money do we steal? -- Those who are individual and small, against which we propose to turn our weapons. But with these Pietro would not be corrupted, -- he would trust you, I maintain, -- who knows what he undertakes, where our eyes and ears don't reach - -- -- "
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"Miserable slanderer!" a strong voice suddenly sounded and with his cloak thrown back Pietro stood in the middle of the circle of conspirators. "Because I would not tolerate your bandit's-tricks, your open highway robbery, you venture to attack me with slanders? If your eyes and ears do not reach to my actions, then mine reach to yours! I know you!" -- --
Anselmo timidly stepped back. "What do you want from me? What do you have against me?" asked Pietro il Sasso now turned toward the Association. You harbor suspicion against me because I seldom visit your useless meetings? Useless I call them; but they are dangerous, because they will betray you! You want new pledges from me, when I have given you more through counsel and action than you all together have given me? You slander me, now in the moment where I have accomplished the most important service for you? Do you know that your Association to Portici would have been abolished if I had not prevented it? Do you know that today, here, in this hour, the entire armed force of the police together with the Swiss would have surrounded us, if I had not headed-off the denunciation and, with a false piece of news, led the spy on a false trail, so that earlier today half of the Swiss troops were turned off toward the Calabrian mountains?"
"Yes, that is true." murmured some voices.
"And what will they meet in Calabria?" continued Pietro il Sasso. "No-one! Or at most some of those unworthy highway robbers, such as always live in those mountains." -- --
The mood in the meeting moved as favorably for Pietro as it had been earlier unfavorable.
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"And yet I become slandered, accused!" he continued; "oh I know the reason for it. I know who among you take on the great cause of the liberation of our Fatherland from unworthy influence, only as a pretext, in order to proceed as the Calabrese! I know that in the hiding-places of the mountains your accomplices have your booty! That they practice robbing and plundering with those commoners! -- But I want" and here, with a fearsome glance and raised voice, he took a step forward into the circle, "but I want to hold them accountable, so that you all should stiffen the marrow in the membership!"
He stood like an imperious king among the crowd; everyone silent in uneasy tension. His eye, sparkling as that of a Lion, pierced those who had an evil conscience. Defiantly, carelessly he threw back his head and spoke: "That is what I came to say to you. Not in order to share in your bad counsel, (nor) to support your unfortunate steps. -- Now I must again go away. I invite you however for tomorrow evening to our inn. Not all of you, rather only the leaders. There are things going forward which threaten greater danger than has come before. Be [............] be complete to the place, to where we have to direct our strength in these next days; there you shall receive my orders and carry them out or I will throw the power with which you have clothed me before your feet, [and] leave you to your fate. -- That is [would be?] your ruin. I however know what I have further to do, for myself, and regarding the business which I overheard."
With these words he proudly turned his back to the meeting and walked out of the church.
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Chapter Eight
The last lamps in the garden and Palace Monteleone were extinguished. The tired servants gave themselves to rest. Deep stillness and darkness ruled where shortly before the brilliant life of pleasure had moved loudly in these rooms. The night already began to flee before the morning whose robe gleamed-up over the sea in the first pale stripe of dawn. --
Bianca's heart had been pounding the moment the deep quiet settled in, and with nervous attention she observed and followed every quiet noise which she could hear in the garden and palace. It had been a quarter-hour since the last foot-step had faded; since the last light-gleam died in the servants' rooms. Behind the dark shrubbery of the orange-trees, hydrangea and oleander which were transplanted in pots on her balcony, and whose wide-leafed umbrella was decorated with fragrant blossoms, she stood and peered into the garden below where in the bushes an impenetrable darkness ruled. Her ear had to be of more service than her eye in order to notice an approach. Now she could hear careful, muffled steps; she leaned over the parapet listening, her head completely hidden in dark greenery. There stepped a cloaked figure out of the deep shadows of the next bushes in the garden, and approached with careful steps. "Bianca," it whispered softly, but audibly through the deep holy quiet of the night.
"Who approaches," she called down. --
"You know who," whispered the voice back up. "If you are alone, dearest, and your scruples do not turn me away, I will be by you in a few moments."
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"For the sake of all that is sacred - if someone discovers us," breathed Bianca's voice.
"Begrudge me only a few minutes, -- only a word" answered Sestoni softly, yet with an expression of the warmest pleading. He did not wait for her 'Yes'; it was enough that she did not say 'No.'
To Bianca's mixed astonishment and fright, Sestoni was at the top in a few moments, using a rope which was fastened to the iron railing, Bianca knew not how, and which went down along a column toward the garden. "Forgive me, beloved" he said when he had reached the parapet, "I had [to make this] visit, which the happiness of my life determined, prepared for." --
"Holy Mary, if we were discovered" -- -- cried Bianca softly and stepped backward, while he carefully swung himself over the railing and pushed through the blooming bushes.
"No-one will discover us, Most-gracious [one], Sweetness," whispered Sestoni with the tenderest tone of love, while he took the hand of the shy one and pressed her lips, "forgive me only my audacity -- but it was [clear] to me there was no choice left to us. I had guessed your heart -- I had to prove it," he continued softly, "I was certain of you."
Bianca felt touched as by a shiver of fear, through this certain, dominant manner of the man to whom she had consecrated her heart, the power he practiced over her, his superiority frightened her, but at the same time filled her with admiration and increased the degree and the sweetness of her love.
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Sestoni spoke so warmly, so ravishingly, so overwhelmingly, [yet] so mildly at the same time; his boldness was so firm, and moreover the extent to which he held her, so securely, that a few minutes sufficed to make Bianca's feminine, humble, love-enflamed heart his absolute property. Both gave themselves to the sweet intoxicating stream of blissful-love there; they swayed on the delightful lap of its waves. Lips to lips, heart to heart; they made here the oath which was to indissolvably bind them. -- Yet as the fateful word was escaping Bianca's lips, it frightened her, and [she] saw the abyss which opened before their feet. -- Sestoni consoled her with manly strength. "If you trust in me I shall be the only leader and protector of your life, -- if you do not sway between me and a father who never loved you, who half-disowned you: so will your trust be rewarded. I must step toward you with open truth. I am not the Marquis Sestoni. I am the free son of luck, of the determined deed. I feel the power of the world and control destiny, through my own arm, to win what chance has not thrown to me. It changes little if it were otherwise, if I could lay the name of Marquis in the scales. Your father would be nevertheless be our implacable enemy -- I know him better than you suspect! And I must be, and stay, his opponent" he added gloomily.
"My father" she answered with a sigh, "I know it, -- -- yet my mother, my dear mother!" she added in a pained tone.
"I would be a protection and a support for her especially, if I independently walk the road of life with you, and prepare a future for her which will keep her content and happy."
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"And my brother?" asked Bianca timidly.
"I know him little, -- -- yet what I have heard of him left me hopeful that he would be more our friend than our opponent. In every case I would know to act so that he would have to respect me, if he does not also wish to love me. And would you in the extreme case sway between me and your brother?"
Bianca fell against his heart. -- The morning dawned; its light could become light to the traitor. -- The lovers had to separate. The same place would be decided at the meeting the next night; in addition they arranged to look carefully for each other in a third circumstance, by the open visit of the house through the Marquis Sestoni! and no signal would [they] let go for one another to be lost. So they parted, in the moment of separation most devoutly united.. --
A flower which on the bank of a dark, deep stream unfolds, must be expectant of threat and danger through its elevated undulation. So the love of Bianca and Sestoni. -- Already in the next night he announced to her that political circumstances forced him to separate from her for some time, to leave Naples. "This removal" he said mysteriously hinting, "will only be a by-way through which we will securely and quickly reach our destinations!" -
Nevertheless Bianca stayed behind in dreadful fear, especially since Sestoni could not give the time of his returning. --
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That her marriage with Sir Edward Darlington could be carried-out in the meantime she did not have to worry, since that should take place after the English way with great, stiff, ceremony, in the presence of many relatives, and the difficulties that that entailed, put it out a wide period. Also the Lord and Lady had returned to Rome. -- Only already in the next days another circumstance entered which filled Bianca with the greatest fright. Her father announced, curtly, dryly, without preparation, imperiously as he looked after her and her mother, that she in the following days would embark on a great journey.
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"Egg Harbor Observer"
printed and distributed by L. Bullinger
Thursday, 7th April 1859.
Right and Truth will prevail.
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Since almost every member more or less will be aware, that from certain sides nothing will be untried, to spoil and exploit this vote, as well as in order to obtain their own plans or seizures of offices, so it is now the time, that each shareholder, who with true interest is attached to their future homeland, who seeks to reach with his welfare also his comrades', this so important period considers well, in order to give no action his vote, which he would later deeply regret, -- that each one, before he makes his firm opinion, considers, that so many thousands, to whom such magnificently begun plans belong, will be affected thereby.
We have all had opportunity enough to observe the progress of our settlement, which is really inviolable; we have further enough proofs, what circumspection, what business-knowledge, and what self-sacrifice it requires to manage such a plan, and [we] can from this easily come to a conclusion, that men, who to us so far and only to our benefit and advantage have managed and run the colony, that such leaders are also alone in their class, who manage so magnificent and extensive plan to [the] end [of] everyone's satisfaction.
Concerning improvements of the plans and of the Constitution shall we should however just the same be considered and no opportunity can be walked past unused, improvements, from which one enjoyed safe experience, that they stand in the harmony of the great cause, and all those concerned should be beforehand properly tested and will consider only the progress of the colony as practical, which neither for Party nor for individual persons, aiming neither for self-interest nor for office-huntsmanship, rather should only be dedicated alone to the community-welfare.
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Regular Meeting
of the
Directors of the Gloucester Farm-
and Town Association
in the
Excursion Hall,
the 4th April 1859.
Present were the gentlemen: Dr. H. Schmöle, Dr. W. Schmöle, F. Clever, P. M. Wolsieffer and Prof. F. A. Rose. -- After opening of the session by Dr. W. Scmöle, the minutes were read out in German and English and accepted.
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Report of the Market Committee.
Therefore it is the view of your committee that the first Market-House in accordance with the original plans, should be built on Steuben Place, but that, one will act completely in the future interests of the citizenry if one presently reserves, at several different appropriate locations of the city-grounds, half- or whole-blocks for construction of Market-Houses, in order not to come to embarrassment because of lack of places for Market-purposes in the future. To these purposes we propose that the following not-yet-sold whole or half-blocks be excluded from sale as building plots and reserved for future Market-places.
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| 1. | One half block on the northwest side of Liverpool Av., between Claudius and Diesterweg Streets. |
| 2. | The half block situated between the two aforementioned Streets on the southeast side of Havana Avenue. |
| 3. | The whole block between Follen and Göthe Streets and between Buffalo and Chicago Av. |
| 4. | The half block situated on the northwest side of Liverpool Av. between Itzstein and Kant Streets. |
| 5. | The half block situated between the two last-named Streets, on the southeast side of Havana Av. |
| 6. | The half block situated on the northwest side of Liverpool Av. between Pindar and Quantz Streets. |
| 7. | The half block situated between the two last-named Streets on the southeast side of Havana Street. |
| 8. | The whole block situated between Buffalo and Chicago Av. and between Schelling and Schiller Streets. |
| 9. | The half block situated on the northwest side of Liverpool Av. between Umbreit and Vogler Streets. |
| 10. | The half block situated between thee two last-named Streets on the southeast side of Havana Av. |
| 11. | The whole block between Buffalo and Chicago Av. and between Xenophon and Xylander Streets. |
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H. Schmöle, F. A. Röse, F. Clever, |
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This report became accepted with both points and at the same time more particularly decided, that the first-named two blocks, the one on the north side of Liverpool Av., between Claudius and Diesterweg Streets, the other situated between these two streets on the north side of Havana Av., appointed as for the first-of-all needed Market-places, shall be brought neither for sale nor for lottery.
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Report on the Sale of the Association Houses.
The terms of purchase will be very favorable for the buyers, and will only require relatively small deposits. -- For the outstanding capital such terms of several years can be given, so that the payments will fall lightly. -- As soon as the initial stipulated deposit is made, the buyers receive [a] good claim-free bill-of-sale, giving however mortgages for the outstanding sums.
The buildings are collectively, with small exceptions, made of brick-stones, and are so furnished, that the dwellings can serve comfortably for two or three families.
The sale will take place through auction over the course of the summer, whereupon then certain minimum-prices will become fixed, under which they can not become bargained down. -- In order, however, to give anyone who already wants to buy beforehand opportunity to acquire one or another of these properties, so shall to them will be permitted under the terms given further below.
The building plots on which the buildings stand will be sold, naturally, with the same other landed properties, however, are bound only with the buildings, by which the same are specifically stated in the description following below.
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Description of the Buildings for Sale and of the grounds respectively belonging to the same, together with the Conditions for the respective Public or Special-sale of the same.
| 1) | The social/[community] hotel-building, named "Egg Harbor City Hotel", twenty room and large well-walled cellar-room included. The front consists of a of a three-story center-hall with two two-story wings, on Atlantic Av., through which the Philadelphia-Atlantic Railroad runs, and which lies directly opposite of the Post-road leading toward May's Landing and southern New Jersey. The rear extension consists of a one-story kitchen and a long two-story building of furnished sleeping-rooms. The two main floors of the front house are of brick-stone, the remaining parts of the hotel are made of wood-frame. To this hotel belongs a comfortable enclosed courtyard and an enclosed and well-cultivated garden, so that the whole grounds together with the building-plot takes in the front of Atlantic Avenue between London and Washington Avenues and a depth along Boston and Washington Avenues of 320 feet, thus amounts to more than a half block.
The minimum-price for the sale in public auction will be fixed at $5500, and so at least $1500 must be paid in as first payment. The rest can [remain] several years on mortgage. If, however, bids are made beforehand, which shall not be under $6000, with a first payment of from $1000 to $2000, so can be concluded following the approval of the Directors of the sale.
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Two dwellings built next to one another built of brick-tile-stone, 2- 1/2 story high and roofed with roof-tile, situated on the northwest side of Liverpool Av., between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Streets. Each of these houses includes six rooms, a comfortable cellar and an added-on kitchen built of wood-frame. The building-plots on which they stand are fenced-in and each have a front of forty feet on the seventy foot-wide side-street. To each of these houses belongs a premium-garden next to the town twice the size of the building plots. The fixed minimum-price for each of these two houses with appurtenances in public auction is $800, with at least $250 as a first installment. Before-hand however, bids of at least $850, with a first installment from $200 to $250, will be considered and after the approval of the Directors accepted. | |||
| 3) | Two dwellings built next to one another, similar to the previous, identically high and likewise covered with roof-tiles the, on the southeast side of Liverpool Av., situated between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Streets. The furnishing of the same is those similarly dwellings mentioned under No. 2. It lacks however the kitchen building. -- Each building plot is also fenced in and 40 feet in the front on the 70-foot wide Liverpool Avenue and 150 feet in depth or length up to a 30-foot wide side street. -- To each of the two houses belongs also a premium-garden next to the town twice the size of the building-plots. The fixed minimum-price for each of these two houses with appurtenances in public auction is $750 with a first installment of at least $250. -- Beforehand however bids of at least $800 with a first installment of $200 until $250 will be considered and on the approval of the Directors accepted.
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| 4) | Two dwellings totally similar to those named under No. 3 on the northwest side of the 100-foot wide Philadelphia Av., situated between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Street, with equally large fenced building-plots and just the same size premium-gardens. The fixed minimum-price for each of these two houses with appurtenances in public auction is $780, with a first payment of at least $250. -- Beforehand however bids will be considered from at least $830, with a first installment of $200 to $250 and on the approval of the Directors accepted. | |||
| 5) | Two dwellings just the same similarly built next to each other made of brick-tile-stone and covered with roof-tiles on the southeast side of Philadelphia Av., situated between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Streets. Each of these houses includes six rooms and a comfortable cellar. The building-plots, on which they stand, are fenced-in and have a front of forty feet on the 100-foot wide Philadelphia Av. and a length or depth of 150 feet up to a 30-foot wide side street in back.. -- To each of these houses belongs a premium-garden next to the town twice the size of the building-plots. The building-plots of the two houses are connected and include on the rear street a community Stall. These two houses along with appurtenances shall be sold together and the minimum-price for both together in public auction is on $1600 fixed, with $500 as first installment. Beforehand however, bids of at least $1700 with a first installment of $400 to $500 will be considered, and on the approval of the Directors accepted. However also appropriate bids for each individually of the two houses will be properly considered.
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| 6) | Two dwellings built next to each other made of brick-tile-stone 2 1/2 floors high covered with roof-tiles, situated on the northwest side of Cincinnati Av., between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Str. on the public Place, opposite from which the Excursion-hall stands. Each of these houses includes six rooms and a comfortable cellar. The building-plots, on which these houses stand are fenced-in and have each a front of forty feet on the 70-foot wide Cincinnati Av. and a depth or length of 150 f. up to a 30-floor wide side-street in back. To each of these houses belongs a premium-garden next to the city twice the size of the building plots. The fixed minimum-price for each of the two houses with appurtenances in public auction is $780, with at least $250 as first installment. Before-hand however bids of at least $830, with a first installment of $200 to $250 will be considered and on approval of the Directors accepted. | |||
| 7) | Ten dwellings situated on the southeast side of the main railroad, namely two on the northwest side of Cincinnati Av., two on the southeast side of Philadelphia Av., two on the northwest side of Philadelphia Av., two on the southeast side of Liverpool Av. and two on the northwest side of Liverpool Avenue, each two built together, 2 1/2 floors high and made of brick-tile-stone. -- Each of these houses has six rooms and a comfortable cellar. The building-plots on which they stand, have each a front of 40 feet on the corresponding avenue and a depth of 150 feet. The minimum-price for each of these houses in public auction is established at $550 with a first installment of at least $200. Beforehand however, bids will be considered of at least $600, with a first installment of at least $150 to $200 and on approval of the directors accepted.
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| 8) | One forge and wagon-workshop built of brick-tile-stones, situated on the southeast side of London Av., between Atlantic Av. and Agassiz Street. The building-plots on which these solidly made buildings stand has a front of 80 feet on the 70-foot-wide London Av. and a depth or length of 150 feet up to a 30-foot wide side-street in the rear.
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| 9) | A still unfinished building made of brick-tile-stones almost two stories high, with a width or front of 33 feet on London Av. and of a length or side-front on Agassiz Str. of 50 feet. The building is, with a roomy basement and with an arrangement for the furnishing of a steam-engine, prepared and suitable to various factory-purposes. The plot on which it stands, encompassing two ordinary building plots, has thus a front of 80 feet on the 70-foot wide London Av., and a depth of 150 feet along the 60 f. wide Agassiz Street up to a 30 f. wide side-street in the rear. The minimum-price to which these buildings with the indicated grounds, as is stands, in public auction will [be] limited, is $750, with a first installment of at least $200. Beforehand however, bids will be considered of at least $800 with a first installment of $150 to $200 and on approval of the Directors accepted. |
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For further details one [can] write to the Secretary of the Association.
On behalf of the directors,
| P. M. Wolsiffer, F. Clever, H. Schmöle, |
| Committee.
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Report of the Superintendent[s?]
The planting of lively hedges around the first outside [moved?] Farm-blocks with pallisade-fences progressed also.
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Now I would like to advise, that the means, which in the pursuit of the regular system of the distribution-plans in the stated way become free, on the farms which the first settlers would like to use, which admittedly stand far back perhaps in the sequence, but for which quick improvement would be decidedly beneficial to the interests of the Association.
Since, however, such out of sequence of which proceed extensive improvements more or less remote farms, much more difficult and with greater cost with brick-tile-stone houses would be built, than with timbered houses, so would (I) such cases the construction of the latter up to the same cost-amounts, as [bridge/brick?]-houses, decidedly be recommended.
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Since, however, to proceed out of the established order with extensive improvements on more or less remote farms would be more difficult and more expensive, with brick, rather than with timber, I would decidedly recommend that for such cases the construction be done with the latter [timber] up to the same cost-amounts as brick(bridge?)-houses.
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In order to be completely safe in these matters, would like it to get into to be, to present the touched-upon points at the next General Meeting for decision.
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With respect to some of the Superintendents [remitting?] further improvements of streets, both on the land and in the town, [it] can at present merely be reported, that every care will be spent upon them, which is possible, in order to go about them as soon as the in-progress works [] as become completed, in order to be able to apply a part of our power there.
With respect to the brick factories I must remark that it would be desirable, if they passed into private-hands. It would be best, to offer it out publicly for sale. Perhaps individuals of means, or small businesses would be found, who would be inclined, to run such businesses. -- It does not lie in the plan of our Association, to operate any businesses which private-undertakings can carry-out. The highest goal of our union of powers exists therein, to carry out what for individuals [is] not [a] possibility so and long and so far, until the private-powers of individuals are adequate to act, alone and independent. To this principle we have adhered up to now with all community businesses, and the same must serve us also further there to the proper level. Only should we with all the greatest care practice, in order not to fall into difficulties and embarrassments through hastiness.
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| 1. | The point concerning the premium-houses, drafted in proper form, shall be presented to the General Meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 3. | The sale of the brick factories shall be referred to the committee on community buildings. The letters received from New York and Buffalo concerning modifications to the Constitution were handed over [to/by?] Dr. W. Schmöle for publication to the homesteads. Several requests were referred to the committees concerned. There being no further business the meeting was adjourned.
Copy.To the Philadelphia branch of the Gloucester Farm and Town Association in Philadelphia.
Enclosed we send to you 5 copies of Law-suggestions and mondifications. We ask you, to make all members on your plots acquainted with it, also your preparations for the next General Meeting to meet. You bind us well, if you immediately inform us of the results; meanwhile our brotherly-greeting.
* * Buffalo, 9th March 1859. The Buffalo branch of the Gloucester Farm and City Association to all participants of the Gloucester Farm and City Association.Friends! In our mutual interest we choose this way, to bring the following to the general awareness in still enough time to induce you, if you share our views, to unite with us to effect, that at the next general meeting in May of this year to modify our constitution in some points, namely: 1) In the approaching election of officials, it would be wished that at each place where an Agent of a branch of the G. L. u. Town Assoc. exists, would nominate a candidate out of the membership from among their midst, who shall run for one of the following official posts. It goes without saying, that the membership [of ?] each branch or Agent-location [shall/must?] choose men, who can be completely trusted and possess the required knowledge, in order to be able to hold each post. -- Our delegates and the present members eligible to vote will then elect the necessary twelve officers out of the nominated candidates through majority of votes in the general meeting.
2) All offices officials shall live in Egg Harbor City for the duration of their term. 3) The entire slate of official posts shall consist of twelve paid positions, namely: 5 Directors: 1 President, 1 Secretary, 1 Treasurer, 1 Superintendent of Improvements, etc., 1 Architect, 1 then: Assistant of the Secretary, etc., 6 Administrative Counselors. 4) All Offices shall be paid, and to be precise, each director shall receive $1000--, for the Superintendent, since his position demands, for the large extent of the settlement, horse and wagon, shall receive for that $300 extra, -- for the Assistant of the Secretary $500, -- and each Administrative Counselor $500 -- per year. 5) Brick-yards, Association houses, Hotel and Association gardens etc., shall be sold on a suitable occasion.
7) The treasury shall be moved from Philadelphia to Egg Harbor City and the treasurer shall be directed to make his payments in cash, not in "Due Bills" as has mostly been the case up to now. 8) Henceforth, there shall be no fence-posts up to [xx?] Cent per piece, fence-rails up to 1- 1/2 Cent per piece and of other building wood sold, rather, these are to be used for the fencing-in of the farms, etc.. 9) There shall be no more travelling Commissioners. If the Directors, as an exception, find it best to attend single meetings, then qualified men should be chosen out of our midst and the same shall pay the expenses. 10) The 6 percent premium, which was imposed upon the farmers of our association, who have built their houses and had fences made, shall be struck. (No-one will want to pay interest for a succession of years on his own money.) On the contrary, it can be seen that it is those farms which shall be at first fenced in and provided with houses, that will presently come into cultivation.
On behalf of the Buffalo branch of the Gloucester Farm and Town Association. George Elsheimer, President. Peter Minkler, Secretary.
To the Buffalo Branch of the Gloucester Farm and Town Association.Your published circular and written request, concerning certain of your composed suggestions to the alteration of the Constitution of the Gloucester Farm and Town Association, have we taken under consideration and have come to the following conclusions to answer you:
The persons who as Farm-share-holders of this Association banded-together and with their capital have bought the whole ground-territory, are alone responsible for the whole undertaking, are thus alone entitled to vote -- these persons have joined in the trust, on the well-known call, and the reliability and the responsibility of the founders of our Association and Settlement. In this trust are the least of all members in Philadelphia joined in this great and honorable undertaking. We regard it as very daring, [and] strange to entrust to unknown and unproven men the work, which through the talent, the energy, the business-knowledge, and perseverance, as well as also, through the acknowledged civic positions, of our leaders, has been created and carried out up to the present great and generally admirable development.
From this suggestion No. 2 it seems to come out clearly, that this desired modification to the Constitution does not come from farm-share-holders [themselves], and that those farm-share-holders who have advocated it, must not know that it would require their own disqualification. The city-share-holders in Philadelphia are content, that the city-affairs of Egg Harbor City, for which they are concerned alone [which is their only concern?], will be administered by the officers legally chosen annually by the citizens, namely the Mayor, Common Council and so forth of Egg Harbor City. They do not presume to direct the share-holders, how they should arrange their Association-concerns. And the farm-share-holders in Philadelphia can not double themselves, to exclude themselves from the eligibility for offices in their own Association. To 3. and 4. If our Association was managed in such a frivolous and extravagant manner, so would it be long since, that all such undertakings were consumed by the officers. To 5. and 6. These are current administrative measures which thus do not belong in the Constitution. They are, moreover, also already fixed through appropriate negotiations of the Directors.
To 9. This point seems to be based on complete ignorance of the duties of the traveling commissioners. We do not believe that any farm- or city-shareholders of our Association would exist in Buffalo if the traveling commissioners had not gone there to explain and promote the cause. The same can be said of all of the states west of Buffalo. Now, however, the Association is far from finished with their activities. Not only do they still have a number of farm-shares to sell, which admittedly, had already been sold, but have come back, but they still have over 12,000 city-shares to sell. As now the Buffaloers and others have not come for themselves in order to participate, so also are there still many thousands of Germans, who once they are better acquainted with our great cause, [and?] will arrange to participate, if a skillful and flexible traveling commissioner comes to them and presents in clear speech and a lively description of our enterprise.
On behalf of the Philadelphia Branch
Miscellaneous.The Investigation of the Sickles’ MurderThe trial of the honorable Daniel Sickles began last Monday the 4th of April of this year in Washington, D. C. We hear that the next issue of Frank Leslie’s “Illustrated Newspaper,” No. 86, will be adorned with a magnificent drawing of the courtroom going over two pages. The same will describe all of the scenes of the investigation. We are to be assured that the woodcut will be one of the most beautiful which has appeared in the “Illustrated Newspaper” and is made by the finest artists. The newspaper will, in addition, contain very many illustrations and excellent reading material. Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper” is available from all newspaper sellers. A fresh consignment of fruit-trees: Mr. W. Darmstadt has obtained [in] the recent days a second, still greater shipment of excellent fruit-trees; no should neglect to provide themselves from it at the right time.
Aurora Saloon – The same was opened in the last week and has really exceeded all expectations. The tasteful décor gave to the [ ] lunch double spice. The Messrs. W. Doane & Co., owners of the saloon had on this occasion many of the better-known of the area, as well as, also, six members of an American Singing Society of Philadelphia on a visit. AnnouncementsSeed Shop
of
Philadelphia Av., between Atlantic Av., and Agassiz Str
Narigans Chemical Fertilizeris prepared and ready for sale by
The same will also at the same time give free instructions for use on request.Announcement Due to modifications to my shop and in order to quickly clean-up, I am selling my stock of wares, consisting of Fancy Goods, Calicos, Whites, as well as yarns and woolen-ware, below cost, which I hereby bring to the attention of the honored public.
Daily Poster-NoticeDue to popular demand of area citizens and businesspeople we will, from next Monday on, make available a daily Poster-notice in which all announcements of private or business-people to the estimated cheapest prices, recorded and which will be noticed daily in all public places. Furthermore, this will bring such daily events which need to be spread quickly and in every way to all residents, especially, however, to the competing business-people seeking to act profitably. Further details on this will be in the contents of the announcement.
Advertisements.Farms and City-lots.All those who wish to buy or trade can view the conditions of any of them in the book in my office. Likewise owners of farms or city lots who want to sell them will find through me a secure opportunity to manage the sale. Since I am thoroughly acquainted with the entire terrain of the Gloucester Farm and Town Association I can give every buyer the safest information on the location and condition of the different pieces of ground.
a) The numbers of the blocks are the new ones. b) The premiums for farms and farm-share lots can be seen in the report of the Assessment and Distribution Commission and must be paid separately. c) The garden-block numbers begin with Turner Park (no. 1) and count up to the Little Egg Harbor River (51 blocks), then on the northeast side fo the city from Wieland Street (Block 52), and counting up to the Camden and Atlantic Railroad. Singers Park is Block 95.
C. Broeder & H. Geltzer,
Significant Price Reduction.Ship-contracts from Bremen or Hamburg to New York.By Steamship with good dining in the between-decks for persons over 8 years $39. = = under 8 = 19.50 By Sail-ship for persons over 10 years $28. for persons under 10 years $24
The tickets issued by G. Schmidt and Co. are valid for one year.
Heinrich Welsch'sGuest-house of the White Swan,No. 2052 Coates & 21st Str., Phil.The worthy guests can always expect the best drink and food, good beds and friendly hospitality for travelers and boarders.
Dutch Herring, Anchovies, Limburger and Swiss Cheese always in stock.Mrs. Babette Hoffmann,Fancy Goods Store,recommends to the honored public her extensive warehouse of German felt shoes and felt boots -- French calicos in the newest patterns, whites, all sorts of thread and English needles, as well as a large choice of German yarn and woolen wares.
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ELIZABETH MEISTER
Milliner,
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Maria Kaufholz,
Licensed Midwife
Corner of St. Louis Av. & Beethoven Str.,offers her services to local women; those who give to her their trust can be assured that she will always observe, as per the midwife’s sworn oath, to fulfill her duty truly.
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Manufactures all sorts of boots and shoes and recommends his constant supply at the cheapest prices.
F. Sautter,
Agent of the American Mutual Fire and MarineInsurance Co.
Agent. Policy-writer.
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Christoph Pultz,
T A I L O RPhiladelphia Av., between Atlantic Av. & Agassiz Str.
Agency.
G. Schmidt & Comp.,
Chatham Bank, New York,
most commendable well-known Ocean Packets-Transport, money-, shipping- & Exchange business.
1) Packets of all kinds, valuables and money will be transported weekly by post-steamer to several places in Germany, Switzerland and so forth, freely to address, compared to postal certificates and warranty. [Help!!]
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3) Passage-Tickets for the Bremer Post-Steamer to Europe; further ship-contracts, good for one year for the crossing from Bremen and Havre to New York on Steamers and Sailing ships.
Further information will be given by the Agent
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Christian Glenk, Philad. Avenue. |
German Guesthouse
at"Stadt Augsberg" of Leonhard Buck
No. 401 North Front Str., corner of Callowhill,
Philadelphia.
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Jos. Schinnen,
Shoemaker,
Chicago Av., between Agassiz & Arago Str.August Seibt,
Bricklayer,
Cincinatti Av., between Agassiz & Arago Street,Window Shades.
| V. Leichert No. 437 Vierte Str., New York [damaged, possibly Newark] |
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August Meister,
Manufacturer and Seller of Cigars and Tobacco, in Large and Small [Quantities],
Corner of Bürger Str. and Philadelphia Avenue.
Building Material Shop
ofJulius Garnich,
South Atlantic Avenue between Liverpool & Philada. Av.,| G |
Henry Schumacher,
Agent of theEgg Harbor Building and Loan Association,
Office, Egg Harbor City Hotel.John Quick,
Housecarpenter and Furniture-maker,
Philadelphia Avenue, between Agassiz & Arago-Street.
Georg Sauerbrey,
Brick-layer and Plasterer
Corner of Cincinatti Avenue & Bürger-Street.| G |
William Jäckel,
Hair Dressing & Shaving Saloon
Philadelphia Av., between Atlantic & Agassiz Str.,recommends himself for tooth extraction, vein-letting and cupping.
Wilhelm Kusche,
House carpenter,
Corner of St. Louis and Agassiz-Street,| G |
Adam Stoffel,
Farrier and Carriage Shop,
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Corner of Cincinnati & Beethoven-Street,
recommends himself for orders and repairs of garden and agricultural tools.
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Heinrich Neuhaus,
Restaurant and Bakery.
Corner of Philadelphia & Atlantic Av., next to the Rail Road Depot.| G |
FrancisSheet-Metal andLiverpool Av. between |
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recommends his always-stocked store of parlor-, store- and cooking-ovens, [other] ovens, cooking-crockery as well as all tin-ware, and undertakes all metal-work to building as well as repairs to the above-mentioned articles.
Daniel Har,
Restaurant and Lager-Beer-Salon,
Corner of Philadelphia Av. and Agassiz Str.| G |
EGG HARBOR CITY HOUSE
ofWilhelm Postoll,
Philadelphia Avenue.August Heil,
Family-Grocery, Liquor and Feed,Philadelphia Av., between Agassiz and Arago-Street.
Lager-beer Salon
ofCharles Lehmann,
Philadelphia Av., between Agassiz & Arago Str.| G |
William Brill,
TAILOR,
between Philadelphia Av., next to Arago Str.,Tobias Broeder,
HOUSECARPENTER,
Tobias Broeder.
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Guesthouse of John J. Fritschy,
atSchweizer Halle,
Cincinatti Avenue, between Agassiz & Arago Str.
The same undertakes piece-work for construction under promise of a high-quality execution and at acceptable prices.Louis Ertell,
Family-Grocery,
Liverpool Avenue, between Atlantic & Agassiz Str.| G |
M. Myers,
Philadelphia Av., between Atlantic Av. & Agassiz Str.,
Customer’s-work and repairs will be carried out punctually at the lowest prices.
C. L. Kallenberg's Hotel,
No. 441 & 443 North Ninth Street, above Noble,Dr. Eugene Schoening,
recommends his famous manufactured Swedish bitters.North-east corner of 4th and Wharten Str., Philadelphia.
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Music-Hall
ofF. Baltz,
No. 457 North 3rd Str., Philadelphia, Meals in extensive selection, warm or cold at each time of day.Henry Miller's Hotel,
No. 720 and 722 Vine Str.,next door to the Gloucester Farm & Town-Association, Philadelphia.
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Wallpapers! Wallpapers!
We maintain constantly a Commission-Stock of pretty wallpaper and trim, which we sell at the cheapest city-prices. For the manufacture of the finest sundry- and gold-wallpapers, and so forth, are the necessary facilities assembled.
The Store is found on Cincinnati Avenue & Agassiz Street.To the pleasant purchase and order recommend themselves
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225 Dollars.
Ask for further details at the farm itself or from Mr. Louis Ertell, Liverpool Av., Egg Harbor City.
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"Aurora."
Eating and Lager-Beer Saloon,
or in the Shell. -- A. No. 1 Lager-Beer, choicest
Brands of Cigars always on hand. -- Don’t forget the "AURORA," corner Philadelphia and Atlantic Av.
Free Lunch every day from 10 to 11 O'clock.| William H. Doane. James McDonald. |
New York HotelofLouis Kühnle,Restaurant, Wine- and Lager-beer-Salon, Corner of Liverpool and Atlantic Avenue, vis a vis the Railroad Depot. |
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German
Art- and Handelsgärtnerei
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We take on everything art-gardenry adapted jobs in city-land together with which with such installations involving fences, pleasure-houses, shaded-walks, water-equipment and likewise, and ensure besides the most acceptable contracts, quickly, punctually and quality execution which after wish self manufactured plans.
We take in, in the full consciousness that our deliveries and works themselves will earn the trust of the honored public, all further recommendation. -- Since we want to live on the [obenbez.] the next farm, so will we especially announce the future location of our warehouse in one of the next papers. For the gentleman farmer’s environment also, we have on hand seeds, etc, on the farm No. 374.
Ph. H. Kleiber & D. Gaupp. |
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German
Seed Shop.
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We, herewith, make known to the honored public that this year we have given every effort, to provide the best sorts of vegetable, flower and grain-seeds. |
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Tourny & Koempel, No. 227 North 2nd Street, between Race & Vine, Philadelphia. |
This seed-shop is situated next to the Vine-Street-Ferry.
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German Seed-Shop
ofHeinrich A. Dreer,
No. 327 Chestnut Str., Philadelphia.All seeds are packed in little packets and [stand?] each buyer catalogs with price-lists to service, where-in mainly the instructions for use are given exactly.
At the same time I have always a large stock of agricultural and garden tool-selection.
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For Sale: Around the sale price, the farm No. 79, which is specially priced, because of the good location.
Further details ask of Frank Bierwirth St. Louis Av: between Bürger & Campe Str.
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German and English
Book
Philadelphia Av., |
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print-shop
Corner of Arago Str. |
Handbills, Constitutions, Programs,
Ball-Tickets, Business-cards, Warrants,
Visiting-cards, Pamphlets, Invitations,
Circulars etc., etc.
Louis Bullinger.
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English & German
Printing Office
ByLEWIS BULLINGER,
Philadelphia Av., corner Arago Street.Pamphlets, Circulars, Cards, Showbills,
Billheads, Handbills, Constitutions,
Labels, Price-Currents &c. &c,
Carefully and promptly done at very reasonable terms. Lewis Bullinger.| G |
Departures and Arrivals
of theRailroad Train
from 1. March of this year on.| Dep. from here to Camden Philada. Morn. | 5:39 |
| = = = = Aft. | 3:03 |
| Departing from Camden to here Mornings | 7:45 |
| = = = Aft. | 5:15 |
| Arrival of train from Camden Mornings | 9:58 |
| = = = Evenings | 8:24 |
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