Morristown Topics, December 1920 & January 1921
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MORRISTOWlSi TOPICS VOL I. NO, 1 MORRISTOWN, N. J., DECEMBER 31, 1920 10 CENTS COPY llBllliBIBMBIIIIBIIIlBIIIIBIlllBlBlllBIBI MllllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllMIIIIMIIIIIIIMIIIIIIJ. IBiII*! PERSONALS | I Morristown's Famous Hotel 1 1 SPORTS Morristown's Famous Hotel HBlliaillBligBIIIBIIIIBIIIIBIIIiailllBiaiBIBIU When General Leonard Wood ar- nfiiiniiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii The Morris County Golf Club rives in Morristown on Tuesday promises to be the scene of unusual evening to be the guest o£ Mr. and gayety during the year 1921, and to- Mrs. Murray H. Coggeshall, speaking gether with the neighboring Whip- later at the High School auditorium, pany River Club -will be the popular one more name will be added to the rendezvous for fashionable society list of Morristown's famous visitors. from the surrounding country. The sporting events at the two clubs will Mrs. Ida Wright Bowman, well bring to Morristown many men and known in Morristown, will begin a women devoted to sports from the course of four lectures on "Current clubs in and around the metropolitan Events" Tuesday morning, January district. 11, at the home of Mrs. Thomas W. Cauldwell. Mrs. Bowman ranks Tonight the New Year will be ush- among the best speakers in the Bast. ered in at the Golf Club by a large- club dinner-dance, followed by sup- The Rev. William Russell Bennett per. Numerous parties have already Pastor of the First Presbyterian been arranged for the dinner-dance' Church will take as theme for his scheduled for January 8. sermon Sunday morning "The re- THE CURTIS STUDIO. 154 1,2 MOBRIS STREET The club has also arranged for a organizing of a Life, a Thought for the The New jersey Hotel, famous, concomitants of splendor, pride, idle- table d'hote dinner on January 29, New Year." according to the gossip of the day, as ness and vice. Temperance is fast followed by dancing and a la carte Mr. and Mrs. Horace Work will be "the magnificent structure, an orna- becoming one of the things that supper. Informal tea parties follow- hosts at their home in Madison on ment to the town equal to A. T. were. That large building contains ing the amateur baseball ana hockey New Year's afternoon. Dancing will Stewart's up-town store, and the a bar-room for their pennies below games on the club grounds are prov- be followed by a buffet supper. finest hotel in the country," was stairs and another upstairs, for the ing very popular. The frozen lake, Following the Dutch treat dinner built by William Gibbons ot Madi- upper caste.'' beautifully situated on the club's at the Golf Club last evening, Dr. son in 1812-43. It was built facing The ground floor contained shops grounds, has become the popular and Mrs. E. Blair Sutphen enter- the park at the cost of $200,000, a facing the park. A bar stood on the meeting place for both grown-ups tained their friends at a dairee at large amount for those days, and Market street side which they called and children. The huge bonfires add the Balustrol Club. extended from the Park to Maple the "hole in the wall." a picturesque and "comforting" About one hundred guests will be avenue. The O'Hara tavern was situated on touch to the gay scene. present at Mr. and Mrs. George Mar- Mr. Gibbons owned an estate at the present site of Day's restaurant shall Allen's annual entertainment Madison and had built for his sum- in which had been held the famous The Whippany River Club, which on New Year's Day. Frank Miller of mer residence a large house which Assembly balls during the winter of has long held an important place in New York will play the organ dur- is now the Drew Seminary. 1779-80. the world of sport, will be very pop- ing the informal egg-nog party. Morristown was celebrated as a This tavern first caught fire on the ular over the holidays. All those health resort, and as the boarding Dr. Samuel Cochran, who will night ot May 5, 1846, and, although interested in shooting will be on accommodations were very inade- Morristown possessed a good fire de- leave for China next week, will hand for the informal trap shooting quate, many New York and Southern partment, even in those days, the preach at the South Street Presbyte- contest on New Year's afternoon at friends of Mr. Gibbons urged him to tavern burned to the ground. 3 o'clock. The teams will be ar- rian Church Sunday morning. erect a suitable public boarding No anxiety was felt for the New ranged from those present. In tha The Morristown High School will house with modern improvements. Jersey Hotel, as it was considered evening a buffet supper will be fol- reopen for the midwinter term Mon- The hotel was built in the same fire-proof, being built of brown lowed by unusually good music. day, January 3. style of architecture aa his own stone, brick and a copper roof. They The Peck's School will begin their house with the similar high pillars. found, however, that the fire had Many house parties are being held new term Thursday, January 5. It was first called Morris County eaten its way into the eaves under over the holidays and country estates House, then the New Jersey Hotel, the roof and the house was doomed. Mrs. Howard Darrin of Utica, N. in Bernardsville, Far Hills, Peapack but was generally alluded to as the The conductor o£ Morristown's one Y., and formerly of Morristown, is and Convent for the week-end. Th# Gibbons Hotel. To judge its size train ran his engine with two flat spending several days in New York numerous members of the Balustrol we have only to look at the remains cars to Newark, and in less than two prior to visiting Miss Catherine Club in Morris county will moto* of the stable, part of which is still hours two engines from Newark were Clarke and Miss Adelaide Maghee. their guests to the club house for standing and used as Stevenson's assisting, but the hotel was a com- luncheon on New Year's Day. There Eugene A. Hoffman and Lawrence Garage. plete wreck. will be music and dancing at the elnb Bond Romaine will return Tuesday The hotel had a wide reputation Mr. Gibbons had no insurance, and from 12 until 7 P. m. ta Williams College. tor gayety. An old letter dated May he was so indignant with the towns- Miss Sarah Marble of Worcester, 17th, 1845, states "The New Jersey people for allowing the hotel to burn Through the courtesy of John (J, Mass., has been spending several House is now in possession of M. and that he vowed that no one should Bates the next issue of MorristoWO have the use of the ground. days visiting Miss Adelaide Holme D. Crowell, two young men. Burgess Topics will publish the pictures at Maghee. having left, I prophesy that the Many ot the present inhabitants the famous champion Irish terriers, bouse will go down. I believe that can recall the ruins which were such "Blarney's Beckslde Begorra" and Miss Dorothy Dennis is spending the visitors will be fewer in number an eyesore to the town. Mr. Gibbons "Blarney's Moorlough Manns." several weeks as the guest of Mr. and than last year. Gibbons is losing allowed a high fence to be erected, Mrs. Robert G. Bosworth ot Denver. influence among our population but tor more than twenty years As time goes on, America- is *•* Before returning home Miss Dennis somewhat- They cannot milk him Morristown was forced to view these eoming more and more like Bngl*n«- will visit in Arizona. fast enough and he cannot have bis ruins on the park. in the love ot outdoor lite and In Martin L. Cato ot Boston, who own way altogether, which makes As there was but one train trorn many different ways we are Mat spent the holidays with his daugh- some things very disagreeable." New York, many ot ih« lusaiorahle shown as a uport-loving, though Htm ter and son-in-law. Rev. and Mrs. Another letter dated July 27th, people drove in their coaches, some youthful nation. Mr. Paul Moor*** Thomas W. Attridge, left tor Hot 1S4B, states "The Gibbons house _ Springs, Ve. , Wings io-town «ltteeM with all their Continued t» Page 2 Continued to Page 4 Page Two MORRISTOWN TOPICS finmatnttm topics 147 SOUTH STREET, MORRISTOWN, N.J. BE Book, Job and •B3^^^fBP^f£L»|,- • • • • • ^ LAWRENCE MERREUL Editor and Manager Commercial Printing] GERTRUDE A. NORTON Assistant Manager KlhMH i li iiiM HSTTIIW-^ '^^ w THE BANNER Publisher 16 Washington Street DECEMBER 31, 1920 w nwhrifrg? Ola SUBSCRIPTION RATSS SINGLE COPY 10 Cents SIX MONTHS $2-00 1ill i.I: * SPORT GOODS EDITORIAL j 1811111 A Happy New Year! 'I B«liili 'i'i'i From ttie new magazine "Morristown Topics" to the many friends Who by their co-operation and encouragement have made possible this lEll new publication- VICTROLAS and RECORDS It will be the constant aim of this periodical to supply a weelUy j bulletin containing the happenings of the every-day life of Morristown 17 SOUTH ST. MORRISTOWN, N. J- and vicinity, telling the whereabouts of the residents and giving a schedule •in TELEPMON I04O ef the coming lectures, meetings of a religious and philanthropic character, notices of sporting events, etc. TLe oLove picture of Scorleld Houae doorway Arrangements are being mad^ to present the readers with original is published tlirov.gk tke courtesy of Frederick and selected serial stories, novelettes, poetry, art and a column of debate W.