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For this month the population was estimated at 43,014 by John J. Rooney, Clerk of the County Board of Health.
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In the early part of March, school rooms were made in the City Hall to accommodate scholars, the schools being cramped for room.
For some time past there had been talk of having a bridge built across Newark Bay, connecting Bergen Point with Eliza- bethport, which, no doubt, would be beneficial to both places. Congressman Allan Benny introduced such a bill in Congress. This was passed by the House of Representatives on April 21, 1904. At the time of writing it had not passed the Senate.
For the year ending May 1, 1904, 7,194 feet of sewers had been laid ; 8 streets curbed and flagged ; 12,510 feet of water pipes laid, and 19 new hydrants placed.
The annual tax budget for the year 1904, as passed by the Mayor and Council, reads as follows :-
For supporting and maintaining public schools $98,596.23
For school furniture for annexes. 8,000.00
For completing four rooms for School No. 8. 4,000.00
For fences around School No. 8 1,000.00
For alteration to building now used as Workingmen's
Library for use as a school. 4,500.00
For interest on City of Bayonne bonds. 29,524.00
For interest on Road Construction bonds. 1,990.00
For interest on Refunded Road bonds.
1,575.00
For interest on Funded Assessment bonds 5,900.00
For interest on Refunded Assessment bonds. 16,580.00
For Sinking Fund Road Construction bonds.
1,200.00
For Sinking Fund Refunded Road Construction bonds
1,050.00
For Sinking Fund Refunded Assessment bonds
10,110.00
For Sinking Fund Funded Assessment Bonds.
3,540.00
For Sinking Fund Avenue D Repaving bonds. 1,000.00
For Sinking Fund Library bonds.
200.00
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For Sinking Fund for $100,000 School bonds $2,000.00
For support of Fire Department. 18,000.00
For heating public buildings and engine houses. 1,500.00
For lighting public buildings and engine houses 4,000.00
For street repairs. 19,000.00
For stable extensions and out-buildings 5,000.00
For books, stationery and prirting 6,000.00
For contingent expenses
12,000.00
For Free Public Library.
5,108.25
For concrete sidewalk for new Library
2,000.00
For Commissioner of Appeals.
I50.00
For Supervisor of Taxes 125.00
For Board of Health
2,500.00
For election and registry.
1,000.00
For installing police signal boxes 2,500.00
For police pensions. 3,025.00
For salaries of city officials. 25,400.00
For salaries of Police Department. 64,200.00
For police incidentals.
7,657.00
For lighting streets 32,500.00
For Assessment No. 245, improvement of East
Twenty-second Street, confirmed June 3, 1897 . 10,000.00
For assessment on city at large for public park. 5,500.00
Sec. 2. That the following sums be taken from the accumu- lated and current funds received for licenses for inns and taverns and restaurants and beer saloons not otherwise appropriated, and appropriated for the following purposes :-
For expenses of sprinkling streets. $2,000.00 For removal of garbage and ashes and incidental ex-
penses. 8,000.00
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For salary of Street Commissioner $2,400.00
For support of the poor.
2,000.00
For salary of Overseer of Poor 600.00
For rental of suitable premises for an armory for
Company I, Fourth Regiment, N. G. N. J. 575.00
For buildings, docks, and parks.
10,000.00
For maintenance and superintendence of fire alarm system. 1,500.00
For Bayonne Hospital
1,500.00
For insurance.
2,500.00
For support of District Court
2,000.00
Sec. 3. Eight thousand dollars to the Surveyor's Fund for salaries of the City Surveyor and his assistants, and to pay for the use of instruments, tools, implements and materials, and all other expenses of the Surveyor's Department.
Sec. 4. One thousand dollars from the Fines and Penalties Account for the purpose of paying the salary of the Recorder's Clerk, and $540 for the purpose of paying the Court Interpreter's salary.
Sec. 5. In addition to the other taxes, there shall be as- sessed and collected from every male resident of the City of Bayonne, over the age of twenty-one (21) years, $1.00 as poll tax, to be applied for the purpose of supporting and maintaining the public schools.
Sec. 6. In addition to the other taxes, there shall be as- sessed and collected such sums as shall be apportioned by the proper officials of Hudson County against the City of Bayonne for its quota of County and State tax.
,By comparing this budget with the first annual tax assess- ment, passed in 1869, the growth of the city can easily be appre- hended.
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The City Treasurer's annual report for the fiscal year ending April 30, 1904, showed the following among the disbursements :-
Salaries.
$31,189.36
Gas. 38,327.34
Newark Bay Park.
3,244.33
Free Public Library.
5,383.25 School land and buildings
20,009.30
Bayonne Hospital.
1,500.00
City Surveyor.
7,999.92
Fire Department.
8,367.35
Poor. . .
2,116.68
Street repairs.
13,139.70
Police salaries.
53,798.29
Police pensions.
1,475.04
Garbage.
7,289.72
Board of Health.
3,785.88
Buildings, docks and parks. 10,540,59
N. Y. & N. J. Water Co.
130,213.69
Construction (Water Fund) 33,894.69
Board of Education
171,140.00
Out of this last item the sum of $133,452.50 was used for salaries.
The Treasurer also reported the following cash balances on hand in the several funds, April 30, 1904 :-
Mechanics' Trust Co.
General Fund. $11,466.21
Street Fund. 3,324.76
School Fund. 3,900.58
Funded Assessment Bonds Sinking Fund. 6,711.66
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Refunded Assessment Bonds Sinking Fund $5,085.89
Water Bonds Sinking Fund. 719.35 Coupon Account. .33
Hudson County National Bank.
Improvement Fund. 12,639.98
Arrears Fund. 6,615.91
Bayonne Bonds Sinking Fund. 687.38
Road Construction Bonds Sinking Fund 2,441.88
Coupon Account. 609.49
Bayonne Bank.
Improvement Fund. 5,539.98
Arrears Fund. 1,313.42
Bayonne Trust Co.
Water Fund.
2,751.12
Refunded Road Construction Bonds Sinking Fund. . 1,567.56
Total. $65,375.50
On June 21, the Common Council passed an ordinance grant- ing permission to the New York and New Jersey Water Company to construct two water mains through the city in order to supply Staten Island. The company agreed to erect forty fire hydrants, and supply free water for fires and sprinkling. Besides this, they agreed to pay a tax of five dollars for every million gallons of water passing through to Staten Island.
At a meeting of the City fathers in the early part of August, it was thought advisable to erect a new building for Police Head- quarters. Owing to the increase in population, and the business
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at the City Hall, that building could not afford adequate accommo- dation for the city officials and their duties, apart from the offi- cials and business of the Police Department. A site was selected at the northeast corner of Avenue C and Twenty-sixth Street, and purchased for the sum of $3,850. The contract was awarded September I for the erection of a four-story brick building to cost $57,47I.
On the evening of October 29, the new Carnegie Library building was formally opened with appropriate ceremonies. Speeches were made by prominent persons, and the event may be recorded as a most notable one in the history of the city.
For the year 1904, property, real and personal, amounted to $16,314,717, an increase of $989,950 over 1903.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
A Glimpse of the City as It is To-day.
Bayonne City, now in its thirty-fifth year of existence as a city, is no longer a young, struggling suburban community with three thousand inhabitants. It has developed into a full-grown and vigorous city with a population of forty-one thousand souls, and a city of which the State of New Jersey has reason to feel proud.
To-day it has a good and efficient Volunteer Fire Depart- ment, consisting of six steam engines, two hook and ladder trucks, and two hose companies, averaging about sixty men each. The Department is recognized by the New York underwriters to be one of the best volunteer forces in the vicinity of New York.
The Post Office Department has eighteen mail carriers, and three deliveries are made in the business sections.
The city is well policed. The Police Department consists of fifty men, all told. This includes a chief, two captains, six ser- geants, three detectives, four roundsmen, thirty-three patrolmen and one van driver. A new police signal system has recently been installed, and a separate building for Police Headquarters is in course of erection.
The school system has improved considerably. There are eight schools, one high school and one evening school, as well as five annexes and several parochial and private schools.
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There is one hospital, which has an ambulance to answer calls for aid to the injured. Both electric and gas lights illumin- ate the streets. Most of the streets have been flagged and curbed, some macadamized and asphalted. A complete system of sewers has been established. Splendid drinking water is obtained from the Passaic River above Little Falls, where it is free from pollu- tion. There are three banking and trust companies, three build- ing and loan associations, two daily and two weekly newspapers, one hundred secret, benevolent and miscellaneous societies, twenty-six churches, a public park being laid out, and a $50,000 Carnegie Library just completed. Monthly rents average from $15 to $50. Average sale price of improved property is from $2,000 up. Building lots per front foot, $7 to $30. The death rate is unusually low, being 17 per 1,000.
Bayonne has enjoyed for years the enviable reputation of being foremost among the cities of New Jersey from an industrial standpoint. There are, at the present time, about 235 manufac- turing establishments, the product from which is valued upward of $40,000,000. Many of the greatest industries in the world are located here. The plant of the Standard Oil Company and the Tide Water Oil Company, known the world over, employ about 3,000 men, and have facilities for a daily output of 40,000 barrels of refined oil .* The Babcock & Wilcox Tubular Boiler Com- pany, which is the most extensive and complete plant of its kind in the world, provides employment for 1,500 men. There is also the Orford Copper Works, the Pacific Coast Borax Works, Guffey Petroleum Company, Columbia Oil Company, Goubert Manufacturing Company, Electric Launch Company, Bayonne Chemical Works, Schwartzenback, Huber & Company's Silk
*Constable's Hook is the terminus of the longest oil pipe line in the world. This is owned by the Standard Oil Company, and extends to the Indian Territory, some 1,800 miles.
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Mills, Port Johnston Coal Docks, International Tin Company, Safety Insulated Wire and Cable Company, and other industries. This, of course, makes the city an important shipping point. Large steamship and sailing vessels load daily at Constable's Hook, Port Johnston and Bergen Point, carrying petroleum, oil, copper, ore, sulphur, coal and various other products to all parts of the globe. Railroad transportation is also carried on exten- sively.
The tallest chimney in America and second tallest in the world is located on Constable's Hook. This was erected two or three years ago, at a height of 365 feet.
The increase in population has been far greater than most cities in the State. This is due, principally, to the fact that the large industries are the means for the employment of thousands of men.
The city is cosmopolitan, especially in the Centerville and Hook districts. In these localities about 85 per cent. of the popu- lation is of foreign elements, coming from all corners of the earth, including Germany, Russia, Italy, Poland, Ireland, England, Sweden and Austria .* While some are of an objectionable class, taken as a whole they are an industrious, hard-working people, and have been the means of building up a thriving business sec- tion in these localities.
In the better residential sections, many of the people own their homes ; others rent cottages or Chicago flats at $18 and up- ward .** In these districts, a large percentage of the men have their business in the great metropolis close at hand, and trains and trolleys run frequently to accommodate them.
*In 1900 the foreign-born in the city numbered 10,786.
** According to the last census (1900), 26.6 per cent. of the private families owned their own homes, while 73.4 per cent. lived in hired dwell- ings.
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Courtesy New Jersey Central R. R.
NEWARK BAY SHORE.
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Avenue D is the center for trade. The following estimated list will give the reader an idea of the number of stores in the principal lines of business :-
Butchers. 64
Carpenters and builders .. 3I
Grocers.
174
Plumbers. 22
Bakers. I6
Painters. . 32
Drygoods.
44
Undertakers.
7
Milk dealers 24
Expresses.
19
Saloons.
150
Variety stores. 62
Tailors.
27
Barbers.
47
Druggists.
14
Laundries. 23
Boot and shoe dealers, in-
Furniture dealers.
8
cluding makers 64
Among the professional men there are 18 lawyers and 22 doctors.
The area of the city is 2,530 acres, or 4 1/10 square miles ; besides 1,240 acres of submerged property. It is 334 miles in length, and averages three-fourths mile wide.
SALARIES OF PRINCIPAL CITY OFFICIALS.
Mayor*
$2,500
Councilmen. .No salary
City Treasurer. 2,500
City Clerk.
2,400
City Attorney.
2,000
City Surveyor
8,000
*The first Mayor to receive a salary was Egbert Seymour.
** This includes the salary of the City Surveyor and his assistants, be- sides the expenses attached to this department.
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Tax Assessor. $1,800
Street Commissioner. 2,400
Collector of Revenues 2,000
Water Purveyor. 1,700
Recorder.
2,000
Chief of Police 3,000
Building Inspector.
1,500
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CHAPTER XIX.
Traveling Facilities from Early Days to Present-Early Country Roads.
The first ferry legally established on the North River con- necting the New Jersey shore with that of Manhattan Island, was the Communipaw ferry which was erected in 1661 at the foot of Communipaw Avenue, Jersey City, with William Jansen in charge .*
The increase in population along Bergen Neck in 1750 was thought to warrant the erection of a public ferry between Bergen Point and Staten Island, so on September 15 of that year, Jacob Corsen established a ferry which landed within a short distance of the present slip on this side. The boat was a small open scow, and was propelled by oars.
On June 18, 1764, the Jersey City ferry was established .* > It was started as an important part of the new stage route to Philadelphia via a road connecting Jersey City and Bergen Point.
The following notice appeared at that time in the New York "Mercury" under date of July 2, 1764 :-
"A Ferry is established and kept across the Kill von Kull and that boats constantly attend for that Purpose, at a Place belonging to John Beck, and commonly called Mooddses, situate near the Dutch Church on Staten Island, from whence Passengers are transported directly across to Bergen Point, from which place there is a five mile Road leading directly to the said Powless's
*Winfield's History of Hudson County. .
** Dunlap's History of New York.
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Hook; so that a short, safe, easy and convenient Way is fixed by Means of these two Ferries, for all Travellers passing to the City of New York, from any of the Southern Governments."
These stages were first "set up" in 1764 and did a thriving business. The vehicle was a covered Jersey wagon without springs. Three days were usually consumed in dragging it to Philadelphia, and it was modestly called a "Flying Machine." In 1772, however, time was reduced to one and one-half days.
Anthony White, who owned the land where the Latourette House now stands, petitioned the Governor of New York in July, 1764, for exclusive right to ferry across the "Kill van Corle."* The petition was not granted. In 1765, Michael Van Tuyl was the proprietor of the ferry .**
The travel to the south was afterwards turned to a new route made over the meadows on the line of the Newark Plank Road. This caused the Bergen Point ferry to gradually decline and soon suspend operation.
In more recent years, John Goodheart, who lived on the shore, ferried people across in a skiff for a considerable time. Nicholas Cubberly also conveyed passengers over whenever re- quested. A horse boat was plying on it between 1840 and 1850.
About 1863 a slip was built at the foot of Avenue C, on the Kills, and a boat put upon the ferry. It continued in operation for a few months, and was then destroyed by fire.
In March, 1868, "The Bergen Point and Staten Island Ferry Co." was incorporated, but never gave sign of much life. Walter H. Frazer attempted to revive it in 1869, but after two weeks' experience, he abandoned the idea. After a few years traffic was greater and it began to boom. "The Port Richmond and Bergen Point Ferry Co." took hold of it, and now the Public
*New York Colonial MSS.
** Winfield's History of Hudson County.
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Service Corporation has obtained control and has recently made considerable improvements.
It is not known at what time the first road from Bergen to Bergen Point was laid. Some time previous to 1743 a King's Highway was laid from Bergen Town to Bergen Point along Newark Bay. This road was very sandy and ran partly through a swamp. It was vacated when, on October 10, 1764, a King's Highway was laid from Hendrick Sickle's barn to a point opposite the Dutch church on Staten Island. This new road became a part of the great stage route between New York and Philadelphia. Evidently, this road was not constructed in such a manner as to meet the requirements of travel, for on September 12, 1766, a road four rods wide was laid from "the Southwest Point of Ber- gen (Bergen Point) aforesaid along up Newark Bay," and from thence over to Paulus Hoeck .*
This new road ran along the west side of Bayonne about three hundred yards from the Newark Bay shore, through the picnic grounds in Pamrapo, where it joined the old King's High- way. It was commonly called the "Shore Road," and was the main road to these parts for about thirty years. A portion of it can still be seen.
On June 29, 1796, another road was laid to Bergen Point. It entered Bayonne at the junction of what is now Avenue C and the Morris Canal, ** went west, and then through the woods be- tween the present Speedway and Avenue C, thence southward to what is now Avenue D and Thirty-second Street, and from there in a direct line to the Point. It was a familiar sight to see the old Vanderbilt stage coach, surrounded by a cloud of dust, jogging along on its way to Staten Island.
*Winfield's History of Hudson County.
** The stone supports of an old bridge at this place mark the site of this road. A section of it running from Forty-seventh to Fifty-first Streets is still in existence.
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A half century ago, Avenue D was simply a miry country road. The old plank sidewalks were little better than the road, and the folks had to wade ankle deep through the mud. Cow- hide boots were a necessity. Teams were drawn with difficulty, and when stuck hub deep in the mud were hauled out by extra oxen. The Plank Road Company was afterward formed (about 1856) and constructed a plank road running over the old middle road laid sixty years before. This road was one-half planks and one-half dirt, and toll was collected for travel thereon. One toll- gate stood on the site of Fifty-second Street.
At this time Fifth and Eighth Streets were mere cowpaths. Grand Street was called "Niggers' Lane." The old Hook Road leading to Constable's Hook was at times entirely submerged by water from the Kill and New York Bay, and it was a difficult matter, if not a dangerous undertaking, to cross.
The first public means of conveyance to Jersey City was a two-horse stage operated by George Anderson, early as 1848-50. This started at what is now Twenty-fifth Street. Anderson brought the mail from Jersey City to Mullaney's post-office in Pamrapo .*
In later years, the only public conveyance to Jersey City and New York was Jacob Mersallie's stage line, or by boat from Ber- gen Point. The "Red Jacket," "Kills" and "Wyoming" landed at a dock then situated at the foot of Avenue D, to take on pas- sengers for New York. The ride on the stage was rather long and tiresome, and a bleak one in winter. In the summer, however, it was most delightful, especially along the old Plank Road, which wound around through the woods most of the way.
The Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company was incorpo- rated March 15, 1859. The Greenville and Ocean Avenue line
*Mullaney's store is still standing on the old Plank Road at Centre Street.
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terminated at the old car barns in Greenville later on. By an ordinance passed in August, 1885, the company was authorized by the City of Bayonne to "lay tracks in certain streets and avenues and to run horse cars thereon only." The franchise also granted the laying of tracks for a branch line on East Twenty-second Street. The main line extended up Avenue C over its present route to the Kill von Kull. The cars were small, were pulled by mules, and were in charge of one man, who acted as both driver and conductor. These cars were called "dinkeys." A slight im- provement was added by the use of horses in place of the slow, stubborn mules. However, it took about two hours to travel from ferry to ferry. In 1888, the Fifth Street line was added.
The Central R. R. of N. J. for many years terminated at Elizabethport. In 1860 an act was passed authorizing the com- pany to build a bridge to Bergen Point and to extend the road to Jersey City.
OLD CENTRAL RAILROAD BRIDGE.
This extension was completed and opened for travel August 1, 1864. Eighth Street, the main station, was erected, that lo- cality being the most populated section at the time.
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The Dummy Road was built about 1864. This road began just west of the Latourette House at Bergen Point, and ran through private property between Avenues C and D to where Garrett's Hotel now is, at Thirty-second Street, where it crossed the old Plank Road and continued north, close to what is now Avenue D, thence to the Junction in Greenville. Here passen- gers for Jersey City and New York would have to change for the horse car to convey them to the ferry. The Dummy was one car, with the engine at one end of it. The time of travel was from one and one-half to five hours one way, according to how the engine felt. The fare was twenty-five cents.
In the "Evening Journal" under date of Friday, March 26, 1869, the writer finds this :- "The complaints of the dummy travel continue. Yesterday the dummy, in charge of Mr. Whiteneck, broke down in multitudinous localities. Passengers were obliged to walk in considerable mud."
This road was not a success, and ceased operations in 1870. The old barns may yet be seen at Bergen Point.
A franchise authorizing the Jersey City and Bergen Railroad Company to use electric motors as the propelling power of its cars, and to erect poles and string the necessary wires therefrom, was granted August 16, 1893. After this the horse car was abandoned by the establishment of the trolley system, the traffic on which steadily increased and the road improved upon consid- erably to meet the requirements.
At a meeting of the Common Council, held on July 1, 1902, the North Jersey Railroad Company (whoat that time controlled the trolley system) filed a petition for a franchise to operate a trolley line on Avenues A and B and to transfer its system from Avenue C to Avenue D. The granting of these privileges, while meeting with favor by the Board of Trade and most business men, was
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for some reason never acted upon, and the petition was finally withdrawn.
The trolley service has been under control of the Consolidated Traction Company, North Jersey Street Railway Company, and at present is under control of the Public Service Corporation. The trolley service to-day shows a marked improvement over ten years ago. Large, modern cars are run under five-minute head- way.
The Central Railroad now has five stations, and trains are fre- quent for the accommodation of commuters.
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CHAPTER XX.
Early Worship-First Churches.
In the early days, those inhabitants who did not care to travel as far as the old Bergen Dutch Church in Bergen, would worship God in their own homes and in small gatherings. On Sabbath mornings, the inhabitants along the Kill von Kull might have been seen entering their skiffs and going across to the north side of Staten Island to worship. The need of a church was very evident. Consequently, during the summer and fall of 1828 those persons who were interested in securing public Sabbath services, erected a small church on land given by Mr. Cadmus, situated on the old middle road, and on January 11, 1829, the First Reformed Church of Bayonne was organized as the Re- formed Dutch Church of Bergen Neck, with Ira C. Boyce as pastor. Among the prominent factors in the movement were Richard Cadmus, Sr., Richard Cadmus, Jr., John Cadmus, Michael Cadmus, James C. Van Buskirk, John Van Buskirk, Jacob Cubberly, Jacob Van Horn, John Vreeland, Jasper Za- briskie, and others. This church was the first to be erected in Bayonne. The original cost was $1,600, and the building ac- commodated about two hundred and fifty people. The edifice is still standing and belongs to the Republican Club. It is now on the corner of Avenue D and Twenty-ninth Street, but was originally built about one block south. The second and present edifice, on Avenue C and Thirty-third Street, was dedicated March 31, 1867. In the early sixties, the parsonage stood on
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Constable's Hook on the site of the present boiler works. This building was removed later, and is now standing on Ingham Avenue.
Early as 1831, the Methodists had a mission with Thomas G. Stewart as their pastor. On June 22, 1844, the "Bergen Neck M. E. Church" was incorporated. (Mattison M. E. Church, and now First Methodist Church.)
There was, in 1845, a Methodist church standing on the northwest corner of what is now Avenue D and Twenty-fourth Street. This was the first and original building in which they worshiped. It was a small, frame, peak-shaped building and was called the "Little Beehive," because of a swarm of bees which en- tered through a knot hole and stored their honey over the front door on the inside. This honey was taken out every fall, and sold for the benefit of the church. Thomas McDonald and Gar- rett Vreeland were the founders and main supporters of this little church. A new edifice was built on the east side of Avenue D near Twenty-ninth Street, the corner-stone of which was laid in 1854. In 1868 they moved this building to Avenue D and Thirty-second Street .* The corner-stone for the present edifice at Avenue C and Thirty-first Street was laid in 1891.
The Reformed Church of Bergen Point was organized May 16, 1854, and Rev. Jacob C. Dutcher was its first pastor.
Those residents of Bergen Point professing a choice for the Episcopal service attended the church on Staten Island. In August, 1859, Trinity Church of Bergen Point was organized, with Franklin S. Rising as pastor.
The church building of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church at Bergen Point was consecrated March 18 of the following year.
These, then, were the first churches in Bayonne. They were
*Site of Garrett's Hotel.
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1900.
Robert Melick
Courtesy of First Methodist Church. "BEE HIVE," FIRST METHODIST CHURCH.
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lighted with home-made candles, and later with oil lamps, and heated principally by Gothic stoves that at times filled the church so full of smoke that the minister could scarcely be seen by the congregation. Reed organs were used; hymns only were sung ; $1.50 was considered a substantial collection. The dominie's salary averaged from $400 to $900 per year, in addition to vegeta- bles, wood, etc., donated by members of the congregation. From this, however, the religious population increased considerably, so that in 1870 there were eleven churches. To-day there are twenty-six churches, representing nearly every denomination. They can be classified as follows :- Seventeen Protestant, seven Catholic, two Hebrew. There are also two Sisterhoods. About 8,000 church members, estimated.
EARLY BERGEN CHURCH MARRIAGE RECORDS.
Van Boskerk, Lourens, b. at Hackensack, and Fytje Cor- nelissen Vreelant, b. at Gemoenepau, both 1. at Pemmerpoch. 1709-Sept. 18.
Bruyn, Barend and Antje Borten, both b. and 1. at Pem- merpoch. 1714, Mar. 27.
Lisk, John, lives at Bergen point, and Catrientje Huysman, 1. on Staten Isld, both b. on Staten Island, 1767, June 20.
Van Tile, Michael, and Sophia Cubberly both of Pamra- paugh. 1797. Dec. 9.
Van Borckeloo, Wilhem Hermensen, from N. Utrecht, and Maria Cordelion, the groom 1. at Constapelshoeck, the bride at N. Utrecht, received certificate Aug. I. and m. April 5, at Amers- foort. 1697 Mar. 7.
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VITAL STATISTICS OF BAYONNE.
Population-Births-Marriages-Deaths. Vital Statistics.
Year.
Population.
Births.
Marriages.
Deaths.
1655
20
.
. .. .
. . . .
1685
II5
. . . .
. .. .
. .. .
1750
250
. ...
. ...
. ...
1830
600
. . ..
....
. ...
*1865
1,700
. . . .
. ...
. ...
*1870
3,834
. . ..
. . ..
. . . .
*1875
5,836
. . . .
....
. . . .
1876
6,543
. ...
. . . .
. . . .
1877
7,250
.
. ..
. ...
. . . .
1878
7,957
. . . .
. ...
. ...
1879
8,864
*1880
9,372
I90
32
145
1881
10,113
. .. .
...
. . . .
24I
1883
II.595
. .. .
. .. .
194
1884
12,336
. .. ,
. ...
200
*1885
13,080
. . . .
.
288
1886
13,82I
. ...
. .
295
1887
14,562
....
. . ..
33I
1888
15,295
. . . .
. ...
34I
1889
16,044
. ...
. .. .
387
*1890
19,033
. . ..
. ...
409
1891
19,999
....
. . . .
280
1892
20,695
. ...
....
417
1893
21,93I
. ...
. ...
456
. .
...
. .
193
1882
10,854
123
BAYONNE.
Year.
Population.
Births.
Marriages.
Deaths.
1894
22,897
. ...
. . . .
501
*1895
19,856
. . ..
. . . .
409
1896
20,02I
. ...
. . ..
499
1897
20,198
.. . .
....
486
1898
20,369
. ...
....
546
1899
20,540
....
. ..
488
*1900
32,722
1,195
199
5,56
I90I
35,295
1,074
259
581
1902
37,868
1,069
32I
575
1903
40,44I
1,036
309
687
Population estimated, with exception of years marked (*), which are the figures according to the census.
TAX RATES PER $IOO VALUATION.
1885.
$2.22
1895
$2.87
1886.
2.32
1896
2.62
I887
2.20
1897
2.82
1888
2.47
1898
2.75
1889.
2.32
1899
2.72
1890
2.39
1900
2.70
1891.
2.62
I90I
2.68
1892
2.32
1902
2.90
1893
2.39
1903.
2.90
1894.
2.35
1904.
2.79
BOUND TO PLEASE Heckman Bindery THE INC.
MAR. 66 N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA
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