New Stable To Be Built

New York, 1895

Jamaica Brevities

Work on the Long Island electric railroad was started on South street on Monday.

James Carr has been awarded the contract to form up Linden street, at a cost of $70.

Supervisor Everitt is having plans drawn for a new stable to be built on his property on North Washington street.

F. F. Heyse will remove his watch and jewelry business to the Everitt building on Monday.

The Chub Club are having their new house on North Washington street remodeled and expect to get into it by May 1.

Two new fire alarm boxes have been put up, one on Fulton street opposite Kaplan avenue, and one on the corner of Alsop and Willett streets.

John J. Fitzgerald, proprietor of the Jamaica oyster house, has had his two brick houses on Fulton street freshly painted, giving them a neat and showy appearance.

The polling booth in the tenth election district is being removed from Union Hall street to New York avenue. Mr. Hyatt has purchased the ground on which it now stands.

At the meeting of the G. A. R. Post on Tuesday evening an invitation was received from the Rev. Harry H. Beattys, of the Methodist Episcopal church, to be present at the Sunday evening service on May 26 (Memorial Sunday). He will preach a special sermon. The invitation was accepted.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, April 26, 1895, p. 8.