Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J.: Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered from the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now LivingHine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)
History
Woodside, the North End of Newark, N.J.: Its History, Legends and Ghost Stories Gathered from the Records and the Older Inhabitants Now Living
Hine, C. G. (Charles Gilbert)
Hine, C. C. (Charles Cole), 1825-1897; Woodside (Newark, N.J.) -- History
The club was organized about 1882, with some twenty-five members, among
the more prominent of whom were L. P. Teller, William H. Brown, Paul E.
Heller, Henry W. Heller, Frank Cadiz, Edmund Pierson and one Linehan. It
was known as “the school of the bowlers”, and turned out more good,
successful bowlers than any other athletic club in Newark; in fact it
almost immediately took a prominent place in athletics generally, its
track team was among the best, it was successful in football and had a
fine reputation for square, manly sport.
Starting without money, the members laid out the grounds and built the
track and tennis courts themselves, but so popular did it become that
within two years there were something like three hundred members and the
club continued to thrive for many years. Interest began to wane,
however, as time went on, and about five years ago the club disbanded.
Shortly thereafter the Park Presbyterian Church purchased the clubhouse,
and it was turned over to the Park Athletic Association, a church
organization, and is still so occupied, though I believe the association
is at present independent of the church.
A MILLERITE.
On the slender point made by the opening of Washington avenue stands the
house erected by Mr. Scharff, and which was the home of a Millerite in
the early days of Woodside, one Flavel by name, a baker by trade.
Whether working over the hot fires of the bakery awoke in Mr. Flavel a
desire to reach Heaven before his time, or whether he was one of those
uneasy mortals who do not like to stay long in any one place, has not
been explained, but he was a Millerite, that point is established. The
neighbors still remember how he used to adjourn to the roof, “in his
nightgown”, as one unsympathetic informant puts it, for the purpose of
being translated, but there was always some hitch, and I believe he
finally gave it up and ultimately took the route that is open to all of
us.
NAMES OF SOME EARLY OWNERS.
The “Strawberry” lot belonged to Joseph West, whose house stood,
according to the map of 1849, where Washington avenue now cuts into the
brotherhood of streets here. The old pump presided over by “Mose” in the
days of our youth, and from which the street car horses were watered,
was probably the pump attached to the West house. This house may have
been built by Gerard Haugevort; it was occupied by him probably 75 years
ago. It was also occupied, about 1845, by old “Mammy” Pullinger, who
started life on the River road, as a groggery and a rather low resort.
When Washington avenue was cut through Mr. Nichols moved the building a
few hundred feet down the Gully road, where it stands to-day.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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