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NEW JERSEY
A Guide To Its Present And Past
Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of New Jersey
American Guide Series

Originally published in 1939
Some of this information may no longer be current and in that case is presented for historical interest only.

Edited by GET NJ, COPYRIGHT 2003
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Hoboken
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Points Of Interest

  1. The HOF BRAU HAUS, 42 2nd St., is the restaurant where Christopher Morley and his circle came for relaxation after the play. It is frequented by many New Yorkers who come for German food and German music, with diners and drinkers joining in the song -- if not starting it.

  2. An APARTMENT HOUSE (private), 1203 Washington St., is the former home of Hetty Green, once known as the world's richest woman. Recent additions of tiled lobbies and Venetian blinds give some semblance of modernity, though not much change has taken place in the five-story bright yellow brick building.

    For Hetty Green, noisy, happy-go-lucky Hoboken held a particular charm: cheap rent and low taxes. Mrs. Green had no financial interests here when she rented a flat in the best apartment house in Hoboken in 1895. She was still close to her immense treasure in the Chemical National Bank on lower Broadway, and her rent was only $19 a month. Under various names she lived here until 1916, moving from flat to flat in the block of apartments. Just after she had lent $4,500,000 to the city of New York, a summons was issued for her because she had failed to pay the $2 dog tax in Hoboken. Swearing that she would never pay, she fled to Manhattan, returning only after her daughter had paid the tax. One of the reporters who dogged her constantly caught her fancy when he climbed into her apartment by way of the fire escape. She presented him with a bouquet of artificial flowers, commenting that she had paid $1.50 for it and that real flowers would have cost just as much and would have died within a day.

  3. The SEATRAIN LINE, river front at E. end of Lipton Tea factory, is the only freight service of its kind in the world. Each Tuesday a ship docks and unloads full railroad freight cars; more cars are loaded Wednesday into the track-lined holds and the ship sails for New Orleans and Havana.

    The two vessels of the company are specially constructed to accommodate their freight. Four different levels, each equipped with four lanes of railroad tracks, afford space for for freight cars. A huge well in the center of the ship, stretching across the whole width, is the entrance to the tracks on the different levels. The ship is docked beneath a 125-ton traveling crane that lifts movable sections of track on which the railroad cars are placed and lowers them to position in the central well or on the dock.

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