New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-07-05
PUBLfO AFFAIRS IN NEW-JERSEY.
REVIVAL OF INTEREST IN THE FOURTH.

THE WATER SUPPLY oCRsTIoS-BETrISG AT MON
MoUTH-BAiLROAD TAXATION.
,vrow THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBurE.'
TRENTON, n. j., July 4.-Therc appears to
be revival OF interest in the Fourth Of July throughout
tho State and the celebration tomorrow will be emf
nently respectable Interest centres In Newark. where
an encampment IL added to the attractions pro-
pared with elaborate detail By the city ohciala inc
NcwJoey Society Of the Cincinnati will eat It's annual
dinner near the battlefield Of Monmouth at Freehold
Revolutionary memories are revived In all parts OF the
State and this probably tho OF tho vigor with
which the Fourth is customsrily celebrated.
Tho water-snpply question is taking foremost
place again. The company to which ailusion
was made last week has bought considerable
property northern part Of the state and obtained
control OF the waterrghs OF tho Paterson Society for
the Promotion OF Usefu Manufactures an organizati
established nearly hundred years ago by Elisha Bou
dns OF Revolutionary fame with the legal assistance OF
Alexander Hamilton Several letters In relation TO the
enterprise appear IN Hamit0n's CORES pon.euce pup
shed his The society has lost much OF its vau
able property In the Of tne but retains valuable
water franchisea The new company will have little
difficulty In storing tho necessary supply OF water
Nature has made innumersse roservoirs whlch neeu
little work place them In perfect condition. who tho
descent from tho reservoirs to the cities is su"cioh "
afford good head OF water The drainage area-tna' o'
the Rockaway, Pequannoc and Upper Passaic rversTs
ahou, 900 SQUARE miles and country so sterile that
pollution from a numerous population s"ems Impossible
FOR a century least Newark. Paterson ana Jersey
CITY would be the municipalities that wond buy the
waor II an y, they awaiting proposition to de-
eide what they should do The company expects to
have tho necessary property TO enable 1t to make
definite proposition within month at the latest
The struggle the separation OF Eberon from Long
Branch has assumed so many different phases aud has
become so bitter that IL has been Impossible 10 sym
pathze with either sdo IL Is admitted that Elberon
has for complaint OF tho ong Branch govern
menL ,,.,
the OF the Boaf fo OF ..n ne
ISOLATION. The claim was based upon ute received
such titles IN miscellaneous manner, claiming largo
privileges which exist principally 10 Imagination yct
which technical strength sufficient to encourage
The pardonlnr power is vested in Court Of Pardon'
com posed OF the Governor. chancellor and six lay
judges OF OF Errors and Appeals. By rule
OF the Board Its poceedngs are kept profound secret
after pardon Is granted Thdt the court 10 Win
system and that a little public supervision OF It's
lance OF The number pardoned and by the fact tnat in
several oas convcts who have been rardoned nave
be- n psrdoned a second Tins A demaud has heon
made courts records shall DO open Tor nspec
ton. III, -. . ,..,.
they sttenpt TO dodge the spirit OF me law ny gam
bling which plies with the letter The Jersey
courts OF late mad An unhealthy way OF sweeping
aside echnicaliues aud endeayorng 10 STRIKE at inc
marrow OF matter. Tho marrow IN THIS case appears
to he that there Is gambling the courts shoud
punish it, without regard to the Ingenuity OF the method
The summer woodcock shooting season opened on July
l. and the crack OF guns be heard In every drrc
Tho birds are Fat AMI strong. but sportsmen say
the unusually abundant foliage makes hunting dltncuI
The announcement IL made that C0nZressman Grern
is TO have Senator McPhers1ns backing for the Demo-
cratic nomination for Governor.
The claim OF tho Delaware. Lackawanna ana West
ern Railroad to exemption from taxes on
about S2O.OO0.00J OF property, by virtue OF
an alleged frepsaibe contract between the STATE
ana the ,rris Essex Railroad Company, when me
Iackawauna leases argued AT four-hours session
Of the Court OF Appeals last week. aud adecsion eK
p.cte1 within "A month. II the Lackaw anna succeeds
the Pennsylvanla aud NewJersey Central VIII make
lar There widespread belief that the
question OF corporation taxation can never be settled
satisfactorily state uDtil all the rairoad compa-
nie governed by the sams law and bear their our
dens strict proportion to tie property lhey own
II is when the NewJersfy editors were re-
turning from their Canadian excursion they ionnd |
most ting repast awaiting them az Kingston, " IL
seri Ell pressv- cord alty. Toe 1901 ana atten
tons gratefully and paid Tor and 1t did
all disturb h- editorial digestion when IL was
armed luncheon had been ally prepared
Dr. fsimiges plsims. That the Keeper
mslsd sanity appearances or the New jersey
editors. md when the vert1be BroOhIynlte' ala
al ear upon tho only sGch accommodations IA
hungry jersey c0ui afford 70 despise remained
10 COMFORT the IsssTnaoie band.