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Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
Large Extension.

The Perfection Funnel Works are
making great success of their busi-
ness, and their new quarters are en-
tirely too cramped. Carpenters are
now at work upon a large two story
extension, which is being built upon
the east end of the building. This will
allow the works to add additional
facilities. A. Gersdorf, the inventor
and proprietor, will soon move to this
city from Washington, and become a
nermanent resident
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
MYSTERIOUS BUILDING.
ANOTHER ..WHAT Is it, CO.
ING UP.
Work to be Commenced Imme-
diately Upon a Large Build
ing at Riverside.

The Rosenhayn Brick Machine Com
pany, have received an order for 2OO.-
600 bricks, to be delivered in Bridge
ton within twenty days.
The above item appeared in the
PIONEER, Saturday afternoon, and
gave rise to large amount of specula-
tion upon the part of the curious.
What are they to be used for, and
where will they be put?''
That was the principal question, and
if one would go on the street a while,
he could hear dozens of opinions ex
pressed. Before night the opinion
that had gained the most credence was
that the bricks were to be used in a
building to be erected for brewery.
In fact pretty much everybody was
talking brewery Saturday night.
Another opinion was that Selb & Hart
were to have the building erected for
their knitting goods factory.
Just what it is, the PIONEER At this
time, is not permitted to say. 1t is an
Industry, however, that will be i'm
portant, and the building, when fin
ished, will be one OF the largest in
South Jersey. Last week. gentlemen
from this city drove down to Riverside,
| w. H. Bacon's property, and stakes
were driven on the lot just below the
George Leeds farm. This morning,
had the weather remained clear, Sam
| CARL would have commenced the dig.
ging of a very large well, to furnish
water. for the concern. When com.
pleted, the building will contain about
250, 900 brick, all of which will be fur.
nished by the Rosenhayn Brick Ma.
chine Company. Let all such indus
tries go on, and people viii willingly
wait until the buildings are finished,
to learn what they are for
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
Big Loss.

The destruction of Hazard 81 Co.'S,
canning factory by fire at Shrewsbury,
Monmouth county, will cause much
destitution in that neighborhood this
Winter, because of the many people
principally women-thrown out OF
employment. During the dull winter
season 150 hands are employed, as was
the case when the fire broke out.
During the busy season over $50 men
and women are employed. Mr. Haz.
zard says that after getting his insur-
ance $50, 900 could not replace his loss.
The building was thoroughly over
hauled last Spring, new machinery.
boilers and engines being put in. The
factory was the largest and most COM
plete in the country.
One packing-house destroyed con
tanned $500 cases of bottles of catsup
ready for shipment. Nearly 1000 gross
of bottles were destroyed, together
with spices worth $4,000, several
barrels of the spices costing from $500
to $500 each. Many OF the spices can
be had only at certain seasons of the
year. The severest loss to Mr.. Hazard
was the laboratory, in which he kept
all his chemicals, and where he spent
his evenings experimenting. A new
factory at a cost of $4,000, on the
same model as the old factory, is to be
built ON the old site immediately.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
A Chestnut.

1t is about time that now thoroughly
decayed chestnut, lis marriage fail
ure?" was relegated to the moles and
bats. 1t never was entitled to a
moments thoughtful consideration.
Marriage is not failure. 1t is one of
Gods appointed ways, aud to question
its Importance or the fact that it has
been and ever will be grand and
happy success, is as pernicious in its
consequences as the advocacy OF po-
lygany.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
The Senatorial Fight.

TRENTON, Nov. 19.-SoMe practical
Joker has caused stir in politics by
announcing the candidacy of Colonel
Green, of Woodbury., for United States
Senator. Colonel Green is almost un-
known in New Jersey politics. He
was placed on the Democratic ticket
as an elector because of the value Of
his campaign contribution. He is an
aid TO Governor Green, and from that
source secured his title of Colonel. He
hopes to slip in during the anticipated
clashing and wrangling of the Albeit
and Mcpherson factions.
United States Senator Blodgett pro-
poses to take hand in the coming
Senatorial contest. He is yet smarting
under the cuts that both Mcpherson
and Albeit gave him at the State Con-
vention. He was entirely ignored and
snubbed by Mcpherson for the man
ner in which he secured his election
two years ago. Blodgett has again
taken out his poeket.knif and gone to
whiting. When the railroad Senator
gets to making chips, the people of
New Jersey begin to ask questions. 1t
is known that he has candidate who
would like to wear McPherson's toga.
1t is Prosecutor Winfield, of Hudson
county. He is entered in the race
with Blodgett as his backer.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
Vain Hone.

We tiattered ourselves about three
weeks ago, that if we gave some of
our delinquent subscribers to under
stand that they were in arrears, they
would respond promptly to our needs.
We accordingly made out about half a
bushel OF dun bills and sent them on
their errand of mercy. If the re-
sponses keep coming in at the same
rate OF speed as for the week past, we
hope to realize enough from them to
reimburse us to the amount spent for
postage.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
A Few Plain Words.

Although there is a statute law COM
pelling parents to send their children
to school so many weeks during each
year, it is nevertheless continuously
violated, without even so much as the
proper officers stopping to inquire in
to the reasons. This is wrong. If
parents fail TO appreciate the ines
timable advantages to be derived from
giving their children a common school
education. and thus permit them to
travel our streets from morning until
night, constantly schooling themselves
in profanity. obscenity and in every
kind of wickedness, then it becomes
the imperative duty Of our school au-
thorities, to take the matter in hand
and compel them to do so by the
strong arm of the law. A dereliction
OF duty in this respect would not only
defeat the objects and purposes of the
law, but would operate uniustly
toward the children themselves. To
allow so many of our children daily
and weekly to roam through our
streets and thus ignore these magnifi
cent privileges, is an absolute crime.
In certain instances, there may be
reasonable excuses for their non-at
tendance at school, but generally
speaking, it is nothing but inexcusable
carelessness and neglect on the part of
parents and others interested. Just
as the twig is bent, the tree is inclined" )"
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
GREAT CELEBRATION.
Philadelphia Republicans in
Honor Of Victory.

PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 10 Twenty
one thousand rejoicing Republicans
mighty host of shouting torch and
banner bearers-celebrated the ma
tional victory Saturday night when
they passed in review before Levi P,
Morton, Vice President-elect, in front
of the building of the Union League
on Broad street.
The occasion was one of good feel
ing and festivity. There were two
columns, one marching from the North
and the other from the South. Broad
street could hardly hold them. 1t was
as the bed of two rivers of happy
marchers flowing in opposite directions
between compact banks of spectators
fully as happy. The exact number of
men in line was l,035. In the North
ern column there were 10.632 men and
in the Southern column 1O,4o2. Mr..
Morton was accompanied on the re-
viewing stand by General Russell A.
Alger, of Michigan, Ex- Senators War
ner Miller and Thomas G. Platt, of
New York, and many prominent local
and State party leaders.
The demonstration was of an order
| ly, albeit enthusiastic character.
There was a marked absence of any
| transparencies calculated TO incite
| hard feeling on the part of the van,
| quished and a marked extension of
courtesies by the Democratic organi-
cations toward the marchers. Broad
street was blaze of light from end to
end. The illuminations along the
route were very conspicuous. and it
seemed that half the town were out to
see the show.
1t was a fitting jollifcation by Re
publican Philadelphia over the great
triumph of Harrison, Morton and
Protection.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
AN ORGANIZATION FORMED
THE BRANCH ASSOCIATIONS OF
CUMBERLAND COUNTY,
For Charities Sake an AssOciaa
fiOn in this County is
Formed

A meeting was held Monday night in
Central M. E. Church, commencing at
o'clock, and as a result, Cumberland
County Branch of the State Charities
Aid Society was formed with men,
bership of forty or more-twenty from
this city, eighteen from Vineland, and
few from Millville. The permanent
officers of the Association were as fol-
lows
President, DIR. William Elmer, Bridge.
ton; Vice-Presidents, P. p. Baker,
Vineland; J. T. White, Bridgeton;
Secretary, Miss Sallie NJ Riley, Bridge
ton; Treasurer, DIR. Brewer, Vineland;
Executive Committee, Miss A. M. Mul-
ford, G. w. Shoemaker, Rev. w. H.
Belden, Bridgeton; Miss A. F. Leavitt,
Mrs. DR.. English, Vineland; Mrs. A. L.
Mulford, Millville.
1t had been arranged that DR.. VIM.
Elmer should preside at the meeting
last night, but owing to death in the
family, he was compelled to be absent,
and James j. Reeves, ESQ.,, was called
to the chair. The audience was fairly
large. Rev. John Handley offered
prayer, and Mr.. Reeves made few re-
marks. He stated that this meeting
was the outgrowth of meeting of a
few ladies of this city and Vineland,
held in the local Y. NJ. c. A. rooms, on
the evening of the 10Th of August last.
| With few other statements regarding
the matter, Mr.. Reeves called upon
Mrs. Benz. Williamson, of Elizabeth.
This lady has long been connected
| with this charitable work. haying aided
| in the organization of the first Society
its kind in the State, in Morris county.
She spoke of the good it had done
there and how its influence went
abroad, and soon other counties were
organizing similar societies. She ex-
planned fully the objects of the Associ-
alton, and declared that through the
efforts OF this organization, much of
the misery of the world was done away
with. She declared that they had
much influence in aiding tramps to
employment, thus breaking up their
pernicious habits of travelling for
plunder, Perhaps the objects of the
Society can be more clearly and briefly
stated in the following paragraph from
one OF the annual reports of the Legis-
lature, than any other way
This Association having no other
motive than that of seeking to help
solve the great problem of how best to
deal with the continually increasing
criminal classes, to promote the i'm
provement of the mental. moral and
physical condition of the inmates of all
charitable and penal institutions in the
State of New Jersey, where for penal,
charitable, or reformatory purposes
any individual is supported at the pub
lie charge; and to induce the adoption
by the community at large of such
measures in the organization and ad-
ininistration of both public and private
charity as may develope the self-re-
spect and increase the power of self
| support of the poorer classes in societyl
Mrs. Williamson was followed in a
short address by Mr.. Kellogg, of Vine
land, aided in the explanation of the
work of the Society. After these ad-
dresses the permanent organization
was effected as above stated.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
..Irs. President Harrison. /,

Richard Bagg, the Irving avenue
florist, has propagated some chrysan-
themum seedlings and produced a very
beautiful flower of the Japanese va
riety. Mr.. Bagg has named this flower
Mrs. President Harrison" and this
morning, some of the flowers were
sent that lady by mail, to her home in
Indianapolis.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
Gloucester County's Claims.

The Woodbury. Democrat learns that
Isaac Moffett, of Glassboro; Harry
Garrison, OF Woolwich; Charles w.
Starr and A. S. Barber, Jr., are talked
OF for Internal Revenue Collector, to
to succeed Mr.. Farrell. For Deputy
Collector, G. Selden Johnson, of Wood
bury; F. D. Springer, of Logan, and
James Mailman, of Franklin, are
named.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
Accidentally A Shot.

Harry Eismon, II years old, living at
Sea Isle City, was accidentally shot in
the eye by gunner, on the bluff, at
Sea Isle City. Friday. He was re-
moved to the Cooper Hospital, Camden,
where it was said that he would prob
ably lose the sight of the eye.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1888-11-22
A Large Order.

The Rosenhayn Brick Machine Com
pany, have received an order for 2OO,-
900 bricks, to be delivered in Bridge
within twenty days.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
A Long Bridge.

The bridge across the classic Oxus,
on the line of the Russian Trans-Cas-
plan Railway is ,000feetlongerthan
the Brooklyn bridge. Theentire road
is remarkable piece of engineering.
1t was considered impossible to MAIN
tain a railroad through the shifting
sands of the Kara Kun desert. But
Gen. Apnenkof, by covering part
of his railroad with clay, by placing
i'm his embankment layers of the
branches of desert shrub, and by
eultivating along parts of the route
many thousands of the desert plants
the roots of which retain the sand has
thus far maintained his road bed with
out deterioration. The problem of a
water supply was solved by bringing
water in pipes from the mountains
that skirt 200 miles ofthe route, also
by canals from Murgbab, while ar
tesian wells are the scource of supply
between Merp and the Oxus. In a
region that is destitute of fuel, and
where the cold is at times intense,
petroleum has been utilized to drive
the locomotive and to heat the 60
railroad stations along the way.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
A Texas society Gentleman.

Chicago Times.
When VIII J. Davis of the Hay
market Theatre was at the head of
the Chicago Church-Choir Pinafore
Company, he led his warblers into
the State of Texas. In those DAYS
the advent 81 c,1cra in that section
was an event which brought out the
elite as well as the hoodlum. One
night the company was appearing in
Galveston. The parquet was well
filed by the best people. A long
haired man presented himself at the
box office with two boys and said he
wanted one seat. Mr.. Davis asked
him what he was going to do with the
two boys. The Tcxanrepli that be
flowed to take 'em in"
Then you want two more seats"
said the manager.
Il reckonnot, the Texan answered
Il never git but one seat for the three
of us at a circus, and / low | ant
goin' to git any more for sich show
as this. I"
The manager said he guessed he
would. The Texan pulled out two
revolyers and the boys drew knife
each, one of the boys remarking that
he went wherever his pap went. The
manager told them to go in. In
about fifteen minutes one of the So
eisty men came to the box-office and
said he had been insulted. That a big
Texan accompanied by two boys had
come in and ordered him and his lady
to give up their seats. Mr.. Davis
called in an officer of the town and
asked his assistance in Kidding the
house of the obnoxious characters.
The society man said he would take
a hand if there was no objection. In
about n minute he had laid aside his
swallow tail coat and taken of
his dickey, which covered the front of
a red flannel shirt. Under the waist
band of his trousers were two huge
revolvers.
Il am q society man" he said, "as
long as there is anything in it; but,
by the holy Moses! lam "a Texan when
it becomes necessary" In another
minute he was inside, and when
the long haired man saw him coming
he got out in hurry, telling the boys
to follow. The opera proceeded and
during the remainder of the engage
ment there was no trouble.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
The American Creed.

Condensed into the form of a short creed
the Republican platform is something like
this:
We believe in a free ballot and in having
every vote counted
We believe in protection for projections
sake, and we are not ashamed of IL.
We believe in abolishing internal taxes
created for war purposes.
We believe IN the direct protection of Amer
lean labor against cheap foreign labor.
We believe in free internal competition.
We believe in railroad regulation.
We believe in homesteads and good home
stead titles for citizens
We believe in home rule for big and intelli-
gent territories.
We believe in a double monetary standard.
We believe in the utmost facilities for edu-
cation, as worth all they can cost.
We believe in a big merchant marine and in
American ship-yards.
We believe in a good navy, good coast de-
lenses and good water routes for commerce.
We believe in making other nations respect
our rights and pay for all they get from rs.
We believe in protecting American citizens
against foreign interference, not only at
home. but in any part OF the world,
We believe in eiyil-servioe reform more than
ever; and
We believe that nothing is too good for the
soldiers who risked their lives TO save the
country and saved it.-New York Press.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
Things People Should Know.

rom the New York Graphic.
Mr.. A. S. Murray, keeper of Greek
nd Roman antiquities, British Mu-
cum, delivered an interesting lect-
re at the Parkes Museum on Thurs
lay, March %, on the physical
Training of the Greeks and Romans.
He observed that it had been said in
ancient times that the two things
which the Greeks desired most were
to be healthy and to be beautiful.
Beauty, in their eyes, was attainable
largely by careful system of physi-
cal training. We see, he observes,
their idea of physical beauty no
where better than on the sculptured
frieze of the Parthenon at Athens
now in the British Museum, for the
greater part of it is simple glorifi-
cation of youth as developed by ply
steal training on horseback and in
chariot racing. There was no more
marked difference between the Greeks
and semi-barbarous races that sur
sounded them than in this matter of
physical training. In one of
his dialogues Lucian intro
duces the Scythian prince, Anarchar-
sis, who visited Athens in the sixth
century b. c., and in the course of his
visit went to the Palaistra. He was
much surprised at the various exer-
cises of the youth, thinking them
ridiculous. He asked Scion, the legis-
lator, how he could defend such folly.
Scion explained that the exercises of
the youth might seem absurd to an
onlooker, but that they were meant
to train UP race of men who, large
" 10y this training, should become
valuable citizens, capable of taking
their part in war through the skill of
body they thus acquired, and capable
of taking share in the administra-
ton OF public affairs through the
cleariless of head and ready judg-
ment which the habitual training of
the palaistra fostered i'm them. The
lecturer then proceeded to describe
the ordinary exercises of the boys
previous to their reaching the age of
joining the palaistra, giving in
stances of skill attained in the vari-
Gus contests of leaping, running,
wrestling, boxing, throwing the disc
and the spear. Lastly he noticed the
the physical training of the girls, TO
whom running was the only form of
public contest allowed, and THAI
only in a very restricted degree.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
Anew Words ON Matrlmony.

/ am sorry TO note that within the
past few days, writes Bill Nye n the
New York World, several people have
married for a joke, among them a
young lady near Madison, Wis. who
was out for walk and at the sugges-
ton OF party named Foss, married
him. The young lady, whose name
was Foster, realizing that she could
marry Mr.. Foss without changing
the letter on the tidy which she had
made, preparatory to housekeeping, did
not stop to consider the responsible
ties she assumed by marrying an I'M
known man, but boldly launched her
self upon the great foamy sea OF mat
rimony. Miss Foster, it seems. was
the daughter OF millionaire who edits
a saw.mlll in Wisconsin, and who
could have boarded her as long as she
lived. To the casual observer 1t
would seem that no temptation could
woo young lady from home where
all day long she could hear the squeal
OF the complaining saw-mill and the
snore of the planning mill, turning out
matched flooring, two by four scant-
ling and dressed culls, and yet Miss
Foster forgot the buzzsaw with which
she had been prone to monkey. the
gentle skid, the xxx shingles, the moist
slab, the gummyjoist, the select fencing
and its finished lumber,m orderto fieG
to the arms of stranger. Matrimony
is, in all cases, q serious matter, but
it is doubly serious when it is tam.
pered with in hippant and trifling
manner on the start only to bring
sorrow, chagrin, complaint, answer,
joider, rejoinder, surrejoinder, butter
rebutter, suttebutter, inharmony.
parsimony and alimony at last. Oh
glrl, why will you forget the sheltering
arms OF your parents to take up arms
against sea OF trouble? eWhy will
you turn your back on the lumber
business to take up arms against q
sea of trouble? Why will you turn
your back on the lumber business to
marry man without 8 change OF
canes to his back? Why will you
weary OF the old home and seek out q
stranger who will break your North
American heart and send you down,
perhaps, to damp and undesirable
drunkard's grave? Try to get &C.
quainted with the man you propose
to wed. As you get more acquainted,
try to get Whit OF his breath. See
that he is temperate. II you find that
he loves the flowing bowl, and that
his hot breath, as it courses through
his clenched teeth, scorches the cotton
in your ears draw yourself up to your
full height, crack your heels together
twice in succession andgo away.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
Usefulness IN Old age.

Mr Smiles who is the most charming
and Instructive of living pedants, has
multiplied examples of great old men
and old women. Mrs. Somerville,
deservediy celebrated for her scientific
attachments, was eighty-nine when
she published her book on Molecular
and Microscopic Science" Goethe
was in his extreme old age before he
published the second part of Faust, ?
and though it has the HISTORIAN
quality of garrulity, it is still most
remarkable poem, with many beauties
which no genius of youth could have
produced. DIR. Priestly did not begin
the study of chemistry until he was
past middle age. Defoe was an old
man when he wrote Robinson CRU
Soc" "Don Quixote" is another
great masterpiece produced by the
wisdom of years. Statesman, sol
diers and men of action frequently
appear at their best in old age. Won
Moltke was hardly known at all
when he was sixty-siX years old.
The English editor of his history of
the war between Turkey and Russia
described him as "a captain in the
Prussian army, since deceased
At seventy he showed himself the
greatest living strategist, and he has
never since been suspected of senility.
Statesmen seem to improve with age.
Eldon, Brougham, Lyndhurst and
Palmerston were active to the last.
On his nineteenth birthday Lord
Lyndhurst addressed the lords in a
speech "of Incompatible clearness,
lucidity, and ability" John Adams,
and Thomas Jefferson, who died on
the same day, were eighty-three and
ninetv-one respectively, and Jefferson
had never ceased to take an active
part, ifnot controlling interest, in
the management of the Democratic
party. When the reader recalls how
many of our American workers in pol
tiles and literature havenot only lived
to be very old, but have been more
useful in their old age, he can readily
agree with Mr.. Smiles that persistent
and intelligent activity adds years in
stead of taking them away from life.
TO grow old gracefully is the great
unconscious art of life. 1t is not a
natural process, for much that is
natural must be pressed in it. Or
rather it might be better said that it
is the result and the reward of an art
1.-The art of usefulness.