The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1890-02-21

gresham Bergen, ex-Congressman Hires
and General Sewell are putting their best
ticks in this direction, and the aforesaid
trio are a power.
Should Bridgeton~ fortunately secure this
government bonanza wouldn't she put
on airs? Well, we should smile. Hell
insufferable vanity would scarcely tolerate
a .'provincial' on her streets after that
unless he came to spend a dollar or give
her taffy. Taffy, well, Bridgeton can
stand taffy and stand it %, 900 pounds to
the ton.
She would then say look at me,
please $4,000 population and taxable
property by the million. a 5000 Post
office and Custom House, a $500, 600 glass
plant Gust one house, mind you), Il $500
hotel, a new $40, 600 church, a $50, DOC
opera house, a s15, 900 county building
CLERKS and Snrrogate's of1ice), a $50, 900
bank, So, 600 chime of bells, So, 900 and
$40, 900 stores right along, streets filled
with hacks, omnibuses. drays and what
not sidewalks thronged with pedestrians
standing ankle deep in mud-rather guess
that was a slip-we mean leaning up
against the electric, telephone, mean
desanic poles, etc., and watching the de-
livery carriers distribute mail. Look at
us. Look at Bridgeton and learn how to
run a live town"
Then Salem city wants something too.
Salem wants a free mail delivery system
and thinks she is big enough to have it.
We remember we'll when Salem was a
larger town than Bridgeton. Salem had
some large men at that time, too. Judge
James Newell, Sheriff Robert Newell,
Clerk Samuel Gopher, Surrogate Thomas
Dickinson, John NJ. Brown, Esq, Richard
P. Thompson, Attorney Francis l.. Nc
Cullough, Attorney Quinton Keasby, At
torney Alplionso Eakin, Charles w.
Roberts. Esq, Minor Harvey, Esq, the
! Cattells, Dunns and others being among
the number.
But Salem was so long in growing big
ger, or was such a pretty place to live in,
or for some reason hard to tell, that she
allowed the opportunity to stay up head
to slip away from her and now sits just
one seat to the rear of Bridgeton.
Salem has never been quite the same
city she was prior to selling that fire engine
to Woodstown. Somehow it went against
her like, and she has never been altogether
the same place since.
Nineland aspires to be known as the
hub of South Jersey, the literary pivot on
which revolye all the moral, intellectual
universe. Sineland has an ism for every
thing, and every ism is in its place there.
Nineland made a mistake once on a time
when she failed to hang Il certain murderer
herself since in the establishment of a
home for the feeble minded. The eternal
fitness of things was never better illus
trated than in the above selection for the
Predetermined is just boss.
Millville. too, wants someihing-only
wants to become the shire town of Cum
berland county. She thinks she is entitled
to it. More criminals go up from Mill
vile annually, more fights, strikes and
hair pulling is on lland at one time, than
of any town exactly its size in Cumberland
county.
1t does seem queer that anyone should
go way up Jersey to commit murder when
so many need killing off in Millville, and
the place is SO handy to reach by water, too.
Millville is immensely modest and only
all, Tatem & Co. aud several other conf
panies turn over the management Of their
concerns to them. They could be SO happy
then, even with Ben. Elfreth forty miles
away.
Woodstown wants something, too. She
wants some of her citizens to take a walk
right on out of town, and forget to come
back. She further wants some enterpris-
ing, real live, go-ahead persons from
abroad to walk up this way, hang their
hat on the most convenient peg and lay
hold and help us develop our little town
into one of the prettiest and most attractive
in the State. She wants more than this
not only wan the all-round man OF the
world to help us along the road to financial
and material prosperity, but wants a few
more of the kind that money can't buy
and the simple matter of gain or dollar
and cents acquisition lure from a higher
plane of thought and efiort-men who are
not living altogether for themselves and
the present, or Tor Woodstown even, but
for all humanity and all the whole world.
Until then we shall sing
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long"
We never yet have found it so.
Altho' its in the song.
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