The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-03-09
STATE NOTES.

A committee of 100 of Paterson citizens
met February % and appointed a sub
committee of ten to arrange a pro-
gramme for the centennial anniversary
Of the settlement of that city next year.
Frank II. Lslor, under the new State
law, was on Thursday night elected City
School Superintendent of Trenton for
three years He Is a Democrat.
Some of the locked out sanitary ware
pressers In Trenton have returned TO
work at the wages offered by the manu-
features. N~on-lnion men have been at
work at the Crescent, Enterprise and
Maddock's lotteries.
The Taxpayers Association in Perth
Ambroy has been considering the ques-
tlon of city water, the need Of increased
train service and better connections on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, free postal
delivery. riparian rights, the establish
ment OF q weather signal station, aud the
proposed new tax law. In regard to the
last named subject a resolution was
adopted that the enactment of Assembly
bill No, 243 would disastriously interfere
with, II not altogether p~aralyze, the pros
perity OF the State of New Jersey, and
that the representatives in the LeRisla-
ture be requested to use their best efforts
TO defeat the bill.
William Delamater of Elizabeth. a
hrother-in-law Of State Senator Marsh of
Union county. lost an eye on Friday in
The machine department of s. L. Moore
a. Sons Works, of Elizabethport, bv a
steel chip embedding itself in the pupil Of
his eye.
The Union County Board of Freehold
ers has protested against the passage by
the Legislature of the Marsh bill. chang
ing the present system of representation,
aud asks the Legislative Committee OF
the board to do all in its power to defeat
the proposed measure.
David Henry Is the only bidder for con-
uarfinQ fnR pQT1lfGnn CnQfla af pnaQaiQ
City INTO q city hall according TO the
plans Of Architect Giele, his figures being
S27,575. The altered building will have a
clock tower, and the floors will be of iron
and tiles.
At q meeting of the Salem Board Of
Trade, held or Friday evening, the propo-
sition OF a Philadelphia manufacturer to
locate in Salem was read. The PROPOSE
ton set forth that the firm would put in
$3.50. 900 worth CT machinery and 500. 900
i'll cash, provided the citizens of Salem
would subscribe S150,000 to the stock of
the company. The Board of Trade
thought the scheme rather too large, and
the proposition was declined.
Bridgeton carpenters have agreed to
work ten hours a day for at least six
weeks longer. They get two dollars aday
The Somerset County Agricultural So
ciety will hold its annual fair on Septem-
Der 10, 16 and II.
f. 5. Thompson of Massschus sets, has
leased a farm in Middletown, aud will lay
out q horse training track.
Farmingdale will vote on incorporation
on March 16.
There is a movement at Cape May
TO i~naugurate county fairs. A site will
probably be selected at the Court House,
on which will be located a half-mile
track.
It is highly probable that the manufic.
ture of glass bulbs for incandescent cleo
trio light will soon be commenced by
Whitall, Tatum 81 Co., at their South
Millville works.
At the coming election in Bridgeton the
license question will be an important
factor. the Common Council is a tie o n
tbe question.
William W. Ward of Asbury Park b as
a petrified turtle. 1t was found in a cave
in the Allegheny Mountains, and weighs
tYenty-fiYe pounds.