Passaic City record., 1893-09-09
Items From Around The State.

John l. Blair who was oI years
old August 22, has given a new
$1,000 bridge across the Paulins
Kill at the B1airstown station, to
the village.
Over 100 men employed in get
ting out Belgian blocks at the quar-
ries near Lambertville, went on
strike last week against reduction
of SIS 90 per 1000 for blocks.
( The Executive Committee of the
Thirtieth Regiment Veteran Vol
unteer Association have appointed
Wednesday. SEPTEMBER 6, as the
day for their third reunion, to be
held in Pennington.
The fire in South Jersey cram
berry bogs did $z5o,ooo damage
before they were stopped by the
rain. Twenty dwellings were des-
troyed and the area burned over
was thirteen miles wide.
A Deposit father entered his
parlor unexpectedly last Sunday
evening just as his daughter was
receiving a good night embrace
from her lover "a railroad employee.
Before the astonished parent could
utter an exclamation, the loving
child exclaimed: It's all right
papa, have passed into the hands
of a receiver.
These are anniversary times for
the Hackettstown papers. Three
weeks ago Bro. Rittenhouse COM
pleted his eleventh year, and week
| before last Bro. Curtis, of the Re-
buliean, completed his fifth.
Mayor Pagan, tie new chief ex-
ecutlve Of Hoboken, recently dis
covered that the city was paying
$50 per cart load for sand. which
is used on the floor of the police
stations. The price. of sand i'm
mediateIy fell to $a.oo per load.
Eli Edgerton, the Newton news
dealer, who came SO near yet so
far from getting a free trip to the
Worlds Fair on the New York
Press Coupon plan, was last week
the receiver of two tickets to Chi
cago and return, from the proprie-
tor of the Press.
The Delaware river is pronounc-
ed by those who know to be one
Of the finest streams for canoeing
in the United States east of the
Mississippi. For more than three
hundred miles the manipulation
of the paddle has free swing, and
in that distance can have every
species of water from the broad,
deep bosom Of Delaware Bay to
the swift, shallow riffs of its upper
waters, and through ever changing
scenery Of indescribable grandeur
Morristown has population Of
| $4,000 and boasts of only one fac
tory-or has only one factory.
They don't boast much about it
for the aristocratic Morristonians
don't like to have their town hum
iliated by being the seat of an in
dustrial institution This is an
overall factory. run by Roosevear
Bros. & Co. They employ a good
class of girls but on account of a
cut in wages many have left and
the places are being filled by Russl-
anJews. How CALLING that must be
for the Morristown people. Think
of the town being overrun with
Jews.
The American citizen who wont
take part in the primaries, the eau
cases, and conventions, who
shrinks from the rough, hard work
of politics because it jars on his
nerves and is distasteful to him,
and because he does not like to be
iostled and knocked about by the
boss and henchman, should be as
much ashamed Of himself as sol
dier would be if he shrank from
the toll and danger of campaign
and objected to being knocked
about by the enemy. 1t is the
good man who lights for the right
who ultimately wins the victories
of civilization.