New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-01

sco,s this week but the important places. with
nossibly one exception. will not be hlied lot
week or two.
,r,hr,. Peader-Don't be alarmed. The
colonel is the last man in New-Jersey 10 pe
seriously considered for such an office as state
School Superintendent.
Tho new system Of having all appropriations
scheduled in one bill allows the lawmakers u see
first what they ore doing. and it pieases every
BODY but the Treasury raiders and their frlehas'
"Tbe Press trusts that the Plainfelders who at
tend the Board OF Trade dinner at Elizabeth tonight
will return home and inculcate little spirit OF pro
gresslveness in the local organization'-'fiaihiiea
Press.
local Board of Trade can do much gooo II IL
has the right kind Of men guiding II. FOR years
a handful of Newarkers kept pegging away
under discouraging circumstances. Their meet
ings we're SHINY attended but the ideas ana
opinions enunciated published in the local
newspapers and eventually bore fruit To-day
the Newark Board of Trade is one Of the most
Influential bodies in that city. Such has been
the history in a lesser degree, perhaps. OF the
Boards In Jersey City and Paterson.
Postmaster Carson, Of New-Brunswick, may be
appointed State Prison Keeper. but he should
bear in mind the advice Of the old philosopher
who said that it was better not to be too sure
Of anything in the future.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union. or
Camden. is taking active interest in the COM
ing election of Excise Commissioners In that city.
The Union has already declared that the present
Excise Board Is disgrace to Camden, and by
way OF effecting a reform 1t suggests the names
Of three candidates to the Republican City Com
mittee. The men thus designated are DR.. 5.
Bryan Smith. Joseph s. Middleton and James f.
Hewitt. In many places the Womens Christian
Temperance Union can see no good In anything
but absolute prohibition That. however, is not
the attitude assumed by the clever women at the
head Of the Camden organization. In presenting
the names Of their favorites they say:
These gentlemen will be recognized by the
entire community as men of character and stand
ing who will administer the office with discrimi-
nation neither granting licenses Unfortunately
ard without compliance with the laws and or
dinances, yet refusing to grant proper num-
Der where these conditions are complied with.
The public owes TO Itself the enforcement of all
its laws. and we believe the failure to enforce the
excise laws to be a burning question, which can
not be settled to the satisfaction of the citizens
of Camden except by the selection Of men Of the
type mentioned
Easily the most important of all the measures
yet passed by the Legislature is that providing
for the appointment by the Governor of COM
mission TO investigate the pollution Of the Pas
sale River and examine the question Of a gen.
eral sewage system. The commission may be
appointed this week. and 1t will probably get to
work Immediately. Power has been given to
employ engineers and such other experts as
may be deemed necessary 1t has been said that
this is local measure affecting only few
towns but the statement is not sound one
Passac, Bergen. Essex and Hudson counties
the wealthiest and most popuous section Of the
State-are vitality concerned in the publication
of the Passaic River which is now little better
than one great open sewer. Merely to abandon
1t as a source of water supply would not cure
the evil. as the foul smells and vapors that 1t
gives forth themselves destructive to
health. The river is now the receptacle Of the
sewage from Paterson. Passaic. Newark, Orange
! and other towns, and the volume of matter thus
deposited is proving greater year by year. In
deed. the problem of stopping and preventing
pollution should have been taken up long ago.
AS a sanitary measure. II is now an imperative
necessity.
be done by one man of ability. courage and In
tegrity When he proposed to hold up" the
Erie Reorganization bills pending agreement
on track elevation In Jersey City the profess
sional politicians in Trenton opened their eyes.
Could 1t be possible that any legislator dared
incur the ill-will Of powerful corporation for
the sake Of trying to benefit a thankless public
The lobbyists and their associates don't I'M
derstand any policy based on that line. Had
there been weak spot in the armor OF Voor-
hees's reputation they might have passed around
that significant word which covers all kinds
of Matchmaking in Trenton:
Strike"
Even the most reckless Of them dared not
hint at anything like that In connection with
the name Of Voorhees, and the Erie Railroad
Company's managers were wise enough to con-
cede that the young Senator from Union was
animated by the best of motives. He was ready
to meet and discuss the question with them, and
to all their arguments and overtures he made
this reply:
You want certain legislation from Jersey
City wants you to elevate your tracks l. for
one shall not consent to the passage Of your
bill until you settle the elevation matter with
Jersey City"
The company needs those reorganization bills.
The companys managers were quickly con-
WINGED that track elevation must be faced this
year or next and they finally agreed TO terms
which they had declared week before to be
preposterous. The tracks shall be elevated, and
II will pass into history that this improvement
was accomplished through Republican Legs-
lature, after vain and paintive appeals to many
of It's Democratic predecessors. Maybe con-
Alteration Of this fact will make 1t difficult to
roll I'D another 5000 Democratic majority In
Hudson County.
LAKEWOOD WEDDING.