New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-02-25
NEW JERSEY NEWS.
AsaJerseymenSeesk It.

AS noted in Thursdays Tribune the annual
fancy dress ball vas held in the State Insane
Hospital. Morris Plains. on Washinstons Sr'h-
day. This Is an affair that everybody IN the
institution looked forward to with more OF less
eagerness. Physicians. nurses and patients are
the dancers. and II il a picturesque spec'acie 70
see them circulating around in their varied anu
artistic costumes. The man who does the rios'
worrying in advance about the affair Is So'iee
THE Kerry Star" patiert and poet, who has
f. Aears assumed the burden OF writing an Que
for Va occasion. Mr.. Coffee is said to have
spent three months on this years produc'ioh'
and there Is internal evidence TO back up this
statement. There are twenty-six verses ana INC
author has succeeded in Juggling into these
nearly all the prominent figures or Greek my
thology, besides comollnenting by name all the
dancers. These are the concluding lines:
n The Hq BID 6 Spd ro 6s'sf our
To. those moments Of gladness are sad 70 recA'''
AS they put end 10 our Fancy Dress DAN
Rumor hath II that Assemblyman Squire Is 70
stand sponsor for a bill Ito prevent the creation
OF colonels and brgadier-ge generals by the who'e-
sale" Why should Mr.. Squire do thatE Fer-
sonally he Is exceedingly good natured' anu II
is possible that some anti military persons nave
coaxed him into making such promise WITHOUT
giving him time to think Of the dire results GER
tain to follow its fuhment New-Jersey mas
always had. until recently, healthy crop OK
generals and colonels but there Is cruei ais
position nowadays to reduce the quantity. FOR
instance, every Governor that preceded MI
Voorhees, had a staff Of handsome and brand
now rolonels made TO order, but the present
Chief Magistrate has perversely refused to APP
noint any staff That was bad enough. but AS
semblyman Squire's proposed bill is the last
straw There should be mass meeting OF all
the colonies and prospective colonies to protest
against the continuation OF this hostile policy
Even colonies have rights
who will deny that the good times promised oy
the Republicans II William Mckinley was elected
President OF the United States have not material.
lied? Nowhere in the country Is L more apparent
than right here IN the city OF Paterson Net IN
many years have things been so lively az tle TO- o.
motive shops and they are never busy except when
the times are very good indeed There are no soup
houses or public reet coIain a. e The eection
OF the Republican ticket at the last fresIdehiiIaI
election Does any one imagine tna' me ms
people such fools as to think OF cnansS ~
state Of affairs at the next National eecuoh'
paterson Call.
Business is picking up all over New-Jersey'
though not so fast in some branches OF trade as
in others The best feature OF the returning
briskness is the indication OF permanency tha'
&c coming with IT, Paterson usually feels de-
preston and a reaction too. quicker than other
manufacturing cities in New-Jersey, because 1t
ia almost wholly dependent on the locomotive
and silk Industries and these are among the
first to feel either financial contraction or eX-
mansion Newark again makes so many Things
leather jewelry shoes. buttons. thread ma
chinery. hats etc-that it is rarely hit so nara
az its neighbors and increases in business come
more gradually.
Newark peopla wasted millions OF gallons OF
| water during the cold spell. a shortage OF the
Penuannock supply resulted and Passaic water
| was turned into the mains to make up the de-
fclency Harrison Van Duyne, Commissioner
| OF the Street and Water Board proposes 70
| provide against the necessity for using polluted
water by introducing meters to be used In the
| PREMISES where the waste Is notorious. mat
seems like a simple. straightforward plan py
which consumers shall be charged according 10
| the amount Of water used, and most or the
| waste checked But the lynx-eyed Democratic
politicians have discovered that the proposition
| covers a villanous scheme to put their party In
a hole The meters are to be used in saloons
| and the bills Of the saloonkeepers would run up
! m FIVE or ten times what they are now. AS the
Street and Water Board Is Democratic tha'
party would lose a large percentage OF the
| saloon vote in consequence.
Having unmasked this diabolical Republican
scheme 10 hurt the Democratic party by alienat-
ing the saloon vote. II is not to be expected that
Commissioners Of the true Jeffersonian faith
will permit its contamination. To restrict
| saloonkeepers in their use and abuse of water
! is q thing not to be thought Of. What though
| their waste makes it necessary to send Passaic
sewage through the faucets in Newark house
| holds, What though sickness and disease he
! causel thereby! Better that than Cypress the
poor saoonkeepers and turn their votes against
: the Democratic party
| The people? Oh. yes, the people have votes
| ,,d sometimes they know how to use them
effectively
EX-SENATOR Vanderbilt TO BE TRIED.