Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-08

| steal by a Board OF Health aud five DOCTORS
There is also a gentleman of the post
medical profession who attends to their
| failures. The Paulsboro public school has
always occupied the front rank of educa-
tional institutions in the county, and 10 the
past has graduated many well-taught
scholars, who have given proof of their
4 training here by their good work as teach
ers in other schools
One of the oldest lodges of Odd Fellows
of the State is located here Greenwich,
No 5, instituted in 1884. There is also
lodges of Knights of Pythias, Improved
Order of Red Men, of which our toast
master is the first Past Sachem, Junior Or
der United American Mechanics, Ancient
Order OF United Workmen, Daughters Of
Liberty, and Degree of Pocohontas.
In 1883 the BillIngsport-Pa Inn
proyement Company was organized for the
purpose of providing building sites for the
increasing growth of the town, and is
carrying out the original intention of Byl-
| hinge and Penn. In the ordinary history
of the average country village, there are
few that have had the advantages of a
definite plan of existence. They have
simply happened because certain businesses
were needed in the community and grouped
themselves about the blacksmith shop,
store and post Office without regard to the
stability or healthfnlness of the locality.
In the future when Billingsport-Pau
wants to increase it's growth it will have
the opportunity of doing SO on tract of
225 acres especially prepared for 1T, where
! over ESQ lots have already been sold and
many fine residences erected-where there
are well graded and shaded streets and a
dry and healthy locality.
We have good, live newspaper, the
PduIsb0ro Press. and q we'll equipped gen.
eral printing Office. We have large lum-
Der yard and store for the sale OF hardware
and builders supplies, two coal yards, two
boat building establishments lone with
steam saw and feed mill attachment,
which build aud repair some good sized
river craft, two carriage and wagon iacto-
ries, two blacksmith shops, harness shop
and basket factory. We have mica large
grocery and dry goods stores, three hotels,
one of which, the Clinton House, IL well
equipped for the travelling public, and was
founded in 1874, bat is over century
younger than the Billingsport hotel. We
have three meat markets, Two drug stores,
Two public halls, two plumbing, roofing
and tlnware establishments, two boot and
shoe stores, q public telephone service, and
several other businesses, barber shops, pro
vision stores, ice cream saloons, etc, every
thing in fact needed to supply town OF
this sizs We have cheap fare on the rail
road and frequent trains. We have large
number OF our people engaged in building
and one contractor has erected over 100
houses in the town, most OF which have
been sold. The Business Mems Associa-
ton is an energetic fact and have recently
organized fire company.
The phosphate and sulphuric acid works
employs about 100 men, the Repa1no Com
pany 150 The fishing gives employment
TO large number of our people and is OF
considerable value. A number of our cit
lzens are engaged in the shipping and sale
of farm produce and small fleet of yes
sells in this trade leaves our dock every
day in the season, besides large amount
shipped on the railroad. Our foreign com
merce in connection with the factories
would amszs you if put into figures. II
is an every day occurrence to see large
vessels loading and unloading.
We import among other things nitrate
of coda from Chill, copper ore from Spain,
phosphate rock and guanO from South
Carolina and the West Indies and sulphur
from Sicily. We send our products al
over the Uoited States, and dynamite and
chemicals to Japan, Mexico, South America
and other places. Every day long trains
of loaded cars are carried on floats to thu
roads on the other side of the river. Il has
been said that the civilization of country
can be estimated by the amount OF sui
phuric acid used. 1t takes over 5000
tons per annum for this township.
Judged by ordinary standards lhsre are
no rich men in the community, but to
offset this we have very lev if any OF The
poor claes. We are self-respecting, in
dustrious and saving people, and most OF
the houses are owned, or are in fair way
of being paid for by those living in them |
There has never been any srtiicialIy stim |
ulated growth. There has never been |
boom to the town, but our growth has
been due TO the presepcs Of varied business |
opportunities and the industrious and fru
gal habits Of the people.
To pass trom the active present to the |
hopeful future, it is ssfs to predict that a |
few weeks will see the opening of the |
Biilingsport-P ferry. A trolley |
road was surveyed soms time ago and we
hope to have that convenience 10 the near |
future. Soon we will have a broad, |
straight, deep, ship canal, in place of the
tortuous creek from the bridge to the riv |
er, thanks to the energy OF our honored
Congressman and the liberal spirit of the |
land owners We are confidently expect |
ing additional factories aud more varied |
business and an increase in the already |
good home market of our farmers. The |
Repauno Chemical Company has made ex |
tensive purchases Of land and is about
doubling Ills plant. Both factories were |
never so busy. The town has about out |
grown its township tutelage. We have
Dearly reached our 500 votes and change |
must soon come. We hope to see at
no distant day our honored Vice Judge |
Miller, land | am sure we are all ready TO |
vote for him. the Chief Burgess of the |
town, with his members OF town council, |
all serving for the honor and good Of the
town, and meeting If evenings to save
hotel bills, ali anxious to save the ANAL
items that eat up the taxes, so as to have
the larger amounts for permanent improve
msnts. We are looking forward to having
bank, to improved and lighted streets,
20 water works, to police and fire prOtec,
ton and to increase of growth, which will
come the more quickly when the outside
world recognizes our advantages and ia
cilities.
We want an increased membership and
activity in our Association. We have
plenty TO do for the town aud on the open-
ing OF the new century we owe it to our
selves to erect monument TO the memory
of the former proprietor Of West Jersey
aud the founder of the old town, Edward
Byllinge, one OF the truly great men OF
his day. For it was here in West Jersey
that the first system of government
founded on the principles of civil and re
iigious liberty was ever established. 1t
was promulgated March 81, 1916; 100
years before the Declaration OF Independ
ence, and before the founding of Philadel
phis, aud was termed the Concessions and
Agreements of proprietors, Freeholders
and Inhabitants of the Province of West
Jersey in America, and was signed frst
by Edward Byllinge, the proprietor, and
$50 others, and was declared unalterabie
and ordered read four times q year at
every court of justice in the Province
The intention of the agreement is set forth
in the following words: ut being in
tended, by the help of the Lord, that
every man inhsbiting this province shall,
so far as in as lies, be free fcom oppression
and slavery Here we lay a foundation
for future generations to understand their
liberty, as men and Christians, that they
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