The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1900-03-16
on Friday and in the Valley on Wedne'
day evening.
ROXBURY.
WALTER DALEY GIVES HIS IMPRESSIONS
OF NEW JERSEY.

Editor of HE BEE, Dear Sir: You
will think it strange 10 receive letter
from one of your subscribers, who is seek
ing some fresh air among the sslt mead
ows Of Passaic, n. j., to clear oul his
lunga. Ir seems That some other place,
like Litchfir Id, Warren or Hard Sctab-
BILE, would be more fifth z place to find
pure air, and nc doubt that either place
would be better in July weather. But ae
I was informed when arrived here that
cold wave was coming on and that
the weather maker were going to start
their machine on Sunday mornir & last,
| concluded TO run the chances and see
what charges were going to happen.
And sure enough it started ia with rain
and snow which frCz9 so hard that prop
erty owners we're Lot able to clean off
the sidewalks Ia front of their residences.
However it just agreed with my consti-
tuition to have it stick and hang On and
at this writing, February u, IL 80 q. m,
it is hanging on yet. AS l stood on the
draw bri0ge over the Pas .aic river, yes
terdsy afternoon, vito my escort, Mr.
Swset of 221 Gregory avenue, could
not help buI admire the scenery that lay
around me while was inhaling that in
MIGRATING breeze which was blowing at
the rate Ut 40 knots per hour. 1t did
not take loEg 20 fill my lungs with fresh
air. So we adiodrned to warmer cor
ner, in the LibrAry in the City Lall,
buiding that the people of Passaic feel
proud Of, well they roay, as its location Is
81 situated that you can see all over Pas
sale, with the river in the foreground,
WiudiI e it's way in a semicircle through
Two very neat and clean banks, which
have some OF the largest lumber yards
built on their edges that ever saw. The
depth of the channel Of the river at To e
drawbridge is seven feet at low water
mark and it rises three feet at high wa
ter mark, so that some large boats come
into Passsic. AS the river winds around
in and out to Patterson, there ia some
talk of dredging the river as far as Pas.
tersen so vessel, can deposit their bur
dens in that city, As it Is customary
with me when travelling CT visiting, in a
strange place, L try to get acquainted
with the habits and manner Of tae peo-
pie 30 as to get better idea of what the
prevailing topic CT discussion Is upper
most in their mind. | find in some
places that it is politics. More places,
like Pennsylvania, the labor question.
But in Jersey State all that have trav-
sled through IL, it ia all excitement over
she Boer British war and no matter
where you 60 hers or what crowd of
people you mix in with, whether you
ride on the railroad or on the trolley, the
people are excited over the manner and
heroic way that the Beers are conducting
Especially since Cropje,
hat noble defender of his little band of
1000 men has stood the test of that So
Jailed noble British thousands and thous- |
ands of brave men also, but who have |
,he most tyranical general that ever
men to destruction, Lord |
Kitchener. II the majority of the people |
,ere had their way (snd English people |
It that) there woulo be one less Lord. |
n my next will treat on the labor ques- |
ion.-T Walter Daley.