The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-02-27
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

We notice report in the papers that
through the energetic efforts of the
Board of Trade of Burlington, n. j.,
large rubber plant is to locate there.
We have been agitating Board of
Trade in our city for the past two
years that would help to boom the
town. We want manufacturing estab.
lshments to locate here, and such
board to encourage such industries.
A year or so ago, a branch of a stock
ing factory tried to locate here and
! even went so far rs to set up some
machinery and turn out finished goods,
j but they got no encouragement from
onr citizens and moved to another
! locality. No doubt ifthey had received
proper encouragement, a factory would
be now in operation, with three or
four hundred hands employed. What
we want to see is Board of Trade or
ganized with Mt least hundred good
business men upon its rolls-men who
can and will back their influence, if
necessary, with capital. Vineland,
New Jersey, is to have one of the
biggest leather shoe factories in the
country and its Board of Trade is
booming the town to their utmost
ability, while we are dragging along in
the old ruts and our population has
not increased nearly as much as it
ought. We could mention or suggest
other improvements, such as free mail
delivery, better service in our police
| department, n trolley road. improve
ment in our mail and post office regula-
tons, and have them run for the ac-
commodation of our citizens, sewer the
streets, build an opera house, and i'm.
prove the sidewalks. All these things
could be attended to with but little
trouble.
And now we make n chalk mark on
the tape-line of time and saw off the
nineteenth century and drop it down
into the sea of oblivion, and then go
about our daily business just as though
We haven't done anything worthy of
comment | often wonder how it would
be if there were no men standing
around at the critical moment when
the century mark slips along; if no.
body was there to saw off the old cen
tury when the mark hobs up. Time
would, no doubt, go dragging it along
behind the cart of progress and spill
out whole lot of past events. How
old ii does make fellow feel when he
realizes that he has lived out ono cen.
fury and has got his winter coal and
hard cider laid by for entering the
now century with resolution to live
through her or burst. | feel to-day as
though I had sawed off dozen cen
turies and was good for dozen more
or less. But after ALL what is life but
II bundle of circumstances tied up with
the old suspender of chance We do
not make our own life any more than
We make sunlight and the little green
apples. The individual man depends
upon the whole of creation to help cut
the string and shake out the bundle of
circumstances necessary for his daily
use II it were not for the newspaper
world, including the publishing and
reading of the pross, might be lime
burner, goose shepherd, the chief
clerk on side-hlll farm, a rag picker
or n beggar. did not make the con.
ditions that dropped into my life, but
simply trained my faculties to max,
the best of them, rs l pull them out
] belong to the world - the world
doesn't belong to me,