The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-08-23
Board of Trade rleeting.

In view of the present inability o
this city to make Improvements because
of its lack oil power to raise funds, the
the Board of Trade, at its meeting Mon
day night presented resolutions which
will be adopted at the September
meeting of the board and arrange pub
lie meeting to consider them. They are
as follows:
;'Whereas, The limitations of the
Morristown charter are such that no
money can be raised SDy taxation or
bonds for any considerable public inn
provements which may - desired, and
Whereas, The most practical plan
for placing the town in such a position
that it can secure funds for any i'm
provement desired is through an act OF
the Legislature, making Morristown a
city of the third-class
"Resolved, That the Board of Trade
approves of such an act and further
Resolved, That the Legislative Com
mittee wait upon the Board of Alder.
men, and with it's cooperation, if it can
be secured, and with the cooperation OF
all citizens who may favor it. take such
steps as are necessary to secure legisla-
ton to make Morristown a city of the
third class"
Many other matters of Importance
were considered, chief among them
being the report of the special health
committee of the board to investigate
the present unhealthful condition of the
toup Tho ran0rt dooc not ,1,ol,o ,,laoo
ant reading for the persons who are op-
posed to all Improvements and advance
ment of the town, but is an accurate re-
port of the condition existing along the
abandoned race-way situated between
Flagler, Race and River streets
"In view of the intimate relation be.
tween the mosquito aud malarial fever
it may be of interest to state that yeur
committee has examined several samples
of mosquitoes from the above locality
and found good proportion to be ano-
pheles or malaria carriers.
"The five generations of mosquitoes
which live and die in a single season
certainly find the above an ideal place
for breeding myriads of their kinds
"During the dry seasons Speedwell
Lake can be placed in the same cate
CORY, for it is carpeted with one mass
of green scum, We regret not having
time to prepare malarial map Of oui
city, but it is indisputable that scarcely
few residents within two blocks of Ell.
ther of these places escape this plague
during July and August.
ITO petrolize the race way would be
waste of time and mat srial the, remedy
costs nothing. Let the ash men be
given the necessary permission and il
will be filled in very short time.
"Whilst a dam has been erected neal
the head of Speedwell Lake that will
prevent its being filled with mud, still
nothing short of cleaning it out from
time to time will remove the menace.
"As several of this city's older physi
clans claim they have had more malaris
cases in their practice than for many
years. it seems to us we have been dire
lect in our duty toward preventing easi
ly preventable epidemic"
H. Vaughan,
J. E. Stiles, Committee.
H. Ensminger.
George H. Dalrymple, secretary oi
the Board, reported that he was in re-
ceipt of letter from sanitarium al
Deckertown, in relation to the establish
ment of a branch in this city. 1t wal
decided to make an effort to induce thu
owners of the sanitarium to locate
here
In communication from the Yves
tern Union Telegraph Company to thu
board the company refused to ESTABLISH
an all night service in this city but the
Postal Telegraph Company have prom
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