The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-06-03
TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1902.
Notes and Opinions.
From the Hoboken O6seroer:

from bne hODOkeD OOS6TU6T:
The contest between the state Of New
Jersey, represented by Governor Murphy,
and the widow of the late Chancellor
Green for the possession of the old Green
homestead adjoining the State House
grounds in Trenton. is apt to attract more
than statewide interest before it is over.
The Governor has set his eye on the home
stead for the executive mansion he seems
to be bent upon giving the state as one of
the monuments of his administration.
For ourselves we are not entirely at
variance with the idea of the state having
mansion for her Governor 1t does not
look well to see this head of the common
wealth floating around the hotels for his
food and lodging. A state establishment
where he can entertain will help to give
him the $4,000 year flavor he ought to
carry around with him.
But then, we must confess, we do not
find much sympathy In the state press, in
Guiding even that of his own party, with
the Governors movement to establish it.
The sentiment seems to be rather against
it as needless expenditure Some of the
papers saw that even some of our $40. 600
year Governors would not know what to
do with such an establishment if they had
it.
The Paterson Press says
Few persons know the extent of the
smallpox epidemic in this state. For the
seven months marking the close of 1901
there were 800 cases; in the five months
OF 1902 fully 1000 cases have been re-
ported to the State Board of Health
Newark recently reported $50, and
ughout Hudson there were 545 cases,
H ackettstown had 1870 and Camden 100
while the rest of the cases were scattered
about the state. 1t is complimentary to
the municipal authorities that the disease
was well handled, inasmuch as only 148
deaths occurred. Hackettstown submitted
to general vaccination, which stamped
out the disease. Had there been enforced
vaccination the epidemic would have been
checked in November last and the num-
Der of cases might have been 100 instead
of 1900 Paterson has reason to rejoice
over the fact that the energetic and intel
igent efforts of its health officers have
prevented any serious Judgment of the
disease here
Edward Taylor, the boy who murdered
Charles Hyde, is too young to send to
send to state prison. He is said to be
about 10 years old, having been sent to
work when little over IA
1t is sad case. What mistake pa
rents make when they take their children
out of school and hurry them into the
factory In some cases, perhaps, it can
not be avoided, but many children are de-
MED fair chance in life because of the
short sightedness of their parents. A
little sacrifice could keep the children at
school.
One cannot see the throngs of small
girls and boys pouring out of the facto-
ries at eventide without wondering wheth-
er such conditions are really necessary.
Must our industrial supremacy always be
maintained by robbing women and chill
dren OF health and joyi Must the blood
OF the little ones always be offered on
the altar of Mammoth
The modern factory system has its
blessings but it also has its dark side.
Thousands Of poor fathers and widowed
mothers are driven by necessity to send
their children to work. As long as this
state of affairs exists so long will our fac
tory system need reforming. Attempt to
justify the wrong as one may, the fact re-
mains that a child is entitled to a fair
chance in this life Trenton Times
The average value of ton of coal on
a car in the hard coal region is about
SLIGO, and the average cost of transport
ing it by rail is about rs cents hundred
miles. This should make it worth about
$2.36 a ton in the yard, and the cost of
delivery is not over 20 cents a ton, so that
the actual value of a ton of coal should
be about $261. Allowing something over
III per cent. profit for handling, it should
not cost much over So ton. A combina-
ton has forced the price up to an average
OF 20 ton under ordinary circumstances.
The strike has enabled local dealers to
charge 1886. and there is a threat that it
will be $7.35 next week. There is. no
strike in the soft coal region, and because
OF the contracts entered into by the
miners and operators to cover the current
year there is no possibility of a strike,
yet the local dealers have twice advanced
the price of soft coal since the anthracite
strike began. Jersey City Journal.