The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-05-14
ALL KINDS OF
e. u 3 3 Fl r $
Highest Quality,
Lowest Prices.
Wholesale and Retail.
MONARCH RUBBER CO. F,
AZ BRIDGE ST.
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

The same old gang were having
their usua, drunk all last week. They
seem to have full sway and no inter-
ference from the police. 1t was hoped
and expected that when tho day po-
liceman was appointed, he would oc-
casionally run some of this gang in,
but such does not seem to be the case.
Now we do not wish to find fault con-
corning the police force, but it seems
strange this gang is allowed to go
wabbling along the street and even
insulting decent people, and never be
molested.
South Main street has been cleaned
up pretty nicely by the street men the
past week and now has rather pretty
appearance, with two exceptions. One
of them is near Feeder street; the
other is just above Mt. Hope street,
where couple of entertainments had
to be left to break the overflow from
Franklin street in case of another
heavy rain. Now all that is needed is
a few carloads of broken stone to
complete the job.
Houses are scarce in tho First ward,
and rents have been advanced. The
supply is not equal to the demand.
If some enterprising company would
start boom in this liue of industry, a
small fortune could be realized from
the rents, as twenty-five houses could
be rented at paying prices at once.
The railroad shops and the rubber fac
tory are both located in the First
ward aud people who work in these
places want to live somewhere near
their work.
What our city needs to be up to
date, Is first, free mail delivery.
This can be had by simply asking for
it through our representative in Con-
gress. We are also much in need of
railroad facilities, rs when one com
pany monopoli2e the whole business,
they become too Independent. The
Reading Railroad is so near and yet
so. far. Our citizens should endeavor
to have them como across the river.
This river does not belong to the
Pennsylvania II. r., but to the citi-
zena Of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
We also need trolley connection be-
tween our city and Hopewell, which
would bring us nearly as close to New
York city as to Philadelphia. We
also need an opera house. If there is
another city in the United States
without an opera house, your cores
pondent has failed to locate it. The
people don't seem to make any en-
deavor to get out of the old rut, but
drift along from year to year. L will
venture to say that one-half of our
leading citizens don't even patronize
their home paper and can't tel
whether our town Council meet once
month or once year. We know
our town Council could do wonders il
the way of inducing railroads, trolleys
and other companies to investigate
with n view to push their enterpris
in this direction. But then again
we must take into consideration tina
our counoilmen receive no compensa
ton for their labor and under these
circumstances we must not expect toe
much from them and this also has q
tendency to make them more indie
pendent. Our councilmen should re-
ceive fair compensation for their
services and in the same way as the
honorable mayor and city clerk is
paid. The citizens of LambertviIle
will never begrudge salary to the
man worthy his hire.