The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1902-10-15
FROM THE FIRST WARD.

We oftimes wonder why the different
states are more forward i'll regard to
the pensioning of the old soldiers.
Ohio had in 1900 tea, 600 pensioners
upon the roll whose aggregate pay
way $i5l, 040.9S. Pennsylvania had II
much larger force in the army than
Ohio, and in 1900 t04, 697 pensioners,
with an aggregate of 1888, 229 81. New
Jersey is still cut more in proportion
than Pennsylvania.
Some pretty stiff arguments are put
mp for and against the coal miners.
We find that those who get their bread
and butter the easiest are the ones
most opposed to the miners, and favor
the operators. A man can talk pretty
lond when he has his winter supply of
coal III the cellar and fixed income;
but how different with the laboring
man who depends upon his daily la
Dor for his supply of fuel and provis-
ions. Wood is quoted at $1.75 per
load, and this means at least one and
half days labor to purchase the same j..
Then the same amount of labor is re-
quired each week to pay his rent. Con-
sequently it is easily seen what
amount he has left for his living. Now,
under these conditions can we blame
the laboring class for organizing to
better their condition.
South Main street held up fairly
well under the recent heavy rains, and
the sidewalk is in fairly good condi-
ton, with one exception. This one
exception has been nuisance to
IN tiic for the past ten or fifteen years.
And III all these years we have never
had n Council in the First Ward
which had the nerve to tackle the job.
1t is not necessary for me to mention
this one particular place, but will sim
ply mention that it is only q stone
throw from the Lambertville Rubber
Company's works. AS the bad wealth
or approaches, this one little piece of
walk becomes regular mudhole; and
many is the uneomplimentary re-
marks heard from those who wade
through the slush and mud in their
seasons.
RUBBER SHOP WAGES INCREASED.
The employees of the Whitehead
Rubber Company have received an adj
vance of five per cont. in wages. The
raise was voluntary. These increases
are pretty small. but they show ten
dency in the right direction Living
commodities have advanced about %
per cent. in the last six months, con
sequently these little advances in
wages are appreciated all the more.
In town where | lived for several
years, there were six Hotels running
bars, and were coming mint of
money, rs they Ind no competition
for the drinking mans niekels. Every
time new man wouid come into the
town and attempt to start hotel or
saloon or Wholesale liquor store, the
real nice and good citizens would get
out remonstranee, and petition the
court to grant no more licenses i'll the
town than those already held 10y their
frinds. Thus these six particular
landlords grew rich and prosperous,
and made their bars the finest in the
land. And the young men felt that
they were hob-nobbing with the best
of the towns society, while leaning
over the bar and looking up through Il
beer schooner ut the half-nude pictures
on the wall. They kept drinking, and
helped to keep the lamp of prosperity
burning behind the screen, and the
road to the burning lake was filed
with young men skating on the slip
perry rocks of sin and folly, towards
life of misery and grim-eyed want,
with pint of kill-me-quick rot gut in
heir pistol pocket, and pletzel crumbs
sitting down along their timber legs.
These bind-sided reasoners never
stopped to think that even bar in
town, with an unlimited supply of
rum, can keep everybody fillol up to
the nozzle, just M easily as though
there were fifty smaller drinking
places in the town.