The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-12-19

committees and, it is said, he is expert
encing dificulty in making them up in a
manner to produce the least friction. It
is reported that lie is going to Essex
some time during the coming week to
talk the matter over with Leader Duff
field with a view to Strengthening out the
kinks which have cropped out in that
County. 1t is known that Mr.. Kaiser
wants to be at the head of the Stationery
Committee, and that Mr.. Colby has been
considered by the Speaker as the proper
person for the craftsmanship of the
House Committee on Appropriations.
1t is well understood that determined
effort will be made to have the coming
session of the Legislature pass bills pen
mitting the killing of robins and prohib-
iting the shooting ofquail for three years.
Little, if any, opposition is expected to
the latter bill, but che former will be
contested strenueusly. DIR. Louis II.
Foulks, the State fish and game warden,
makes a vigorous defense of the robin.
He does not question the fact that the
bird does do damage by eating cherries
and other small fruit, but the loss in this
respect, he says, is greatly overestimated.
Both the State and government re-
ports, he says, show that most of the
complaints against the robin in this re-
spect come from the suburbs of cities,
towns and villages where the ground is
pretty well cleared of fruits and berries.
AT certain times of the year the food of
the robin consists of forty-two per cent.
of wild fruit, and if the wild ones are
partially cleared off the birds will make
good their loss by eating the cultivated
ones The solution to the whole prob
lem, Dr. Foulks says, is to set out cherry
trees for shade, Scr they will thus furnish
plenty of cherries for both the farmer
and the robin, as well as shade for the
farmer and his cattle.
Asbury Park promises to be much in
evidence in the coming Legislature. Be
sides the fight which Mayor Frank Ten
Brock has announced he intends to re-
/
new for the ocean boulevard several an
nexation bills are under way. One of
these provides for the annexation Of Nep-
tune Township to the Park This has
aroused the opposition of "Founder''
Bradley, who never loses an opportunity
to apply the latest fad to something con
nected with his beloved Asbury. SO he
has inserted advertisements in local pa
pers which he has headed "Frenzied''
Annexation" and in which he calls upon
the property owners of the Park as they
value their real estate to frown down the
project to annex Neptune Township.
Another Asbury annexation scheme
contemplates taking within her borders
Loeb Arbor, the small resort lying be-
tween Asbury and Aflenhurst. The prin-
cipal argument for this latter scheme ap-
pears to be that if Asbury doesn't take
Loeb Arbor in, Allenhurst, her rival as a
seaside resort, will.
| There is talk in Hudson of changing
the Gnichtel building loan law. 1t is
claimed that the provision of the act re
| quiring subscriptions of at least $4,000
| of shares to be made before the assoca-
! ton can be Incorporated is unnecessary,
is Incorporated. The provision that the
treasurer shall be the custodian of all
| funds and securities is also said to be
a hardship, as the securities and funds
/ should be kept in the associations safe,
not only as a matter of safety, but to
allow the officers to see that the securi-
ties are in the possession of the associa-
ton. 1t is also claimed that the limita-
ton Of the borrowing power to thirty per-
cent. of the amount actually due on sub
scrptions at the time of making the loan
is found to be Inadequate, and it is be-
lieved that the association should be au-
thorized to borrow as much as the banks
will lend them.
This, it is claimed, would have an as
set basis and enable the associations to
take advantage of the season when there
is a brisk demand for loans and give
them time during the dull season to catch
up. It is further argued that the limita-
tion in relation to investments which pre-
vents one association from borrowing
from another is a hardship both to old
associations where all borrowers have
borrowed or have withdrawn to other as