The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-07-19
HAPPENINGS ABOUT
THE COUNTY.

/ Dover blacksniths close their shops
lat one O'Clock on Saturdays for the
lsummer.
/ The opening Of the trolley road to-
wharton has been delayed by the fail
lure Of the necessary wire to arrive.
/ AS a solution to the road crossing
PROBLEM at brakes Pond, the Lacka-
wanna officials are trying to have the
ISpaTta highway changed to do away
with both crossings. The proposed
Inew route will keep on the farther
Iside Of the railroad
The rose growers OF Madison are
complaining of the demOralized con-.
lditiOns OF the rose market at N ew Y Ork,.
lprice being. about one-half Of the usual
ISumnner prices Florists have had an
Unusually hard season and it is hoped
THAT they will be more fortunate this
looming season.
Horace j. SuberS, OF New York, has
bought a majority OF the stock Of the
Somervile Water COmpany at $40 a
lShare. 1t is not known what company
Twill control the plant. Several years
ago Mr.. Subers said he would establish
| a plant at Someryille. at that time
The bought power on the Black River
lat Potiersville.
Dover is to have a Gamewell fire
lalarm system to cost about 50, Zoe. to-
IconpriSe one storage battery, six fire
lalarm boxes, one telephone box trans
lmiIter, connected With twcnty-tive
box calls: one 80. 3 Indicator, COM
Filmed with an eight inch fire alarm
gong: one tower bell and other appur-
tenances.
| G. =. Seller, Of Summit, has been
appointed engineer for the borough Of
Chatham and this appointment gives
| him the distinction of being official
engineer in towns or bOrOughs located
| in three different counties as follows
| New Providence, in Union County +;
Milburn, in Essex County and Chat
ham in Morris County.
| Samuel Provost, young farmer EN-
ployed In Bassett's dairy at Mine Hill,
met with peculiar accident while
working III a llaymOw. He was stand
ling on a cross beam pitching hay
when he slipped off. In falling he
threw out his hands tograsp the beam
| and his wrist caught on the sharp end
of a wooden pin protruding from the
beam. He hung suspended until
| helped down by fellow worker The
| pin lacerated his wrist so that he
| tainted from the loss Of blood.
The work of moving the old rail-
road depot building to prepare for the
pushing forward of the excavating and
work on the new station was per-
| formed last week at Summit. The
depot was moved from the spot it had
occupied for almost thirty-five years
| to point about ten feet north on
Union Place, thus blocking off a part
Iof that street. The building will be
| simply in the nature of make-shift
| for protection from storms from now
until the new station is finished.
| The officials of the Morris County
| Traction Company have altered their
plans somewhat as to the placing of
| their tracks through Springfield and
Union and they hope that the object
| ion of the Union County freeh0lderS
to the construction of the line along
| the county road from Summit to the
centre of Union will be overcome.
/ The new plan is to place the tracks on
| the side of the road, clear of the tel
| ford roadbed, thereby leaving unim-
paired this fine county thoroughfare,
The Newark Sunday Call says 1T
has long been asserted that the prin-
Icipal products of Sussex county we're
Lawyers and street car men. A New
arker who has accepted the statement
as fact was surprised the other day to
| find how short the list Of Sussex law
yers really is. A list of all who were
1 admitted to the bar from 1850 to 1880
showed that only fifty-nine lawyers
had been admitted to the bar from
that county during the whole century.
Much Of this time Warren county was
part of Sussex. The explanation is
found ia scanning the list carefully.
OF the fifty-nine, no fewer than
twenty-five are instantly recognized.l
| by any well-informed layman as law
vers of more than local reputation. |
Four of them were Supreme Court
justices-the two Ryersons, Haines
and Knapp, and others filed high pos
lions. OF course, a good many Sussex
men studied law elsewhere and were
credited to other counties upon adj
mission. but on the whole the county
is not especially prolific OF limbs OF
the law. As the darkey said Of the
little chicken r his large family 4
"The size am small, but the quality