Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-02-05
j ERSEY AT
WASHINGTON.
Changes in Post Office Service
at Princeton and Lawrence
ViIIe--NOre Petitions.

representative mas DHeI uGEI-
ed that tine p@ostoficc department will
make effective February ~ am inn.
]prOyement i'm the mail service De-
tween Princeton and LuNrenceyiUe
BY the new arrangement the mail be.
tween those towns viii be carried bl
trolley. The trustees Of Princeton
University and OF the LawTenceyilt
preparatory school have been greatly
interested in this matter for som,
time, and repeated efforts were made
but without success, 10 have the Ser.
vice improved. The matter was TAX.
en- up by Mr.. Wood and after he saw
The fourth assistant postmaster gen.
eral, it was referred TO the second as.
sistant and finally acted upon favora.
bly,. Mr.. Wood is much gratitied thai
the case has been finally settled.
More Petitions.
Representative Wood has received
a petition from Washington Camp.
Patriotic Sons of America, favoring
the restriction Of immigration; from
the Beacon, Lambertville, favoring
the removal of the duty on linotype
machines; and from the General Slo-
cum survivors. He has been advised
that another rural route will be es-
tablished at Bound Brook on March
40. Mr.. Wood has also been invited
to attend the Lincoln dinner at Lam
b~ertville, an annual celebration.
Two well-known citizens OF Tren-
ton, both prominent in the Junior
American Mechanics, were here on
saturday and had a conference with
Representative Howell and Wood
relative to the subject Of immigra-
tion and its restriction. They were
Rev. j. Morgan Reed, pastor of the
First Methodist church, and William
4. Miers. state council secretary.
Attacks Patent Office
J. W. Hyatt. Of Newark, writing 10
Senator Dryden, takes the Commits
sioner of Patents to task. He states
that in the annual report recently is
sued it would appear from statements
hat the patent Office is not o than
one to three months in rrear with
he work. Mr.. Hyatt says that he
fled an application in August last,
md was advised that it would be
reached February Is, 1906, six
months later. He also declares that
he filed an application at the same
time, TO which he did not get any re-
spone until five months had elapsed.
Senators Kean and Dryden have re-
ceived a petition from the New Jer-
sey State Federation OF Women's
clubs relative to a bill in the New
Jersey legislature making provision
for fire service in connection with the
preservation of the forests. Three
Morristown people, Thomas NJ. Cald-
well, F. f. Woodruff, and Louis Shell
ton, have written TO the senators pro
testing against the extension of time
for cattle on trains. J.. Ward Rich
ardson, of Bridgeton, writes in be-
half of a pension claim, and Charles
z. Eaton, of Orange, favors national
forest preservation.
Pension Bills.
Representative Fowler has intro
duced a bill to pension Thomas H.
Primrose, formerly OF Co, B. LIST n.
J.. Light Artillery, at $50 a month.
He has received a petition from Old
Glory Council, Jr. o. {. A. NJ. favor
ing the restriction of immigration
His bill to increase the pension of
Joseph J. Sparkling TO $50 a month,
has been favorably reported by the
senate, as has also q bill of MI. How
els for an increase to $40 of the
tension of Thomas T. Fallon.
The bill TO increase the pension of
Ann Belts, aged 1912 years, of Or
ange, to $24 a month. has passed
the senate. Mrs. Belts is the widow
Of Joseph E. Belts, a soldier Of the
war of 1912.
Representative Loudenslager has
received a petition from Harrison
vile Grange, Patrons OF Husbandry,
in favor of the removal of the duty
on denaturalized alcohol.
MI. and Mrs. j. c. Thorn, Of Hell
meta, Middlesex county, stepped in
this city en- route for Chicago. Mr.
md Mrs. Louis Miller. OF Long
Branch, are spending their honey
moon in this city.
Mrs. Carrot A. Hobart, widow OF
he late vice president, assisted Mrs.
Alger, wife of the senator, at a lun-
eheou the other afternoon.
w. c.. Ryerson, Mrs. Z. It. Ryer-
on and daughter. Of Newark. are
at the Shoreham; II. W. Webb, O.
Newark. is at the Raleigh H. d
aickard, Miss Dorothy Richard, o.
Summit: A. c. Cert. of L~amhertyille
Miss Hall, of Trenton, and Mr.. and
Mrs. c.. P. Schoheld, of Essex Falls
are at the New Willard.
Franklin Murphy, former governor
of New Jersey, has been appointed by
President Roosevelt as one of the Wis
I tors to West Point. c. 5. A,