The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-02-06


elected president OF the Union Made
Garment Manufacture of America.
The Jr. o. u. A. M. will erect a CON
crete block building at Morris Plains
from plans by j. J.. Vreeland, of Dover.
The N. Y. and N. J. Telephone Co.
has purchased a lot on springfield ave-
nue.. Summit, and will erect a building
for its own use.
A new tunnel is to be constructed
at Mine Hill for Joseph Wharuon'S
Baker mine. 1t will be 1900 feet long,
nine feet high and ten feet wide.
The Mountain Ice Company has
laid off all it's men at the Waterloo
and Jefferson houses, owing to a fear
that no ice will be obtained this win
ter.
1t is estimated that there are over
sixty building under construction ia
Summit at present and yet the indi-
cations are that there will not be
enough to meet the spring demand.
Bloomfield has renewed a five-year
contract with the p. S. Corporation for
| / 200 G. p. arcs at $40 each, a reduction
OF S2per lamp from the previous con-
tract. Incandescents cost SIC each.
The Dover Garage Company has
purchased a passenger car for their
livery service which will comfortably
seat twelve people. 1t will be deliv-
cred March Is and Immediately put in
service.
The fish wardens have placed white
naSs and other game fish in Lake Mus
constcOng. Five cans were placed in
Lake MusconetcOng and three in
Budd's Lake. This is a second Install
ment as large number were placed in
each lake about a month ago.
Gas viii be cheaper in Newton, the
Newton Gas & Electric Company hav-
ing reduced the price of gas five per
cent. since January 5th, making the
present discount fifteen per cent. The
net price per LOCO feet will therefore
be lighting, 81. 60; combination, 81. 40;
fuel, Sl.20.
John j. Fields, the venerable Hack
ettStown millionaire, has given 81, 000
to the Sch0oley's Mountain Presbyter-
ian church. The money. however, IS
and then only 800 a year is to be ex-
tracted from the principal and is TO be
used for its support.
Arrangements are being made for a
Township Sunday School Institute,
to be held in Dover in the PreSbyter-
ian Church on Tuesday, February 10Th,
There will be Two sessions, afternoon
and evening. Several of the best in
StructOrs in the State will be present
Glass instruction in the special
branches of Sunday school work will
be given in the afternoon.
The Empire Steel and Iron Com
pany, which Operases the Mt. Hope
mines, is preparing to make some inn
prOvemenbs. The old bucket hosting
apparatus in the Elizabeth shaft will
be removed, and new skip road, pro-
vided with all modern appliances, will
be installed In its places. The Eliza
beth shaft is about $50 feet deep, and
the skip road, which will be con-
|structed on an inclined plane, will be
over 800 feet long.
The method of taking ore out of the
mines in cars will soon be thing OF
the past at the Richard Mine. A
force of men are now engaged in in
Stalling large conveying belts, each
200 feet in length, in these well-known
and rich producing ore mines. These
belts, which are to be operating by
electricity, will be the first used in
any mines of Morris county. and the
installation of these will make every
mining device in said mine up-to-date
In every particular.
The business section of Summit Is
to be adorned with another handsome
structure to be erected by the New
York and New Jersey Telephone Com
pany. The tremendous growth of that
company'S business convinced It's
managers some time ago that new
quarters would be necessary and this
week lot was purchased from the
Bonnet Estate through Eugene @.
Pierson on the south side Of Spring
field avenue between the Long and
Walters buildings. The price paid for
the land has not been diYulged but it
is SAID to have been the highest ever
paid for property in Summit.