The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-08-18

Sturgis Brothers will build a con-
crete wall five feet high and eighty
five feet long to protect the new gas
holder under construction on Centre
street for the Morristown Gas Light
Company
Collins Weir is drawing plans for
three story brick apartment house
forty two by fifty six feet in size which
Mrs. o. N. Hughson plans to erect on
Clinton place on the site OF the pres
ent brick barn. The building will &C
commodate six families.
The Twenty-eighth Annual Picnic
of Patrons of Husbandry, OF Essex,
Morris and Union counties, OF N. D.,
will be held at Verona Lake Park, on
Thursday, August Goth, 1908. Speak
| ing in the rear grove at two thirty by
ID. H. Agans, w. L. of n j. State
Grange, J. d. McCracken and others.
A life size bronze statue of the late
Samuel Sloan, former president of the
Lackawanna Railroad Company has
been erected in the center Of the ferry
plaza at Hoboken. 1t was ordered
| twenty years ago by John Ell. Starin,
as present, but Mr. Sloan would not
allow its erection during his lifetime.
| Even the world famous roads of
France are becoming seriously dam
aged by the automobiles that are con-
stantly laundering over them, that
great alarm is felt lest they be ruined,
and an international congress has been
called to meet at Paris, October IL, to
discuss plans for saving them from
destruction.
The police arrested Mrs. Murray,
KrOnen and GuS5avuS Ayers on We'd
nesday afternoon in the woods in the
rear of Memorial Hospital. The first
two were sent to jail, while Ayers was
| discharged. During the night, Casey
and Minogue, two well-knOwn men In
the police court, were arrested for
fighting and sent to jail.
Felix and Michael Alfonsto were
committed to jail on Friday as wit.
nesSes in the case of the emitting OF
| Nicholas Marinaro. Suspicious had
| been entertained for some days that
they knew about the affair and the at
tempt of one of the brothers who was
a foreman for Antonio Costa to get
the wages of the other lead to action.
The chambers of Chancellor Mahlon
! Pitney are being rearranged and I'M
proved during his absence. Two par
| titions have been taken out so that
| there are now two large rooms instead
of four smaller ones. All the trim has
been removed, and will be replaced
with quartered oak and floor of oak
will be laid. The rooms will be nicely
decorated
Edward Howell is the engineer and
contractor for the construction OF
twelve turf tennis courts at the Morris
County Golf Club. The new courts
| will be built between the club house
and railroad extending back toward
the Shipper property. The soil will
be stripped from about two acres OF
ground and restored after the tract is
brought to regular sub-grade.
| Preparations are already under way
for the Morristown Field Club Horse
Show. A permanent stable one hun
bred and fifty-five feet long by four
teen feet wide will be erected in the
edge of the woods near where the tenn
porary s table has heretofore been
erected. 1t will contain eight box
stalls and sixteen ordinary stalls. John
T. Ritter is grading The the site of the
building.
James NcNany, ST., carpenter of
Chatham, was badly injured while at
work on Tuesday. He was putting up
a wire fence and was using the stretch
ing device, with chain and stick to
hold it. He started to publ when the
chain snapped and the stick flew,
striking him terrific blow on the
thigh. No bones were broken, but
the injured man will be laid up for
some time.
Young Kellar who was brought to
Morristown Memorial Hospital two
weeks ago suffering from the result of
an accident at Dover made friends
while here with Russell Nancarow, of
King street. On Saturday they start
ed for New York using some money
Nancarrow had in his possession to
finance the trip. Young Nancarrow
arrived home the next morning with
the story that Kellar had robbed him
of his money.