Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-05-13
BRIEF JERSEY HAPPENINGS.

be held this year September 27 to Oc-
tober 1.
Since CoiuInbus Day has beer
made holiday, there are now IL leg,
al holidays in New Jesrey. t~0
The Senators of New Jersey gave
a dinner ito Governor Fort at Arrow
Head Inn, in New York City, May 10
The Atlantic City Board of Health
is going to vigorously enforce the or
dinance forbidding splitting on the
Boardwalk.
Two hundred and seventy-two new
laws were enacted at the recent ses-
sion of the Legislature. This is fifty
more than we're passed last year.
Smallpox has now all been wiped
out of Camden and the last patients
were dismissed from the hospital this
week. The institution is now closed.
A victim of a rare ailment known
as Hodgkin's disease, or lymphatic
anaemia, Jacob Beideman, 81 years
old, was found dead in bed at his
home, 81 South Fourth street, Cam
den, Monday.
An immense bird weighing about
one hundred pounds was captu red
by Captain George Doughty, early
Wednesday morning of last week, on
the meadows back of Atlantic City
It is not native of these parts and
is quite curiosity.
Benjamin Hirschman, former re-
spected shoe merchant, now under
$4,000 bail as an accessory to the
burning of his store, at Atlantic City
in January last, was taken to Mays
Soil 1zfrx h ses
friends failed to find a bondsman.
An oil portrait of the late General
William ]. Sewell, painted by one of
his relatives and presented to the
State by his family was received at
the State House on Tuesday. The
portrait will be hung in the Office of
the adjutant general.
At the convention of the Episcopal
Church, held in Burlington last week
it was decided to have committee
Investigate the proposition of chang
ing back to the cathedral system of
management instead of the present
conversational system.
1T is expected that 10000 fremen
will gather in Newark June IL to IA,
when the exempt firemen of that city
will dedicate their new home. Ar
rangements have been made to feed
and lodge severed thousand dremen,
and every county in the State will be
represented, as well as five adjoining
States.
Governor Fort has appointed his
son, Secretary Leslie r. Fort, to rep
resent him at the coming Alaskan
Pacific Exposition in Seattle. Mr.
Iy1,-t r.v;T1 o4fnp1 tho ofopir, Of tho
: fair, accompanied, by Mrs. Fort. He
will act with Isaac H. Hall, of Pat
erson, and George B. Muchmore, of
Summit, who have ben appointed to
represent New Jersey at the exposi-
tion.
The force of local men having left
work on the new sewage disposal
plant, claiming that the foreman was
unduIy harsh with them and wanted
them to work ten hours a day for
$1.50, a gang of laborers was import-
ed to Mi1lville from Philadelphia.
Councilman Neal, chairman of the
Sewer committee, and Mayor Smith
appeared upon the scene and forbid
the contractor to put the men to
work, owing to the provisions of the
contract that local labor, where pos
returned to Philadelphia without do
ing any work.
While examining an old trunk that
had been thrown ON the public dump
at Vineland, Adolph Steinader dis
covered a secret drawer in which
were 101 coins of several nations,
thought to be worth considerable
money The trunk had been around
the railroad station for years and
was supposed to be entirely empty.
Declaring his belief that churches
and other charitable institutions sup
ported by the public have no more
right to tax exemption than any other
properties, Councilman William Rid
die, head Of the Finance committee
of the Atlantic City Council, killed
a proposition made by Councilman
Parker to exempt the churches from
paving assessments by making an
amendment to include saloons in the
exemption.