The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-10-04
THE TOWN
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By the Woman'S Town
improvement Association.
PLANNING FOR MORE WORK
The executive committee Of our
Town improvement society invites all
the women who subscribe to this as
sociation to attend hereafter the reg
ular monthly meetings at the hall OF
the Y M. G. a. The next meeting
will be on October 3rd, at 1890 a. m.
1t is claimed by some that there is no
use ia subscribing to d society unless
one can be active on a committee. 1t
| is needless to say that mem bership on
committees is limited, but an oppor-
tunity is now offered to every subscrib-
er of 81 year, to attend the executive
meetings and to have voice in the
work which shall be planned for the
coming winter. In other words. the
various committees shall do the bid
ding of the women who are interested
enough to subscribe to and attend
these meetings for the betterment Of
our town, which is, without question,
sadly in need of improvement in many
directions.
This Woman's Town Improvement
committee was organized on February
7th, 1910, and although there has been
much important work undertaken and
with good results, there is neverthe-
less very little outward sign of i'm
provement. Unfinished roads await
ing repairs, necessarily account for the
accumulation of an extra amount of
dust on the sidewalks, but this does
not excuse the householder from hav-
ing the sidewalk swept once a day,
nor is there any reason why papers
and other scraps should be seen on the
streets, 1t means that public opinion
is not yet sufficiently aroused, and
that most of our people lack any sense
of civic pride, or public sentiment.
After a summer in New England, one
returns to view Morristown with a
feeling of mingled shame and despair.
In many streets, uneven tagging and
curb lines, or roadside of weeds or
unkept grass, and often broken fences
and unoccYpied property that has be
come a wilderness, give an atmosphere
of disorder that should be unknown
even in the poorest streets of such a
town. as ours.
Some claim that it is because we
have such a large foreign element
here, but that cannot be, because in
the Flagler street quarter the Italians
have formed an improvement society
of their own, with gradual good re-
suits and a fine example of improve
ment is to be seen down on Madison
street, near Mucculloch avenue, which
used to be far less orderly in appear
ance. In many directions we require
changes from the old time ways, and
why not begin with one Of the SIM
plest of our needs and have greater
number Of hitching posts in front Of
| those houses where the delivery wag-
ons cannot driye to the back door. Is
it fair to ask the tradesman to deliver
your goods and not to provide hitch
ing post (instead of tree) for possibly
new horse that has not learned to
stand and count the number Of trees
that are not SCARED by the horses.
Perhaps the most important matter
proposed is for the establishment>of a
modern and sanitary method Of re-
moving and disposing Of garbage and
ashes by the town. Already petition
to this effect has been forwarded to
the board of aldermen.
"a semi-annual report of some work
already accomplished follows
The junior civic committee has sue
ceeded in meeting with all the child
rem in the schools of this town and
these young people have shown great
interest In the plans to make Norris
town a city beautiful and have most
OF them pledged themselves to help to
keep the town clean but, as yet, little
can be expected of them in this mat
ter since the new rubbish boxes have
not yet arrived, although ordered four
months ago. 1t is hoped that the
boxes will soon be in place. The
children united are a great force in a
town and we look to them for good
work in future reforms.
The playground committee gave a
flag and some baby swings to the play
ground association which is all it has
had the opportunity to do. The play
ground is doing SO much for the chill
dren in that section of the town that
the committee hopes to be able to help
the association to establish similar
benefit some day for the children at
the opposite end Of the town.
The children's protective committee
has accomplished some good work
along various lines, and its members
are particularly interested in the NOV
ing picture shows, hoping to elevate