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for 2.5G9-ton ship go over the grin1y
freight piers
While the clock is marking of each minute
through the ten hours of the factory day.
one Jersey City establishment is turning
out S25 lead pencils. The 540o9,Oo0 pencils
which this firm makes i'm year would give
all the school children in the United States
three pencils apiece.
In the same minute another factory has
made 2Ts cakes of brand of laundry
soap of which il is especially proud. The
same concern boasts that II furnishes shaw
ing soap for soo.ooocOO shaves during the
year-abOut 400 q minute for the hours
when the plant is running.
But stranger, sadder things than soap or
commuters come out of Jersey city. When
the buying season has been profitable one
no less than los .OO0Oe0 eggs are i'm the
vaults OF the cold storage companies there.
The buying season lasts for about three
months. Perhaps there is a note of sad
ness I'm the tick of the great clock during
those months. when every working minute
means that 2C0O eggs have been kidnapped
from fond motherhens. boxed and laid
away. only 10 come out months afterward
at the call of wintry weather and a rising
market
And then. too. every time the clock ticks
Jersey City corporations are ready to de-
clare. roughly. 500 worth of dividends.
When We come to corporations We are no
longer American soil-we are in New
Bagdad. the capital Of the Kingdom or
Everything Fantastic. single suite of
offices on the upper floor OF a modest build
Ing Is, according TO the solemn assertions
of all jersey law and lawyers the executive
office of 1.a50 companies. whose capital Is
oo0,Ooo.0O0 The six thousand corporations
which are supposed to have their offices IN
Jersey City have capitalization of per
haps $1,000 600 coo which is more than the
combined public debts of any two countries
In the world
If all this s1o,coo.ooo.ooo were real money
actually invested IN manufacturing and
business plants in Jersey City. and II these
plants paid cut in wages an amount equal
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Reelnnins Sunday. October 1s Jersey
Ci-v. proud of the increase Of its population
10 assNao. viii celebrate the two hundred
and fftieth anniversary of the first organ
izes settlement in New Jersey. This oc-
c,,-red af Bergen. one Of the Hill centres
~ fbe CITY. The ceiegration will continue
throughout the succeeding week There
will he religious services in Dutch IN the
Bergen Reformed Church. whose exist
epoa dates from 1850. when Bergen was
set,las hyv Hplianders under the direction
Of Peter Stuyvessnt.
In tho course Of the week there VIII nc
exhiritions Of historic relics. a congress or
ra+riotic societies Of New Jersey. special
exercises in the public schools and dinner
and a reception in honor of Governor
Fort several ex-Governors and other state
officials on Saturday. October %. there
-1U be military parade along Bergen
avenue. on Jersey City Heights. This VIII
sno,u6e United States regulars, regiments
of che National Guard of New Jersey and
New York. patriotic and fraternal organ
.zstsons. and delegations Of firemen ana
rrl,ce from different cities. An interest
,nr feature Of the parade will he com
many of uniformed Poles and a gooseneck
~-~ engine a hundred years old. The week
e~.-cis.s are to close on Sunday. October
.. u-,tl, services at the Bergen Reformed
Church
Millions upon millions OF persons have
usssed through Jersey City. these many
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year All the German ships IN the world
could have laden themselves from what
remained. and there would still be nearly
two million tons left on the wharves. In
ono month the Jersey City railroad treffic
exceeds the yearly foreign shipping clear
ing from the port Of Philadelphia.
To handle those 2t.oG COO tons 1.soo.oo0
freight cars. made up in 5000 trains, pass
through Jersey city. Set in line on
single track thees trains would reach more
than fifteen thousand miles. three-ffths of
the way around the world. Each car, of
course according to the railroad estimates.
is counted as many times as IL enters or
leaves the yards. and 50 would fill sew
eral places i'm the imaginary line. Sup
pose that each car which comes to Jersey
City during the year averages four trips
there. Then If each car were placed
bodily on the rails. together they would
make a train reaching from the Hudson TO
San Francisco
Most nersons who see the crowded and
hard working traffic In the North River
do not realize that the greater part Of 1t
il either coming from on going to Jersey
CITY. The five railroads which have their
freight terminals there maintain a fleet Of
$50 vessels 10 do their harbor work for
them. The ferryboats OF the Pennsylvania,
the Jersey Central and the Erie alone
number 81. and represent value of proba-
bly, 100000.
These five roads have III steam tugs in
the Hudson. The coast of a new tug of
the ordinary railroad type is. roughly, S5o.-
600 At half that figure. the craft of this
sort alone which are attached to the Jer-
sew city yards are worth s. 10000 Then
there are i75 barges and lighters Of differ
ent sorts, l6l car floats and 20 working
boats, grain elevators, dredges and the like.
The. craft which move by their own steam
number III. The value of the whole feet is
probably not far from sl50o.0o0
Jersey city is proud of having 'the
largest clock ip the world" IL stands on
the water front where all the harbcr and
most Of New York can see II The minute
hand rs twenty feet long ard TO mark a
minute its tip moves feet and ! inch
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to ons-fourth Of their capital which is the<
average proportion for American manu-
factures. then the people of Jersey City
would receive g. 500 10000 a year. or about
$3.50 for every man. woman and child m
the city
As matter of fact. the office" which
each corporation maintains in Jersey City
is only place where legal papers may he
served upon It, The 1.250 companies whose
legal address Is single office suite are
simply the clients of a trust company
which occupies the premises and acts as
agent for them.
one OF the most interesting of the Ara
bian Nights" hctions which grow out of
the quirks of Jersey corporation law is en-
bodied I'm the persons of two clerks of this
company. who between them are directors
IN 6Oo different corpora ations The law saws
that at least one director of each CORPORA
tion must be a resident or the State OF
New Jersey. IL no real directors are at
hand' the trust company furnishes one for
a moderate charge. and he is always one
of these two clerks
NOW II each of the S25 boards of directors
OF which one OF these men Is a member
heid monthly meeting. as other directors
are IN the habit OF doing. and each meet
Ne o'toi ior Two hourS, as Such meetings
frequently do. there would be $500 hours of
meetings Tor the clerk to attend during
'he year. Now. there are but soc days
Vhen business can be legally transacted I'm
new Jersey. Consequently. IL the clerk at
tended all the meetings which he Is legal
~ supposed to-which he does not-he
would be kept busy somewhat more than
all tho time.
III each OF the boards OF directors met
only four times year. and the clerk at
tended all tho 1900 meetings-whlch he does
not-he would be In attendance more than
eight hours a day. II he collected the Gus
tomary directors Zee of SO a nesting
which he certainly does not-he would add
the sum of $4,000 TO his yearly salary
The Corporation Trust Company has car
ried the science OF incorporation 10 such an
extent thar 1t publishes a monthly Your
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Thpenfp-Four hffff @ n
Cons of Frefebf Pass
Deer Her Wbdrx'es
yearly.

lust across the Hudson from downtown
New York there is region which down
top-n New Workers csrelesFly dub. accord
ing 20 their ignorance OF IL, over Ia Jer-
sev.- Jersey City 'FIoboken,' or-Then
fheir contempt fairly boils over in them
..F5sckensack' You can see IL from the
western windows Of any of the skyscrapers
? ridpes and smoky wilderness Of brick
walls and metal roofing. frinsed with huge
n;ers the slender masts OF schooners and a
great crowd Of crawling, misshapen water
craft, Hero and there a fat railroad sta
tion is stretched ~ ease in the welter Of
hu,l5ine with ssquealing feTryboats nosing
no TO il like little pigs looking for their
s.inner. But Il is only Ne| Yorker who
iives on Manhattan Island that does NOT
know these places apart
Jersey CITY. for instance, rs something
more than the place where you take trains
for Pittsburg and Washington and where
,.f1ioe boys have their sleeping places. over
those lngainly piers the commerce OF the
United States is pouring in a cataract like
Niagara. Those roofs shelter some of the
most Efficient and important factories in the
United States. Jersey city is a growing
American Town OF near 10000 inhabitants
And the dHellers over there prove Upon in
Vcstigation TO be human beings. much like
The rest Of Us, except that they have a
criminal law which they are especially
proud Of
First and most striking of jersey C1.y's
claims TO fame is that IL H. i'm very real
sense the gateway of the United States. fl
fronts on the greatest seaport on earth
Seven great railroad lines reach the port
q New Ecrk end &c Of therl have ter
ralnais in Jersey City. Their frame is so
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She Plans TO Celebrate the 2SOfb Annf~er-
sary of the First Organized Sef-
fLeuenf in NesO Jersey.

church. the nrst IN Nsw Jersey. has ths
distinction of having had only i've pastors
in the course of it's history The Rev. DR..
Cornelius Brett. the present minister. has
occupied its pulpit since 1876. The church
had no pastor through the first ninety
years of It's history. depending upon a lay
man. who read sermons prepared IN Hol-
land
short distance beyond the church Is a
vine covered building. with crumblng brick
walls and chimneys and decaytng roof.
This is the old Tise Tavern. partly oUile
from the material Of an inn known as the
Peter Stuyvessnt Tavern, OF Colonial
times. II was once celebrated for IT'S cut
sine. Here. also. Washington is credited
with having stopped with his officers for
refreshments on more than one occasion
The relic lovers of Bergen are much dis
turbed because the owner viii neither keep
the building in repair himself nor sell Il 70
others who would willingly put IT IN good
condition
u is evident that there are things Of his
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the marshes were filed in. The difficulty
of this task is indicated by IN" length OF
time II required TO get foundation for the
Pennsylvania embankment across Hill
Creek. The men would toll all day dump
ing in earth until the proper grade had
heen obtained. Upon their return the fol-
lowing morning it would be found that the
deposits of the previous day had almost
-utirelv disappeared. At this time the cars
were drawn over the hill from the tracks
on tie other side by horses There were no
PuIInsn3 in those days, but, modest as the
road was. az viewed to-day. the officers had
difficulties with their employees. Please
remember that the cars must not get all at
one end" an Official warned one of his
subordinates.
Jersey City as at present constituted is
less than forty years old, the various out
lying towns, like Bergen and Greenville,
having peen annexed at different times in
the course of the last half century.
The desire of the Jerseyite 10 he joined
70 New York was manifest almost as early
as the settlement of the village. In 1851
permission was granted to William Jansen
to work ferry between Bergen and the
Island of Manhatta" This was granted.
and he started to work one from Com
inunlpaw. The thrifty burghers did not
deem it necessary 70 patroni5e his craft
when they had vessels of their own. and
he complained that the inhabitants were in
the habit of ferryiug themselves over. much
10 his loss nd discomfort. His protest was
of little avail.
These boats would not attract a COM
nuter to-day. It is narrated that when one
of the good Dutch inhabitants of Bergen
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Every Time r6e Clock TfekF
Her CorporaffonS Poy
500 m Df~'f-
dendS.

nal" which is. IN fact. a us~sr apsr dsA
voted 10 reprinting and explaining ths
latest wrinkles in corporation law IN New
Jersey and other parts OF the Union Ths
paper Is given away 10 lawyers as an adj
vertisemsnt. The same company has
glazed board In front OF IT'S Offices. on
which are inscribed the names OF the conn
panies which are domiciled there
IL poverty makes strange bedteiloWs. :"
does the incorporation habit Old frien9s-
like Armour < CO.. Swift 4 60 anu pia
Cudahy Packing Company stand side ~
side with the Interstate Association lot luS
Encouragement Of Trap shooting ana t'7
Duplicate Whist Company. The LanAD4r
Electric Light Company. the Bahama ger
tilizer Company and the NacOzarl FNals
road are neighbOrS OF the Maude CuS'A
Company. the Boston American bsaeus
baseball club and the United states Leatne0
Company.
But. slowly at first and with real eathu-
siasm of late years. Jersey city has siOus
dissatisfied at being regarded as usie"
a jumping OFF place for railroads ana q ~
tittous place OF investment for otheF 49,
pies hypothetical capital Jokes about 'us-
town are not so easily borne as they "n
were. A real civic spirit has growo -
and il has shown itself in ways thst ee
not be mistaken Its latest, most -.
getio expression Is the demand Tor =
ter city. more and inner public nal'-5
and an artistic arrangement Of streets
parks The parks have come airea' 49,
sign which cannot be mistaken Is tne 49,,
that the citizens. working IN eeh9--,r ,,,,r.
with the other people Of Hudson e'1 s,ss
are now actually building in sn-
PARK a playground which when = t.a
ishsd will be the largest playsreV u.
uorll -
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The recapture Of Benedict Arnoio was
undertaken by an American soldier, VINO
passed through Bergen for the purpose
under the glIise of a deserter. Arnold
willingness to give UP West Point is said
to have first been discovered by a Bergen
Dutch woman marketing in New York
Supposing that she knew too little EngllSn
to understand, the scheme was discussed
within her hearing. Upon her return home
she reported what she had heard. and the
news was sent to Washington.
Cabbages and celery took the upper place
In the minds of the Bergen Dutch follow
ing the war. Once more they took up the
Jerseyman's task of feeding New York
About a century ago the forerunners Of
the present day suburban real estate BOOM
ers began to get busy along the lowlands
cast of Bergen under the name of the As
sociates of Jersey. They divided Paulus
Hook into lots and. doubtless, tried to in
veigIe New Workers into leaving the me-
tropois of that day for the green iields and
river view 10 be found across the river.
In 1920 the City of Jersey was incorpo-
rated and in 1879 It was reincorporated IS
Jersey City. In course of time the rail-
roads came to tidewater at this point and
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,,eere ,1,a chief eastern gateway to the
Tinted States: yet 70 most of these " Is
. terra fncognita, a land Of mystery
When one makes the attempt to explore
its lop1ands and heights. he feels like
Yankee Doodle, who could not see the town,
there were SO many houses. Tie teels
like asking: Where Is anything
4 TROLLEY sightseeing isunt viii surprise
the stranger in jersey CITY. Accustomed.
perhaps. n think Of tho neighbcrbood OF
the Peuneslrsria ferry as the centre of
f,,inse he vfll discover that there are
several centres. with their own churches,
schools theatres and stores. And the
character Of some Of the buildings will
astonish him. for they are not suggested
bv what is seen from the railroads. A
granite and marble courthouse. costing
s9saa0aN high school building on the
acropolis of the city rivalling in size those
Of New York City and historical monu-
rlents in the form Of Old buildings and
s-ope memorials are some Of the things
Jersey CITY has to show the visitor.
Jersey City is made up of former group
of villages. occupying the tongue of land
separating the Hackensack and Hudson
rivers. Each had. and still has i'm meas
ure. it's own social and civic centre There
Is no central civic centre This is one Of
tbe things Jersey City is hoping for hut
which NAV Toe a long time corning with the
new courthouse On the hin and the new
s. eoaoao postoffice. the monumental city
Hail and the big library scattered through
the different PARTS or the section Of the city
lyins in the eastern shadow of the heights.
The first Of the settlements. as said, was
Bergen on the heights. II is the establish
naent Of this little municipality in 1860
which Is TO he celebrated in the middle Of
the month.
IF it had not been for the inhospita bic
New Jersey shore" said enthusiastic
Jersey Cftyite the other day. New York
CITY would have been over here In the
eerlier DAYS the part which comprises the
traveller 6 oingy foreground was fat. GOV
cred al high tide and penetrated by a creek.
Three sand heaps served to furnish sites
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enormous that facts about II cease 20 be
dry statistics and become remarkably in
teresting sidelights on the greatness Of
America and Americas great gateway.
There are three passenger stations on the
Jersey CITY waterfront. In the course of a
gear the number IF persons, arriving and
departing. who pass through them is -, 5ep %
eAe-considerably more than one-third OF the
whole population Of the United States The
passengers of a single day number i11.O00
more than twice the population OF the State
Of Nevada. In week they exceed the
population Of Boston. The daily schedule
of the three roads provides for 1,025 trains
TO carry passengers, OF one inbound and
one outbound train for every two minutes
and forty-nine seconds of the twenty-four
hours.
Five railroads have their freight ter
mfnals in Jersey City-the Pennsylvania,
the Central Railroad of New Jersey. the
Erie. the Lehigh Valley and the Delaware,
IsaCkawanna e. Western. The freight which
which passes over their wharves in a year.
according 10 estimates furnished by the
railroads themselves. amounts 10 2i.ooo O00
tons.
Just what that means i'm terms which the
average man can understand IL is almost
impossible 10 explain. Corresponding fig
ures for other great railroad centres have
hardly ever been accurately compiled. for
the railroads are not given to talkativeness
in regard TO the details OF their business.
Tor one thing, the Jersey City traffic is a
trifle more than twice the total tonnage OF
all the ships which cleared from New York
for foreign ports in the fiscal year CT 1893
This does not mean that the ships actuaIlv
carried half that amount OF freight. but
that they could have done so had each
vessel sailed laden down 20 her fullest
capacity.
II all the merchant ships that fy the
British flag. whether sail or steam. had
come TO Jersey City last year and each had
taken on A full cargo from the railroad
piers. the whole feet together could have
carried aUaT only three-fourths. CT the
freight Th:ch arrived there during this
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SAN FRANcIsco's FIRE cIsTERNs,

An important part of san Francisco
new fire protection system is the series OF
100 reinforced concrete Cistsrns Of I,5e0 gall
Ions capacity each. built under streets and
other favorabIee places The ctsteruS are
circular. &c feet in diameter and IS feet
deep, and are made inteTcOmnuntcatinS oy
means of nine-inCh mains. also concrete
Besides each Ctstern is directly connecred
with the regular mains The tops or NAM
of the Cistsrns form the rosdWays OF
streets
6eveIopmeEt an emergency water S'pplF
was provided in somewhat the same man
ner Reports show that in lSI0 stNty-f1ur
tanks had been built. but in the hre repor1
of 1905 only eighteen were mentioned -Pop9
uIsr Mechanics
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a horse or by slaves walking on tread
mill which operated a paddle wheel With
the coming of the steam ferryboat. IN the
early days OF the use of that power. the
fares were so high that they would oanK-
r,1pt many a commuter If In force To-Day
There was no Public Service Commission
to which to appeal.
The first trip of the double-hulled craft.
which took place in 1912. according to a
local paper drew thousands of spectators
to both shores attracted by the novel and
pleasing scene One may now cross the
river at the slight cost of 80 cents. same as
on bridge" Both sides of the boat we're
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Iersev CHv to Make Herself Better Known to the World

was returning with his family from mar-<
ket one day, an immense hsn, OF sHe
perhaps not to be found In the river TO-
day. in It's gambols leaped clear OF tne
gunwale and crashed through the bottom
OF the boat. Thereupon. the sooo "rre,
with great presence Of MIND ea,nered
about herself her voluminous petticoats ana
seated herself over the opening The inflow
OF water was stopped. and the boar with IT'S
passengers reached the shore In safety.
The row and sail ferryboats of early
days were followed by boats propelled by
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torical interest to be seen in the city whic1
has been asserted to be the home OF fewer
rich men in proportion 10 its population
than any other city in America
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., the walls Of this building are set
stones fron, tn. two previous stone
churches.
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4 JERSEY CITY BUILDING SAID
TO HAVE SHELTERED JOSEPH
BONAPARTE-
It stands at No. 75 York street, ard will
be removed for the new postoffiee. u
was an old hotel close to the terminus
Of the early Psulus Hook Ferry. 4
Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-03-03
U

Guy Colby was in Post Mills Sunday.
John Judd is quite i'll with a bad limb.
Marian Swift is assisting at DIR. Mitch
ellis.
Miss Lydia Buell. spent Sunday at
home.
J. o. Kendall gave a card party Thurs
day evening.
Chauncey Bryant spent Sunday at home
from Wilder.
DR.. and Mrs. Mitchell are III with the
prevailing distemper.
Mr.. Pell OF Norwich was in town last
week repairing clocks.
Arthur Judd was in Norwich on teIe.
phone business last week.
s. B. Buell. was In Norwich Thursday
Of last week on telephone business.
J. B. Wells Of Randolph was in TOW n
last week to confer with the local road
commissioner.
Miss Lena Boomer has returned from
Newport. VT, where she has been visit
ing her sister.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sanborn have
returned home, having spent the winter
visiting among their children.
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sTRAEEoRp

A. B. Carpenter lost a horse last week
Mrs. Henry Fulton went last week to
visit her sister in Concord.
Frank Chase is i'll with pneumonia, and
is attended by Err. Mitchell.
Rev. G. B. Atwood went Monday 10
visit a brother in Haverhill, Mass.
Miss Nettie Lasure visited her aunt.
Mrs. q. F. Kent, Monday and Tuesday.
Emerson Titus n Justin Norris at
tended the play given in Chelsea last
week.
q. F. Kent was in Sharon Monday and
H. f. Fox in sharon Wednesday OF last
week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Judd have re-
turned from Copperss Hill to their home
in this village.
Capt. 8. ]. Arnold received a few Of his
friends Saturday, it being his eighty
fourth birthday anniversary.
Mrs. hiram Fulton, accompanied by
her niece, Miss Grace Hazelton, went last
week to visit a sister in Randolph.
W, r. sanborn, who has been with his
mother in Greenfield, Mass. for some
weeks, returned home last week Wednes-
day.
Ralph, the seven-year-old son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Homer Chamberlain, formerly
Of this place, is conyalescent after a ian
gerous illness.
A special communication Of Temple
lodge, F. and A. NJ, will be held Tues
day evening, March s, for E. A. and F.
c. work. All members are requested to
be present.