Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-14
URGE BILL TO END
OFFICIAL STRIFE IN
LIGHTHOUSE BOARD
Would Provide Commissioner
and Corps OF inspectors.
Washington Notes.
Especial to the Newark star.I

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Owners OF
sailing end power craft along the Allan
tic seaboard. as well as employees in
the lighthouse service in New Jersey,
are Interested in the plan that Repre-
sentative Mann. Of Illinois. has to put
the lighthouse service on a business
basis. The bill. if enacted, will effect a
thorough reorganization of the service,
and will eliminate some of the objec-
tionable features that have retarded the
progress OF that branch of the govern
ment for some years.
AT present the lighthouse board,
which is q part of the department of
commerce and labor. consists of six
men, two officers of the navy, two
from the engineer corps of the army
and two civilians. Because of the jeal-
ousy between the army and navy Off
GERS there is more or less friction be-
tween the men from these branches and
the board is SO divided in its response
bility that it is almost impossible to
make n progress along modern lines.
President Taft is in hearty accord
with the plan to reorganize the light
house bureau. MI. Mann's bill provides
that there shall be a commissioner who
shall be paid a salary of five thousand
dollars a year, and there will also be a
lot of inspectors, corresponding with the
present superintendent of districts. As
the positions will go to civilians there
will be a number of applicants looking
for the places. 1t is expected that New
Jersey will have two or three aspirants
for the position of superintendent of
the district embracing the State.
AT the Dewey Hotel, where Represent
tatives Gardner n ~Loudenslager have
been comfortably domiciled for some
years, there is a regular colony of Con
gressmen. For several years ii has been
the custom of the Congressman Mt this
well-known hosiery to conduct Il Sun
day evening service, which Is the only
one of its kind held in the city. About
the time the services are commencing
at most of the city churches the con-
g%ressional c~oterie, with other patrons of
the hotel, assemble in the spacious
lobby.
Hymn books are distributed to the
people by a page boy. and some legis-
lator, who has constituted himself the
leader for the evening, the
number of a hymn. The orchestra takes
ny Lie Sll dll, dio pASSSiitly illoiS lldii
half a hundred voices are swelling the
chorus, for these Sunday evening meet
jngs are as popular as they are unique.
1t is certainly an unusual sight, that of
q Sunday evening gospel service in the
lobby of an up-to-date hotel, but it is
popular with the hotel guests. and bids
fair to continue as n of the institu-
tons of the Dewey.
Resolutions adopted by the Trenton
chamber of Commerce have been sent
to the various New Jersey representa-
.tives. favoring the placing of Robert E.
''Peary, the d~iscoverer of the North Pole.
on the retired list, with the rank of
~rear-admiral. The Senate has passed a
bill to do this, and the House will con-
slider the bill in the near future.
The Trenton Chamber of Commerce
has also petitioned the New Jersey
Congressman in favor of the bill to in
crease the salaries of the circuit judges