Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-04-18
ARLINGTON TAKEN
Up JUST NOW IN
P0STOFF|CE FIGHT
kearny Proper Warming TO
Proposition Along With
Many Other Friends.

What is probably the most unique
struggle that has taken place in any
part of the state foi many years IS
tina heing made by the residents of
Arlington for the retention OF their
postof4ce. Unless the Federal govern
ment can he persuaded to change its
order. operative July |, Newark will,
as told ia the STAR. serve Arlington's
postal needs through a branch station
covering all kearnS and named after
the latter town.
Arlington people would not mind the
change quite SO much were the gov
rnmen to even keep up the Arlington
postoffce as d branch Of an establish
n1cnt covering the entire town, but
they dread what is to them complete
extinction.
Arlington il ia an anomalous posi-
ton. 1t is not an organized community
and has no independent municipal ex-
istence. II is just a residential section
of the town of kearny. Just as Wood
side, Rosevillc and Forest Hill are in
the city OF Newark. But Arlington
has a postoffice, a railroad and eX-
press station and it has a telephone
exchange named after II.
Kearny has nothing of that KIND. ana
Kearnyites naturally feel jealous OF the
prestige acquired by the upper end
Which also happens to have the kearnE
Town Hall within its postal limits ana
has a controlling vote in the kearny
Town Council. .Arlingtonites claim.
Wei1-meaning persons have for a
generation been trying to econcile the
dissenting elemeEts in the upper ana
low er ends of the town. and the hope
was entertained that as the middle sec
tion grew up and virtually broke down
the old barriers of woods and fields,
closer intercourse would do away with
the sectional feeling. 1t persists, new
srtheless, and every proposition that
might in any way glorify n end Of
the town at the expense of the other
seems 10 stir up the smouldering en-
bers into a lively blaze.
But lower Kearny is fo< once aging
nothing. It is standing pat. 1t has
much to gain and nothing TO lose by the
prospective change. 1t is the next best
thing 70 the lonG-sought kearny post
office. The lower-end residents are dis
posed to be quietly grateful to the
Federal government for at least recog-
nizing the fact that Kearny is a place
of some Importance. It is not their
TI6tits iAit9 say GIIlh III iN1N - Ill =
Arlington. which is really in a ferment
Trade Board leading Fight.
The Arlington Board of Trade is iii
The vanguard. 1t is leading the liveliest
sort of a fight to uphold Arlington's
name and interests. 1t has collected
about 5000 names to protests to be seIt
to the postmaster-genera1. 1t intends
TO send a committee to Washington To
plead for the revocation of the Federal
order, and it has appealed urgently To
United States Senator Briggs and Rep
sesentative Kinkead to help Arlington
In it's distress. 1t has been remarked
rs odd that United States Senator Mar
tine has not been asked to help in the
matter.
Postmaster James Freeman has had
many rivals and opponents, but they
seemed to have all disappeared. All
Arlington seems to be ranged on his
side now. Nor is he idle. An adroit.
practical and experienced politician who
has weathered many a severe political
storm, and has at least twice saved
Arlington from being taken into the
Newark postal district, is not giving up
hope of again saving Arlington for Ar
~ingtonians.
1900 N]Cf AAANhAb ''tipAi AAOoI !
''higher up and never before did he
have such popular backing, coupled
with a great deal of outside sympathy.
He has been postmaster since 1881,
barring the period between 1891 and
1898, when Mrs. Van Arsdale n Will
lam Stewart looked after Arlington's
postal affairs.
Views of Citizens.
Mayor Louis NJ. Brock, of Kearny.
when asked how he felt about the
situation. said: "Of course, 1 favor the
retention of the Arlington postoffice
and shall do all in my power to save
Il from extinction. l see no reason
why it cannot be maintained without
putting the town of Kearny at any
disadvantage. In fact l a " always
striven to have the town recognized
with at least a branch bearing the
town name
William G. Greenfield, former Kearny
Achool trustee and a well-known manu-
racturer, says. "Kearny people should
wake up. Don't they realize tina the
people of the upper end are waging a
for the retention of the Arlington
~postoffice, which gives people outside
the idea that Kearny has no existence
At sil, hut that it is all Arlington? If
Kearnyites don bestir themselves
they will wake up some day and find
that not only is the Arlington postof-
nee retained but that it will cover the
whole of Kearny."
President Louis w. Lindblom, Of rhe
First National Bank of Arlington, says:
BY all means let US do all we can to-
save the name of Arlington. We should
be proud OF it. The governments order
is a gross injustice to settlers. in
vestors and everyone interested in
Arlington"
Henry c. Greene. a ~well-known real
estate operator. and who has large
landed interests i'm Arlington, says: 81