New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-23
GOSSIP OF THE
COMMUTERS

Commuters In the Fifth Ward Of West
Orange have long been DESTROYS that the
Lackawanna provide a station for their
section Of the town but the company has
decided that the Communication traffic in the
district was not paying and that increasing
obligations will not permit II 10 make the
improvement. Now. the Fifth Ward I'm
prOvement Association has decided 10 ap
peal 70 the officers Of the Erie and ask that
corporation If II will increase the present
number Of trains on its road II the citizens
OF the ward would commute on its line.
Practically every citizen in the ward who
is voter is a member Of the organization.
Two recent accidents Of distressing nat
ure in the committing zone Of New Jersey
have aroused anew the agitation favoring
better protection Of the railroad tracks
from public intrusion. Express trains pass
through populous sections at a rapid rate
OF speed. and IL is a wonder that more
accidents are not recorded.
The Globe Hotel. at Red Bank. which has
Just gone into the hands Of a receiver, If
noted for having the Oldest hoarder in
point Of time spent IN one place IN this
country. He is Charles Preston. who went
20 the hote. 70 board about sixty years ago.
and he boards there yet. Mr.. Preston is
past eighty and is still a bachelor. The
hotel IS one Of the oldest in New Jersey and
/ has housed Governors. q President, Con-
gressmen and others Of prominence. Prest-
dent Grant often took dinner there after a
drive VI from Long Branch. Political lead
ers IN New Jersey made II their headquar-
ters for many years
The East Orange Board Of Education has
decided that entirely too much idle time is
allotted 10 teachers in the high school. The
school authorities have ascertained that ap-
proximately ninety periods a week we're
wasted without recitation. The amount Of
spare time. when figured up, costs the city
about 5000 in salaries. II is planned. there
fore, 10 install the honor system among the
pupils and 10 require a pupil 70 be in charge
/ OF study periods rather than a teacher
" hose time can ne more proftahly utilized
| IN class.
/ Sunday train service at Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove VIII become a reality after
next Sunday. This is the substance Of an
order Of the Public Utility Commissioners.
under which the Pennsylvania. the New
I
roads are required 70 stop their passenger
trains ar the main station used by the
two resorts IN the same manner as at other
stations Of similar importance.
/ The gloom Of the short potato crop and
the scarcity OF hay and other farm prod
ucts in New Jersey. all Of which IS the
/ result Of the extraordinary season Of 1911,
/ IS TUumined by one ray OF light IN the in
/ teLgeuce that the same freakish season
/ Of 1911 Is in some way accountable for an
7 UNPRECEDENTED crop Of Klefer pears. kieter
+ uears need moro or less Of an Introduction
10 the world in general though they are
decidedly familiar 10 New Jersey husband
Imen-so familiar. in fact, as 20 approach
dangerously near the border line Of con-
/ tempt The Niefer pear is 'sCroggy' IN
/ appearance and has a rough. hard skin
/ Because II is almost always picked before
Il ought 10 be- picked it has earned the I'M
deserved reputation of being unpalatahle
/ hard and generally Of no account Yet
the fact of the matter is that II belongs
right in the Bartlett class. according 70
/ some experts. and those can he found who
actually believe il is superior 20 the better
known product.
/ Rip Van Wrinkle hasn't got ANYTHING IN
West Orange for sleeping. or for reluctance
| 20 WAKE mp after the period for decent
Inap has passed. If all that the Women's
Town Improvement Society intimates IS
as much as half true Rip was satisfied
70 put in twenty years. while the game
went on without him, but the aim Of the
1 smprov. rne7t society is 70 show that West
/ Orange never was really awake at all
/ The Improvement society came into exist
ence year ago and began working for
cleaner town. The school children were
interested and they did q lot If work In the
cause They celebrated q general "clean
Iup dav." under the influence of which the
individual citizen was induced 20 put his
ward in order Then they began peEG'nG
AWAY ar the Town Council for cleaner
streets ana retter methods OF collecting
| the garbage Better paving. curoing and
eutter.ng are 20 follow. and later 10 is
/ roped that the town fathers can be in
iduced 20 forget their local politics long
/ enough 20 start some real Improvements ON
/ their own nook Among them is the wild
I eniug Of Valley Road which rs the main
rho-ougnfare Of the town, bur which i- so
crooked and narrow that automobiles from
Iotber places are always getting lost in r.
/ and running the risk Of sudden death from