Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-11-30
THINGS TALKED ABOUT.


Iboro one afternoon early in the week
for the first time in several months,
and noted with pleasure the many and
slightly improvements to the business
section, and the air Of thrift evident
on every hand.
The three story brick double front
building of JOS. l.. Bailey, erected the
past spring, would be credit to any
town in the country and on Delaware
street is the Souder Building COM
'bination of brick and concrete, with
great plate glass show windows
equal to any found in the city.
The appearance of many of the old
business houses has been improved
with new shop windows and paint,
and an air of prosperity peryades the
town.
In time to make the 5.37 train north
the scribe started for the station
through nicely lighted streets. The.
station itself seemed unusually dark
and as we walked along the platform,
an occasional dark form seemed
stationed against the building En-
tering the waiting room, it was evil
c
light showed through the closed
window OF the ticket office. It was
evident, too, that there were people
waiting for the train. because an oc-
casional low laugh came from various
directio>s about the room. Several
newsboys with evening papers, whose
vision had become accustomed to the
darkness, were shouting their wares
One assured a questioning purchaser
that there would be a light on the
train. A few minutes before the ar
rival of the train, two oil lamps were
lighted, and the writer discovered four
ladies, several men and children wait
ing for the train. On several occas-
ions our Paulsboro correspondent has
mentioned conditions at the Paulsboro
station, but it never occurred to us
they could be as bad as they were
on Monday evening.
The station, If thoroughly lighted,
would be far from pleasant waiting
place for ladies and children; as it is,
it is actually dangerous.
s%sss
i A movement to establish X NJ G.
La. has reached the newspaper state
lin Woodbury.. Some people have se-.
|lected the site for the building and
prepared the plans; gone over the tax
|rata'b1es and located forty people in
the city whose assessed holdings are
over $4,000 and conclude these
ought to put up the dust 1T occurs
to us that there are SOME hundred or
more people in the town who are as
sessed less than 10000 who are most
able to put up the money necessary
to pay the cost of this very desirable
institution, because they are smart
enough to put their property in shape
to escape the assessor, and they ought
to welcome an opportunity to make
good.
We suppose every age has had peo-
pie who knew how to spend other
peoples money better than those who
had saved it, and the principle is, we
suppose, that the very fact that man
has little property is evidence that
he didn't know how to spent the mon
ey as it came along, hence we have
no reason to complain if the breed
survives in this generation.
However, the subject is worth dis
cussing, and planning for, and if the
churches and Sabbath schools of the
city are willing to forego the splen-
did opportunity offered them in this
direction for getting close to the
youth of the city, we are not sure
that those whose interests are more
secular than religious should not take
hold of it with serious intentions.
A good man people are more thank
full this fall than they will tell.
Among these are the defeated candi-
dates for public Office, and the success
full ones as WE'LL ItAseems strange
to speak of defeated candidates as be-
ing thankful, but it is even SO, and
all because of the Geran election law
They are thankful because the cost
was SO little. The expenditure of all
the candidates combined under this
law, will not equal the expenditure of
any successful candidate under the old
system. Then the defeated candi-
dates, or their hackers, were on the
verge of bankruptcy and many 4 sue
cessful candidate found himself mort
gagged for the full amount of his off
cial salary Hence, we may say,
everybody connected with the election
machinery in this county is thankful
that the law saved them from their
own folly
Francis B Davis is thankful that he
relinquished the county Craftsmanship
at such an opportune time, and beicre
Thanks giving is given the houora h1a