Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-02
THINGS TALKED ABOUT

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The Public Service has made the
usual bad job of filing the gas trench
opened on Broad St. last week get
ting back only about half the dirt
and stone removed, which proves
that the job was done in the usual
half way manner. The question
arises to all who look on, why don't
these corporations use municipalities
fairly? 1t would cost no more to do
a good job than a miserably poor one
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The Easter Telephone Company
trimmed two trees-an oak and a
cherry, out Delaware street to death
last Thursday, and then on Friday
came to two members of the Tree
Commission and got its consent to
trim them under the supervision of
the owner Another example of cor
poration contempt for private owner
ship and the general unreliability of
their employees.
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Twenty-four years ago Glassboro
erected what was then considered
lnedel school building of sixteen
Eclass rooms, and at this date all are
occupied, and three rooms outside
lunder lease. The Board of Educa-
stion, seeing the necessity for more
sroom, is seeking site for new build
room building especially designed for
high school purposes. The new build
ing will be a model structure, with
every convenience for high school
instruction and exemplifcation.
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This countys share of the State
Automobile license fund will this
year, and the Board is casting about
toa find some means Of supplying the
deficiency to keep the roads in re-
pair.
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A citizen of Franklinvi1le last Sun
day counted over 300 automobiles
bound toward Atlantic City, and 4
out OF 5 carried Penna. license
tag AS our superb State roads are
absolutely free to our Penna. friends
there is no good reason why they
should not burn the roads, but the
problem of the JerseyInan is How
are we going to keep them good? A
Freeholder cf long experience is our
authority for the statement that the
county cannot raise money enough by
taxation to keep the State roads in
repair Our advice to the Freehold
ers is to let the roads most used by
the out of State autoists go, and de-
vote the local tax to roads most US
ed by county usiness aeople.
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A party seekin Sssss 4ir up Q new
tract of land for building purposes
asked a city official few days ago
for information governing such trans
actions and was informed there were
none. This suggested to the writer
that some uniform plan for new
streets or extension of old streets
would be desirable. All who have
had anything to do with city develop
ment know how difficult and expen-
sive it has been to overcome the COW
path ideas of street making follow
ed by the early settlers and how
much public and private capital
would have been saved if streets had
early been required to be laid out a
certain distance apart, of uniform
width, with spaces for front and rear
yards; all roadways and sidewalks to
be of a certain width, etc, before
acceptance by the city. In these mat
tiers we are building for the distant
future as were those who laid out
West street and others we might
mention, and while we have our
hands in our pockets paying for their
short sightedness. we should not re-
peat their mistakes, and impose un-
necessary burdens on posterity-
cause posterity will have burdens
enough of their own creation.