The Penn's Grove record., 1913-08-15
ASK MONEY FROM
STATE TREASURY
Commission Requests Appro-
priation For Celebration
TO BE HELD CITY
Only One Request Made of Legislature
at Special Session-Fund Not Used
in 1912 Lapsed Back Into
Treasury.

Especial Trenton Correspondence.)
Trenton. - Because of the widely
circulated reports that nothing but
bills to straighten out the Jersey City
commission government muddle
would be passed in the special session
of the Legislature, only one State
commission and no department went
to the front for more appropriation.
The commission asking the Legisla-
ture to reopen the appropriation bill
was the Emancipation Proclamation
Commission, which did not get to
work until five months after it had
been named, with the result that
much of it's appropriation for the work
of that year lapsed and went back
into the treasury. This commission
vainly lobbied to get that money back
from the appropriation committee in
the regular session of this year, and
again tried in vain to move the COM
mittee in the first special session.
This special session the commission
comes boldly forward for another
round in the fight for the dollars, and
sends broadcast the following letter
addressed to the legisIators:-
Referring to the act providing for
an exhibition and celebration of the
fftieth anniversary of the Emancipa-
ton Proclamation, approve March 81,
1913, permit US to earnestly petition
that the Legislature restore to the
commission for the current year, in
order properly to accomplish the work
which it was created to do, the unex-
pended balance of $7,829.03 available
of the $4,000 for the fiscal year end
ing October 81, 1912, only $2,160.97 of
which was expended. The whole ap-
preparation was 10000. Because the
S7,S29.03 is not available the commits.
sion finds itself hampered in making
such a complete display as the people
Of the State have just reason to ex-
pect, at Atlantic City, October 6 to
IL, 1913.
Civil Service Display.
Because the commission could not
get to work until September /, 1912,
it was not its fault that so much
time elapsed and only a fraction of
the appropriation available for the
fiscal year ending October 81, 1912,
was expended. The Civil Service
demanded the right to
to the qualifications of the
ATorking force of the commission from
4 list of eligibles examined by it. The
examination was not held until July
II, 1912, and the eligible list was not
furnished the commission until Au-
gust II, with authority to begin work
l, 1912, leaving only time
to get the work of the commission
properly organized to do the work for
it was created within the said
fiscal year.
with only $4,000 to do the work
of the current year the commission
has felt that the ~inadequacy would
not only be apparent to the members
Of the Legislature, who voted to ere
ate the commission, but that at the
proper time they would vote to re-
store the unexpended balance of ST.
829.03, or at least So, 900, to the COM
mission in order that the work might
be properly and adequately perfect
ed. For some reason this was not
done at the last session of the Legis-
and we earnestly request that
you will favor a resolution authoriZ-
ing that it be done at the special SEES
sion of the Legislature to be held
August 5, 1918"
Break in Morris Canal.
Thousands of tons of earth dumped
into the cavity have failed to close
the great hole that opened in the
bottom of the Norris Canal, near New
Village and emptied the canal. When
the level of the water began to lower
inspectors found it was disappearing
through an opening near the farm
of Marshall Welt. Efforts to probe the
depth of the hole were u~navailing, 40
feet of line failing to touch bottom.
The discovery of great quantities Of
muddy water %bubbling up into a creek
the farm of John Oberly, a mile
from the break in the canal, has con-
WINGED the inspectors that the water
escaped through a subterranean pas
in the limestone rocks, and they
are at a loss to find a method of per-
manently stopping the great leak.
Salem Leads in Potatoes.
The shipment of potatoes from the
county seat was the highest of any
week, with 200 cars. This breaks all
previous shipments from any one sta
ton in a week. The next largest was
Elmer, with 1913 cars. Prices have
been around the 81 mark and in some
special cases an advance of from Is
to % cents has been given.