Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-23
MCCOY WILL HELP
GARDENING PLANS
Congressman to Supply Seeds
for Planting in Lots of
Oranges.

Congressman Walter 1. Mccoy has
promised to assist the scheme of
utilizing vacant land in the Oranges
for gardening purposes next summer
He will send consignments of seed
for distribution among those who will
take up the work of converting the
lands into an asset that will be worth
while.
A meeting of the committee of the
New England Society of Orange
which has the project in hand, was
held last night, for the purpose Of
considering ideas of procedure. Ed
ward K. Sumerwell, of East Orange,
chairman of the committee, said there
was very little doubt of cooperation
on the part of a large number of
the residents of the Oranges in the
enterprise.
1t is freely predicted that vege-
tables and flowers will be seen grow
ing wherever there is a tillable area
before the summer is far advanced.
Several hundred acres all told will
be under cultivation.
The movement has been most fav-
orably considered, it was reported at
the meeting. A suggestion was made
by Mr.. Sumerwell and approved that
a general committee be appointed TO
handle the subject, which was grow
ing too rapidly to be handled by the
committee of the society.
In order that the work Of initiation
may be properly apportioned. it was
decided to invite two representatives
from each of the civic organizations
in the Oranges to assist. These will
include the Woman's Club, Orange
Valley Social Settlement, Orange VAL
ley Civics Club, East Orange Board
of Trade. First Ward Local Interest
Club, East Orange; First Ward I'm
provement Association, of West Or
ange; Columbian Club, of East Or
ange, and the South Orange Improve
ment Society.
All the municipal bodies are to be
invited to send a representative to
the conference which is shortly to be
called. One member of each of the
Boards of Education is also to be
invited. as well as the librarians of
the free libraries.
One of the points where the activi-
ties will be first displayed is the Or
ange Valley section. 1t is expected to
interest a large number of people
there. 1t was also reported at the
meeting that Miss Louise G. Hins-
dale, librarian of the East Orange
Free Library, was preparing an ex-
hiblt at that institution, in order to
arouse interest in that municipality.
Miss Edith Rockwell Hail, field sec
rotary of the Woman's Club civic
committee, is cooperating daily with
the committee, and it is expected to
have the forces well organized by
the time frost disappears from the
ground. Flowing is to be done, 1t is
planned, by the general committee,
and the rest of the work is to be done
by the individuals. Boy Scouts or
CARNATIONS are to do police duty in
keeping away any maliciously in
clined persons.
The movement bids fair to be one
of the most useful inaugurated in the
Oranges in recent years. and, as sci
entific assistance is to be given the
gardeners, good crops will be the gen
eral result, provided weather condi-
tons do not affect them. Work. dill
gent and concentrated. will be the
rule. and the constant thought of the
harvest will be placed before those en-
gagged in the enterprise as an incen-
tive.
In the fall, after all the crops have
been gathered, a cleanup week VIII
he announced, when not only the gar
den spots, but the community in gen.
eral. will be cleaned of all debris.