The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-08-11
Press Comments.


The effect of keeping the great trans
Atlantic steamers tied up to their wharves
is far reaching. One deplorable result is
ten thousand idle longshoremen ON the
wharves at the north end of the state
These men, most of whom have families,
are well paid when employed, but they
spend as they go, and when there is
nothing for them to do, they and those
dependent upon them suffer
The effect is severely felt by the rail
roads that carry coal to the big ships.
The tremendous amount of this class of
fuel required by one of these great
steamships to carry it across the ocean
is not commonly known. According to
statement made by locomotive en-
gineer employed by the Pennsylvania
railroad, three trainloads of coal are
emptied into the bunkers of the Maure-
tania before she sails. Each train is
made up of sixty-five cars and each car
carries fifty tons of COAL This means
that three thousand, two hundred and
fifty tons are consumed by the Maure-
tania every time she makes trip be-
tween ports.-Ssate Guzeh.
The State Board of Education having
reeeded from its arbitrary and unreason-
able position on frame school buildings.
there will probably be discontinuance
of the agitation begun in the rural
spreading in favor of another complete
reorganization of the State Board. The
local State Boards may have been led
into the belief that the school laws are
the work of the legislature; but it is a
fact that may easily be verified that
most of them either originate in Trenton
or have been endorsed at the State
House between the dates of their intro
duction final action of the Legislature.
Frame buildings two stories high and
containing eight rooms cannot be re-
garded as hazardous even though the
stairways be of wooden construction. If
the stairs are made fire-proof that is all
the precaution that can reasonably be re-
quired. There has been too much CEN
tralization of power in our school system
over matters that should be left to the
discretion of the local boards, which
must provide the money for the schools
and assume the blame-if blame there
be-for accidents. But, the State Board
having backed down, the grangers and
Others may be reconciled to the laws
Trenton Times.
The reports from numerous Gloucester
county farmers of returns for produce
shipped to commission men in some of
the cities, forces the most conservative
thinker to the conclusion that there is
something radically wrong with the
manner in which much of the produce
is transferred from grower to consumer;
at least with the returns made to the
grower. Within the past two weeks,
farmers have received as low as two cents
hamper for fine quality of apples,
and six cents basket for good quality
of tomatoes. Those same goods have
cost the consumer from forty to sixty-five
cents per basket; either the farmer is
robbed or the consumer is paying double
what they should pay for the necessities
of life. Space will not permit to give
detail statements from numerous Glou
cester county farmers during the past
two weeks, of returns made for produce
sent to commission men in various cities;
suffice it to say, that some of the returns
were SO small as to be almost unbelieve-
able, were the growers statements not
backed up with the cold facts in black
and white Woodbury. Constitution.