Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-01

No, we didn't have the Hudson bridge
nor those big river tubes.
l guess you youngsters put us down
as lot of ancient rubes.
Let's see, twas INDEPENDENTLY
when the boom struck town at
last,
And corner lots began to soar and
houses went up fast.
That was the year that Kelly was
elected Congressman
Against chap-forget his name
who was an also-ran.
The boom made US so affiuent that
dollars were like dimes.
Paul T. Brady purchased railroads,
Arthur Carson bought the Times.
The Norman Paul skyscraper topped
the Woolworth Building great,
But both fell in the cyclone of nine
teen fifty-eight;
But a greater thing then happened
than the falling of his tower
A miracle, men called it-Paul was
silent from that hour!
Well, Palisade just sprouted like a
mushroom over night;
The houses rose in punches, as you
see them, left and right.
Still I've heard dad and mother say.
though the boom brought lots of
gold,
That they were just as happy when
the town was ten years old.
George Stabel, who had store where
the Goodman flats now stand
And who started on a shoestring, or,
perhaps, rubber band,
Bought out Old Rockefeller, through
the Holt Trust Company
Which received two millions bonus as
it's nice little fee.
But by far the greatest genius, man
OF wondrous pelf,
Was Fred A. Wells; it's true, dears-
he told me so himself!
There was an old amusement park we
always had to fight.
Well, it got gay and tried to play its
blessed bands all night,
But Arthur Tams, gentleman who
dearly loved a scrap,
Brought fifty redhot lawsuits and
wiped 'em off the map.
We all wished it had happened that
they'd been knocked out cold
In those good days when Palisade was
only ten years old.
Well, about that time the female sect
got Lady Darby's goat
By securing full, free privilege to
register and vote,
And we had real Fire Brigade made
up of ladies fair
And squad of policewomen to patrol
each street and square.
Mrs. Bradshaw was our Mayor and
in the council hall
Where Mrs. Cohen, Mrs. Flagge-the
rest | can't recall.
But though the men were beaten
when they had the nerve to run,
Sam Hoke he always got one Vote
guess you know which one.
The only man the ladies ever gave
an office to
Was the council women's favorite-
they called him Handsome Lew"
The position was sinecure for the
eX-trustee sedate;
1t was to see at the official tea that
their hats were all on straight.
Yes, the men were small potatoes,
with no wives to have and hold
AS in the days when Palisade was
only ten years old.
And then our Council women, among
various other stunts,
Tried single-tax for all the land
they only tried it once;
For when Yancey Cohen, who at first
stood for that kind of stuff,
Received his bill for taxes he cried
out, Hold, enough"
And Fred Bull, our biggest landlord,
declared, "Why, ladies, if
You don't reduce that frightful tax
I'll jump right off the cliff"
So just to be agreeable to Bull and
Yancey c.,
Our able Council women, with great
alacrity,
Rescinded single-tax, and tn en-
another scheme did try
They made this wet old borough the
dryest of the dry.
They got after A. F. Beckanann and
made him close up shop
Because he sold some bottles of stuff
called ginger pop,
But which really-this was awful
contained drop or two
Of goods that were unlawful, as
everybody knew.
And a pretty policewoman pinched
man that l knew well
For gardening on Sunday. No, his
name was not Pencil.
1t wasn't Goodman either, or Berkey,
Frew or Brown;
For they sang hymns on Sunday
the finest men in town.
And you'd find me always with them,
right in my little pew,
A caterpillar of the church, to it's
cat and dogmas true.
And on the whole the best of folks
were gathered in the fold
In Palisade before and since the town
was ten years old.
And the boys and girls! how blithe
and gay, and always full of