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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
SIXTEEN MILLION FISH
PUT IN NEW JERSEY STREAMS

More than sixteen and a half mil
lions of fish were distributed in New
Jersey streams under the direction
of the State Fish and Game Commits
sion during the twelve months end
ing January 1, 1915. This is the most
extensive restocking work ever at
tempted in this State but it will be
surpassed, the commissioners assert,
by the records of the coming year,
during which time the big fish hatch
cry at Hackettstown will be in full
operation. The varieties of fish and
approximate numbers of each that
were handled by the State Hatchery
were: Perch, both yellow and white
varieties, 10 ,000 900; brook trout,
773, 800; rainbow trout, 116,700; land
locked salmon, 98,400; black bass,
1928; pickerel, 5548; crappie, $685.;
cat fish, 5026; bait fish, 10000; pike
perch, 100000
1t is a policy of the Fish and Game
Commission that in the best interests
of fish and game propagation and pro-
lection, it will make no attempt to adj
wise residents or non-residents regard
ing special points where there is good
fishing or hunting as a result of re-
stocking work. The board aims to
stock adequately each year all the
suitable waters in the State.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
ARE YOU A SPORTSMAN?
QUESTION FOR JERSEYMAN

A true sportsman is not necessarily
a man who carries a rod or a gun, is
the opinion of the "Oregon Sports
man" that will be endorsed by thou
sands of ~Jerseymen. He is a lover OF
woods and streams, fields and flowers,
trees and mountains, fish, birds and
animals. The joy of hunting and
fishing comes in the spirit of an anna
teur, not as a professional. This point
of view is in the chase, not in the bag.
He takes more pleasure in watching
his dog work that in seeing a bird fall
after it has been flushed; or, in MAX
ing a long, clean cast and getting a
rise than in landing the fish.
The craftsmanship that is worth
while is that which takes a wholesome
view of nature. When game becomes
scarce the sportsman ceases to kill
and becomes strictly a protector. He
does not object to closed season or
small bags. When quail are scarce,
one bird on the fence is worth two in
the game bag.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29

the accepted distance from the earth
to the moon. We had in 1911, the
last year in which figures for all
countries are available, on the
earth's surface, 639,981 miles of rail-
way divided as follows: United States
241, 199, Europe 207, 1882 and other
countries 191,350. The United StatesI
has 38 per cent of the worlds mileage,l
even per CEN of the estimated pop
ulation and about five per cent of the
area. The total capital invested in the
railways of the world is $4,000, 000,d
900, divided as follows: United Statesl
$13, 900, 900, 900 Europe $25, $50, 900, O00l
and other countries 1885, 900, 000.I
Reduced to a mileage basis the caps
italization is as follows: The world
$4,000, United States $54 1000, EuropeI
$124,00O, and other countries $50, 000.l
A comparison of rates is equally as|
interesting and the United States|
takes the lead in economy and serv-|
ice. The average rate per ton per-
hundred mile haul is as follows:l
United States 76c, Great Britain $2.53,1
France $1.44, Germany $1.44, RUSSIA
92c, Austria-Hungary $1.3O, Italy $2.30j
and Switzerland $2.82.
The average yearly pay of all raill
road employees in the principal coun-I
tries is as follows: United Statesi
$757, Germany 1892, Italy $345. AUST
tria 1922, Great Britain $279, France
$3.50 and Russia 1904.
About 30 per cent, or 1873, 900 miles,
of the railways of the world arel
government owned. About half thei
railway mileage of Europe is governs
ment owned.
A comparison of the economy, ini
time and money and the convenience
in travel, will be made in a later
article.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
FIND MANY WILD DEER
IN NEW JERSEY FORESTS

Recent forest fires that destroyed
great areas of game cover have dis
closed an abundance of wild deer in
the New Jersey forest zones and
sportsmen are assured plenty of sport
during the open hunting season next
Fall. On the edge of the burned dis
trict numerous herds of deer, some
numbering a score of animals, have
been seen frequently since the fires
drove them into the clearings. The
recent legislature passed a law permit
ting the killing of does as we'll as
bucks, but fawns are still protected.
The new law again changes the sea-
son from the first five days Of No
vember to the last three Wednesdays
in October and the first Wednesday in
November.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
PREVENTING ONION THRIPS.

In many sections of New Jersey the
onion thrip has frequently cut short
the yield of the onion crop. The on
ion thrip is a yellowish, slender in
sect, one twenty-ffth of an inch long,
so small as almost to escape notice.
1t does harm by sucking the juices
from the leaves. Each little injured
spot thus caused turns white and as
the thrips increase these tiny white
spots will be so numerous that the en-
tire field will have a grayish, sickly
appearance.
This tiny insect is most injurious to
the onion chop grown from seed in
New Jersey. Although it is not gen.
orally known, there are two distinct
spray mixtures which are very effect
i've against this insect. 1t is the in
tention of the New Jersey Agricultur-
al Experiment Station through its Ex-
tension Division to carry this knowl-
edge to the farmers of the state
through the county farm demonstra-
tors or through the extension special
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
MISS HAUSER GIVES
CANNING DEMONSTRATION.

A very interesting and profitable
canning demonstration was given at
Cologne by Miss M. Anna Hauser,
Domestic Science Specialist from the
Experiment Station. The Demonstra-
ton was given on the canning of We
getables and fruits. Miss Hauser
brought such things for canning as
pineapples, tomatoes, apples, rhu-
barb, and a number of the people from
Cologne brought asparagus which
Miss Hauser said was the finest as
paragus she had seen this spring. A
number of points brought out were,
in canning asparagus after cutting
to fit the jar, wash thoroughly and
allow it to stand in boiling water from
three to five minutes, depending on
the age and freshness, then dip in
cold water, this process sets the col
or and keeps the asparagus green.
After dipping in cold water pack in
jars and if pint jars add one-half tea
spoonful of salt, when quart jars are
used one teaspoonful of salt is added,
add hot water and screw the lid on but
not tight and place in a boiler of
boiling water, but do not allow the
water to come above the top of the
jars. The length of time the jars are
allowed to remain in the boiling wat
er depends upon the kind of outfit
used. All vegetables are prepared in
the same way but there is a differ
ence in the length of time each should
be boiled.
After spending from 2:30 to 6 p. m.
every one left feeling that they had
learned something new about canning.
For any one wishing to see them there
were a number of jars of the different
vegetables and fruits left on exhibit
ton at the Farm Demonstrators Of
flee.
Miss Hauser does not devote all
her time to the housewife for every
where she gives a demonstration she
helps to form canning clubs for the
young people, if they so desire. AS
the young women were very anxious
to form a club, providing she would
assist them, Miss Hauser has prom
Used to help organize the first week
in June, having planned to spend two
or three days with the County DEM
onstrator at that time helping him
give a number of demonstrations in
different parts of the County.
There were sixty people present and
every one voted in favor of her COM
ing again soon and giving another
demonstration.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
KNOW THY COUNTRY
II-Railroads

In discussing the commercial
achievements of this great ago., we
shall approach the subject as the
historian chronicling events. This Sc
ries will endeavor to record in writ
ing the supremacy of American men
and industries in the worlds affairs
and perptuate an appreciation of our
marvellous industrial achievements by
presenting simple facts, figures and
comparisons that are overpowering in
their convictions.
America holds her proud place
among the nations of the earth today
on account of her supremacy in trans
portation facilities. The mighty minds
of the age are engaged in the prob
lens of transportation, and the great
est men in the history of the worlds
commerce are at the head of the
transportation systems of the United
States.
In the discussion of transportation,
let us consider separately u Rail-
ways, Telegraph and Telephones, Ex-
press, Public Highways, Steamships,
Street Railways, Interurban and other
forms of transportation, and this ar
ticle will deal with railways.
The United States has the largest
mileage, the best service, the cheap
est rates, pays labor the highest
wages, and we have the most efficient
ly managed of the railways of the
world. They stand as a monument to
the native genius of our marvellous
builders, and most of the railroads in
foreign countries have been built
under American orders.
The railroads represent a larger in
vestment of capital than any other
branch of human activity. The mile
age in the United States exceeds
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
FEDERAL INDUSTRIAL
COMMISSION
BY Peter Radford.

The recent investigation of the
United States Commission of Indus
trial Relations brought together the
extremes of society and has given the
public an opportunity to view the rep
r~esentatives of distinct classes, side
by side, and to study their views in
parallel columns.
Capital and labor have always been
glaring at each other over CULTS of
misunderstanding and if the Federal
Industrial Commission attempts to
bridge the chasm, it will render the
public a distinct service.
The farmer has been sitting on the
fence watching capital and labor fight
for many years and incidentally furn-
ishing the sinews of war and it is
quite gratifying to find them talking
with, instead of about, each other.
When honest men smile and look into
each others souls, it always makes
the world better and far more salts
factory to the farmer, who in the end,
bears the burden of conflict, than
resolutions, speeches or pamphlets
COllIdlhlh5 LILO $50 oh0 COuAIC
charges.
The love for justice makes the
whole world kin. Understanding is an
arbiter far more powerful than the
mandates of government, for there is
no authority quite so commanding as
an honest conscience; there is no de-
cree quite so binding as that of the
Supreme Court of Common Sense and
no sheriff can keep the peace quite so
perfect as Understanding.
We suppose the time will never
come when capital and labor will not
be occasionally blinded by the light
ming flashes of avarice or frightened
by the thunder peals of discomfort.
But Understanding is a Prince of
Peace that ever holds out the olive
branch to men who want to do right.
A mans income is always a sacred
thing for in it are the hope, ambition
and opportunity of himself, and fam
lily, but there is nothing in a human
heart quite so divine as Justice and
Understanding is it's handmaiden.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
STARS AND STRIPES AND
STARS AND BARS

For a long time there was a rigid
rule against erecting any but FEEDER
al monuments in Federal battlefield
cemeteries and Confederate monu-
ments in Confederate cemeteries.
But as the bitterness healed slabs
were placed here and there denoting
that a one time enemy slept among
the others. When Memorial day
came the flowers were placed ungrud-
gingly on the aliens mound. In one
of the southern cemeteries where a
northern soldier rests there was for
a long time a practice of decorating
every Confederate grave with a tiny
Confederate flag-the stars and bars.
AS time passed and the southerners'
grief lessened they placed flowers on
their foeman's grave also.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
BITS OF SENTIMENT
FOR MEMORIAL DAY

A veteran of the war is dearer and
nearer even than the flag. He is a
living flag, starred and Scared
O'Reilly.
Let the national flag float over
every schoolhouse in the country and
the exercises be such as shall impress
upon our youth the patriotic duties
of American citizens.-Benjamin Har-
riSon.
Death never comes too soon, if nee
essary, in defense of the liberties of
our country. Story.
l only regret that / have but. one
life to give for my country.-Nathan
Hale.
The nations holy of holes is alb
out the resting place of her soldier
dead.-Green.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
THE UNION SOLDIERS
PRIVILEGE

A peculiar privilege came to the men
who fought for the Union. There is
no other civil war in history the
stings of which were removed before
the men who did the fighting passed
from the stage of life. So that we
owe those men something more than
a legal reestablishment of the Union.
We owe them the spiritual re-estab-
lishment of the Union, for they not
only reunited states, but they reun
tied the spirits of men. That is their
unique achievement, unexampled any
where else in the annals of mankind,
that the very men whom they over
came in battle join in praise and
gratitude that the Union was saved
President Wilson.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
A BALL PLAYER WHO HAS AN
IMMENSE PERSONAL
FOLLOWING

In the June American Magazine
Ring w. Lardner writes another am
using baseball story. This month ne
talks about Ty Cobb, of the Detroit
Tigers, whom he calls the greatest
player in the business. Of Cobb's
ability to draw a crowd Lardner writes
in part as follows:
"They's somethin' fascinatin' In
just lookin' at the baby.
"I amt alone in thinkin' that, net
Their. I don't know how many peo-
pie he draws to the ball parks in a
year, but it's enough to start a big
manufacturin' town and a few sub
urbs. You heard about the crowd
that was out to the Sox park the Sun.
day they was two rival attractions In
town. 1t was in the spring, before
you come. Well, it was some crowd.
Now, O. course, the Sox draw good
at home on any decent Sunday, but
I'm tellin' you they was a few thou
sands out there that'd of been some
where's else if Cobb had of stayed in
Georgia.
81 was in Boston two or three years
ago this summer and the Tigers come
along there for a serious of five games
includin' a double-header. The De-
troit club wasn't in the race and Meth
er was the Red Sox. Well, sir, |
seen every game and l bet they was
seventy thousand others that seen
'em, or better'n fifteen thousand a day
for four days. They was some that
was there because they liked baseball.
They was others that was stuck on
the Red Sox. They was still others
that was strong for the Detroit club.
And they was about twenty-five or
thirty thousand that didn't have no
reason for comm except this guy I'm
tellin' you about. You can't blame
him for holdin' out oncet in awhile
for a little more money. You can't
blame the club for slippin' it to him,
neither.
"They's a funny thing I've noticed
about him and the crowds. The fans
in the different towns hates him be-
cause he's beat their own team out
O so many games. They hiss him
when he pulls off somethin' that looks
like dirty ball to 'em. Sometimes
they get so mad at him that you
think they're goin' to tear him to
pieces. They boiler like a bunch of
Indians when some pitchers good
enough or lucky enough to strike him
out. And at the same time, right
down in their hearts, they're disap-
pointed because he did strike out.
GLOW do l know that? Well, kid,
I've felt it myself, even when I was
pullin' agin Detroit. I've talked to
other people and they've told me they
felt the same way. When they come
out to see him, they expect to see him
do somethin'. They're glad if he does
and glad if he don't. They're sore at
him if he don't beat their team and
they're sore if he does. It's a funny
thing and I amt goin' to sit here all
night tryin' to explain it."
For hahv,c croIn Wi11ia,c dai1v c1ts
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
THE BATTLE OF
THE TIRES

agricultural and Commercial Press Service1
1t is interesting to watch the forces
of civilization battling for supremacy.
The struggle now going on between the
rubber and the iron tire promises to
be the liveliest contest of the TWEEN
tieth Century.
there are no war correspondents to
write vivid descriptions of the con-
fict but the results are more far
reaching to present and future gen.
erations than the war of Europe.
The rubber tire has been maneuver-
ing for point of attack for several
years and has captured a few unim-
portant positions in traffic, but it has
now pitched a decisive battle with
it's iron competitor by hurting a mil
lion ~"jitneys' at the street railways
and the battle is raging from ocean
to ocean. Upon the result of the
struggle depends the future of the
rubber tire. If it is compelled to re.
treat, it's doom is sealed, but if it wins
the battle it will revolutionize the
transportation methods of this nation
If the rubber tire conquers the
street traffic it's mex struggle is with
the railroads of the country, and then
the greatest battle between economic
forces ever fought out on the face
of this earth is on, for iron is the un-
disputed master in transportation, and
is fortified behind billions of dollars
and millions of men.
Stephenson applied the steel tire
to an iron rail in 1914, but it was 1869
before the golden spike was driven
at %Promontory Point, which bound
the country together with bands of
steel. 1t took the iron tire fifty-five
years to creep from ocean to ocean,
but the rubber tire while warn from
the creative mind of the inventive
genius sped across the continent like
an arrow shot from the bow of Ulys-
ses. The roadbed was already pre-
pared and therein lies the power of
the rubber tire over that of iron, for
government builds and maintains the
public highway.
But iron Is a stubborn metal and
it has mastered every wheel that
turns; has fought battles with every
element above and beneath the earth
and has never tasted the NORWOOD
of defeat, and when rubber hurls it's
full force against this monarch of
the Mineral Kingdom, it may rebound
to the factory stunned beyond recov-
cry.
The rubber tire first made it's ap-
pearance on the bicycle, but it proved
a frivolous servant and was dismissed
for incompetency. 1t has always been
too much inclined to revel in luxury
to be taken seriously as a utility ma
chine and it's reputation is not one to
inspire confidence in heavy traffic
performance.
But to those who care to watt into
dreamland, it is enchanting to note
that there will be a marvellous differ
ence between a rubber and an iron
age. The rubber tire will scatter the
cities throughout the valleys for with
transportation at every mans door,
why a city? 1t will traverse the con-
tinent with a net work of Macadam
highways as beautiful as the boule-
ward built by Napoleon. 1t will par
alyze the law making bodies of this
nation for how could the legislatures
run without the railroads to operate
on?
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
NOT DECORATION" DAY.

Of late years many persons have re-
ferred to Memorial day as "Decora-
ton day." 1t was set apart many
years ago by the Grand Army of the
Republic as a day upon which tribute
is paid to the memory of the men who
served in the Union army in the war
for the preservation of the Union, and
the Confederate veterans now cele-
brate similar days in honor of the
memory of the brave men who fought
upon the other side. Memorial day"
is correct.
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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
All! THE INVIGORATING WHIFF
OF THE PINE FOREST!

How it clears the throat and head
of its mucous ailments. 1t is this
spirit of Newness and Vigor from
the h~ealth-giving Piney Forests
brought back by DIR. Bells Pine-Tar-
Honey. Antiseptic and healing. Buy
a bottle to-day. All Druggists, 25c.
Electric Bitters a Spring TOnic.-adv.
For a mild, easy action of the bow
els, try Doan's Regulets, a modern
laxative. 25c at all stores.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29

list in market gardening at the Expert
ment Station.
Any farmer who anticipates trouble
with his onions is urged to write to
his county demonstration or to the ex-
tension specialist in market gardening
at the Station stating that he desires
to try the sprays as recommended.
Any information or assistance desired
will be given gladly.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29
IMPORTANT GATHERING
OF FARMERS

An unusual opportunity to see ber-
ries and market garden crops grown
at their best under irrigation, will
be offered at the coming meeting of
the New Jersey State Horticultural
Society, Wednesday, June. 9th, at the
noted Seabrook Farms, near Bridge
ton. AS this meeting will be held
on the invitation of leading Cumber-
land County Farmers and a large ex-
hibit of berries and vegetables is
looked for, a big crowd is expected.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29

For baby's Group, Willie's daily cuts
and bruises, mammals sore throat,
Grandma's lameness.-Dr. Thomas
Eclectic Oil-the household remedy.
25c and 50c.-adv.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1915-05-29

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-03-10
ITALIAN MINISTER'S
SECRETLY CALLED TO
ACT IN WAR CRISIS
Premier Salandra Returns
From Visit to Gaeta,
Where Demands for War
We're Voiced at Public
Demonstrations.

ROME, March 10.
An extremely important meeting OF the
Council OF Ministers was held last evening,
beginning at half past o'clock and con-
tlnulng for several hours. The Ministers
were brought together on an urgent sum
mons and il is believed that they consider
ed matters of the gravest importance for
the future of Italy. No information as to
their decisions has been made public,
The conference was called after Pre-
mier Salandra, who has Just returned
from visit to Gaeta, where a new mill
tary harbor was dedicated had spent most
OF the day in an interview with Baron
sonnino. Minister OF Foreign Affairs. The
feeling is general that Italy is on the eve
OF great events
Great national spirit was manifested
throughout the Premier's visit to Gaeta
the people showing a patriotism that i'm
pressed the Minister greatly and con-
WINGED many in his party that the public
wants intervention. A remark by the
Premier at Gaeta is repeated all over the
country as indicating the course of future
events In referring to the kind of brown
bread which viii be allowed in Italy after
March 22 signor salandra said:
This is a noble bread. Our soldiers
win be the first to be sacrificed and
Italians viii see the destiny OF their
country accomplished"
IL is affirmed In political circles here
that Italy's final choice between neu-
trality and Intervention will be wholly
Independent OF the attitude OF Greece and
Rumanla. Among the considerations
which render a decision more pressing
than az any time since the outbreak OF
the war is the specific axiom that Italy
cannot disinterest herself In the partition
OF Asiatie Turkey which the forcing OF
the Dardanelies by the Allies feet has
thrust into the foreground Of interna-
tional politics
So long as the integrity OF the Ottoman
Empire WAS guaranteed. the sphere OF in
huence 10 which Italy laid claim IN
Adalia "a seaport In Asia Minorl. might
under the circumstances be considered
ample, but as the break up Of the Turk
ish state Is now foregone conclusion,
ltaly's vast potentialities render Il in
cumbent upon her Government 70 es-
tablish an indisputabie claim 10 An ade-
quate share IN the division Of the spons
it q recognized here that there is but
one way cf effeetins this. via. by CO.
operatihs With the Ailiss not merely Ia
local action but n the general land and
Sea operation Qf the campaign.