The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-09-05
STATE MEMORIAL
FUND TAGGING
Jersey Public Schools to Be
Asked to Raise $4,000
for Structure.
1900 TEACHERS TO AID.
Campaign Will Be Carried on Under
the Direction of the State Board
of Education-Each Teacher
VIII Raise $40.

Trenton.-With the reopening of the
public schools of the state, vigorous
campaign will be started for raising
the balance of $217,579 required for the
erection of the proposed Memorial Hall
in honor of the men of New Jersey
who gave their lives during the war.
1t is the desire of the State House
Commission, under whose direction the
drive will be conducted, to raise $780,
600 for the proposed buildings. OF
this amount $50, 421.7S has been col
lected Children of the schools of the
Catholic diocese of Trenton, who were
interested in the campaign by Bishop
Walsh, contributed more than 500
of the sum already raised.
In the public schools the campaign
will be carried on under the direction
of the State Board of Education, which
indorsed the memorial project last
year. The idea of the state board is
that about $4,000 of the $250,000
needed should be contributed by the
school children. There are about H.
900 teachers, and it is planned to have
each one direct the work of raising
about $40, which would give total
of $4,000 from this source alone.
In the event that the public schools
attain the quota allotted them there
will remain, including the $50, 421.7S
now in hand, about SAT, 600 to be raised
from other sources 1t is confidently
felt by those in charge of the campaign
that this can be easily obtained through
individual subscriptions.
Governor Edge, State Comptroller
Bugbee and State Treasurer Read
started the fund with contributions Of
$500 each. The hall is to be built on
state land east of the State House
State Treasurer Read is treasurer of
the memorial fund.
Uncover Antique Fish.
Fifty-five thousand pounds Of fish in
an advanced stage of putrefaction have
been discovered in the plant of the
Barnegat Power and Cold Storage
Company at Seaside Heights. and as
a result the owners of the stuff, the
Bay State Fish Company of Boston,
have been served with an order by the
state department Of health to show
cause before the board why the fish
should not be destroyed. The fish is
claimed by the department to be un-
fit for consumption There are $4,000
pounds of halibut, 1880 pounds of
smelts and 1879 pounds of mackerel.
An inspection of the fish was made
on August Is by William G. Tice and
K. NJ. Prick, inspectors of the state
department, who found that some of
it gave evidence of having been in stor-
age ut least two years, year of this
time IN. New Jersey. An examination
of several of the mackerel and smelts
was made at the State Laboratory and
thty were found to he in such a condi-
ton that decay would Immediately en-
sue If they were removed from cold
storage.
j he condition of the fish indicated
thar all of it had been in storage for
considerably more than year either
in this or other states. 1t was placed
in the New Jersey plant August 10 of
last year, but the boxes do not bear
marks to show whether it was in stor-
age previously to being received in
New Jersey. On one of the halibut
boxes there We're marks indicating
that it had been received in some other
cold storage plant July 3, 1917.
At the hearing to be held before the
state department OF health Attorney
General McCran will conduct the ex
ar nation of representatives of the
fish company for the state. The COM
pany's agent in this territory is P. F.
Sparks of the Dock street fish market,
Philadelphia.
Slash Cost Of Ice Cream.
Whoops of JOY from hundreds of
Burlington county Riddles and encores
from their elders greeted the opening
of battle with the ice Cream Trust"
by combination of Columbus dairy
men. The trust recently raised its
price in all towns to 60 cents quart
for ice cream of average quality and
rs cents for the finest grade. The
dairymen are making and retailing
their product of the finest grade at 45
cents quart.
Selling stations of the dairymen
opened in Bordentown and Burlington
as an experiment disposed of hundreds
If gallons of the frozen dainty at the
low price. Stations will be started in
other parts of the county and the
daitvmen have also obtained govern
mcnt contracts both for milk and ice
cream at Camp Dix.
When the news of the fight spread
the sellin. stations were besieged by
patrons in crowds equal to bargain
counter rush.
Walter Kirby, Columbus dairyman,
is credited with the idea that threat
ems to put the combine of ice cream
manufacturers out of business in this
section unless they lower prices He
has long advocated direct trading be-
tween producer and consumer. The
low priced ice cream and the promise
to sell pasteurized milk to consumers