The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1919-10-24

taxes semi-annualiy.
! Pleasure Bay Park has been pnr.
/ chased by the Long Branch $ eanDoa,
company, owners of the former Pat.
! ten line. There are fifteen acres IL
the park and at one time it was own
ed by the Thomas Patten estate. Il
/ was taken over by the Norris County
| Savings Bank of Morr's1own some
| time ago. The Avenel hotel is stu.
ated in the park. The steamboat
company intends converting the
grounds again into a pleasure park
1t will also enlarge its docking facili
| ties
Criticism was leveled against the
state department of institutions and
agencies for the way it treated re
questions for purchases for the New
Jersey Sanitorum for Tubercular Dis
eases at Glen Gardner by the boar1
of managers of the Sanitorium at its
meeting in the Robert Treat hotel
! Newark. The board admitted there
was some ground for complaint Of in
mates that the food was poor
Preliminary steps toward acquiring
a new water supply for Montclail
! were taken by the town board of com
missioners when it was resolved to
make application to the state for the
| acquisition of Split Rock pond in Nor
RS county and the diversion of that
wafer to Montclair.
4 An agitation has been started in
| Elizabeth because of alleged dscrim-
inatory attitude of the hoard of work;
toward the jitncy business. That
body within the last month has adopt
/ ed policy of increasing harshness
many contend, and the jisneurs are
| meeting with considerable popular ia
Vor in their appeals to the public.
/ Charles F. Rand. in reporting tc
Manton B. Mercalf that it will be
unnecessary to do any soliciting in the
Oranges for the chapters contribution
to the November campaign, explains
that the total contribution to the Red
Cross there was 81 .293. S7113. The ma
tonal organization was given $500
434.47 for ward drives, and the eX.
penSes of the chapter 20 Se0tenhPr
, -l34.47 for war drives, and the ex-
poets peacetime work will require $l1.
900 yearly.
That a serious shortage of houses
exists in New Jersey has been proved
beyond doubt by a recent investiga-
ton made under direction of the de
partment of labor
4 Tho Rcd f'rnSs rhnr,tnr Of hp
Oranges will probably be the frs
over the top" in the states northern
section in the forthcoming SO 900 000
campaign of the national organization
FOR peacetime activities. The suburbs
/ VIII be asked for $4,000, and it will
/ be forwarded the day the campaign
opens, November 3 The quick re-
Spouse will be possible through the
generous gifts to the chapter when
The war was on, as there is surplus
OF 81 l6,o6S.14 in the treasury OF the
remaining sol 900, most of it will be
applied toward the upkeep of the
chapter
From burns received at her home In
Newark September 81. when she en-,
deayored to save her four-year-ola
niece, Dorothy Whitlock, whose cloth
in% WAS on fire, Miss Caroline Titus.
fitIH-four years old, died in the City
Hospital, where she was taken after
the a@cident. The child succumhed to
her burns within a few hours after
being admitted to the hospital.
he building committee of st. Johns
Me hod;st Episcopal church, Wharton.
has engaged f. w. Parsons, of Pater
snit, to draw plans for the proposed
new eG.fice, which is TO he erected on
the site of the present building. A
tel alive drawing was submitted at a
meeting of the committee, and met
with approval. The building is to be
Constructed of stone, which will be
scored in the locality, and the trim
! will be of granite.
Eenewal of the campaign for
deeper ship channel leading from Port
Newark to New York bay is being
| pushed by all the organized forces
working for the industrial and com
mefcal betterment of Newark and the
surrounding metropolitan district.
Ihe permanency of the operation of
| the gigantic plant of the Submarine
Boat corporation. and the construction
there of ships of greater tonnage de-
| pend in large degree on securing
| deeper water.
/ Prominent residents and cOttagers
| of Wildwood Crest have organized IL
| building and loan association. the
! fourth on Fiyc-Mile Beach.
Terms of the settlement of the
Newark carpenters strike, which end
ed following Il conference of union
! heads and a committee of the Gen
eral Contractors association and the
Building Trades Employers associa
ton, were announced from authorize
| tive sources. The agreement calls
for 81 an hour wage to begin imme-
diately and to continue until May J..
1921. Previous to the strike that was
called September l the agreements
| with these contractors provided for IA
minimum scale of eighty cents all
hour
The state commission for the blind
suggests that the eyes of the inmates
of aims houses be examined on admis
sion and twice each year thereafter,
on the ground that some sufferers
might be restored to self-support.
Having quit work at the HAY Foun.
dry and Iron company, Newark, and
drawn three days pay, with the an