The Penn's Grove record., 1920-04-30
Governor Signs
Several Bills
Same Old Controversy Over The
UsurpatiOn of Legislative
Authority By
Executive

ANNa 90 'H' ti@A
ed the bin Introduced by Assembly
men Barrett of Essex county, legaliz-
ing baseball games in parks of Hud-
>0n and Essex counties Sunday after
Moons for which no admission is
q ar&ed. The gaines are to be un-
der the supervision of the Park Com
missions of the municipalities in which
they are played.
The governor also signed Assembly
MAJ Guthrie's bill aimed at gouging
Iandlors, making it Illegal for owners
OF dwellings to refuse to rent to
families in which there are children
under fourteen years of age.
Other bill signed were
House 80, Rogers, applying to GER
tain bor0ughs.
House 300, Agans, increasing com
pensation of certain township commit
teemen from So to SIS per day, the
total annual fees not to exceed $3.50.
House 246, Moore, giving boards Of
education power to provide schools In
which to teach foreigners English,
House 22f, Bowen, preventing col
lecting or holding foxes for liberation.
HouSe1S1, TOaar. increasing salS-
ries oil Bergen county's surrogate, reg
lister, sheriff and county clerk to 81
5C9 per annum.
House 165y Pferson, Teachers pen
sien law.
House 163. making ii a m~isdemeanor
FOR landlords to refuse to rent dwell
ms TO families because of Children.
House 139, Rowland. amending act
governing investment of securities.
House 516, Hastings amending fish
and game law.
House 49S, .AganS. permitting fire
mems relief associations 10 pay eN-
penseS of Delegates and chief at CON
ventionS.
House 494. David Young, providing
for poultry raising exhibitions.
House 462. Blair. providing appoint-
ment of weighmasters.
House $40. tiaede, permitting Hobo
KEN TO lease W%llarVcS, docks, etc.
House 30, Hastings, increasing posv-
ers of recorders in townships
Ask Standard Bread
Governor Edwards had a public fieaT-
ing on the Blair bill, indorsed by the
state department of WeightSsand meas
ureS, which provides~for fixing weights
for standard loaveS of bread Miss
Alice I.Akey, for eight years, chairman
of the food committee of the National
Consumers League. who represented
The New Jersey Federation Of Women'S
Clubs, said that 10000 m meiH-
herS Gf the organization fav&r the biil.
Il weapon against the high cost of liv-
ing, The bill orders rEat all bread for
sale in the state come in loaveS of one.
enc and a half, two, thee. four ar any
other weight of even pounds. Eycep-
tions are made for rolls or fancy bread
weighing less than o%ne-quarter of q
pound.
\. W Schwartz of Elizabeth, assist
amt superintendent OF weights ana
measures. declared that consumers had
been unable to make amy great protest
over increases in prices because of no
standards on which to base complaints.
He cited the recent increases i'll the
cost Of bread in Newark rs an exam
Pile, saying that the price had been
raised, hut there was no Increase. in
the size nf the loaf.
s. 7. LovelesS, representing the Fret
hofer bakeries in Trenton and Atlantic
City. spoke in favor of the bill and said
that during the Wharf.-The standard loaf
had met with public favor.
The greatest opposition TO the meas
ure came from e. NJ. R%abenhold, New
York lawyer representing the United
States Bakers Association anu the
New Jersey Bakers Association. He
urged that bakers be permitted to- make
any size loaf and be required to label
the weight.
Violation of the act will be punish
able by fines of from S25 to 5000.
Plan Gigantic Terminal.
The erection of a gigantic terminal
just north of the West Shore ferry.
Weehawken, and estimated TO cost mil
lions, now only hangs on the granting
to the New York Central riparian
rights to land abutting the Schamberg
property, the State Board Of Commerce
and Navigation was told.
Robert NJ. Clark, land and tax agent
of the New York Central, told the
board that the Central could purchase
the Schamberg property extending
from a point just north of the West
Shore ferry, along the Hudson river,
and almost up 10 Edgewater, but this
property woufd be no good for terminal
purposes If riparian rights to the abut-
ting land under water could not be Sc.
cured.
The Central has applied for these
riparian rights, and the application is
under consideration of the board.
Mr.. Clarke told the members thar
the Cunard line was about to construct
mammoth docks and piers along the
lower Weehawken water front and had
acquired $500 feet of the King estate.
He said that the Central wanted To
erect a gigantic terminal Just north of