The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1920-02-06

year the budget called Tor the raising
of 1892 by taxation. This year the
amount is $S,127. The increase is due
to $500 for road improvement against
$500 last year. There is also a bal
ance of $1,000 to be paid on the Jack
son Valley road improvements.
Judge Davis in the United States
District court at Trenton has granted
a rule to show cause why the sale of
the Hotel st. Charles in Atlantic City
to a syndicate represented by WASH
ington attorney should not be set aside
The offer of $1,225,0OO for the hotel
property was recently accepted by the
creditors and ratified by the referee in
bankruptcy, c. L. Cole.
Visitors have been barred from the
New Jersey state prison at Trenton to
prevent the spread of influenza, accord
ing to orders of Principal Keeper Null
heron. A few cases of the disease are
now in the prison, and Keeper Null
heron has decided not TO admit visitors
until they have been completely cured.
Having obtained his evening mail
from the nearby post office, Luigi Ca
vallO was returning to the North Vine
land home reading newspaper he had
just received, and, crossing the West
Jersey and Seashore railroad tracks,
failed to notice an approaching train.
He was run down and badly mangled,
dying almost instantly. Cavallo was
forty-five years old and is survived by
widow and six children.
The DeLion Tire and Rubber Com
pany of Baltimore has purchased the
name and good will of the DeLion Tire
and Rubber Company of Trenton, and
plans and specifications are now being
prepared by ]. Osborne Hunt, local
architect, for the company building.
A nine acre tract of ground has been
purchased along the West Shore rail-
road, where the erection of the new
buildings will begin at an early date.
The plant will cost somewhat over
100000, including buildings and pow
er equipment.
Warned by County Counsel Pilgrim
of the possibility of litigation resulting
from it's decision to exclude from the
budget an item of $4,000 asked for by
the Mosquito determination Commits
sion for dredging the upper Passaic
river, the freeholders' finance commit
tee at Newark reversed itself and re-
placed the sum in the levy. The same
course was taken with respect to $15,-
900 which it had previously been voted
to cut from the $4,000 tentative ap-
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Camp Merritt, at Tenafy, built by
the government at cost of millions of
dollars, was sold to the Harris Broth
ers' Contracting Company Of Chicago
| for 100000. The government will
close the camp and remove the few
hundred members of the Quartermas-
| ter's Corps now there to another post.
The contractors will start dismantling
| the buildings in the spring Ten small
| towns near the camp have banded to
| purchase the sewage system put in by
/ the government at a cost of $150,000.
The towns, among them Tenafly, Du-
mont, Bergenfield and Westwood, will
pay $4,000 for the sewerage rights.
It has been decided by the Board of
| Freeholders of Middlesex county to
protest to the Appropriation Commit
tee of the house of representatives
| against cutting down the appropria-
ton for the removal Of explosives from
the Raritan arsenal at Germantown on
| the ground that they are a menace to
the safety of the residents of this coun-
ty. A delegation viii be sent to Wash
| ington.
David Henry Wright will seek to
have the legislature pass a bill putting
bounty of dime on every rat in the
state. He predicts that the state would
at that rate make 1000 per cent invest
ment on every rat killed. Mr.. Wright
will show the lawmakers some inter-
esting data setting forth the amount Of
damage rats do In city and country,
which he believes will put through his
proposed bill without a dissenting vote.
The Swedesboro council ordered the
installation of fire siren at the bor-
ough hall, the cost not to exceed $500.
Farmers in south Jersey report that
the roads were never in better shape
for sleighing, the ice under the snow
having provided an excellent founda-
ton.
Commuters on the Clarksboro branch
Of the West Jersey and Seashore road
are nightly putting a few pennies into
fund to be presented TO the crew Of
the train leaving Philadelphia at 5 %
p. m. the first time 1t reaches Salem on
time. 1t is expected that the fund viii
grow and grow. Il has been a long
time since the schedule was adhered
to, and late suppers have been the rule
in scores Of homes.
The council Of Bridgeton has pre-
sented its plans for the comprehensive
street paving to be done next spring
The plans embrace miles of streets,
and the street ommttee has reco =
mended the paving with sheet asphalt
upon concrete base. uncil has
furnished the Chamber Of Commerce
with the specihca tons, and that body
will have public meeting Of citizens
10 discuss the matter and agree upon
suggestions which will be made 10
council. The proposed paving will
cost, ii is estimated, more than 600
600.
Oaklyn council has bought an auto
ash truck and hired man to operate
IL.
The Lands Township Committee
made up a budget Of nearly S37, 900
and after a careful study called an
other meeting and shaved off 10 per
cent. making the taxes less than last
year