The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-10-16


onel D. Stewart Craven, chairman of
the industrial school committee, In
the final stages of collapse.
Colonel Craven asked the board for
an appropriation of $4,000 for new
car. He said that riding in the
schools car is an ordeal which can be
endured only by the most robust and
that out of mere mercy for the visit
ors both he and the principal have
been giving the use of their own cars
for school purposes.
The board, however, ruled that the
present auto must carry on for an
other year or two.
Action was reserved on a resolution
adopted by the Normal School Teach
ers' Association and presented by the
president, Miss Adele Cain, MEM
Der of the Montclair Normal School
faculty, asking that normal school
teachers, after seven years Of service,
be granted year for study and travel
at half compensation, with the pro-
vision that they agree to continue in
the service of their respective schools
for period of at least three years fol-
lowing their return.
Can't Reduce Service
Proposed reduction of service on
the Quinton and Elmer branches or
the West Jersey & Seashore Railroad
to one train a day in each direction
was disapproved by the State Public
Utility Commission, which ordered the
schedule of April q last continued.
Communities affected by the proposed
cut in service opposed the applica-
ton.
while it is recognized" reads tho
decision of the board, that all items
of expense of a branch or main line
operation can be properly and reason
ably dispensed with should be elimi-
mated, consideration must be given to
the general transportation needs OK
the communities served"
Discontinuance of trolley service by
the Public Service Railway Company
on the Monroe line, Passaic, and the
substitution Of three auto buses OF
the Public Service Transportation
Company was approved today by the
Utility Commission.
Acting upon complaint that the
quality of gas served to residents OF
Dover by the New Jersey Gas and
Electric Company Is Inadequate and
not up to standard, the Utility Com
mission ordered the company to make
immediate repairs to It's plant and
equipment.
Passing of Morris Canal
Much apprehension over crops
exists among the farmers along the
Morris canal, between Hackensack
and Port Murray, now that only a
clay trough exists where before
quiet waters were.
Owing to the lack Of rain for weeks
streams fed from the abandoned canal
have gone dry depriving the cattle
of the accustomed water supply
Wells, also, have gone dry for the
first time in the memory Of the Oldest
inhabitants, and the grass is withered
on the leas.
One of the places most seriously in
convenienced is the new branch game
farm, recently purchased by the State
Fish and Game Commission. For sew
eral weeks the large, deep well which
furnished the water supply has been
dry
That the passing of the Norris
canal will be an inconvenience Is
now firmly maintained by the property
owners Hundreds of summer guests
have missed it for bathing, rowing
and fishing. During the winter boys
I'LL will Il xx-ffH CVk oh M n
place, and farmers will be minus an
ice-harvest.
To Carry Pupils to School
The Board of Education of Hope
Township, Warren County, is directed
by a decision of Assistant Commits
sioner Charles J. Strahan of the De-
partment of Public Instruction to
make arrangements for the four
daughters of Walter Siedletsh to
reach the Beaver Brook School by
the transportation route, connecting
at Cooks corner.
The situation disclosed by the tes-
timony led Mr.. Strahan to comment
that parents should not establish resi-
dence in remote places and inaccessi-
BILE to the schools of the surrounding
community.
Siedlinski, shoemaker. who works.
in Blairstown. moved from New York
several years ago to what he sup
posed was a small farm on mountain
top in Hope township. No land is I'M
der cultivation on the farm, to which
the father returns only once week.
The distance to Cooks Corner is more
than mile and half, and the roads
are bad, if not actually impossible,
part of the winter. Mr.. Strahan leaves,
it to the discretion of the local board
to work out some satisfactory plan
which will enable the children 10 at.
tend school.
Seeking to Save Trees
Because so many fine old trees are,
being cut down in Trenton streets
where new building is going on and
others are being destroyed because OF