Palisadian., 1925-12-18
State and County
News in Brief
Especial to the Palisadian)


Evidence against those persons ar
rested some days ago in series Oh
raids about the county by the State
police was not presented to the Grand
Jury on Wednesday, the reason given
being that it was impossible to nave
all the arresting officers present, they
being scattered in various parts OF
the state. Captain Hamilton, who
had charge of the raids declared he
had seen Prosecutor Hart, and that
it had been agreed to submit the evil
dence at later meeting.
Congressman Appleby, of the Third
New Jersey District has introduced
an act in Congress which would
amend the act dealing with public
works on rivers and harbors, making
it a misdemeanor to deposit noxious
acids and acid materials in navigable
waters.
--Upsetting a wash boiler while her
mother was attending a furnace in
the cellar of their home in Ridge
field, three year old Lillian Barten-
werffer, daughter of county detective
Bartenwerffer, received burns last
Friday which resulted a few hours
later in her death at the Englewood
hospital Interment took place on
Sunday in Fairview cemetery.
The engagement was announced
last week of Mrs. Daisy Blauvelt De
Mund, of Ridgewood, to Assembly
man-elect John Y. Dater, of Ramsey.
editor of the Ramsey Herald.
The Bright Legislative Inyestigat-
ing Committee recommended some
more radical changes in the state gov
ernment this week. Among them are
the transfer of the purchasing power
now exercised by the State House
Commissioner to the hands of full
time purchasing agent, concentration
of authority over all state buying and
storekeeping and property control
with the state purchasing agent. The
committee declared itself of the opin-
ion that centralized state buying had
proven it's worth and added that it
all should be handled through one
department.
Frank Hickey, of "a Bergen street,
Englewood, who was until recently
police officer in that city has been
charged by the Fairview police with
the operation of an automobile while
under the influence of liquor.
Found exhausted by hunters in the
meadows between East Rutherford
and Secaucus, Michael Welch, 65, of
IA Clinton street, Belleville, was re-
moved in an ambulance to the Hack
ensack hospital ON Sunday after
narrowing night in the swamps. Doc
tors who examined him declare that
he would have perished had his
plight not been discovered when it
was.
The increasing costs of State Gov
ernment in New Jersey are revealed
in figures disclosed by the Bright
Legislative Investigating Committee.
Budget appropriations have increased
from $13,731 ,621 in 1920 to S22,256, 366
for the current year. During the same
period expenditures of the State
Highway Commission have increased
from $7.6S5,35S to $20,596,341. The
cost of maintaining the States insti-
tutions increased during the six year
period from $4,S21, 1926 to $6,92S,266.
--tAs forecasted in this column few
weeks ago, Governor Pinchot of
Pennsylvania has declared his inten-
tion of calling special session of the
Legislature on January 13 the pur-
pose of which will be largely solu-
tion of the yexing Camden-Philadel-
phia bridge tolls problem.
Word received by the county de-
tectives from Indianapolis reveals the
fact that Mrs. Marion Brazier, no.
torious bad check passer who made
clean getaway from the county Jail
at Hackensack some weeks ago was
operating in that district, several of
her victims having identified her from
photographs shown them by the
police.
Congressman Auf der Heide has in
troduced measures by which he hopes
to have the United States govern
ment recoup the city of Hoboken to