Palisadian., 1925-11-20


to the New Jersey House of Assemb-
ly is the point taken by Secretary of
State, Thomas F. Martin. His pre-
liminary list of members of the 1926
House does not include the name Of
Hunter Lindsay, of Essex County, Re-
publican, but bears the name of Ed
ward A. Schroeder, Democrat, of
Glen Ridge. high man on the Demo
cratic Assembly ticket. Lindsay's
death occurred too late to have his
name stricken from the general elec-
tion ballot. He defeated Schroeder
by over 10000 plurality.
Thomas j. Carroll, of Jersey City,
for forty years an employee of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, was held on
a charge of manslaughter by the Mid
dlesex County authorities at New
Brunswick following an investigation
as to the cause of the wreck near
Plainsboro last week when ten per-
sons lost their lives and many were
injured. Carroll, who was engineer
of the St. Louis flyer which crashed
into the Washington express, is said
to have passed by two danger signals,
although it has been clearly estab-
1ished that dense fog blanketed the
right-of-way at the time.
News dispatches from Hot Springs,
Va, where he is spending a brief
vacation, state that Governor elect
A. Harry Moore has gone in for golf
and is being taught the game by
Mayor Frank Hague, who is in the
southland with the Moore party.
Approval of the plans for the con-
struction of two bridges across Ar
thur Kill, one to connect Perth Am
boy, N. j., with Tottenville, Staten
Island, and the other to connect Eliz-
abeth, N. j., with Howland Hook,
Staten Island, has been given by the
War Department. The application
for the construction of the bridges
was made by the Port of New York
Authority, and are to be Of the canti-
lever type.
Harry Edward Hunt, well known
Bergen County undertaken residing in
Rutherford, has joined the alimony
club at the County Jail, he being in
default in payments to his wife to
the extent of about $500. Hunts wife
Mary Catherine Hunt, has started a
suit for divorce charging extreme
cruelty. Pending the trial of the
suit, Mrs. Hunt was granted $100 a
week for the support of herself and
child, after claiming that as she had
helped build up his business, she was
entitled to a part of the income.
Claiming that Salvatore Polins, his
brother and partner in a barber shop
insisted on doing all the hair-bobbing
and taking care of the lady custo
mers, leaving him to handle the
shaves and mems haircuts, Philip
Polins was successful in his plea for
the appointment of receiver for the
business, ViceIChancellor Lewis in
the Chancery Court in Jersey City
appointing Peter Bently to act. The
brothers have been operating a bar
East Rutherford, and could not come
to terms to buy each other out after
the quarrel started over the division
of the work.
The Rutherford w. C. T. U. have
raised a protest over cabaret
scene" which was part of a musical
comedy recently presented by the
Reading Club of the town. They
likewise objected to the references
made to drinks in the play, and also
the drinking of "stage" wine during
the action of the piece. The ladies'
of the club deny that there was any
thing Objectionable in their perform
ance.
Two prominent citizens of Hack
ensack, residents of that city for
many years, were mentioned in news
stories last week as having been
chosen to very important positions
in the business world. Edward
Foster, of 336 Prospect avenue, has
been elected president of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company at a
salary of $4,000 per annum, while
Frederick c. Buswell, of River street,
was chosen as head of the Home In
surance Company at salary of $780,
900. Both men started work for their
respective companies as boys and
worked their way up step by step.
Murray, 46, of Edgewater,
who was injured last week while at
work at the Warner Sugar Refinery
at Edgewater, died at the Englewood
hospital from fractured skull. The
unfortunate man was struck by con-
veyor drum.
Most of the large Bergen County
coal dealers have announced to their
customers that anthracite coal is
very scarce, and urging that they ac-
cept coke, soft coal and small sizes
of anthracite. Coke, which formerly
sold at from SIS to $40 a ton, is now
being quoted at SIS to SIT ton.
After many months of delay,
Charles Dondero, of Rutherford, con-
victed last January of selling obscene
literature was sentenced by Judge
Seufert last week to ten months in the
county Jail and a fine of $3.50, the
Jail sentence being suspended during
good behavior.
The fifth annual New Jersey State
charity ball will be given this year
at the Stacey-Trent hotel at Trenton,
on December II. Governor-elect and
Mrs A. Harry Moore will be among
those present.