NOTES FROM NEW JERSEY.

NOTES FROM NEW JERSEY.

NEWARK, N. J., Sept. 8, 1906.

A contract for a new 75-ft. aerial truck has just been awarded by the fire board to the American-La France Fire Engine company of Elmira, N. Y. The price is $5,600.—The new truck will be equipped with Weston ladders and will have a spring-device for raising them.—The board has also awarded a contract to John G. Reichstatter, of this city, for constructing a new hose wagon to carry the high-pressure hose. I he cost was $1,004.—Register Perry and Fire Chief Hodgkinson, of Orange, conferred with the commissioners of this city about borrowing a fire engine in cases of emergency. The board promised to give all the help necessary in case of a big fire.— Fire partially destroyed the White Horse Tavern, the oldest building of its kind in Passaic county. Ihe blaze started in a paint shop located in the north end of the structure, and in some parts did irremediable damage. The origin of the tire is unknown. The tavern, which was a long and rather low frame building, was opened prior to the Revolution, and was patronised by many officers and men of Hath armies, besides by residents throughout Passaic and Bergen counties. The building was close to the old county bridge, crossed hv Washington and his army in their retreat before the British under Cornwallis, and as it was at the head of navigation on the Passaic river, it was the rendezvous of boat and dock hands. It was the regular stopping place of the stagecoach running between Paterson, Passaic and Newark also. The name of the original owner has not been preserved, lie was a staunch patriot, however, and went to the battle of Monmouth with four bottles of applejack in his pocket. One of them was so squarely struck by a ball that glass and liquor were scattered throughout his system and he died literally full of good spirits.—Kearny hook and ladder company No. 2 will be housed in a new station on Kearny avenue, which will be used as headquarters for the hook and ladder company. 'The council lias accepted plans for its erection. In less than a month’s time Elizabeth will hold its big firemen’s parade, which promises to be one of the finest of the kind ever seen in the State. AIKHH 5.000 visiting firemen will he in line, and many of the firefighting machines of former days. Colonel i). F. Collins, of the Second regiment, will act as grand marshal, with Captain W. B. Martin as chief of staff, and his aides will be largely drawn from officers of the Second regiment.-—Mayor Cardwell, of East Orange, a candidate for re-election, has issued his address, in which he states that the sprinkling of the public streets, particularly the main thoroughfare, should be done at the public expense. Tie believes that tbe water rates should he readjusted and reductions made; that a water commission should he established in the city to take entire management of the water department, and to determine as to whether or not the meter svstem of selling water should lie established in the city.—Verona and its board of health are greatly exercised over the placing of the new filterbeds at the hospital for the insane at Overbrook. which, it is said, will be within 390 feet of school No. 2 in Cedar Grove. The board of education and the board of freeholders will probably confer in the matter. The State board of health had inspected the existing filterbeds at the Overbrook asylum and had not only condemned them as a nuisance, but called upon tbe local board to have it abated within ninety days.— Bloomfield has awarded the contract to extend the mains in the town to Pasquale Cestone. of Montclair. There was a considerable amount of opposition to this extension.