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Ncighborlincss The rich in spirit help the poor in one grand brotherhood, all having the same Principle, or Father; and blessed is that man who seeth his brother's need and supplieth it, seeking his own in another's good. Mary Baker Eddy Classified Ads Obituaries Comics Sports News Radio Programs SECOND SECTION Telephone Plainfield 8-8000 PLAIlfFIELD, NEW JERSEY, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1949 PAGE SEVENTEEN Development of Jersey Central Spurred by Plainfield Enthusiasm. Service Started January 1, 1839 kjt Is By JANE BROWER WYCKOFF Plainfield and Plainficlders have had key roles in developing, the 4 Commonwealth Seeks Formula to Include Republics By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP FOREIGN AFFAIRS ANALYST When Eire last Monday declared herself the independent republic of Ireland, she dissociated herself from the British Commonwealth of nations. Membership in the Commonwealth involves a dominion status which pays allegiance to the British throne. The constitution of the member nations all recognize the King of England as their king, although they are acknowledged to be autonomous.

So Eire, by withdrawing that recognition, put herself outside the charmed circle. jersey Central Railroad, which will be 100 years old Saturday. When the locomotive "Eagle," shooting wood-fire sparks from its big funnel, chuffed into Plainfield Jan. 1, 1839, it inaugurated regular, steam-powered service on the Elizabeth and Somerville Railroad, predecessor of the Central. Plainfield and Westfield enthusiasm pushed railroad building.

Used Stage Coaches SK-K-T- Cornelius Boice headed a committee to check on developments. By June the Plainfield (Weekly) Before 1839, local travelers went to New York by Swiftsure stagecoaches. Stages came from Phila union noted the railroad was pro delphia, with an overnight stop in gressing in right good earnest Flemington. Three days weekly Last week about 100 men were put tc work on it in the neighborhood they left here, usually at 10 a.m., lor Elizabethport. Passengers of Westfield." In July the line then took a ferry and reached New advertised for 200 more men, at SI York about 2 p.m.

Three other a day each. Tragedy accompanied the line's progress. Daniel Lyons, 21, "an timent, the members of the Commonwealth have found two paramount reasons for maintaining the association. One is it provides economic advantages, such as the imperial preference system of special tariffs on empire goods. The other is that this combination of nations, with Britain at the center, constitutes a powerful bloc for defensive purposes.

was the "Central." The design was approved, and the boats ordered, by John Taylor Johnston, of Plainfield, president of the railroad. Before this ferryhouse was used, steamboats sailed from Pier 1, North River, to Elizabethport and return. "IMPRESSIVE FERRY TERMINAL" So the Jersey Central described its Liberty New York, facilities in 1870. At the left center is the "Communipaw," one of the first two double-end ferryboats used by the Jersey Central. The other estimable young man of Plain-field," was killed by a landslide "in excavating a high hill between Scotch Plains and Westfield" in July, the Union related.

"Not clays had return trips. Fare was 62Ii cents, similar to train fare a century ago. The chartered in 1831, planned to go West In 1836, North Rahway residents requested the line go through their town to Somerville. Westfielders at a mass meeting in Laing's Tavern, Plain-field, threatened to sue the railroad if it did not follow the West-field-Plainfield-Somerville route. Plainfielders were equally anxious.

A notice Mar. 21, 1838, declared: "The citizens of Plain- THE APOSTOLIC Internuncio to China, the Most Rev. Anthony Riberi, blesses a Chinese Christian refugee child at a camp in Shanghai. The haven was established for more than 200 north China families by the Shanghai Catholic Welfare Committee. International having been able to obtain employ ment at his trade, carriage making, he was induced to work upon the railroad, where he thus met with an untimely grave." Public Gathering The railroad let a public gather Question Studied Today the prime ministers of the seven British dominions are meeting in London, and the foremost question before them is this: How can a nation belonging to the Commonwealth become a republic and still retain its membership? It isn't that they expect to bring Ireland back into a fold which she found distasteful, but the dominion of India has served notice she also intends to become an independent sovereign republic.

The idea of giving allegiance to the king is repugnant to many of India's leaders. Loss of India to the Commonwealth would be a disaster. A nation with a population of some she is numbered among the eight leading industrial nations of the world, and her future is promising. There are strong indications she is heading for leadership of Asia. Nehru is Important India's Prime Minister Jawahar-lal Nehru is expected to play a major part in the conference.

Thus far there has been no sign he desired to get outside the Commonwealth, provided allegiance to the throne is eliminated. He is the most powerful figure in the Orient, and undoubtedly his views will carry great weight. While the problem of finding a formula under which republics can ing in Thorn Tavern Aug. 1 Shock Therapy Aided by Drug Detroit (JP) Electric shock treatments for mental ailments are made safer with a drug that relaxes muscles. The drug is myanesin, a newcomer with spreading uses.

Its value in treating mental illnesses was announced today to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology by Drs. Klaus Unna and A. Kaplan of the University of Illinois. Electric shocks help Imany people with some kinds of mental illness, often restoring them to normalcy. But the shocks can throw them into violent movements or convulsions, with danger that they UN Decision On Trials Due Lake Success (JP) The United Nations may reach a decision late today on the question of Communist government prosecutions of church leaders in Hungary and Bulgaria.

The assembly's 58-nation Special Committee is expected to adopt a Bolivian resolution urging disputes over the trials of Josef Cardinal Mendszenty in Hungary and Protestant clergymen "in Bulgaria be settled through the peace treaties with those countries. This proposal would keep the cases before the UN until the next regular assembly meeting in September. It would leave a way open for UN action then if nothing comes of an attempted settlement through the treaty machinery. Australia, co-mover with Bolivia in having the church trials put on the assembly agenda, has demanded the UN send a special investigating committee to Europe to study the question. Cuba proposed a similar resolution, which the United States has opposed.

Britain, Canada and Belgium, among others, also favor the Bolivian plan. field and its vicinity are invited to attend a meeting at Jacob Thorn's Long Room on Thursday evening next at early candlelight, with a view to aid in concerting measures to ensure the completion of the railroad as far as this village the ensuing season." Coal Fields At the tavern meeting, James Moore, engineer of the road, stressed it would connect with the Pennsylvania coal fields, a selling point to Plainfielders paying $7 a ton for coal. A resolution was adopted calling for completing the road "as speedily as possible" and pledging to "render all the aid in our power." Zachariah Webster, long a political and business leader here, proposed the resolution. John Wilson and this a peaceful riverfront, popular with boatmen and fishermen. In 1864 the Central established its terminal there, filling in land and building ferryhouses, track and depots.

JERSEY CITY COUNTRY Just about a century ago, when the Jersey Central Railroad was getting started, Communipaw, Jersey City, looked like remain in the Commonwealth cer decide if the line should follow Third or Fourth St. For reasons not recorded, Third St. was approved. Tracks went from West-field to Scotch Plains, down Midway Ave. to Roosevelt along the present track to Madison then out W.

Third St to Clinton thence on its present route. This old right of way was abandoned in 1874. "On New Year's Day," the Union rejoiced in 1839, "the Steam Engine, which is a splendid and powerful one, will commence running with the cars the whole distance between this place and Elizabeth-port." That day, officers and guests of the line rode here in the eight-wheel, 40-passenger coach, "Essex," pulled by the "Eagle." The party marched out Cherry St. to Laing's to celebrate. The ran its first trains from Plainfield to Elizabethport, daily except Sunday at 7 a.m.

and from Elizabethport West at 5 p.m., with stops at Westfield and Scotch Plains. New York was reached by ferry. In February additional trains left Plainfield at 12:30 p.m. and Elizabethport at 11:30 a.m. Asa T.

Waters ran a local "Accommodation Stage" through Plainfield to the morning train at 6Y cents fare. Depot Mobbed Children mobbed the Plainfield will break bones or otherwise in tainly isn't an easy one, many observers feel it can be solved. A solution which is being considered as a possibility is summed up by the Manchester Guardian, one of Britain's leading newspapers. After declaring the London meeting Parole Board Studies Gases Trenton (P) George Biehl and jure themselves. Myanesin prevents or minimizes the convulsions from the shocks and other nerve stimulants, the two pharmacologists said.

It also prevents the stoppage of breathing I 4 yf mm Richard C. Anzer, who were convicted of fraudulently collecting "will be one of the decisive conferences in British history," the news CRAWFORD OVERHEAD DOORS Sold Installed ServlMd Elactrlo Operators E. S. ACKOR, Jr. fUtt 4-9366 that often occurs during electro- shocks.

It was tested on patients at Mantenno State Hospital in Illinois. paper says: "The easiest solution might be some $225,000 as political contribu tions, stood in line today for possi ble release from prison on parole for each of the governments to proclaim by resolution that they were Their names were included in a Myanesin is being used in anesthesia, to relax patients, and is list of 153 prison inmates announced by the new State Parole Board 7Vvfi helping some persons with twisted muscles or with diseases marked by uncontrolled body movements. as eligible for consideration. It Strike Continues Philadelphia (JP) Negotiations in Scranton's 18-day-old transit strike remained deadlocked today after union representatives rejected an increased pension offer made by the company. members of the Commonwealth.

It would be folly to let the Commonwealth fall to pieces because of an insistence that the crown should be recognized by all partners." Apart from any question of sen was the second batch of the state institutions' inmates to be listed by the recently-inducted board for depot to watch the trains come and go in those early years. A small station was ready for use here when the line opened. Scotch Plains station was built shortly afterward. The station agent there got no pay except a $10 gift at Christmas from the railroad superintendent, but he lived in the station rent free. Land and a building in Westfield were donated by W.

H. Pierson provided trains would stop in At the time the merged with the Somerville and Easton Railroad to form the Jersey Central in 1849, Plainfield was agitating for a new depot. A writer in the Plainfield (Weekly) Gazette suggested "the Company are delaying the work" on a new one "until the present building shall have removed itself by decay." As a major source of business for the Central, Plainfield deserved better, he added, although granting "the machines, cars, track, time, etc." of the Central compared with "any road in the Union." Plainfield got a new depot in 1851, costing $1,800. The east-bound station was built in 1874.. 35-Mile Stretch 1 With consolidation, the Central stretched 35 miles from Elizabeth-port to Whitehouse, where stages possible parole.

Biehl, who lived in Teaneck, and 175 E. Front Anzer, who came from North Bergen, were convicted two years ago by conspiring and misrepresenting themselves in obtaining the funds for the State Republican League. They were indicted on the charges by a Hudson County Grand Jury Msising Cashier Found Stabbed to Death Chicago (P) Rolfe O. Dreng. 35, who disappeared last Friday from his job as currency exchange cashier along with $11,658 he was accused of stealing, was found stabbed to death yesterday.

Dreng's body was found in a ditch near suburban Wheaton by a highway worker. His mouth was taped and his hands bound behind his back. i2 a WJithr final srvlct for a loved on or hald htm, in th hom, or in th church of your choice), thay will marked by the comforting dignity of simplicity. -4848 MDWJHAL FUNERAL HOME 400 FRANKLIN PLACE THOMAS KEISEI LIFETIME MICRO TONE HEARING AIDS REPAIRS ON ALL TYPES 8ATTERIES HEARING TESTED FREI Call or Writ HOME AUDIPHONE CO. 1368 EAST FRONT STET FX.

FLtFTD, Jg. J. 24-Hoox Phone Service MAGNATE John Taylor Johnston of E. Front St. was first president, and chief developer, of the Jersey Central Railroad, serving from its founding 100 years ago to 1876.

Plainfield's Exclusive Agency for the original, authentic June 12, 1945. The two have been serving lVz to three years each in prison under their conspiracy convictions. Like the other 151 inmates listed by the board, Biehl and Anzer have completed their minimum iSuspaivtS! 0EIO(36 ROOFING SIDING carried passengers to Easton, Flemington, Clinton and other points. Priced 4.00 to 6.50 Each (Beaulifuleq In the late 1840s three trains daily SMALL POWERFUL CRYSTAL CLEAR Battorles Supplies tot ALL HEARING AIDS 7-9 Wotchung Ava. PLoinfield 6-5227 GUTTERS ondj Leaders In ran each way; in the '50s, this was doubled.

The new, fast steam EVEN WITH VARICOSE VEINS CAN BE YOURS WITH boat, "Red Jacket," sailed between Elizabethport and New York. One hundred summers ago, a newspaper story cited the com- muter attractions of Plainfield (Plainfield -Elizabethport tickets. Authorized Johnt-Manvilla Ruberoid Barrett ALL KINDS GENERAL CARPENTRY No Jab Toe Big or Too Small FHA 5 3-Yor Loan JOHN T. DEERIHG CO. 1500 WOODLAND AVENUE PL 6-4418 or DUNELLEN 2-6395 Bower Reds in Germany To Be Discussed Albert C.

Pearson former member of the U. S. Intelligence, will speak on "Communistic Inroads in Germany" at a meeting Monday evening of the Volunteer Composite Unit 3-14 in Borough Hall, North Plainfield. Mr. Pearson was in Berlin from 1945 to 1948 and during those three years he had ample time to interview Russians and Germans to learn their views and to study the situation from within, C.

E. Burfield, Unit commander, said today. The unit commander further said that Mr. Pearson's description of the ruthlessness of Soviet communism in its attempt to stamp out American influence in Germany is an eye-opener. He urged all Navy and Marine Corps veter-ants to attend the meeting.

Black $40 a year). The village had eight churches, a free school, no cholera epidemic and it had the Central.1 "Persons can take the morning PARK AVE. OPEN DAILY 9:30 ta 5:30 Evenings PLAINFIELD Iw Blue Swan JP(rT if Gaptep Belt and Panty combined I ffl Made of easy-to- ll launder ran- I proof jersey I White, black, I llv tearose, maize, I Vr5f7 blue VA Sizes 9 to 17 A cSdi) Garters 25c Extra train, arrive in New York in time for business, and return at evening to the bosoms of their families." (Bel. 5th and 6th Sti.) PI 4-7074 MOM. and THURS.

Til 9 INSTALL THERMOSEAL Self-Storing Window Insulation Trains reached Bound Brook in 1840, Somerville in 1842, White- house in 1848, Phillipsburg in 1852. Behind much of the later growth of the line was the Jersey Central's first president, John Taylor John ston of Plainfield and New York. Born in 1820, schooled in New York and Scotland, he was graduated from college at 19, then took a law degree, and in 1848 turned 2 to railroading. He was elected After Easter president first of the Somerville and Easton, then of the Central. Owned Estate Here He owned a house in Fifth New York and a big estate in E.

Front now the site of such de 0airiicc Sale IOW IN PROGRESS Bridge, Tunnel Cut In Tolls Advocated New York (JP) Automobile Club of New York has asked Gov. Thomas E. Dewey to force reduction of motor tolls on bridges and tunnels linking New York and New Jersey. John R. Crosslcy, club viccpresi-dent said yesterday in a letter to Dewey the Port of New York Authority, which operates the bridges and tunnels, last year showed a profit of "almost $20,000,000." The authority operates the Holland and Lincoln Tunnels, George Washington Bridge from Manhattan, and the Bayonne, Goethals and Outerbridge crossing bridges from Staten Island to New Jersey.

velopments as Meadowbrook Vil lage. A daughter was Mrs. Pierre Mali, Plainfield social leader. An avid art patron, Johnston had "AROUND YOUR NECK" You Want the Best! SHIRTS Beautifully Laundered 3 SHIRTS, 56c ALL SHIRTS IN ADDITION 17c EACH CASH AND CARRY OWE-DAY SERVICE BRING TO TTJiY rJJ LAUNDRY 318 FILLMORE AVENUE PLFD. 6-5566 a million-dollar personal collection, SUITS COATS DRESSES Drastically Reduced OPEN THURSDAY TILL 9 P.M.

which he sold at auction in the 1870s, for a fraction of its value, to raise money for the railroad. He resigned as president in 1876, the year before the Central went into the hands of receivers, and he died Mar. 24, 1893, in New York. CALL US TODAY I OK FllEE DEMONSTRATION PL 6-4780 THEMY10SEAL PRODUCTS CO. 211 WEST FRONT ST.

PLAINFIELD A Product of f. C. Rul Cleveland Mail and Phone Order Accepted Dot RESIGNATION EXPECTED San Jose, Costa Rica (JP) A reliable source said today, the government junta headed by Jose Fig-ucrcs has decided to resign and hand over the power to Presidentelect Otilio Ulate Blanco by May 8. FARM LAND DROPS Washington (P) The government reported today that the war-inspired boom in farm land prices aparently has passed its peak. PL 6-9060 13 Tatchung Ave.

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