Evening Courier from Camden, New Jersey • 18

II i Eighteen CUUltlEK-PUST, CAMDEN, N. MONDAY', MARCH 3, 1941 MEN MANAGEMENT 1 I 1- PROGRESS (Names for Engines QUIT WATER FOR FIRE MAIDS ARE STOCKHOLDERS mere nave been a.numoer oj inquiries as to the names the engines tliat operated, on the Old Camden Atlantic Railroad, since it was recounted that ony was named fto honor Andrew K. Hay, ftoneer of Winstow, Here are the names and numbers: No. 1, put. in service in operating BUILD INSURANCE SUCCESS 1 jwith the sains boiler in 18761 Curlew, No.

Tempest, ivo. 3 Brodhead, No. SeaGull, No. Atlantic, No. Petrel, No.

7f Camden, No. Pacific', No. 9, Arctic, No. 10; Oriental, No. 11; New Jerstyi No.

IS, and Andrew K. Hay, No. IS. 3i 4 RY fc. 28E9I 1 ft.

JZESI 1 SKIPPE TO 1 l' J.L i 1 lington and Mt. Holly, a distance I I FT "'J 1 M.M.-...WVr Here Joseph E. Mears, manager of the Walt Whitman Hotel, counseling the hotel's staff of maids at morning conierence. in tbe group are Daisy CarmichaeL Teresa Hatcher, Sarah Lindsay, Madg Arthur, Fannie Harris, Viola Millbourne, Mabel WilUams, Esther Johnston, Bessie Moore Alberta Bra4- i 22 FEDERAL ST. Some Stockholders 1 -n A 7 Here are at least four chapters from the sag of the Camden Fire Insurance Association.

At the top is an insurance policy of An earlier vintage, bearing the signature of Jonathan Burr, who Appears below. Also at the top is Burr's store, early headquarters of the association when Burr wa secretary. Burr is shown as he was when, a sea jcaptain, he retired from the mast and set up a at Third and Arch (Plum) streets, the one shown. Reversing the process, Captain Burr was smooth-shaven as a skipper, grew spinach" after he combined groceries and fire insurance. ioro ana vioia wngni.

Walt Whitman Staff Follows Routine in Attention to Parleys With 'Chief Emphasize Need of Many Checkups Behind the reputation for emac ulate housekeeping that is of the boast of a big hotel is the work of the maids who maintain it. That is true of the Walt Whit man in. Camden. Although there are but 16 maids on the staff, Joseph E. Mears, manager of the hotel, gives them full credit for the attention to details that makes the hotel a "homey" place.

The work of a staff of maids is not something that moves natural that takes care of itself. It's one thing to find, rooms as they should be, beds made and in order, linen changed on time but it's something else to look into the routine that maintains such service. Maids at the Walt Whitman have a six-day week, rotate so that all have a-different day. so that the hotel has service seven days, with the departure of every guest all linen! is changed, all rooms are put in order and, when that is a report is made to the house keeper. Immediately tnere is an inspec tion by the housekeeper or her assistant.

One of these in turn report to the front office. Then, and then only, is a room ready for. "resale." Actually, the Walt Whitman has in service 192 rooms, 46 of which are oecupied at the. present time by non-transient guests. Many Walt Whitman guests live at the hotel permanently.

Many others make their home there during Winter months. Mears as manager consults with-majds at periodic conferences. At such times the Importance of reporting undue abuse of rooms, reporting of absence of any appointments, the necessity of looking into all closets, bureau drawers, Is stressed, so that anything left behind by guests can be turned in, returned. Heat, lights and other details must be uniformly checked. "Maids report at 8 a.

have half -hour for lunfh, sign off at 4 m. With Due Solemnity Reaular meetings held by officers of all the railroad com panies, leased by the Pennsylvania and listed on the wall in tfie Camden headquarters of the P.R.S.L., call for notices to those concerned by respective secretaries, meeting dates set in the usual manner in Camden, sometimes in Philadelphia. All stockholders' meetings are held here. Never less than five attend: Sometimes as many as 25 persons are on hand. Rail Taxes Help Educate Your Boys and Girls of 7.15 miles.

I Here's one may stop you The Delaware River Railroad and Bridge Company goes back to March 16, 1896, when the Pennsyl vania and New Jersey Companies of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, incorporated for the construction of the bridge across the Delaware east of Frankf ord Junction, were consolidated with $1,300,000 of its 40-year four per cent bonds dated in August of the same year The bridge was completed April 19. 1896, carries i I ue line Between ranMwu junc tion, Philadelphia, and Haddonfield for a distance of 8,12 miles. One of Oldest Companies The Freehold and Jamcsburg Agricultural. RailroadCompany was formed long before and was one of many companies linked by the united companies or the Philadel phia and -Trenton Railroad com pany, operating from Jamesburg to Girt. JLater it was found desirable to place under one or ganization the Freehold and James burg, the Squankum and Freehold Marl; company and the Farming dale and Squan Village Railroad company and these, May, 1879, were grouped under one title, the Freehold and Jamesburg.

hooking up 27.3a miles of operation. The Harrison and East Newark Connecting Railroad Company, an other leased line Of the Pennsyl vania, is located in Harrison, is the only connection between two lines of the United New Jersey Railroad and Canal Companyhas a mere two tenths of a mile of track. It was in April 26, 1872, that the Delaware and Raritan Canal Company. the uamden and Amboy Railroad Transportation Company and the New Jersey Railroad Transporta tion company were consolidated to become the United New Jersey nanroaa and canal company. The New York Bay Railroad Company was formed in 1890.

as a result ot the consolidation of the Waverly.and Passaic Railroad Company and the Waverly New York Bay Railroad Company, was com pleted from a junction with the main line of the New York Di vision two thirds of a mile east of Waverly to a connection with the Central Railroad of New Jersey, at Oak Island Junction, a distance of about two miles. Now the Hne operates over 6.59 miles of track. Tunnfcl-Termlnal Company The 'Pennsylvania and Newark Railroad Company was incomo- rated to build a projected line from Trenton and New York Bay but no line was ever built. The Pennsylvania Tunnel and Terminal Company goes back to June 26. 1907, when the companies ensated in the New York Tunnel Extension, me Pennsylvania, isew York Long Island Railroad Company, a iNew xorK corporation, and the New Jersey New York Railroad Company, a New Jersey corpora tion, were consolidated.

Its Penn sylvania leased line is located be tween Manhattan Transfer and Long Island City, a distance of 12.72 miles. The Perth Amboy and Wood- bridge Railroad Company, leased by the Pennsylvania, once leased by the -United Companies, is located between Rahway and Perth Amboy. runs 6.23 miles. The Rocky Hill Railroad; and Transportation Company, located between Kingston, near Princeton, and Rocky Hill, one authentic headquarters of General Washington, has 2 39 miles of track. Once it fought a battle with the Delaware Raritan Canal, then took over the canal, finally joined the canal in giving Up thoughts of palmy days.

Phiia-Camden Ferries The Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company goes back to the Camden and Philadelphia Steamboat Ferry Company and the West Jersey Ferry Company, consolidating in 1899. The old companies held very old charters. th first being incorporated in 1836, its rival in 1849. Camden's ferry terminal building goes baek to 1901. Phila delphia's to 1898.

So it Is that Federal street, Camden, more particularly Number 22, is the home of .14 railroad and two ferryMCOmpanies, all holding annual meetings. So it.is that Walter Pitt- man is agent for them, represent ing through his Pennsylvania-Reading offices, the interests of the Pennsylvania. So it is that you'd Detter be carer ul next time you venture into Number 12 -Walter may be presiding over the affairs of the Rocky Hill, or Ed Clare may be notarizing certain business" for a xvew York Whenever you think of paint think of NICE Paints and products ffivo lasting, satis, factory results at reasonable cast. S. W.

Corner Third and Green Streets Philadelphia Phone Mar. 1030 IS Wl.V ONtr fc'AINT AMU VAUNiuii K- Tpr. eni tin I i eyw uc NO. 2 "NICE-1 1 ND HOUR BILL en for he AH Interests Are Invited to Express View at Trenton Tonight (Continued from Pa Fifteen) Leaders of both Houses are co- ordinating their programs. After the wheels get rolling again in the Legislature next week, leaders of both -Houses propose to make up a ycalendar of bills, through caucus action, for each session.

The leaders announce that such measures of major impor tance as defense, county and municipal legislation, State consti-. tution, relief, labor and appropriations are to be disposed of by considering one or more of these subjects each week until all the work completed, Wage Bill in Spotlight While there are a score of other labor bills in committees in both Houses, the State wage and hour bill. A-40, for the moment holds the spotlight. Labor leaders are hope- ul that tonight's hearing will take the bill over its first hurdle and clear the way for getting the measure, out on the floor of the Assembly for early action This is likely to take action, with most of the members probably insisting that the tracks be cleared first for defense and relief bills. Legislators during, the past week have been receiving much mail-on A-40, with arguments on both sides.

Proponents of the bill say that its purpose is apply to intrastate business and industry regulations similar to those already in force by Federal statute in respect to interstate- Retail merchants have protested that the Federal law does not ii-culde their business and employes, while, the proposed new State act does. A Jot of little industries and businesses are exercised over the probable effects of. the bill, should pass. i Some of the industrial andt busi- ness interests feel that New Jer sey is being made the "guinea pig for experimenting with State! wage and hour laws. Labor leaders reply that simultaneous action is being taken to try to get identical bills passed by legislatures of other States that are in session this, year.

Most of the objections are aimed at the maximum hour provisions of A-40. The opponents contend that small businesses cannot regulate working hours as effectively as large businesses; Cost of such regulation of hours, they say, would make it impossible for handcraft shops or retail businesses to operate successfully or stay in business. BEET BUSINESS 'BEAT Washington, Feb. 17 Hugh Butler, announced today that he was seeking an increased sugar-beet, acreage allotment for Nebraska growers! who ne said are being discriminated against in at least two ways." Butler said in a formal statement is's ue nsnyuuuic imu iu as.it;jjt: put, -and, it tnis were not i done, llc uum koxh ail tfuneuuiiiem. tu the sugarr act.

i i Jonathan Burr Made Grocery Under Hub in Association Secretary From 18 53 to 1885 Knew His Risks 'JUST MANNER' IS ENTERPRISE KEY Officials of the' Camden Fire In- suranc Associat on, still marching with bared heads' Along the cor ridors of history, concentrated their attention today a grocery store a store that vanished 4ong ago from the corner of Third and Arch (once Plum) streets. there ifeir'as that Jonathan Burr, secretary of the association from 1853 to 188; came home from sea and to selling staples over th counter. He retired to more han that, as the association's min ites reveal: he had a sign erected evealing that the store was also 1 he home office lof Camden Fire. Jonathan Buri' wasnot a native Jerseyman. Borh in -Connecticut, he went to sea at 16, and durihg 21 years sailed before the mast to all parts of Ithe world.

For i at me he was skipper least half that of.a-ship that plied between New York i and South American ports. He was 37 when he to i insured Shore Hotel New secretary of the firm, Captain Burr had no experience in insurance. On the other hand, having been accustomed to dealing with'1 men and i cargoes, he had what insurance men call the conservative boldness of a-fire underwriter." One of the rst policies he issued was on- a country grist mill. Another, for $2000, covered an ice house. Even more vivid daring clings to the record which proves that Burr issued a' policy in 1855 for the Mansion House, one of the earliest of Atlantic City Those risks didn't burn few.

did that the inexperienced insurance-insurance Burr accepted. Fpr the 32 years durmg which," as secretary, he controlled the underwriting of the company, the average loss ratio was only 15 percent. Burr, they say, had an underwriter's regard for bassets. Realizing the Importance of he wrote; in his first annual report: "Should the association meet with no more than, average losses, they will in a few years have accumu- and for Glass In 1852 New: Jersey business men underwrote a railroad to the beach at Absecon in the be-lief that sand woiild be. cheap-enext for'g lassntaking, and, that a few excursionists might turn up.

Before the road, was fin-ished the four Lee' sisters, Lizzie, 'May, Sallie Julia, started the Mansion House, a hotel on the barren coast that. i was to become Atlantic, Citu. Camden Fire i issued a $4000 bunder's risk polieg on. the hotel when A tlantio City had but 18voters. lated a surplus fund that will enable them to present the most unexceptionable indemnification' M-Cracker Barrel Meetings In those days when Captain Burrj and his associates applied themselves; to building up that surplus fund, there was no elegance of a director's room, no electric lights, no ease with which to live, in the sense we mean today.

There was, instead, the rock-bottom honesty of. purpose that expressed itself on, cracker barrels in a thus seated and thus accommodated, Cajrntien Fire's directors held their meetings. Losses took much of the time lof i.j uu.t.vr&a, -viiicxijr Localise all claims were considered and all adjustments approved, by the board as a whole. Discussions were interesting, details of those recorded in the archives lof Camden Fire. Those that, went without record may have been more so.

For instance, the association insured a building as a' dwelling only to learn, it burned, that there was also a carpenter shop. Suspicions arose from the fact iht a Mr. Crump, owner of the premises, had recently bought some now shutters. Taken home, thosf were "in a rough state," Tokf-n away, tney were in ni moothr and oeuer eonauion. innkd as if Mr.

Crump had done CSrpClUCliiljj C-t Llli "VWO, The board voted examine the writing 'Camden U. S. IS BUILDING UF BIG RUBBER SUPPLY Imports Bring 818000 Tons, Topping 1 1937 by 38 Percent a. -The recent stepping up of U. S.

'rubber lm-r. ftftrt is bliilrfino' nn citKctnntial: cmi to safeguard th' defense ef says the United Business Serv ice ui a. Bpcuiai xcpui xeieosea day. v. Record December imports of tons, brought total 1940 S.v receipts of crude rubber to Q00 tons, exceeding the previous1 record imports in 1937 by- 3.8 percent; Even though consumption in 1940 attained, a new peak ct about 618,000 tons, an 'excess of imports over usage lifted domestic stocks by.

some 193,000 tons. total crude rubber invent tories in this country jstood at 000, tons. In iadditlon. volume of crude rubber afloat for the also ex- panded during the past with-the year-end figure estimated at 146,000 tons. Thus visible stocka-of rubber amounted to around -464, 000, tons, equal to about eight months' needs at current rconsum-, Domestic crude rubber consump-i lion is now running 55,000 to 66,000 tons a month.

Based on the. prob- ability that the International Reg-; ulating Committee will exwstt quotas' at 100" percent', of basi rates, rubber producers will-be able to ship about! 135,000 tons i monthly during 1941. Stretch Those: Food Dollars This City has appro-I priated some i to bring the Food i Stamp Plan to its citi-I zens in' need of public assistance. We urge." i such of families as are eligible to use Food Stamps to -take advantage of. the plan; It' means' 50 p'ercent more food for the same money.

It means that a curtailed budget can i be expanded to do a. real job fin feeding needy family. That spells bargain, to most- of us; To you, who are: eligible for' Food Stamp assistance remember this In buying food with Food Stamps, how- ever, aid another -useful national move- 4. ment. Food 'Stamps, apply only on the pur- chase of what plan sponsors call "surplus i commodities." They the products that America i "has toe much of the "ex-' tra" on I the market that is denying farm- ers and processors business prof its.

So you do two i things when y6u buy household diets with 'Food Stamps, you au -I 1 tomatically save money up. to? 50, and you use up America's sur-' Food Stamps 4may at vCon- i i vention Hall in. this City. Your grocer will give you details, ap- i proximately 60 of the City's grocers co-operating with- the Plan. v- CITY of GAMDEN Directors of 'Forgotten Leased Lines Gather atPRSL'Hub '(Continued Ifrotn rajre Fifteen) riety of railroad companies, sits in on meetings pi the directors and stockholders.

Call on Pittman- to day and you imight find 'him and Edwin C. Clarfe, secretary to Hack enberg, closeted with directors of the Rocky Hill Railroad and Trans portation Conipany. Go down to morrow and ybu may find them discussing affairs of the New York Bay line. All these companies are New Jersey corporations and are required to maintain an of- fce and hold annual meetings in the btate. Camden was selected as most convenient for most of the officers of the array of railroad companies who have to attend, such meetings.

Pittman was named agent for. the same reason. What about some of these com panies? Let's pass up the P. R. S.

L. and the West Jersey Seashore for the present, inasmuch as they're well within the memories of those who know anything at all about transportation Camden and South Jersey. How about; the Associates of the Jersey Company? That's easily idiSDOsed of. It's a company formed to operate a ferry between" Jersey City and New York, crossing distance 2.13 miles. Holds Valuable Franchises Leased by the Pennsylvania, the Associates of the Jersey Company is one of thei oldest corporations in the Pennsylvania Railroad system, still holds very board and very valuable jfranchises.

The Belvidere Delaware Rail road Company is a Pennsylvania leased line, operates between Trenton and Manunka Chunk, a distance of 66.611 miles. On April 14, 1896 the Martin's Creek Railway Company of Pennsylvania, the Enterprise Railroad Company and the Martin's Creek Railway Company of New Jersey were consolidated into and with I the Belvidere Delaware Railroad Company. Youd better take a glance at what happened when the West Jersey Seashore Railroad Com pany was formed, -at that. That was on May 4, 1896. The West Jersey Railroad? extending from Camden to Cape May with branches to Swedesboro, Salem, Bridgeton, Port Norris, Sea Isle City, Ocean City, Stone Harbor and Holly Beaich; the old Alloway and common iKanroaa, extending from Alloway station on the West Jersey Railroad to Quinton; the West Jersey and Atlantic Rail road, extending from a connection with the Jersey Railroad at Newfield, to lAtlantic City; the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, ex tending from Camden to Absecon-: Inlet, with, a branch to Longport; the Chelsea Branch Railroad, au thorized tot cbnstruct.

a railroad from a-point! on Maine Atlantic City, I to a point in of near Chelsea, of which a little over a mile had 'been actually constructed: the Philadelphia, Marlton and Medford iRallroad, extending from Hagdonneid to Medford ail these linked 302.37 miles of railroad in one transaction. The Camden Burlington The Camden and Burlington County Railway Company is a Pennsylvania leased line, owns tracks and rights of way between Twentyrseventh street, Camden, and, Pemberton, 22.46 miles. Once a part of this line was the railroad operated between Bur- SPECIALIZED PAPERS tor Of fic Printing Equipment PARAGON DUPLICATOR PAPER For Gelatin or Liquid' Machines uitiEoenAPir PAPEhS Caslon Mimeograph Bond Hamilton Mimeopen Bond Modern Mimeograph CENTRAL 'DUPLICATING TYPfcivniTEn co. 511 Eroadway 1 Many member 1 of the staff of maxds at thh Hotel, wait stockholders, whitman aro have been in the service of the establishment according to hotel since its here. The staff the hotel management, ts like a family, gets a long well, does its work in the hotel as tf tt always were a private ready for th4 arrival of most particular a guests.

discerning R1IIVP FOR RUBBER TRADE Ajre-resisters Seen Pro longing Service Life ofProMuct New Mar. 3.Described as "an important research contribu tion for conserving supplies of natural rubbed," Duramin, a com blnation of chemif al age-resisters discovered in. the! Akron labora tories of the IB. FJ Goodrich com-; pany, bfe usd in the 1941 Silvertown line of the com pany, John L. Collyer, president, announced here toflay, "In addition to c-operating with the government anil the rubber in dustry, in every, effort to accumu late reserve stocks of rubber, we are drawing upon! every resource our research has made possible to prolong the servicef life of the tires the American public will purchase during the comififc- year, Mr Collyer said.

Dursmm, he said, is an achieve ment of the company's research ef- torts to lengthen 4the service life of rubber products by Retarding the effects i of. the; prime cause or prematur aging. Go bij 10 onii TRAVEL SAFELY by BUS A J1.25 Trip to Federal State and percent go to thelmain- Mt is estimated that American boyk and you butes Sour. schools' support! much lighter. Seashore Lfies RFECTEO fl'-H" i Who Knows Sir atton? i of CameW Fird ihdw that the first two agents of the company were William Scott, of Woodbury, and El-wood Stratton, of Moore stown.

Scott was named for the County Gloucester, and Stratton for -and vicinity" in 1859. Camden1 Fire has Scott's background, seeks Stratton's. Paging the kinf oik of Elwood Stratton! 0 ruins. Whate'ver they saw, or didn't see, they paid the loss in full. That ah exceptional case.

Usually there was no cause for personal or collective inquiry. Minutes of those days- are punctuated by the moti'on, "Ordered that the secretary, surveybr and treasurer" be a committee to examine intothe matter, ascertain? the loss," and settle the assured in a just man This phrase, "a just meant much more in those times of "wildcat insurance' than they do hov' The administration under Captain Burr was not without its results. Itji began to be felt by the; directors that cracker-barrels in a tradesman's shon was not 4 dxactlv becoming to the dignity of such af irising enterprise. Assets were acquired through long years, 10 or i-hich were marked with no salaries being, paid to.any of the officers. The secretary charged a dol-lar for the policy, another dollar for; the necessary paying the whole into the treasury.

Then, in 18gl, "with due solemnity, the directors voted a $50 annual salary with, fees for the secretary. Purchase Office Site It was in May, 1857, that Captain Burr, John S. Read and John Ross, having remarked premiums totaling $2563 and assets of $12,000, set about finding a site for an office. Ten months later it was revealed thati two lots at Fifth and Federal streets could be bought for $2000. In April of the next year the lots were tmrchased.

Through the company's 18 years it boasted no agents. Adver tising then appearing in The' Camden' Mail and the West Jersey Still a Burr! i Jonathan Burr's Frank Ji Burr, has been a director of Camden Fire since' 1.884, carries on a real estate business adja--Cent to the home office site which his faljier aided in pro" curing when the grocery store got too "undignified The Burf-Smith business actually was founded by Jonathan in 1847. The Burr-Smith a Company was incorporated in 1911. PFress. It was not, until 1844 that the directors moved to have the secretary confer with Mr.

George of Salem, i relative i to, his service as an agent. The secretary reported some weeks later that he had written Mr. Ward a letter but had" received no reply. Salem was miles away. It was not until JLS59 that the matter -of agents was taken up again the association votingto establish agencies in "Mt.

Holly, Marl ton, Moorestown, Medford, Woodbury, Mill-viile, Tuckerton, Trenton, Burlington and This just about coved South Jersey as far as- acuve communities went eveni" xucKerton, numorousiy reierrea to by: its old name, Clamtown, had pull, Vi tlill torn ftousel cus- is it For eyery dollar paid the rail roads uaid $2.82 in taxes local governments in 1939. Of these taxes, about 30 tenance of public schools. the taxes paid by railroads meet the annual tuition bill for 1,300,000 What does this mean to It means that because ybur railroad contr so substantially to your own school taxes are that PennsylYcnia-Resding zLiV.