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Newspaper
Asbury Park Journal
Location
Asbury Park, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1900
Page
4
On Tuesday January 8 the New Jersey Legislature begins its eighth consecutive session under Republican control. The continuity marks a long period of conservative legislation and administration, with public confidence cited as the basis for the party's grip on power.
The article argues that public schools overvalue high school prep at the expense of grammar schools. It urges redesigning the primary curriculum to fit life work, noting many students rely on grammar schools and time wasted in lower grades. Several church notices and local events follow.
A hive bird shoot between J E Applegate of Matawan and Carl von Lengerke of Trenton is planned for Matawan on January 4 with a purse of 200 dollars and the rule fifty birds at thirty yards rise. Local editor note.
The Philadelphia Press Almanac for 1901 is ready and valuable for the thoughtful reader. It covers the past year with statistics and records and serves as a guide to future happenings. Copies cost 25 cents from any newsdealer or The Philadelphia Press directly.
Prudential's 1901 calendar is a pretty novelty item in colors. It serves as a photograph holder as well as a calendar and can be used as a screen. The design features months shown in small engravings with climbing flowers and a neat attractive overall look.
On Friday evening January 4 a real metal concert will be tendered Miss Maurgart Asay, the gifted elocutionist of Ocean Grove. The event, a testimonial, will be held in the assembly room of Neptune Township High School.
Captain Charles Van Dyke of Long Branch reports a busy season with a Christmas haul of 27 barrels and subsequent daily fills. The next day 12 barrels were landed and Thursday saw 14 more filled, highlighting notable fishing activity and local enterprise. Dr George B Herbert, dental surgeon, A P & O bank building office hours 9 am to 5 pm.
The article notes that almost 500 000 rural residents now have access to a free delivery system. It also mentions items such as the bolo knife and references to dyeing, turf fuel, and gas on a large scale, with explanations of sighing as an oxygen-related response and the physiology of breaths.
The text notes Austria never imprisons women, England’s land worth 300 times last century, France’s Legion of Honor with 415 000 members, English port fish landings totaling eight million pounds annually, and a Russian medal tradition. It also cites Denmark’s thrift, per‑capita savings, and German national wealth at 150 billion marks with cereals land worth 25 billion marks.
Secretary Hay could become president if McKinley dies before next March 4. Chauncey Depew, aged 29, presented by New York with a portrait of himself as secretary of state. Maine Congressman Routelle volunteered as master in the navy in 1862 and earned the rank of lieutenant for gallantry against the Albemarle. The Chinese minister in Washington honors Grant on Thanksgiving by wreath laying in New York for the emperor. Rev. P Daly at Hot Springs Soldiers Home believes he and Marcus Daly are brothers after reading a biography.
The piece notes Senator Davis's final public nerves before speaking. It praises Senator Lodge for literary habits and his bold tweed and blue striped shirt. It mentions Senator Shoup always facing entrances, a habit formed after years with a gun, and references Lodge’s outspoken sartorial departure from tradition.
The article notes seventy Boer families will relocate to Long Island. It also mentions six special stamps issued by the post office department for the Pan American Exposition at Buffalo in 1901 and provides assorted historical and curious items about Washington burned in 1814, a life line along the Chicago drainage canal, and reasons musicians tune instruments at venues rather than before entering.
Secretary Long proposes honoring valor in naval forces with honorary medals rather than promotions. He urges Congress to authorize medals for special bravery, arguing they are more appropriate and valued than advancement. The concept mirrors foreign practice with Legion of Honor and Victoria Cross for conspicuous gallantry.
The article traces how early American soldiers earned badges of merit under Washington, notes the shift from European styles, and explains the 1862 law creating the Medal of Honor-like award for noncommissioned and commissioned officers with bravery. It highlights public unfamiliarity with U.S. gallantry decorations compared to Britain and France. Wright A Patterson.
A Portland Maine resident who seldom attends church was inspired by a sermon on Sunday and reflects that Sodom and Gomorrah were not a married pair. He notes philosophy helps us endure others' misfortunes with equanimity, though not our own.
The article traces early nail production from James I era patenting to Bevis Bulmer, notes 19th century shifts toward machinery, and cites the move from hand forging in England’s black country to modern wire nails. It discusses resistance to mechanization, the 1872 start of efficient horse shoe nail making, and early quality problems with wire nails.
Fragment from a royal notes column detailing Queen Victoria’s 60 housemaids at Windsor Castle and a stately Osborne pagoda cottage off limits to all but the queen. It notes the Stella Polare gifted to Italy, Lord Salisbury’s large estate, and the accessible King of Saxony with his simple Villa Strehlen.
A jumble of notes reports on drowning timing night towns in Dickinson county Kansas cabbage fermentation into sauerkraut in Germany plans for an automobile accident insurance company in New York City a century ride by a velocipede in 1869 and workmen wearing artificial eyes in foundries plus a planned day nursery for blind babies and a London Home Magazine remark about clergymen who smoke in the vestry after prayers before sermons
The article notes Maine has 175 canning factories for fish and vegetables. It states U S grain production per inhabitant is 2,220 pounds, England 360 pounds. It mentions an agricultural settlement near New York supplying eastern Chinese diets, Malaga grapes’ lasting freshness, Secretary Wilson on crop prospects, and farming in Alaska and Finland supporting 2.5 million people.
The article traces glass making from ancient Egypt and Joseph’s time to modern North American industry. It notes 40 percent of U S and Canadian glass factories with 11 001 pots capacity and cites Virginia’s early production of tableware. It mentions the American exposition’s illustrated history.
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