The Proposed Shell Fish Law

New York, 1895

Senator Childs' bill for regulating, planting and protecting oysters in the lands under the public waters seems to be most complete. What we note with special pleasure is the wide field it provides for the use and benefit of the hundreds of our citizens who do not engage in the systematic cultivation of oysters because they have not capital to invest in the business. For several years these deserving people have been crowded to the wall by planters and speculators who grabbed every acre of land that they thought worth grabbing, and particularly the natural growth land, which increased their harvest handsomely. The natural growth land is to be free to all the people, and that is right, for no man or set of men should have a monopoly of the food supply that nature produces. We hope to see the bill become a law.


Brief Editorials

The lift bridge got a black eye in Brooklyn on Monday. Supervisor at Large Fitchie vetoed the resolution of the Kings County board of Supervisors favoring its construction on the ground that it provides for the employment of two engineers. If the bridge is ever built it will be a larger elephant than the macadamized roads. Every feature of it is controlled by patents and, my, but the county will be soaked when it comes to paying for repairs.

Sunday football playing at Ridgewood (Newtown) ended in a riot on Sunday. The players were pretty well drunken before the game began. Next summer, the "sports" say, there is to be Sunday baseball in several parks in Newtown. The police are not expected to enforce the law against it. Of course not.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 1, 1895, p. 4.