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Show POOR HOUSE IS TO BEA BONFIRE New York, Nov. 24 Citizens ot Monclair. N. J., will be entertained some time in the Christmas holidays by a $3,000 bonfire, the material for which will be provided by the town poorhouso and Its contents. Tho poor I house, which stands on a knoll In the southern part of the town, will b abandoned the latter part of next week, when Us thirteen inmates will be transferred to the Orange poor-house. poor-house. The building Is on a park tract which the Essex county park commission desires to improve and the commission recently requested the town to remove it The town authorities, au-thorities, however, have decided that the beat method of disposal is by incineration in-cineration It was feared that ' the house, having long sheltered the. sick and decrepit might contribute to tho spread of contagion. The bonfire will be under the supervision su-pervision of the Montclalr fire department depart-ment which will have lines of hose stretched to prevent the possible spread of the flames. |