The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-12-08
THEFINANCIERS CONCUR
Apd the New Police Build
ing Will Soon Be Go
ing Up.

Az IdSb tuo fOIlce OepdTbuouO - W
have it's new building. The Board of
Finance at its meeting yesterday after
noon concurred in the resolution of the
Board of Street and Water Commission
efs awarding the contracts for the cree
ton of the building and it is confidently
expected that the work of demolishing
the old structure will begin tomorrow.
AS soon as the Board was called to
order President Edelstein said that there
were number of gentlemen present
from the Third district who wished to be
he wanted DR.. Quimby to address the
the Board DR.. Quimby referred 20 the
matter of the sewers in the Third
district, and said that he was
attending patients who were suffer-
ing from illness contracted through hav-
ing their easements flooded with sewer
age which came in from the sewer
choked up by the Pennsylvania Railroad
Several of these patients could hardly
recover.
When the Doctor had reached this
stage of his address President Edelstein
interrupted him to say that all members
of the Board believed that what the
Doctor said was true. That he himself
personally knew the condition to be just
as the DOCTOR stated IL.
President Edelstein then offered q reso-
luton to the effect that a committee of
citizens, the Street and Water Commits
sioners and q delegation of the citizens
wait upon the Pennsylvania Railroad
authorities with view to having the evil
complained of remedied.
A GLANCE AT THE LAW.
DR.. Quimbv said that, as some of the
members of the Board appeared to be in
doubt as to their authority to act in the
matter, he wanted to read the law on the
subject, especially SO as both the Corpo-
ration Attorney and Counsel were pres
ent. DR.. Quimby then read that part of
the enactment Of 1886 which gave the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company permits
sion to fill in Harsimus Cove, which states
that city authorities shall have the power
to construct the necessary sewers through
the filled in land.
Continuing, DR.. Quimby said that Jer-
sey City had the power to remedy this
evil, and because the city had not acted
in the matter the public health was en-
dangered and property in that vicinity
had deprecated twenty-five per cent.
President Edelstein said that the Board
of Finance would do all in it's power to
help the citizens of the district. He then
appointed Commissioners Allen, Kenny
and Bray to represent the Board on the
Conference Committee called for by the
resolution. Commissioner Kenny subse-
quently resigned on account of business
engagements, and President Edelstein
was substituted in his place.
DIR. Quimby announced that Henry
Wild, John ]. Lynch, DR.. O'Callagher,
J. S. O'Connor and himself would repre-
sent the citizens on the committee.
THE PASSAGES POLLUTION.
Mr.. Gustav Blau, Of a committee from
the Bergen Improvement Associations
then obtained the floor and requested the
Board TO protect the city in the matter of
the pollution of the Passaic River by the
city of Passaic. He said that Passaic had
completed it's sewerage system and was
about to empty its sewerage into the
river The city of Newark had begun
suit to restrain Passaic from doing so,
which suit is now pending in the Court
of Errors and Appeals. AS Newark had
contracted for new water supply, it was
feared that she would not prosecute the
Board TO see that Jersey City did not
suffer. The matter was referred to the
Corporation Counsel
The Comptroller's report showed that
his receipts for the past week were
$151, 77S.03
contract for cleaning the street by the
Board of Street and Water Commission
ers was concurred in, and the Committee
on Finance was authorized TO borrow
$160. Is on four and half per cent. bonds
for the printing and stationery account.
The Corporation Attorney was re-
quested to inform the Board of the exact
status of the strip of land in the South
Cove known as the conditional
grant," to see il railroads or any squat
tiers had taken possession of the property
and to devise some plan whereby the city
could derive some benefit therefrom
OFFICIAL PAPERS.
Commissioner Hitler offered a resolu-
ton designating The JERSEY CITY NEWS,
the EueRiftg Journal, the JERSEY Cfty
Herald and the Nel0 Jersey Stats Zcit-
qatg as the official papers 1t
was passed, President Edelstein and
Commissioner Kenny voting against the
resolution.
Commissioner Kenny said that as he
understood the law the city was entitled
to five official papers and he wanted the
Argus aided to the list.
just before adjournment Commissioner
Kenny said that there were before the
committee on stationery and supplies a
number of bills that run back for many
years and he could not certify as to
their correctness or honesty He could
not understand how bills could remain
unpaideso long. He recommended that
the Board meet some night and go over
these bills. He suggested that these
creditors should 90 into the courts with
these claims, and if they have any honest
claim against the city collect their money.
1t was shame, he declared, for bills TO
stand so long.
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