The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-24
THE NEWS OF H0BOKEN.
WHAT VAS DONE At THE COUNCIL
MEETING List NIGHT.

General Notes From the City over the
Track, and All Sorts of Items of Every
Kind of Interest.
The last session of the old Board OF
Council was held in the City Hall last
night. 1t was expected that the meeting
would be unusually interesting n the
lobby was crowded. The full Board was
present.
Bids for the erection of a brick sewer on
spiles along Grand street were received
from Daniel Mahoney, Patrick Flaherty
and M. Fitzpatrick. Bids for the removal
of ashes and garbage were also sent in.
Several proposals were read for the tear
ing down of the Pennsylvania Railroads
offices and workshops on River street, be-
tween First and Second streets, in order
to push forward the opening OF RIVER
street. Contractor CORTLAND offered TO
do the work for 81, 100, allowing $3.50 Tor
old materials. Patrick Flaherty bid SOU,
allowing 500 off. Mr.. Foley would IN
dertake the work for the old materials.
Charles George bid $3.50, allowing $loO 1or
the debris. Amos Cramer offered TO 40
the work for nothing, and james Roarty
would undertake the work and pay the
city 500 for the materials. :,
Bids were also received for the burial OF
paupers and for the improvements on
Garden, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh streets,
for furnishing street signs, and for nXlng
an iron railing around School No. 5.
George i. Harrison petitioned Tor per
mission to hang an ornamental banner
from the corner of Hudson and Newark
streets. The residents along Clinton
street petitioned for IN electric light on
the corner of Clinton and Third streets.
Tor--, Cla,l- Gnxr1ar npfit1OnPH that IN
future the town OF West Hoboken be re-
leved of the cost of providing lamps on
Fourteenth street.
The special committee appointed to in
vestigate the rights of the City to lands
under water opposite Hudson Square
Park, reported that in conjunction with
the Corporation Attorney they had had an
act passed by the present Legislature en-
abling the city to obtain sby grant from
the Riparian Commissioners with the
Hoboken Land and Improvement Com
pany for the consideration of 81 all the
right and title to the land under water
opposite thepark.
The committee also reported that they
would allow the company to build a road
from Fourth to Fifth streets at its w
expense, but that one dock was to be al
lowed to the public, and that the view
from the park was to be unobstructed.
In return for the privilege, Colonel
CItNGDS WILL give To bu6 CITY u SlUC lOl q
school house 100 feet On Willow avenue,
100 feet front on Park avenue, and l65
feet front on Eleventh street. Also a site
above Eleventh street, and east of Willow
avenue for a police station, and a site
above Eleventh street in the neighbor-
hood of Bloomfield or Washington streets
for a fire station.
The committee appointed to investigate
the books of the City Clerks department
after the discovery of MausellS forgerieS
reported hat improvement certificates
had been forged to the amount of S9,9S1.S0.
A minute examination of the license and
receipt books showed that they had not
had been altered, and about $400 had been
obtained by erasing and altering the
names and addresses of the property on
which taxes were owing.
In the improvement certificate book
eighteen certificates and stubs had been
used, eighteen of them had been negoti-
ated by Robert j. Dalton, of Jersey City,
and that up to the present time four had
not been traced. The committee was not
discharged, as they have some obserya-
lions to make with regard to a better sys-
tenn Of bookkeeping.
Mayor Grassman nominated Martin
Daab. Jr., for Police Commissioner The
apIM Eminent was confirmed. but not
III himously, as Councilman Thinker
ed against it, and Colonel Erlenkoetter
used to vote.
Henry Lohmann, Jr., rendered his res
ignation of his seat in the Board of Edu-
cation, as he has been elected Water
Registrar.
Colonel Erlenkoetter proposed that as
w. S. Cobine had not appeared for trial
for keeping an alleged d%isorderly house,
his license should be revoked. The mo-
ton was carried unanimously.
The Board then adjourned until Wedes-
day, May 1.