The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-08
THE NEWS OF BAY0NNE.
SEVEN CONTRACTS AFdRDED At
THE COUNCIL MEETING.

They Amount in All to 4O,O0O-Wil a
Park Go to B~ayonne-EIr. Post Was
Not There.
President Goddard lost little time las
evening in converting the first business
meeting of the new Bayonne Board OF
Councilmen. None of the ten City Fathers
were absent. A crowd of curious citizens
occupied all of the available space
in the Council chamber, without the
railing and the adjoining corridor. Many
of them expected to witness a further pro-
test on the part of eX-Freeholder Albert
Post against the Board recognizing Cou
Gilman McQuillan as n of its members.
Mr.. Post, however, was not present, put
his counsel, Counsellor Northrop, was ire
Quently seen lodging about in the crowd.
He contented himself with quietly serving
some documents in the matterupon Coun-
Gilman McQuillan.
Resolutions were adopted as follows.
To make and issue $4,000 worth OF SIX
year, five per cent. Improvement ponds,
to be issued in payment for a number OF
proposed sewer n street Improvements,
and to draw in favor of County Collector
Dugan a warrant for $1,000 on account OF
the State and county taxes for
1883. Owing to clerical errors Mayor
Newman returned without his signatures
warrants drawn in favor of John I. Beck
and Lawrence V. BREASTED, two election
officers. Street Commissioner Sanford
reported that the sidewalk along the
south side of First street, opposite Avenue
O. was i'm a dangerous condition, having
been washed away by the tide in the XIII
Won Kull. He was told to notify the own
ers to make the requisite repairs.
Mayor Newman sent in a commun1ca-
tion suggesting that an effort be made TO
locate one, or part of one, OF the Hudson
1a--4- 80 rIzn rifhio tha oitu limits Civ
Attorney Fuller drafted and the Commit
tee of the Whole adopted a resolution
asking Garrett E.. Winants, one OF the
Park Commissioners, to do what he could
in the matter.
With the exception of those for the East
Twenty-eighth street sewer, the batches
OF proposals tabled at the last meeting
were opened, and the contracts awarded
as follows:-Avenue G and West Fifty
second street sewer, Mum & Phelan,
SIG, 265; Avenue E, East Thi~rty-fourth
to East Fourtieth street sewer,
James f. Mallory. s6,9o2.50; Avenue
e and East Thirtieth street sewer, James
j. Cogan, Sc, 483; Railroad avenue and
other water main extensions, John j. Nc
Intyre, S2,S76. Dor West Thirty-ffth street
sewer, James J. Cogan, 81, 725; grading
West Thirty-sixth street, John T.. Nc
Intyre, $S71; plank walk from Port john
ston to Constable Hook, John L. NC
IDUyre, SSof.
City Surveyor and Engineer Smith re-
ported that he had secured from the Cen
trail Railroad of New Jersey and
the Central New Jersey Land I'M
provement Company the necessary instru-
ments conveying the right of way to tide
water for the Second ward main
sewer. He said that it only remained for
the citizens of the ward to make proper
application for the Improvement. The
agreements from the companies accom-
panied the reports, and all were filed.
Bayonettes.
The New Jersey Athletic Clubs team
and the Cables, of Jersey City, will do
battle this afternoon with bat and ball on
the Avenue A grounds at Bergen Point.
The balances remaining to the Board of