The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-03-20
BAYONNE'S BUSY COUNCIL.
ELECTION DAY rs NEAR, IND THE
PEOPLES INTERESTS LOOM UP.

talking for Improvements which Will
be beneficial to the people of their re
spective wards was shown last even
ing by several members of the Bay
onne Board of Councilmen, whose
political ambition will lead them to
become candidates this spring for re-
election.
The special committee appointed at
the last meeting of the Board, reported
favorably upon Councilman CARROTS
resolution about erecting for the
workingmen of the First and
Fourth wards a board walk from
the Port johnson coal wharves at Ber-
gen Point to the oil refineries at Con-
stable Hook. The report recon-
mended that City Engineer Smith be
directed to prepare plans n speclfl-
cations for a walk to be laid n
hundred feet north of the coal piers
across the salt meadows to near the
entrance of the Tidewater Oil Com
pany's yard. 1t was sent TO the Com
mittee of the Whole, with a petition
for the Improvement signed by a hun
bred or SO First and Fourth ward c1ti-
zens.
Councilman Cronin thought h
matter the biggest piece of nonsence
brought before the Board for some
time. He considered it ridiculous to
spend a thousand or fifteen hun
bred dollars for a matter which
would only benefit about fifty
men. when the road over
which is carried the traffic by which a
large portion of the city's revenue is
derived is permitted to go for years
without requisite repairs. He had
thoroughly examined into the matter,
and he did not deem it wise to build a
walk over private property when no
one knew how long it wonld be
allowed to remain. y
Councilman McQuillen could not
see how the First and Fourth wards
should have a walk to Constable Hook
when the Second ward, in which hun
dreds of the oil companies employees,
live has none. He said the present
road to the Fifth ward was nothing
but a dumping ground for dead dogs,
dead cats, tin tomato cans and other
similar bric-a-brac.
Councilman Carroll said he advo-
Gated the measure because the people
OF Bergen Point desired it, and he in
tended to do all he could to get it for
them. Councilman Cronin remarked
that he had all the sympathy
any man could have for the working
men of the First and Fourth ward, but
he deemed the walk unnecessary and
sheer nonsense. He would not vote to
spend five cents for it.
SARCASTIC Mr.. KELLY.
Councilman Kelly insinuatingly said
that he did not hear of the walk until
~..+ISe 4h,oo uYaokC nf a onrtajn day
but he would help Councilman Carroll
all he could.
Councilman Carroll fired up and
asserted he did not introduce the reso-
luton for the walk in order to make
capital for himself. He knew Council
man Kelly alluded to election day,
but he did not care whether
or not he returned to the Board
ii the people did not want to send him
back. Councilman Kelly winked
Knowingly, and reiterated his remark
That he would aid Councilman Carroll
all he could.
= Finally the Committee of the Whole
adopted the recommendations of the
special committee.
A BATCH OF RESOLUTIONS.
Among the resolutions introduced
and passed were the following:-By
GOu1cllIldll Why
Clerk Hamilton to have prepared
for the ensuing charter election
ballots, to have printed upon them
police Pension Accepted and police
Pension Rejected to draw in favor of
the Hudson County National Bank
warrants for 1875, 900 to redeem
funded assessments bonds falling
due April /, and for $530.14 to pay
interest on loan; to advertise for
proposals to sell the city 5000 0
worth of tax bonds and $4,000 worth
OF city of Bayonne bonds for the city's
sinking fund; to have erected neal the
Avenue d bridge over the Morris canal
a large sign, warning, under penalty,
against the dangerous practice of fast
driving, and empowering Chief of
Police Mcneil to devise methods to
prohibit the practice and to arrest vio-
lators of the warning.
Bv Councilman Cronin-To have
the Street Commissioners repair the
Constable Hook road by expanding
the appropriation of $500 made for
that purpose in 1884.
By Councilman O'Farrell-To erect
a handrail and fence along the north
erly side of the Constable Hook road, 4
where it crosses the BLACK Ditch"
BY Councilman Carroll-To direct
City Attorney Fuller to ascertain
whether or not the Jersey City and
Rergen Railroad Company violated the
terms Of its franchise by taking up the
hore car tracks along the route through
the Fourth ward.
BY Councilman Meigs-Directing
City Clerk Hamilton to issue the usual
charter election notices and naming
the following polling places:-First
ward, house of Bayonne Engine Com
pany$No. /; Second ward (irst
district), City Recorders court
room; Second ward Second
district) house of Hope Hook and Lad
der Company No. 2; Third ward, house
of Bayonne Hook and Ladder Com
pany No. 1; Fourth ward, house of
Columbia Hook and Ladder Company
Nc. 8; Fifth ward, house of Enterprise
Hose Company No. 1.
BY Commissioner Scofield-Direct-
ing City Surveyor Smith to prepare
plans and specifications for sewers in
Avenues G and E, East Twenty-eighth
street, East Thirtieth street, West
Thirty-second street, West Thirty
fifth and West Fifty-second streets,
and for grading and regulating West
Thirty-second street.
Petitions from the New Jersey Ath-
ietic Club for permissiont to sheoto on its
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