The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-28
A BUSY NIGHTS WORK.
HOBOKEN COUNCIL TRANSA CTS
BUSINESS FOR THREE HOURS.


Preparing to Purchase New Van and
New Fire Engine-Janitor Maloney's
Resignation Is Accepted-The Hobo
ken Improvement Company Proposes
to Chip in with the City.
The Common Council of Hoboken held
three hours session last night.
DR.. Samuel A. Heller, who claims to be
the City Physician, sent the following
communication to the Board
Gentlemen of the CouncH:--
niview of the fact that,dphtheria is still preva-
lent IN this city, Notwithstanding the oft-repeated
assertion OF those who are more interested IN
real estate statistics than those who have the
sanitary welfare of the community at heart,
would suggest that your honorable body take i'm
nleulate steps to have the CUTTERS receiving
basins and sewers cleaned or flushed with
powerful liquid disinfectant. l would also sug-
gest the removal of ash and garbage boxes from
sidewalks, as the foul odors emanating there
from are a serious menace to public health.
would also call your attention to the fact that
the men employed by the contractor for the re
moval OF ashes and garbage perform their work
In such careless and Indifferent manner that as
much of the refuse finds its way to the streets as
70 the carts intended for its removal. Comment
is unnecessary.
would also respectfully suggest that the
street Commissioner be directed to cause the re-
moYal OF all empty beer kegs from in front OF
saloons, the same being nuisance to pedestrians
ana having tendency to attract millions of flies
and verInin.
After some discussion, the matter
was finally referred to the Committee on
Health.
BIDDING FOR FIRE MACHINES.
The following proposals for fire appa-
ratuses were received:- Clapp & Jones
Manufacturing CO., No. 2 steam fire
engine, s., 800; Woodhouse Manufacturing
Co., hook and ladder truck, size sixty
feet long, $2500; sixty-five feet $1,000;
seventy feet, $500; seventy-five feet,
$S, 500; La France Engine Company, one
double piston engine, No. 2, 50, 400 Joseph
Finnerty, Amoskeag Engine No. 2, 1900;
for hose wagon, $780, for tender, 800; La
France Engine Company, one hook and
ladder truck, patent, $1,000; Fire Ex
| tingIlishing Co., hook and ladder truck,
s., $50; Kelly 81 Co., two new hose wagons,
5000; Gleason & Bailey Manufacturing
Co., hook and ladder truck, $2,500; same
company, two tenders, 81, 100.
Several bids for harness were received
and referred.
NEW PRISON VAN.
Proposals for a new prison van were re-
ceived from the following:-Gleason
Bailey & Co., $500.
| Mansfield & Pagan offered to erect
urinals in the parks as follows:-S500 and
$500 for one stall; for two stalls, $700 and
$500 Mr. Burns offered to put the urin-
ais up for $29S each.
fIOpoSflS LOT SUreeG signs were received
| as follows = Mansfield & Pagan iron
| brackets, S1.65 each; j. Fischer, so cents
and 80 cents each; Thomas o. Boyle, 81. 20
| and 80 cents each.
"All these proposals were referred, as
! were also several proposals for street i'm
| provements.
THE MUSIC VETOED.
The resolution empowering committee
of the Council to hire a band of music to
play in the parks was vetoed by Mayor
| Grassman. His Honor stated that the $50
a night voted by Council for the band was
altogether inadequate. He thought it
would be best to defer action till provi-
| sion could be made Tor union music.
Several laboring men complained that
| Contractor Flaherty owed them money,
| and their communications were referred
| A petition for the reDaving of Garden
| street between Third and Fifth streets
| was referred.
Trades Council to review the parade on
| Labor Day was accepted.
| Collector Bowes reported that he had
collected during the last quarter $32, LOG. 80,
and that he had turned over that amount
| to the city treasury.
TO EXTEND SEWER.
| The Bremen Steamship Company
offered to extend the Third street main
sewer, which at present emits horrible
| stencil, five or six hundred feet into deep
water, provided the city would pay half
| the cost of the improvement. The total
cost, the company stated, would probably
| be $4,000 or $1,000. The matter was re-
! ferred.
| SOME NEW APPOINTMENTS
| James Scott was appointed engineer of
| the City Hall, and Mrs. A. Maloney was
appointed City Prison Keeper for the bal
ance of the fiscal year.
The resignation of Patrick Maloney as
janitor of the City Hall and City Prison
Keeper was accepted.
The contract for the repaving of Bloom
| field street from Newark to Sixth street
was awarded to Matthew Fitzpatrick;
| furnishing Fire Department supplies, to
| Meyer 81 Nelson; for the improvement of
| Second street. to Patrick Flaherty.