The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-04
OF NORTH HUDSON.
DELINQUENT T4xPATERs ARE IN
DANGER OF Il SURPRISE.

the OId Time Easy MethOd OF lax
Sales, 1t Is Said, and Reap a Profit of
Fifteen Per Cent. on His Investment
North Hudson Notes.
There are certain delinquent taxpay-
ers of West Hoboken who too often
neglect to give their attention to snch
little matters a paying their taxes.
They let the arrears mount up on their
property, expecting the town to go
through the same old yearly farce OF
selling and buying in all the lands
put on the market for unpaid taxes.
Yesterdays sale was no exception to
The rule. Town Treasurer Nolan had
property to sell with nearly $4,000
back taxes against it. No buyer APP
peared, so the sale is postponed for
thirty days.
At the next sale things may not be
SO pleasant. Speculation and enter
prise ought to be familiar words with
them, but if they are not, Spectator
Ogden will gladly lecture on their pc
culiar significance. Ogden, it is said,
will be present at the next sale, and
will buy in all the property offered.
Then the sleepy owners of the lands
in arrears will have to either consent
to be ousted or to pay Ogden the
amount of his original investment,
plus a moiety of fifteen per cent. in
terest for his trouble. As the town
charges only seven per cent. interest
on tax arrears, it will make quite a
difference. From the number OF promi-
nent people whose names appear
on the advertisement of the
tax sale, one would think
that to pay taxes was regarded as bad
form in West Hoboken. r. j.. Bene,
ex-Alderman Weldon, William Kerri-
gan A. p. Hilliard, Henry Traphagan,
Shepard and Van Amburgh and eX-
Collector Anderson are a few of the
names, gleaned from v a hundred
who own large portions of West
Hoboken property and have for years
back suffered it to run into arrears.
The taxes OF the Traphagan prop
erty, especially, have been suffered to
accumulate since 1885.
The Gator estate has also been neg
lected for years and is heavily in
arrears. Even the name of the North
Hudson County Railroad Company
appears in the list of delinquents of
1886 for an unpaid tax bill of 1888. The
names Just enumerated show clearly
that negligence more than poverty is
at the bottom of the matter. Mean
while Spectator Ogden figures up his
profits and hopes that no one will be
moved to come up and settle before
the thirty days expire.
They'll Be After Those Bondsmen.
The Town Council of West Hoboken
met last evening at the Town Hall.
Dennis Egan was awarded the con
tract on the Ann street and Railroad
avenue sewer, his bid of $3.034, being
the lowest.
The final payment of So, 500 on the
new Town Hall was made to Bartholo-
NEW Fitzgerald, and the Board will
take formal possession within a week
or two.
Then came a snag. Alderman Fin
negan, who superintendent the build
ing of the hall, reported that he had
been obliged to deyiate from the plan,
and certain extra work, such as iron
girders, rain pipe and a stone tablet
on the face of the building, had been
ordered.
Contractor Fitzgerald did the work
and presented a bill of 81, 422.3 80 for
extras. The Board seems to think
this too much and will have it re-
ferred to O Committee of Arbitration.
The auditing Committee found
Treasurer Nolan's books correct.
Parts of Spring street are in miserable
condition. The contractors will be
notified to have it repaired at once.
The Land and Building Committee
will have the new hall furnished, and
intend to spare no expense to have it
comfortably and elegantly equipped.
The people of the town are anxious
to have Walnut street opened and to
have a sewer in Dubois street. The
Board will advertise for objections.
The members of the Board are
very reticent about the Anderson
case. His bondsmen have not
yet paid the 5000 court costs,
and the Board is not over anxious to
extend the time. The Couneilmen
feel that they have been wasting too
much time dilly-dallying, and may
press the charges against him it his
bondsimen do not settle very shortly.