The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-03
THE CURRIES' SIDE.
The Claims of the Morris & Cum
ming Company Answered.

The heirs of the Curries estate express
themselves as greatly surprised at the
suit brought against them by tn Morris
& Cumming Dredging Co., to restrain
the Curries from mortgaging or otherwise
disposing of the Point Breeze Ferry Com
pany's property, worth = 800, 900, on the
New York Bay shore front, as set forth
in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS Of Thurs
day:
They say that up to the time the suit
was commenced they were on friendly
terms with Messrs. Morris and Cumming,
and were looking forward to an amicable
settlement of the situation.
MR.. CURRIE SPEAKS.
Imet Mr.. Mungo j. Currie this after
noon, and in speaking Of the matter he
said:-tMr. James Cumming, on July 5,
called on William Currie, president of
the Point Breeze Ferry Company, and
said that his company had finished its
part of the contract and would like to
have deed for its share of the property
according to the terms Of the agreement.
"On top of this Mr.. Cumming added the
company would like to have an extension
for one year on the contract. Mr.. Currie
replied that he would lay the application
before the directors of the company and
see what they had to say upon the mat
ter.
"Mr. Cumming wanted an answer the
| next day, and accordingly the next day
Mr.. Currie laid the application before
some of the directors, and they made up
| their minds that the best thing that Mr.
Currie could do was send Mr.. Cummings
| personal note, which he did on July g.
This note said in substance that Mr..
Currie had consulted with the directors,
| and they had directed him to ask Mr..
Cumming to put his request in writing so
| that thayJ onI11A houo IL hnfOro fhnfT1 In q
business shape.
SHORT NOTICE.
After waiting fourteen days Messrs.
Morris & Cumming replied with a com
| munication OF somewhat sarcastic charac-
ter, which said that according to Mr..
C9rrie's suggestion they begged leave to
submit their proposition or request in
writing, and would ask that it be at once
considered in a business way. They also
| earnestly requested an answer before
July "A.
This gave us but four days, one of
which was Sunday, in which to call a
meeting of the directors, of which twenty
four hours notice had to be given, to CON
slider this important question and return
| our answer.
Accompanying this communication was
q statement, in which Messrs. Morris &
Cumming set forth the entering into the
contracts of 1875 by the parties, the exten-
oAOA1 III AcCOy anu UlC Clt1llll LlltU DOU1 COA-
tracts had long ago been fulfilled and car
ried out by them.
Now, at the time they wrote that they
| were working as hard as they could, and
| had been for some time previous thereto.
'The statement then went on to say
| that If, in view of all the circumstances
| and surroundings, the Point Breeze
Ferry Company should differ from the
| Morris & Cumming Company as to
what conveyance or compensation the
! latter was entitled to, the Morris
| q Cumming Company de-
manded an extension of time
for the completion of the contract for one
| negotiations. This was dated July 20,
| 1889.
| THE FERRY COMPANY'S REPLY.
| In reply to this the ferry company said
that it was unwilling to consider any
proposition based upon the presumption
on the part of the Morris 8
| Cumming Company that the latter had
completed the contracts, 1t also charged
that the Dredging Company had failed to
| complete both contracts in the time fixed.
s'The answer concluded thus:-'We are,
| however, both willing and anxious to
! make an amicable arrangement with you
| which shall fully recognize any pos
in the premises, and if you
will make a proposition without embar-
| RAISING us with the assertion that you
| consider your contracts fulfilled, we shall
| be glad to entertain it. Should
this take the form of request
| for an extension of time please
state upon what terms you think it should
| be granted. We suggest that new con-
tract, upon such just and equitable terms
| as both parties may agree upon, be made.
"Up to the time the suit was com
| menced we were disposed to act entirely
| in an amicable manner with the Morris &
Cumming Company and were waiting tc
| hear from them"