The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-13
HOB0KEN FIRE LADDIES.
They Raise a Great Row Over Their
Election.

Last night the election for Chief Engi-
neer and Assistant Chief Engineer of the
Hoboken Fire Department was held in
the house of Liberty Hose The election
was accompanied by continual growl
and several hand to hand fights. Two of
the belligerent members were arrested.
The contestants for the offices were:-For
chief engineer, /. d. Applegate and John
Hourigan; for assistant chief, 7. M. Goer-
ig and Henry E. Quidore.
For weeks the supporters of the candi-
dates have been hustling for their
respective choices, and the election was
the sole topic OF conversation in the diff
ferent fire houses. AT convention held
delegates who favored the nomination of
Hourigan and Quidore left the meeting,
accusing their opponents of fraud.
It was predicted that the election last
night would be red hot, and the predic-
ton was verified, as it beat the average
primary for impromptu scraps" The
sidewalk in front of the fire house was
packed 1t seemed as If every fireman In
the city was at the polls.
After considerable disorder the Secre-
taries from each company went into the
election of a judge of election. Two cam
didates were nominated, John Cavanagh,
of No Hose, and Charles Hicks, of No.
Engine. Hicks was elected judge by a
small margin. 1t was known that Hicks
favored the election of Applegate, and his
followers were considerably elated. Pat
rick Glynn was unanimously appointed
secretary.
Then the balloting commenced. One of
the boxes used at the last election, fresh
from its examination by the Gardner
committee, was brought into use. Print
ed ballots were then distributed and the
hustling began.
The polls were opened at precisely
eight O'clock. After half an hours bal
loting, during which every voter was
challenged. several members of the dis
banded company of Stevens Hose present
ed themselves and wanted to vote. ALI
of them were challenged by Chief Apple
gate, and the judge, a good Applegate
man, refused TO allow them to deposit
their ballots. Then there was trouble.
Threats were made. and the w0uld-be
voters, to the number of ten, stood right
in line up to the box and refused to
bulge. They said they would stick all
night.
vey of the field, and, after half an hours
delay, enlivened by frequent scraps,
to vote. Finally the scraps took such q
serious turn that two policemen arrested
Frank II. Geiger, foreman of Stevens
Hose Company, and Keron Bennett, of
No. 90 Cram street.
While the policemen were taking their
prisoners to the station house another
row occurred, The judge of election re-
fused to recognize the reorganized COM
pany, Stevens Hose. After another
wrangle they were allowed to vote. After
that the election passed off quietly
enough, although several repeaters were
detected and promptly "choked off" by
the judge.
At ten O'Clock the polls closed, and the
counting began amidst great excitement.
The counting was completed in an hour.
The vote was as follows:-For chief engi-
neer. Applegate, 1863; Hourigan, 1876; for
assistant chief engineer, Goerig, 159i
Quidore, 134.
This morning Geiger, the belligerant
foreman of Stevens Hose Company and
Bennett were arraigned in the Recorders Is
Court. They were bailed for trial.
The Police Commissioners Meet.
An unusually large lobby attended the
meeting of the Hoboken Police Commits
sioners last night. 1t was the first meet
| ing of the new Board, and it was said
tnat charges of drunkenness were to be
preferred against two policemen and four
| new policemen were to be appointed.
| After half an hours secret conclave
| the Board filed into the meeting room.
| They got to work quickly. Policemen
Ford and McDermott were retired on
half-pay, having served the requisite
| number of years on the force and passed
the age of sixty years.
| w. Ecker5 was appointed chairman.
| After recess the following were appointed
| regular policemen:-Eckert, who hac
| just been appointed chairman; Weeks
| Werner and Mulcahy. The official print
! ing was awarded to the local paper al
S400 per apnum, which is Sl00 less than
| last year.
Before adjourning Commissioner Coyle
| wanted to know why charges of drunk
enness had not been preferred against
| two of the policemen. The Chief ex
| planned that the charges had been drawn
| up, but he had forgotten to bring them
! to the meeting, and said he would pre-
| sent them at the next meeting. The
Board then adjourned
The Board of Education Gets to Work
| The new Hoboken Board of Education
held it's initial meeting last night. Al
were present with the exception of Trus
tees Darcy and Hicks, who were attend
| ing the firemen's election. Presiden
| Rudolph announced the following com
4 mittees for the year, Teachers Salarie
1 and School Government-Hess Reid ant
Darcy; Supplies Hicks, Guth and Nee
han; Repairs--Meehan, Guth and Hicks
School Buildings and Furniture-Arata
Hess and Reid; Library Darcy, Arata
4 Dynan and Acker; Nomal School Exam
ination--Acker. Dynan and Arata; Audi
| -Dynan, Hess and Darcy.
1 Trustees Hess, Reid and Darcy wer,
appointed special committee to investi
gate the rumors concerning Principa
Elston, of the High School. Trustee
1 Russ, Hess, Reid, Darcy and Hicks wer'
appointed to revise the manual. The oil
rules of the Board were adopted.
On motion of Trustee Arata the chair
man appointed committee to inspec
the public school buildings and see hoy
they were protected from fire. Trustee
Russ, Reid and Arata were appointed
Miss Borthwick was appointed teacher t
fill the vacancy caused by the resignatio
OF Miss Racine and the Board adjourned
Mrs. Beach's Mania.
4 Mrs. Beach has been making tour c
the different newspaper offices telling in
coherent stories about the giant c0nspil
acy which was concocted by her husban
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