The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-05-15
JORDAN GETS A PLACE.
Commissioner Hitler Objects to
His appointment.

The Board of Finance held meeting
last evening, which was attended by all
the members of the Board. About the
irst business which was brought before
the meeting was a communication from
City Collector O'Neill announcing that
he had appointed Thomas F. Jordan a
clerk in his Office at salary Of S100 per
month. Jordan is the young man who
testified before the Gardner Investigating
Committee to the attempts of James q.
Young. the Republican State Commit
te eman, to commit fraud at the last fall
election. For this Jordan lost his posi-
ton in the New York Custom House.
When the appointment came up to be
concurred in later in the evening, Mr..
Hitler protested against it. He said
that one year ago there were nine clerks
in the Collectors Office and today there
are fourteen, while the work Is no more
now than it was then. Moreover, he
said that the appropriation for that Office
would be exhausted if more clerks were
employed. His protest was of no avail.
voted for the appointment. Bernard
Westervelt was appointed a clerk in
City Treasurer Cleveland'S office at q
salary of 500 per month.
The Board c0ncurred in the resolutions
of the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners awarding the contract for
continuing the Second street sewer to
the Hudson River to p. H. Condor; for
the improvement of Emory street from
Bergen to Monticello avenue; for the im-
provement of Belmont avenue and the
improvement of Sherman avenue.
LAND ON THE HACKENSACK.
The special committee to which was
rofarrcd a YaafifinY1 nf cQuopQI c 10 lr-
ing the Board to take steps to acquire a
strip of land on the Hackensack River at
the foot of Broadway for wharves and
piers, submitted their report. The COM
mittee said that the city has only one
pier on the Hackensack and that is used
for loading garbage.
1t recognizes the fact that the Hacken-
sack is destined to become an important
waterway and the necessity of the city
obtaining property on its shore before it
is all taken up bv the corporations. The
committee, the report says, has discov-
cred that Jersey City already owns a
strip sbcgt siy hundred feet long 'front.'
ing on the river about seventy feet north
of the Newark turnpike bridge. The
committee recommends that the engin-
eering department be directed TO make a
survey and soundings of the property
and report as to the work necessary to
erect wharves and piers there.
4AC lcpOIo ttlSV C6Al5 upOA Ln0 law JILL
GERS of the city TO ascertain what steps
must be taken to secure the riparian
rights and the right of way to the prop
erty. The report was adopted
1t was agreed to hold the regular meet
ings Of the Board hereafter Mt seven p m.
of the first and third Tuesdays of each
month.
MONEY PAID OUT
A warrant was ordered drawn in favor
of William Day, trustee under the will of
Abram Hooley, deceased, for s., ,062 50, be-
ing surplus OF the amount received for
the property at Jersey avenue and Fourth
street, which was sold for unpaid taxes.
The bonds of the chief engineer were
fixed at $25, 600.
Warrants were ordered drawn in favor
of the Sinking Fund Commissioners for
Sl3, 800 for interest and principal due June
/. and in favor of Hugh Dugan, County
Collector. for $15, 600 on account of county
taxes for 1889. The commission OF adjust
ment were given $1,000 with which to
carry on their work, and $4,000 was
ordered to be borrowed on three per
cent. temporary loan bonds. The sum of
$967 so was transferred from the license
fund to the special school account, and
$19,035 went to the short account out of
the same fund.