The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-06
BAYoNNE NEWS.
Public Library Trustees Appointed,
An Assignment and a Wedding.

Mayor Newman notified the Bayonne
had appointed the following trustees of
the proposed public library:-First ward,
William j. Morrison, three years; Second
ward, Joseph H. Wright, five years;
Third ward, William B. Dubois, one
year; Fourth ward, Bartholomew
r. Cahill, four years; Fifth
ward, John n. Bruins, two years. The
Board confirmed the appointments. Sub
s%equently the trustees, with Mayor New
man, the Rev. Henry w. F. Jones, City
Inspector of Schools, and President Ma
thaniel W. Trask, of the Board of Educa-
ton. who are Trustees ex officio, held a
conference at the home of the Mayor.
Mr.. Wright was chosen chairman and
Mr.. Morrison secretary and treasurer.
A general assignment for the benefit of
his creditors was made yesterday morn
ing by Patrick Monahan, q grocer and
boot and shoe dealer doing business on
John Bull. q master builder and contract
or, was made assignee. With no pre-
ferred creditors Mr.. Monahan's liabili-
ties aggregate about $1,000. while
his assets are estimated at
forced by a judgment rendered against
him for about $1,000 in a suit tried sew
eral days age in Elizabeth. The action
was brought by Sames Mcguire, assignee
for Wilson ]. Haver, q Bergen Point
business man who failed several months
ago. Haver was arrested last February
af the instance of Monahan, but Justice
Knapp dismissed the suit.
William c.. Simmons and Miss Olive
Butler, both of the Third ward of Bay
onne, were married last evening In the
First Reformed Church of that city. The
- TTTs11l.xr IH K-~r Unafo. If thn
church. oficiated at the ceremony.
There were no bridesmaids. The
nshers were Messrs. Thomas C. Colville,
William Low, j.. Etherington .and w.
Hampton. Miss Maggie Low presided
at the organ. Following the ceremony q
large crowd of the young couples friends
escorted them to the East Thirty-third
street station and gave them a very en-
thusiastic send-off when they boarded
the Sis train for New York city, en- route
for a wedding our to Saratoga and
Niagara Falls.
The Bayonne Board of Councilmen
held a meeting last evening. An appli-
cation from Ralph G. Packard for per
mission to lay a water main extension
through n block of Railroad avenue
was referred to the Committee on Water
Streets and Drainage after a stout tight
to have the request granted. The
gas company notified the Board that it
would not lay the proposed extension of
the gas mains unless the city agreed to
have the numbe of lamps to be used tx
coed six hundred, the minimum provided
In the new contract. The Board decided
to allow the company the lamps to be
placed upon the extension in adj
dition to the minimum num-
Der. Mayor Newman reported re-
ceiving numerous complaints about
the slowness of the contractor TO remove
garbage, ana he wal authorized to en-
ploy q man to oversee the dumping.
Thfrty-three liquor sellers license appli-
cations were granted, making eighty-fiye
passed TO date. Five applications were
rejected. An ordinance to change the
grade and to vacate certain street be-
tween Avenues G and H, and between
East Twenty-third and Twenty ninth
streets, was passed. William FL. La
Tourette was chosed inspector on the
East Thirty-third street sewer. Council
man Cadmus introduced an ordinance
giving a franchise to erect electric light
poles and wires to Messrs. Thurber and
TAYLOR.