The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-15
A BIG DE FAGTO' JOB.
The City Hall Commission Is Draw
ing Salaries with Great Zeal.

Mayor Cleveland, de facto. some time
ago concluded that inasmuch as the law
which he logrolled through the Legisla-
ture, gave him the power to appoint a
Board of City Hall Commissioners. he
would do SO. He appointed John Pearson,
James Burke and Emil Datz TO these po-
sitions. They are good sinecures, for
there is nothing for the Commissioners
to do, and this the so-called Mayor knew
full well when he made the appointments.
He is a very careful man, this acting
Mayor, when he makes appointments,
TO secure men who will be the most use to
him and at the same time have an air of
responsibility about them.
Pearson bears good reputation and, to
add to appearances, he was elected presi-
dent of the Board at q salary of $1,000 a
year. The two other commissioners re-
ceive only 81, 200 year each. Chairman
Pearson was for two terms a member of
the Assembly from the Fifth district and
was to obtain some of the bene-
fits of tins popularity that he
was appointed by Cleveland, who knew
right well that whatever he wanted done
would be done by Burke and Datz, who
would ouUvote Pearson.
burke Is u illuGEdl WdltI
and is about as well acquainted with the
requirements for selecting site for and
building City Hall as a toad is with its
grandfather.
Datz is politician, sharp and shrewd
and-Datz. If by helping Cleveland he
can help DATE, he can be depended on
every time. This Cleveland knew full
well when he named him.
These three gentlemen held meeting
and discovered they had nothing TO do.
To enable them to find some excuse for
drawing their salaries they appointed
Fred Kissam clerk at salary of 81 500
The clerk is quick witted fellow and he
knew that if the City Han Commissioners
were not provided with something to
keep them busy general outcry would
take place. So he suggested that these
Commissioners should discover where
all the property is that belongs to
the city. The suggestion proved
very acceptable to the Commission
ers and he was directed to do the
work. An ordinary clerk could accom-
plish this in two or three days 1t has
taken this clerk that number of months.
1t is the only thing he has to do, and twice
a month he reports it to the Commission
ers These gentlemen meet that often
and adjourn, and that is all they ever do.
The reason given for hunting up city
property is that the law under which
they act directs the Commissioners to
sell certain portions of it for the benefit
of the City Hall fund.
Jersey City Electric Light Co. Bonds.
In another column Messrs. Lawrence
S. Mott & Co., of No. 115 Broadway, offer
for sale 100000 of thirty year bonds of
the Jersey City Electric Light Company,
which bear five per cent in
terest. The interest is payable
semi-annually at the office of
the New Jersey Title Guarantee and
Trust Company. The bonds are $500 each.
and are now offered at par, but the price
is subject to advance without notice.
Mott s. Co. state that the net earnings OF
the company since January l, 1889, have
enabled them to declare semi-annual
dividends of three per cent on the capital
stock
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