The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-01-13
THE NEW City BUILDING
Three Hundred Thousand
Dollars May Be
Spent on 1t.
WHERE WILL IT BE LOCATED
That's the Big Question--To What
Purposes the Building Will
Be Devoted.

1t seems to be conceded thing all
around that the three gentlemen whom
the Mayor nominated to the Board Of
Finance, at their meeting Saturday, for
Commissioners to supervise the construc-
ton of the new City Hall, will be con-
firnicd; and so the first practical step to-
wards the erection of a much needed
public building has been taken.
John Pierson is the we'll known Storm
avenue florist He has been member Of
the Legislature for two terms, and the
test Of his popularity is the fact that both
times he was chosen in Republican dis
tr1ct. He is man of such tried probity
that ne is known all over the city as
Honest John Pierson. J. T. Burke, q
second of the Com mmissioners, is the we'll
known mineral man. Emil g. Datz, the
Republican member of the Commission,
SO commended himself to the people by
Finance that ne needs no introduction to
this community.
A HANDSOME CITY HALL.
The act under which they are to pro-
ceed calls for the erection of an armory
and police station as well as a City Hall.
The police station has been otherwise pro-
vided for and is now in course of con-
struction. The State and the county to-
gether are to build the armory; so that
all the resources to be placed at the dis
posal of the new commissioners will go to
the construction of the City Hail. The
act under which they are appointed au-
thorizes the raising ots200, o00by city bonds.
1t also contemplates the enlargement Of
this fund by the sale of all the unused city
property. The site of the present City
Hall will be disposed of. and q number Of
valueless fire engine houses and other
hr1il6iU nj ,<Sf in,
use will also be sacrificed. The extent to
which the 500, ,000 fund will thus be aug
mented, cannot be stated, but rough esti-
mates figure 100000 as being within
reach from this source.
THE SITE.
The first point the new Commissioners
will have to tackle, when they get to
work, is that of a site, and the discussion
will arouse conflicting views because of
conflicting interests. The only positive
thing about it is that the neM building
will not be located where then present
building is; there's not room for IL there
The disposition among the Commissi sioners
is, in fact, to choose site that will Ngive
room for suitable building with grol Wslzs
around it. The fact that two of the G.
missioners live on the hill top will notfn-
tiuence them probably to favor location
on the Hill. Public sentiment demands
a central down town location.
WHAT WILL BE IN IT.
1t lis proposed to have the new building
large enough to accommodate all the city
departments Room will be found in its
for the District Courts, for Police Head
quarters. probably for Fire Headquar-
ters, and the Street and Water Board
will be removed into it. FiTeprooff ;:s.lts lts
will be provided in it for the city records
which are now entirely at the mercy of
the elements. A fi1e in the present City
Hall would destroy all the records of the
various departments having offices there.
In addition to this fact pointing to the
necessity for a new building is the other
fact that the present City Hall is an un-
safe structure