The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-06
Cash Cash RUNNING Low.
.Freeho1ders Cannot Paint
Much but Might Repair
a Rotten Boiler.

AT the meeting of the Board of Free
aolders yesterday but one bid was put in
to furnish a fire pump for Snake Hill and
that was from the Worthington Manu-
featuring Company. 1t was rejected for
want of competition n at the next
meeting of the Board proposals will be
ordered readvertised for. A petition to
erect a bridge on Pavonia avenue over
the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was
numerousIy signed, was read and filed
Freeholders Kimmerly, Nelson and Tier
ney were appointed o special commlttee
to make enquiries into the proposition
and render a report at the next meeting.
"A communication from the Board OF
Health, signed by DR.. Gordon, president,
requested the Freeholders to appoint q
committee to confer with the Health
Board for the purpose of making plans
for putting the Court House in proper
sanitary condition. Freebooter Ellls Cd
plans for the Board of Freeholders to
follow, and the communication was re-
ceived and fled. 1t will probably re-
main in that condition until next year.
A PLAN o JOE NooNAN.-
County Collector Dugan notified the
Board that in pursuance of law he had
appointed Joseph NJ. Noonan counsel to
the Collector and counsel to the Commits
sioners of the Equalization of Taxes at a
salary of $500 q year for each Office. The
Collector asked the Board to concur IN
the appointment. but on motion OF Free
holder German it was laid over until the
next meeting.
County Superintendent Cannon COM
planned Of the condition of the Paterson
Plank road and Congress street, and adj
vised that about 1000 yards OF crushed
stone be placed there at a cost not to ex-
coed 5000. The matter was referred to
the Committee on Roads.
A requisition was received from Mr..
Cannon for goods amounting to $2OO,
which was referred to the Committee on
County institutions.
The Committee on Court House and
Jails had referred to them a requisition
for ice coolers and mosquito nets for the
F~reeholders' Office and that of the Board
Of Health.
Mr.. DUGAN's BoNDs.
Counsellor McGrath reported That a de-
cision would be rendered by the Court OF
Errors and Appeals in the County Road
case June II, and that Hugh Dugan had
filed his bond for $400,000 as County Col
Iector. The following bondsmen quail
fled in these amounts on the bond
Daniel p. Harding, $1,000 John Mullins,
$l00, 600; Patrick Hayley, $50, 600; Patrick
$40, 600: Anthony Dwyer, $4,000; james
Coyle, $50, 900; Philip Tumilty, $50, 900, and
Joseph Warren $50, 900.
Counsellor McGrath~ reported that the
contract awarded to Michael Mullery to
rebuild the wall on the Paterson Plank
road had not been signed INF said that
both Mullery and the Road Committee
thought the time should be extended to
do the work from ninety days to six
months. The extension of time was
granted and the contract will be signed.
Freebooter Hennessey informed the
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125 barrels of new -four to Snake Hill and
tina the greater portion of the rejected
-four had been used.
Miss Maria Madden, on a resolution by
Freebooter German, was promoted from
her position as attendant at the Aims
House to succeed Mrs. Mary Robinson,
deceased, as matron at the asylum at a
salary of $500 a year, and Miss Catherine
Casey was appointed to the place made
vacant by Miss Madden at a salary of $500
a year. This was also Mr.. Germans ap-
p~ointment.
NO MORE MONEY.
Permission was given the Junction
Railroad Company to erect gates at
Eleventh street, Hoboken, and a resolu-
tion to have painted the Aims House
Asylum and County Jail was defeated.
Speaking on the resolution EreehoIder
Ellis said:-
There is not money enough to pay for
t' UVAA AASpA yO0 A6s0 RdAA bAAlo
passed today. The time has come. gen.
tlemen, when you have got TO halt. As
soon as contractors know that there is no
money you will get bad goods. You had
better spend FOUR money in repairing a
boiler in use at Snake Hill which an ex-
pert told you was liable to blow up at any
moment, than in this way. You
were told this only last week
by an expert. / am anxious to have all
the improvements we can get, but /
want the money to pay for them, and not
have the Board come to the condition it
was in when / became a member, willing
to take the rottenest kind of meat and
things and going from door to door beg
ging contractors to trust the county for
small quantities of goods"
After decidingIto advertise in THE JER-
SEY City NEWS for proposals to repair
the county roa from this city to Harri-
son, at a cost not to exceed So, 900, the
Board adjourned.