The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-14
EXTRAYAGANCE.
A City Financier Wants to Know
How the City is to Pay
Her Debts.

AS the Board Of Finance was about to
adjourn last night Commissioner Kenney
arose, with large roll of manuscript in
his hand. Mr.. Kenney informed the
president that he desired to say few
words which he did not think would be
out of place, as they were relative to the
city's interests as he saw them. They
would have special reference to some of
the methods used by pretended friends of
this city, men who were in power, who
stified the city's interests.
After hauling Speaker Heppenheimer
over the Goals for leaving his chair TO op-
pose Assemblyman Keiiy's park act re
pealer, he attacked Mr. Heppenheimer
for remarking, "But it is the pennywise
policy of our office holders that causes
them to raise continually the salaries of
public officials. That has got to be
stopped
Mr.. Kenney construed that remark as a
direct fling at the Board of Finance, but
he sincerely hoped Mr.. Heppenheimer
meant what he said in the latter clause.
Continuing Mr.. Kenney said:-
APPALLING EXTRAvAGANCES.
I'm about four months from now" he
said, ''the Board of Finance will have to
ask that very question, where will the
money come from to carry Jersey City
through the next fiscal year,? With the
increased pay for the Police Department
(Which am glad of; with con-
femplated increase of men in the
Police and Fire departments; with the
erection of Police and Fire Department.
Station Houses, a new City Hail. with
the public property of the city going to
decay for the want of money to keep them
in proper repair, namely: the police,
school and, engine houses; with the
- A i
dicted on account of the condition of
the sewers, with property 0 gners from
three districts clamoring for sewers, and
justly so; with the mooted idea of appro-
priating $4,000 annually for the purchase
of books for the children attending
public schools; with the idea of bond
ing the city for $250,000 for addi-
mum for Free Public Library with
contemplated sewers in the Third dis
trict at u large outlay, the same contem-
plated in the Fifth district at cost Of
$S7, 900 and with debJ bordering on $20-
100000 fastened on to this city by similar
Assembly let Jersey City alone for few
more years
AFTER THE EDUCATORS
Mr.. Kenney also attacked the School
Board for its determination to erect the
new school houses to accommodate the
pupils of the Fourth and Fifth districts,
the majority of whom were children of
wealthy people, while a larger percentage
of poor children were left unprovided
1.-THE Board of Education have acted
unjustly to the parents and children of
the First and Second Aldermanic Dis
tricts, one school is located in the Fourth
and another in the Fifth dis :
trict; they cannot plead the slightest
Justification for SO doing. They have
ignored the First with not thirty-one per
cent. of school accommodation. The
Second district has been treated by them
still worse, the Second having only a
seating capacity for 1,526 children, out of
49, 1928 of school age, or only provision
for about eighteen per cent, perhaps it is
the same with the Board of Education as
it was with the Assemblyman, that be-
cause they are in the mud they need
not expect anything more"