The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-19
HOGENCAMP'S GRIP.
His Board of Finance Knocks Out
the Title Guarantee and
Trust Company.

The vice-like grip which Mr.. Bill Hogen-
camp. of Paterson, has upon the Board of
Finance, through his man Friday, the de
fdcto Mayor, was amply illustrated at the
Boards meeting this morning.
At the same time the mystery which
enveloped sundry gatherings of Hogen-
camp, prominent lawyers and members
of the Board of Finance in q hostlery al
most within the shadow of the Second
National Bank, was cleared away. The
Board, by unanimous vote. Mr.. Hitler
being absent, sustained His Frauduien-
cy's veto of the Financiers' resolution
giving the coupon account to the New
Jersey Title Guarantee and Trust Com
pany.
When the resolution was passed by the
Board Mr.. HOgencamp was alarmed, al
though the resolution affected the Hud-
son County National Bank alone. In the
narrowness of his grab-all nature Bill
conceived the fear that~if the coupon ac-
count was taken away from the Hudson
County Bank, the attention of the public
would be called to the unequal distribu-
tion of the city's money, by which his
bank gets more of the funds than it is en-
titled to, and he might be compelled to
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the resolution set aside.
BILLS CRUCIBLE GRIP ON RATS
As far as His Fraudulency was con-
cerned this was an easy task for the "cru-
cible'' grip which he has on the dishonor-
able veteran is akin to that which the old
pent hand on his men. Bill sayeth unto
t'Rats'' veto and he yetoeth, approve and
he approveth.
But when he came to work the Board it
| was not such an easy matter, and it took
| to bring the commissioners to the stick
| ing point, influences and means the lost
| that can be said of which is that they were
successful.
The de fdcto Mayors veto was taken
from the table this morning and Assistant
| Clerk McKeon labored through it. Then
| Mr.. Allen moved that the resolution be
passed, Notwithstanding the objections OF
| Hogencamp.
There was little confusion at first as
| to the proper way to vote but the thing
had been cut and dried so thoroughly
| that President Edlestein's resounding no
was quickly echoed by Messrs. Allen,
Bray and Kenny.
THE CITY HALL COMMISSIONERS WANTS
The City Halfss Commissioners asked
| that Sc, 900 be placed to their account for
salaries ana other expenses The request
| was referred to the Corporation Counsel
| for his opinion as to whether it could be
| granted, and the Counsel was asked to
| have the opinion ready by the next meet
| ing. The Comptroller reported that
| the city had received during the
week ending August is, S31, 161. rs.
| The resolution of the Board of
| Street and Water Commissioners pro
viding for the improvement Of Woodward
| street, for a sewer in Hancock avenue,
| the improvement of Hopkins avenue and
| for iron pipe from the McNeal Company
| were concurred in. The clerk was di-
| rected to inform the Board of Street and
| Water Commissioners that the
contracts for the Improvement
| of Pacific avenue, Hopkins avenue
and Bridget street would be con
| Cured in as soon as the contracts were
\ drawn in accordance with the resolution
of the Finance Board, which fixes the rate
| of interest on Improvement certificates at
4 1-2 per cent.
| /. The Board then passed several pay rolls
| and adjourned to meet September g.
| After adjourning some of the members
| journeyed down to the New Jersey Title
| Guarantee and Trust Company to tell the
| officers how it all happened, and how
everyone else, except themselves, was tc
| blame.