The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-12
SQUABBLING EDUCATORS
The Hoboken Board of Edu-
cation Indu1ges in
Personalities.

a stormy meeting last night. Consider
able discussion was caused by the action
of two members ignoring the rest of the
Board, and the lobby looked on approx
| ingly.
Trustee Acker was the only absentee.
A resolution was offered to the effect that
on and after October 1 the textbooks in
the different grades be alike in all schools,
| and a list of the books be prepared by the
| Committee on Teachers, Salaries and
! School Government. Trustee Reid vig-
| orously opposed the resolution. He char
! acterized it a job for favorite book con-
cern. The resolution was lost, six mem
| bers voting against it.
! Trustee Hess called the attention of the
other members of the Board to piece of
! pretty sharp practice INDUCED by mis- two
fellow members of the Committee on
| School Buildings and Furniture. AT
meeting held in July, the Board decided
\ to advertise for bids for the building of
| closets in Nos. 4 and 5 Schools. There
were two bids received. One bid was
from Robert Cordock, and was for 1856.
| This bid was for both schools. Martin
| Farrell put in separate bid for the work
in No. 4 School, agreeing to do it for 1915.
| Farrell was awarded the contract for the
work in No. School. and by resolution
| of the Board the clerk was directed to re-
advertise for bids for the work in No.
! School.
| In the meantime it appears that Trus-
| tees Reid and Arata had ordered the work
done and Trustee Reid notified the clerk
| not to advertise. When this was learned
| at the meeting last night, the members
expressed themselves in no measured
| terms against the action of Trustee Reid.
They said that he had oyerstepped his
| authority, and several members censured
him for his action.
Trustee Reid said he thought ne was
hn nuv1 rr.h ha rrr11d mt
have ordered the work done. Trustee
| Darcy said it was establishing bad pre-
cedent. The matter finally subsided.
| Another lively time was inaugurated
| when Trustee Guth arose and said that
| j. Bremmerman, the contractor, building
the bridges in No. 2 School,, had agreed to
do the repairing there for $50
Trustee Russ, very much excited, said
that the price paid Bremmerman, S349,
included the repair work. He character
ICES the extra charge of $50 as a down
right steal. The advertisement for bids
was looked up and it was found to be in
complete. Trustee Darcy stated that
neither Bremmerman's bid nor any of
the other bids included the repair work,
and the Board had been SO informed at
the time 1t was finally decided to have
the repairing done under the supervision
of the proper committee After passing
some claims the Board adjourned.
The Hoboken Police Commissioners
held a short session last night. Commits
sioner Coyle, who is in the country, was
the only absentee. Acting Chief Ed
mondston was inside the railing and in
the uniform of chief looked exceedingly
happy.
Charges were preferred d, by Aid Rathjen-
Goode is charged with failing to report
for duty on August g. He was also
} charged with entering the station-house
on that morning under the infiu-
ence of liquor, having in custo
dy Max Dunkel, of Smith street.
Jersey City Heights Several eye wit
nesses to the arrest followed the police
man into the station house and said that
: the prisoner was innocent. The sergeant,
after hearing the different stories, dis
charged Dunkel and told Goode to go
home. On motion or Commissioner Utz
the policeman was cited to appear and
answer the charge at The next meeting
of the Board.
7 Commissioner Kaufman stated that the
| Committee on Rules had completed it's
labors and on resolution the new rules
will take effect on September /. On
motion of Commissioner Daab the chief
| was instructed to notify all saloon
keepers to remove empty beer kegs from
the sidewalk.
Commissioner Kaufman stated that the
paper and himself had investigated the
, charges against Policeman Weihe, and
found them to be unfounded. The police
man was charged in the local paper with
using insulting language to one of its re-
porters. The investigation developed that
it was merely a personal matter. The
Board then adjourned.
Attempted Suicide with Bottle.
Through the negligence of some one a
soda water bottle was left in one of the
cells of the Hoboken Police Station last
night, and was the means of determined
suicide nearly ending his life. Ea.-- last
evening Detective Gallagher arrested q
fellow named Bartholomew Kiely on
Washington street. kiely was suffering
from delirium tremenS, and was whole
temperance lecture as he stood before the
desk. After being searched he was re-
manded to cell No. 10.
About an hour after Sergeant Rathjen
! ; had been on the desk, he heard bottle
nash IN one of the cells Going from be-
hind the desk to the corridor of the cells
he found Kiely with broken soda water
bottle tugging at the flesh in his throat.
His eyes were rolling in his head and he
had already succeeded in woundlng
} himself terribly. The Sergeant immedi-
J ately unlocked the cell door and grappled
with him. The broken bottle was taken
from him after a struggle, and DR.. Heller
was summoned, but not being found, DR.
Pindar was called. The prisoner had
!. gashed himself terribly and was weak
| from loss of blood. The doctor said that
the wounds were not fatal. This morn
ing Kiely appeared in court with his
1 throat bandaged up. He was sentenced
to the County Jail
How the prisoner procured the soda
water bottle is mystery. 1t is just pos
, sible that the bottle might have been
overlooked in the indifferent search
which is generally made at the desk,
although this is scarcely to be believed of
Detective Gallagher, who made the ar
rest. Ii the soda water bottle was in the
cell in which the police conflne d. t. pris-
oners, then somebody is to be severely
blamed.
Hoboken Notes.
The long looked for picnic of the Non
pareil Club takes place at Pohlman's Pa
vilion tonight.
The Fat Mems Clam Bake Association,
! of which Councilman Boncelet and ex-
Freeholder Cullen, of this city, are
prominent members, will hold its annual
ounng to Glen Island on Thursday.
The twenty-second grand annual sum-
MCKNIGHT festival of Liberty Hose Com
, pany No. was held at Pohlman's Pa.
vilion last night and was most successful.
The officers of the company are:-Fore-
man Thomas f. Mulyey: assistant fore