The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-07
UNKINDEST CUT OF ILL.
Freeho1der PfingstenWants
to Make Sandwich Men
of His Colleagues.
THE UNIFORM FREAK.
Various Queer Dofngs Of the Board
Of Snake Hill Managers.

terday the members Of the Board of Free
holders caucused There were several
matters before them, but the principal
ones were the advisability Of creating the
office of Attorney to:the Board before elec-
tion. This created considerable discuss
sion. and THE JERSEY CITY NEWS came in
for very large slice of generous Quan-
tIty of damning because it had on last
Friday exposed the nefar ious ring pro-
gramme of creating offices for election
purposes. After the sub ject had been
thoroughly gone over, ma jority Of the
members concluded that to fill the office
now would bring down the condemna-
tion of every one, and this the mouth
piece of the ring decide would be very
imprudentat at this time. The Office will
do Billy Daily or Thomas Noonan
just as much good after election
9Ed to wait that long would,
the members concluded, do no
ham to the one selected. Counsellor
had number of whispered conversations
with individual members during the
afternoon. The Counsellor assured me
that the buttonholing was for purely
philantnropic purpose and that it was not
concerning his expected (by him) appoint-
question of appointing a successor to
Freeholder Donnelly's seat in the Board,
but majority had obtained their instruc-
tions before caucusing and had been
directed not to do anything in the matter.
These instructions were fully carried out,
but whether the members will later on
fill the vacancy. or that it will be done by
an election, could not definitely be found
out, but it is believed now that it Will be
by an election. Another and most inn
pOrtant matter was considered, and that
was the advisability of further decreasing
condition of the county by transferring
more money to the incidental account. I6
was decided to do this and let the public
do what the late lamented William H
Vanderbilt said it might do. For three
mortal hours the Freeholders discussed
these and other subjects and then they
adjourned to the Court House to hold a
meeting. This was lazy session, Tor tho
caucus had exhausted all the topics OF
special interest, but it lasted until seven
o'clock.
WHAT THEY DID.
Before the minutes were adopted ex-
Director ad interim German asked that
the resolutions of sympathy concerning
the death of Mrs. Mary Grimes, late ma
tron at the penitentiary, be taken up and
he seized the opportunity to eulogize
that estiiIis bic LADY IN brief address
which ne referred to her many good quail
titles and declared that the resolutions
only expressed the feelings of each fndi-
vfdual member. The resolutions were
published in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS of
last Wednesday.
Register George B Fielder sent reQuisi-
tion to the Board for forty index books to
cost 81, 700. and for ten books for deeds and
like number for mortgages. FreehOlder
Tierney wanted the requisition referred
to the Court House Committee. but Free
holder Hennessey decidedly objected to
this. He wanted the Committee on Sta
tionery and Printing to receive whatever
benefit there was in it and insisted that
it should 90 to that committee A
wrangle followed which resulted in
partial victory for Mr.. Hennessey's COM
mittee. The committee will only De al
lowed to purchase the books subject to
the order of the Board Freeholder
Coyle brought this about, for he thought
it too much money for committee to ex-
pend. Freeholder Coyle has been on com-
mittees and knows why committees like
big acquisitions.
Counsellor John A.. McGrath reported
that John Mullins & Co. had brought
suit against the county to collect the
trifie of $500 the county owes them and
are unable 80 collect, and he also reported
that the suit OF ex-Assemplyman C. q.
Hill, of Newark, against the Freeholders
for 500 damages WAS set down for trial III
the United States District Court on
October Is. Mr. Hill wants the county 10
pay for the damage draw bridge did his
yacht through the neglect OF the county
The Board decided to visit the Morris
Plains Asylum next Monday The mem
bers of the press were invited to go with
the Freeholders. The trains will leave
the depot of the Delaware Lackawanna
and Western Railroad at nine o'clock in
| the morning.
ALL ABOUT THOSE UNIFORMS.
y Ilrxnr =. nnlf
aforethought, informed Freeholder Noon
an that it was time for him to report on
the uniforms to be purchased for the
| keepers. Mr.. Noonan looked much EN-
| barrassed at this, but replied the COM
mittee had done all it could to procure
uniforms. He said that the committee
desired Ito protect those who will have
to pay for them" Laughter.l Mr.
Noonan, in his most solemn manner as
serted that he had invited tailors to go to
Snake Hill and exhibit their samples. but
thus far only one enterprising individual
could be induced to do so.
Freeholder Kimmerly said the commit
tee had been five months in procuring the
uniforms and had not got them yet He
knew there was no difficulty in getting
proposals for thirty uniforms from tailors
and said that now was the time to pur-
chase them, because the season was be-
coming colder and keepers would require
new and heavier clothing. Mr.. Nelson
said he believed the committee did not
want 10 get the uniforms, which assertion
the Eery Ellis denounced, and said the
one trouble in the matter was the tailors
would not trust the men unless the
county became surety for payment for
the uniforms, and this the county
could not do. Mr.. Pingsten suggested
that inasmuch as the committee could
not afford to advertise for proposals that
the committee parade the streets with
suitable signs like sandwich mon carry
asking tailors to bid. He thought this
would bring proposals. The committee
was ordered to report finally at the next
meeting of the question of uniforms.
Freeholder Nelson reported that there
had been no meeting of the committee Oh
the proposed Pavonia avenue bridge over
the Pennsylvania Railroad; that the di-
rector had not shown him the courtesy of
appointing him chairman and that he
could not call meeting. He added that
the bridge would cost about $50, 600, and
thought nothing should be done with it
until the route of the new county road
was decided on.
Freeholder Phngsten reported that the
committee directed to procure certain
maps had done nothing because there
would be no money to pay Tor them ungA
the new tax levy was at the disposal OH
the Board.
Freebooter Tierney reported that the
Committee on North Bridges had an
pointed Peter Brennan aud Michael Com
merford Bridge Trustees on tile Clay
street bridge at salaries OF S55 mouth,