The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-04
IT Was A FIERY CAUCUS
Freebooter Ellis Lays Down
the Law to Freebooter
Pfingsten.
HEALTH OFFICER GORDON sNUBpED
Further Investigation of the Fucst
Dry Goods Business-A Change
in the System.
HEALTH OFFICER GORDON sNUBGEI

Dry Goods BuslneSS-A Change
in the System.
1t was nine o'clock last night before the
Board of F~reeholders met IN public for
the Rrst time in the new fiscal year. But
although the public meeting was so late
the committee meetings were early and
long enough. They began at noon and
did not end until the open season began.
1t was said that during the afternoon a
fiery caucus TOOK place concerning the
change to be made in the committees.
Nothing definite was settled upon, and no
ction was taken by the Board.
There appears to be a desire on the part
of a majority of the members to do away
with the Office of Assistant County
Superintendent, and In the discussion
over the vacancy Ia this Office no conclus-
ion was reached yesterday. II ia believed,
however, that ii a man is appointed to
the place he will come from Hoboken.
FURsT's DRY GOODS.
The special IN ap. ointed to eX-
anime into the methods of Charles ).
Furst, a dry goods contractor, in furnish
inf supplies. reported as fOllows:-
"GENTLEMEN:-Your committee ap-
pointed at Il meeting of the Board held
Thursday, November Is, to examine and
inquire Into the amount of dry
goods furnished by contractors to the
county since October l last, would
most resnectfully report that they went
to the diff rent institutions Friday, Nov.
81, and examined the different store
rooms. Your committee would State
that no goods were found at the Peuiten-
tiary except what was needed for imme-
Mate use.
"We found a large supply of goods at
both the Almshouse and Lunatic Asylum
"a much larger supp y tnan is needed at
the present time, but on looking over the
orders or acquisitions sent by the ward
ems we find the go IDS were ordered six
weeks before our visit and the contractor
failed to furnish the same until Novem-
Der 20.
Gal the Smallpox Hospital we found a
supply OF dry goods to the amoun OF $685..
33, said amount of dry goods beingl rg-iy
in excess of the requirement. of tn t in
~stitutiou for some time to come. Your
co"mittee was also Informed that
S26S SO worth of drvgoods were
returned to the drygoods contra ton
(Charles S. Furst) oil the morning of our
visit. We also learned that the heretofore
named amount of dry goods were deliv
cred al the ) nallpox Hospital without n
requisition being ma 70 for them. We
6od By L, Q books at the storeroom tn a
since October 3 there has been So, 95S 5;
worth Of dry goods delivered to the insti
tutions, of which amount 81, 1872 rs wortt
was delivered November 20 at The Aim:
House and Smallpox Hospital,
"Your Committee therefore ment
that all dry goods in excess of the
! necessary to supply the Snlailpox Hospi
| tai for one month be ordered SEM to tn,
s%.orekeeper, A. j. Manning. from Jht
said Smallpox Hospital.
"Your committee deems 1T to the bes1
interests of the county to change the sys
TEN now in vogue whereby the Wardens
order on reQuisitious aud supplies for thu
different institutions, therefore your com
inittee would recommend the adoption OIL
the following resolutions
"Resulved that q committee OF three be
appointed by the the Diiector.st- large fol
the purpose of devising u more economic
and business-like mode of ordering good.
and supplies to the county institutions
than is In use ut rresent.
"W. II. ELLIS,
IF. II. KIMMERLEY,
SWIM GEohGE NELSON,
COMMITTEE.
ANOTHER SHADY TRANSACTION.
The Board adopted the resoiui ions and
the committee was dis harged. The
next shady transaction to be attended tC
was the impertinenJ demand made by
DR.. Leonard :. Gordon upon the Board
for the appointment of an assistant CLERK
to the Board of Health at
n salary of $1,000 a year. Judge
McGrarh said, In regard to this propo-
sltion, that neither the Board of Health
nor the Board of F~reeholiers could make
such an appointment. for no such Office
existed under the law. Judge McGrath
s ;- .,..o.
ity TO concur in either the appointment
or the fixing of salary of any assistant
clerk TO such Board. You cannot legally
sanction the appointments sought to be
made by the resolution"
When the Board heard this opinion IL
refused to pay any further attention tC
DR.. Gordon's little scheme to provide for
one of his admirers a Sinecure position
at the expense of the county.
REPoRTS OF INSTITUTIONS.
The report OF Warden Ryan of the
Aims House showed that for the month
of November there were 6o4 inmates, oi
whom 224 were male adult 1871 male
minors, 1875 female adults aud 81 minors,
Tire number of employees was twenty
The tota! cost for maintaining these peo
people was Sc, 707 95, or an average cost OF
$40 16 1-3.
The report of the Penitentiary showef
that during November there were 266 iN
mates, 217 being males, 81 females and q
employees. The cost WAS 49, $685. 81 and thu
average was 81. 1871.
Clerk john Boyd made an annual re
port OF the expenses of the new county
road ND TO date, the details of which were
published in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
W hen the Clerk had finished his repor
F%reeholder Nelson said he wanted 10 ex
plain that at the last meeting of the Bo r(
he did not say the Board 'would" neet
more money 10 finish the new county road
but did say that it might" need more.
The weary-eyed Phngsten Enlightened
up when he heard these remarks, and in
II rambling ranting speech praised the
Freeholders in general and himself il
particular for having been hopesf in
the expenditure of nearly $50. 900
for the road up to date.
The Board appointed Henry Gibbs {
messenger and clerk in the office of Chic
Engineer Harris IN At a salary of $50 d
month, and received u recommends ior
from Superintendent Cannon tina
1.200 feet of RAILROAD be constructed a
Snake Hill TO aid the men at the
quarry remove stone to thu
crusher. The proposition was referred
to the ~Penitentiary Committee, and viii
no DOUBT he accepted.