The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-01-16
PARK BONDS SOLD
The State School Trustees
and Judge Ashbe1 Green
Take 5000, 900 Worth.
RIcKETY HALL OF RECORDS.
Delinquent Clerks and Contrac-
tors Called to Account by
the FreehoIders.


The Board of Freeholders last night
sold s6O0,0O0 worth of park bonds and or
dered that a new lot of honds to the
amount Of sl05. 900 be issued to pay for
that portion OF Snake Hill not owned by
the county, but which the Freeholders
last night decided to buy. The bonds
Nsold had but two bidders. Judge Ashbei
Green and State Treasurer john J. Tof-
-sy. the latter sent the following letter
to the Board
TREAsuRER's DEPARTMENT
sTATE OF NEw JkRsEY,
TRENTON. Jan. 49,
GxxTLruES:-l am authorized BY two trustee
for the support Of public schools OF New Jersey
10 bid par value tor $50 900 OF Hudson County
Park bonds bearing four per cent. interest and
70 run thirty years. conditioned upon approval
by the Attorney General and the legal status
and obligation Of the bonds.
Very respectfully
JoHS j. ToFFEy
\ Treasurer or the State of New Jersey.
Judge Green's PROPOSAL swas also in
kriting and he offered to take Sl20, 900
fby Mr.. Toffey. Both proposals were ac-
scepted by luminous vote, and resolu-
tion to deliver the bonds was adopted.
THE SNAKE HILL PURCHASE.
: The question OF purchasing the portio
|of Snake Hill not owned by the county
lief, aud the resolution 10 purchase the
IA 62-l00 acres of laud owned by the es-
tate of ADel l. Smith and II. X. Thurber
for sl05.0 600 was adopted by the following
vote:-
YEAs-Freeholders Hennessey. Pfingsten, Nell
son, Noonan and Director-at-Large Brugge-
mans.
NAYs-Freeholders German, Perry and Tier
ney.
THAT HALL OF RECORDS.
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Board was the question OF the acceptance
of the Hall of Records. Il. j. Grace, au
architect who lives at Harrison. had been
employed TO inspect the building and re-
port its condition. ln the written report
lie rendered last night he said the plumb
lug was up 70 the standard, but that the
panels on the doors were not raised as
sDrcified in the contract. This ths
architect considered no serious objection.
The staircase was yet unfinished, the
base should continue down the strings
and connect with the base on the sides.
me specifications do not provide for this
] but 1t Is necessary for flush. the archi-
tect said Also the specifications call for
st9ne saddles and hard wood saddles. Tbe
latter were used to correspond with
the tiling. The Office doors
should have ground glass windows with
TIE names of the officers on them. This
had not been done. The specificati ons
haa demanded that the Registers Office
aud private office have yellow pine floor
ing. Tiling had been substituted for
this. The architect said the iron columns
Scashe east side OF the second floor were
side-they were not ornamented to
the same height, but, the architect said.
this was no detriment to the building.
He also found that the iron door fasten-
ings were not in rs good working order as
might be with a little adjustment. The
steam heating apparatus was all right.
The report concluded thus:-"The Board
can congratulate itself upon having so
good job"
The architect apparently lost sight of
The tact that leaky roof surmounts the
structure; that the building has walls
and ceilings and Easements, and that
water stands in pools III the cellar, for he
did not mention any OF these things.
JUDIcIoUs DELAY.
Some one moved after the report was
read that the Hall Of Records be accepted
as completed d.
Freeholder Pfingsten protested against
such action, and said he and two experts
had examined the building and found it
was not in II condition to be accepted by
the county.
ceptance because no written resolution to
that effect was offered.
Freeholder Coyle favored the presenta-
tion Of written resolution-at the present
meeting and moved that recess of ff-
teen minutes be taken TO enable the COM
mutee on New Buildings to prepare 1t.
"Well, / don't propose TO make any
more reports" said Freeholder Tierney,
angrily "uutl Freeholder Phngsten ex-
plains what the defects In the building
are"
This Mr.. Pfingstsn said he would do at
the meeting to be held January 20, and
the discussion ended.
BRACING UP THE CONTRACTORS
Commissioner COyle requested that
inmittee of three be appointed to return
all supplies furnished to the State House
by contractors that are not up to the
standard, and that the committee pur-
chase the goods needed in open market
and charge the cost TO the contractors.
This motion prevailed, and so did one di-
recting the Clerk OF the Board to weigh
all coal delivered at the Court House
grounds. A resolution directing Christie
pher p Smith, map clerk, and Thomas
McD0nough, index clerk, 10 report each
day to Clerk Boyd, was adopted. Free
holder Coyle, In asking for lis adoption.
said IL was necessary, for when these two
men were supposed to be work
Court House. He had seen them In Tren
ton only a few days ago and elsewhere.
The Bridge Committee was directed to
make some temporary repairs 70 the
West Newark avenue bridge to put il in
q condition of safety until the Legislature
the construction of new
bridge. to cost about 500. coo. A resolu-
tion that no goods should be re
ceipfed for by the wardens of
the county institutions aud that
all goods must pass through the store
keepers hands was adopted, and so was
the resolution that no goods should be
furnished on requisition unless the re-
quest was accompanied by an affidavit.
Ex-Judge McGrath told the Freeholders
he would not have time to search the
title to the Snake Hill property for per-
haps month. and the Judiciary Com
mittee was directed to employ an assist
ant for that purpose.