The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-27
FmREEHOLDERS Az WORK.
Counsellor MCGrath De-
nounces THE Journal"
for Its County Road
Misrepresentation.
A NEW BRIDGE ORDERED.
Variety of Business Accomplished
by the County's Guardians
Yesterday.
A NEW BRIDGE ORDERED.

A meeting of the Board of Freeholders
was held last evening at half-past five.
The most important business transacted
was the introduction, by Freebooter Hem
nessey, and the passage of a v~olumnlnions
resolution prepared by Counsel McGrath.
directing the erection Of the proposed
new asylum at Snake Hill. An appropri-
alton of $500 0 for this purpose. was In
creased blythe last Legislature to $500, 600.
Mr.. Hennessey's resolution requires that
a building, warranted to accommodate
five hundred persons, be erected. The
work upon this much-needed institution
will be begun at once n pushed to COM
p~letion.
Counsel McGrath was given an oppor-
tunity to respond to the ~slanderous at
lacks of the Evening Journal upon the
County Road Commissioners. Counsel
McGrath, it is we'll known, Is devot1ng
time and energy to the faithful perform
ance of all specifications relating to the
County Road. In substance he sa1d:-
1.-The attack of the Foe ming Journal Is
uuwarranted and without foundation.
Eminent counsell0rS have been engaged
to attend to the legal portion OF this work,
and 1 am safe in saying that although
the gentlemen are receiving $25 a day
they are being poorly paid. There are
six sets of Commissioners and to these six
sets three counsellors have been APP
pointed, each one attending to the work
of two commissions. That the informa-
ton published by the Journal emf
mated from one of the Commissioners Is
an assured fact.
NO ExTRAvAGANCE.
"No extravaganza is being couuten-
| anced, and no man is being paid who
| does not earn the fee set aside for him.
The misrep RESERVATIONS OF the journal
| are uni ust. Experts are required in this
work, aud every thinking person knows
| needed, and only paid for services rem
] dered. Criticism is unjust at this time,
and if any citizen will examine into what
has been done, he will realize immediate
ly that not a cent has been ex~travagantly
expended. will answer any and all in
quiries made by citizens. and / will listen
to any suggestions made by citizens. All
l want is just and fair criticism, not par
tisan criticism. We have done good work,
and / defy anyone to say that any work
of the kind ever undertaken in
the State has been done SO
cheaply. Legal advice is necessary
and learned counsel must be engaged.
The criticism now being made comes
from men who expected TO be appointed
as experts OF commissioners. Failing to
get these offices. they have begun to
openly abuse the other officers. The
work is being conducted on an econom
icai basis aud / can truthfully say that
double the amount OF money was ex-
pended a few years ago on a similar work
Ia accomplishing about one half what we
nave already DONE. | am seeing to the
best of my ability that this work is being
properly and we'll done, and no money
will be wasted IL / know It,"
Counsel McGrath is highly indignant at
the attack made by the SJdflderer. but
hnds considerable consolation in the fact
the sheet has the reputation for handling
the truth recklessly concerning every de-
partment of city and county government.
Freeholder Phngsten also sailed into the
StGnderer, while Freebooter Nelson made
a hopeless failure In e~ndeavoring to sub
tantiate some of the untruthful asser-
lions made by the sheet. Freeholder
Nelson's ire was again aroused when
Freebooter NoopaD offered a resolution
providing for the election of a Freeholder
to represent the Tenth Assembly Dis
trict. The resolution was adopted.
Mayor Simon Kelly nominated and
elected, Freebooter Nelson and Perry
voting against him.
NEW BRIDGE.
The law passed by the last Legislature
providing for the construction of a new
iron bridge across the Hackensack was
4 td w llIlNEO vi Wv tklG y
Ihe new bridge is TO cost not more han
S2G0, 600, and the expense will be shared
by Hudson and Essex Counties. The
bridge in use at Tue present time crosses
the river near the loot of Newark ave-
nue.. 1t is claimed to be in a danger
Gus condition. Experts have testified
to its weakness and rotten condition. 1he
new bridge will be Il model Of modern
architecture, and when completed war
ranted to remain for a few hundred years.
1t will be built ut the foot of Newark ave-
nue.. Soundings viii be taken at once
and work begun. The bridge will proba-
bly, be completed before next January.
A petition from the North Hudson
County Railroad Company, which was
signed by a number of West Hoboken's
Influential citizens, asked for permission
to lay another set of tracks on the Pater-
son Plank Road, to extend from Summit
avenue easterly to Central avenue to
connect with the other tracks of the COM
pany. West Hobokenites maintain
that the granting of the petition would
have n strong tendency TO enhance the
value OF their real estate holdings. Free
holder Phngsten raised strong objections
to tue granting of the petition and The
outlook is that it will forever remain
~pigeonholed in the desk ofth Committee
| on County and Public Roads.
DR.. G. w. King called the attention Of
the Board to the urgent necessity or np
additional nightwalchwouIa In the new
wing of the asylum, The presence of so
many unreliable and unsafe patients re-
or1traO fha praSanea nf the axkra wefah