The record-union., 1892-06-21
THE TRUSTEES UNDECIDED.
They Do Not Take Action on the Chief
of Police Vacancy.
Mr.. Conklin Wants to be Notined-A
New Branch OF the Electric Road
-sprinklers Again.

The Board of City Trustees at yester-
days session received a communication
from citizen Thomas Cook, respectfully
asking that the board appoint John b.
Rodgers to the vacancy in the office of
Chief OF Police.
The communication was laid aside for
while and then taken up again along
with one from Robert r. Devlin calling
attention formally to the decision of
Judge Van Fleet. Mr.. Devlin also called
attention to the fact that Rodgers is
citizen now, even if he might not have
been at the time of his election.
MIR. Conklin said the best course Of pro-
cedure was to place the communications
on file
THE MAYORS JUDGMENT.
81 don't think it would be imprudent
on our part TO fill the vacancy now," said
Mayor Comstock.
do you Ieei tnat we are minus Chief
Of Police?" asked Mr.. Conklin.
Yes, according TO Judge Van Fleets
decision" was the MAYORS reply.
But Judge Van Fleet did not cover
that point"
II think he did"
'Well," said Mr.. Conlklin, "Rodgers is
ten days stay Of execution, and viii con-
tInue to act during that time at least.
There has been no rupture in the Police
Department, and do not see any occa-
sion Tor hurry on our part. We might
just as well take time to lind out how this
matter stands"
Mr.. Green was also in favor of laying
the matter over for a week.
There's another thing" resumed Mr..
Conklin; land that is that we have no
official notice that there is to be any
change. Suppose we had all been sick in
bed all week and had just got out-not
having read the papers. How would we
know anything about the matter?'' MIR.
Conklin had evidently forgotten about
the communication from Mr.. DevIin.
"Oh, that would be all right" replied
Mayor Comstock, dryly. If we were
home, sick, somebody would have looked
us up just the same"
A motion to postpone action on the
matter Tor week was then carried.
COMMISSIONER GREENS TROUBLES.
The first communication read by the
Clerk started of this way II wish you
would try and prevail upon the Street
commissioner to have the streets
sprinkled BETTER" and then went on with
general kick" about the dusty condi-
ton OF the streets.
Commissioner Green frowned and then
smiled. The communication was re-
ferred to him and he will look the cor
respondent up. The Commissioner is
having deal of trouble on account of the
sprinklers.
a communication was received from
Mrs. Grace Cook. She preluded her
plant with statement to the effect that
she was grandmother as well as a
mother. Then she appealed to the board
10 remit the $25 fine recently imposed
upon w. j. Thompson by Police Judge
hat
she said she had tried to melt Judge
Cravens' heart, but ii proved to be one Of
stone. AS last resort she appealed to
the Trustees. Thompson, she said, only
protected her from an assault from
Iouhey. If the fine is not RENTED, she
concluded, it would have to come from
her pocket, and she could not afford it.
The communication was relegated to
the already well-tilled file.
NEW ELECTRIC BRANCH
The Central Street Railway Company
petitioned the board for permission to ex-
tend its electric road down Tenth street to
the City Cemetery, and presented a fran
Chise for the same. The latter was read
by the Clerk and then a petition was read
from property owners along the route of
the proposed new road asking that the
franchise be granted.
NJ. j. Dillman addressed the board with
reference to the property-owners' petit
represented four-fifths of the owners
along the route. He said the project was
one the city had been looking forward to
Tor years.
J. II. Henry, President of the railway
company, informed the board that the
franchise he presented for the boards ap-
proYal was an exact copy Of the last fran
chise issued by the board to the same
company, with the exception that it gave
the company more time to complete the
work. In this connection he said that
the company had great deal of work on
hand now, and he did not think the new
road should be rushed. Still he thought
the new branch would be finished by fall.
ABOUT THE POLES.
Mayor Comstock took advantage of the
opportunity to ask Mr.. Henry why the
poles supporting the roads wires were
not painted better.
Mr.. Henry replied that he was at the
mercy OF the painter who had undertaken
TO make the poles preSentable. The con-
tract had been let tor the work, conse-
Quently the board need not be carried
away with the idea that the company in
tended to neglect its poles. The painter
had only put the printing coat on the
poles so far.
Trustee Green wanted to know what
the difference in cost was between iron
poles and the wooden ones now in use.
Mr.. Henry's reply was that they cost
eight times as much as the wooden ones
Besides this, iron poles were bad for an
electric road. They We're very pretty and
all that, but II one of the wires came in
contact with pole the whole car-line
stopped. Statistics showed that iron
poles were failure.
The ordinance was laid over for week.
SIDEWALKS CONDEMNED.
A written report was received from
City Engineer Boyd, with reference to
the condition of sidewalks in various
parts of the city. Ii will be remembered
that George Murray stirred the board up
last week about the sidewalks, and the
matter was referred to the Street Commits
sioner. The latter took Mr.. Boyd with
him and they investigated. The report
recommended the condemnation of thirty
or forty sidewalks in various parts of
town, and the laying of cement walks in
their places.
Mr.. Murray was present and appeared
gratified over the report. He had some
thing else to talk about this time, how
ever. He said 1t was proposed to macad-
annie NJ street, between Sixteenth and
Seventeenth. He owned property on
that block, and while he did not object to
the Improvement, he preferred to have
the entire street improved from Fifteenth
10 Thirty-tirst
MORE BAD sPRINKLING.
p. Duffy complained that the street
sprinklers We're not doing their work
properly on E street, between Sixteenth
and seventeenth. George Lichthardt
also said that the sprinkling was bad on
I, street, between Twentieth and Twenty
first.
commissioner Green said he would
have the work properly done.
Mayor Comstock then went after Mr..
Green about the street sprinkling. He
hot