The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-24
sATURD AY. DECEMBER "a. 1892.
This paper is democratic in principles
and is Independent in its UielUS on all
ocdl questions.
Merry Christmas.

A merry Christmas to you all, good
friends, and many of them. May the
coming veal be one of happiness and
prosperity to you, and may it be only
n of a long series. May it be as
well with you as it is with us in the
present, and may the future offer to
you prospects as bright and encour-
aging.
In this issue we offer you our Christ
mas present. We place at your dis
posal pleasant and profitable pastime
for the leisure of the e xt two days.
and with it we bestow our most heart
felt wishes for the prosperity and sue
cess of everything that is good and
honest and progressive in Jersey City
and Hudson County generally.
In the years that THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS has fourished, a marked change
has been appreciate in the aspect of
this city. There has been a notable
fermentation at work, and the effect
has been evident in the identifying
of the city with new and splendid
buildings, while to those who watch
the signs of the times the less obvious,
but none the less certain, proofs of
awakened enterprise have brought
much pleasure. THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS was fortunate enough to enter
the field just at the time when this
progressive tendency became marked,
and it has at once aided, and been
aided by, the movement. Indeed THE
NEWS has been in a very particular
IN identified with the pro-
gressive movement. Always favoring
every honest and reasonable
proposition, backing with all
its might every enterprise
which seemed feasible, this paper
has been the herald of the new
awakening Political publication
and municipal progress have been the
fundamental principles of our policy
on local matters. We have never
deviated from them, we never will,
and we have every confidence that we
will see them triumph in this city in
the fullest degree in the very near
future.
Three or four movements now in
progress are bound to result in great
good to the city. One of the least of
these is the building of the new City
Hall, and yet it cannot fail to have
beneficial results. A much more
Important n is the building up of
the public schools in the various quar-
tiers of the city. The Police Depart
ment is well provided with suitable
buildings now, and the Fire Depart
ment has been somewhat improved
though not perhaps as much as one
might wish. The last two years have
seen important reductions made in
the city's debt, and the interest
charges considerably scaled down.
Better methods, on the whole, lave
been introduced into the city gov ern-
ment; bad spots are being found out,
and there is, in general, a healthier
tone in public affairs.
One of the most important matters
that has come up for public consider
alton has been the renewal of the,
attempt to get a pure and wholesome
supply of water for Jersey City.
Whether any final result will come
from the present bids in the hands OF
the city authorities is a secondary
matter. The important point is the
renewed public interest in the sub
ject, with the prospect which it holds
out of some solution of the problem
in the near future. From this, meal
culable benefits are bound to flow to
the city and it's residents.
Out of the political division, VIII ich
appears to have just arisen in the
the Democratic party, it seems cer-