The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-28
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Board of Trade Concludes to Let
Parks and Gaslight Alone.

The Board of Trade will not apply for
an injunction restraining the City Hall
Commissioners from proceeding with the
erection of the City Hall on the ground
that the Hall cannot be put up for the
amount appropriated by law. Neither
will the Board certiorari the recent action
of the Board of Street and Water Com
missioners with view to setting aside
the contract recently made for five years
with the United Gas Improvement
For long time it looked as if there
would not be the ten members necessary
to constitute a quorum, but about half
eight O'Clock the tenth member straggle
in. .1---.-
Secretary TAFT read the call for the
meeting, and then President Dear pro-
duced Il letter from the late Orestes Cleve-
land saying that the Board of Trade
should attend to business and not get
muddled in hopeless lawsuits.
Then Jacob Ringle sprang to his feet
and offered the following resolution
We, the members of the Board of Trade of
Jersey City, think it nexpedient to take any
legal action on the City Hall on the site selected.
AT once there seemed to be unanim-
lty OF opinion that the resolution was
good one.
Mr.. Ringle said that If the Commits
sioners would attempt to dispose of the
property they would not realize near the
amount was paid for it. Mr.. Ringle said
that when the Commissioners advertised
for sites there was only one other site
offered, and that was on the Hill near
some cattle yards. The people seemed
Indifferent.
Mr.. George e. Watson thought the site
an admirable one, and thought that the
Board would not be recognized in court.
Mr. Cleary did not believe that the City
Hall Commissioners could realize one
third OF The Amnnnt maid if f.
tempted to sell it. The ground was all
right.
Mr.. Dear told of visit he had made to
the City Hall and how the Corporation
Counsel had shown him copy of the act
under which the Commission was created
Mr.. Dear had industriously searched the
act TO learn if the Com missioners mad any
revis1onary powers and found they had
not. i
Mr.. Watson thought that if the site
was really an abominable one, and an
other ana more desirable site was to be
had the Board might wait on the Corpor-
alton Counsel and ask him as citizens to
protect their interests. But Mr., Watson
though that the site was not bad one |
and the Commissioners might do well to
buy the rest of the block.
Mr. Ringle, who had been busy writ
ing. Then offered another resolution. 1t |
was as follows:
That the Board of Trade recommend the MR. |
chasing by the city of the remainder of the |
block bounded by Grove, Mercer, Hend erson and |
streets for the erection of a City |
Hall and small park.
Mr.. Watson seconded the motion and |
Mr.. Ringle said that he thought that the |
commissioners might purchase the |
ground and then apply to the next Legis- |
lature for q further appropriation. If |
1he recommendation of the resolution |
was carried out, Mr. Ringle said, the i'm |
DrnVPmnnt wnni6 hIt
and would benefit all the surrounding
MIR. Rlngle said that the build |
Rg could be built with safety on piles.
and pointed to the Mutual Life Insurance |
Company and the Mills buildings in New
York as samples OF buildings erected on
piles
Mr.. Cleary thought the resolution
good one. de was in favor of all public |
improvements, public buildings, public |
PARKS and county boulevards.
Mr.. Watson said that the city should |
make the Hall an ornament to the city,
'Ven II IL was necessary to spend little
more money
Mr.. Carr was in favor of finer buildings
md said that In his new position he
ound that the reason there were so many
lid rookeries on the principal streets was
because the owners were afraid of the
axation on the new buildings. For this
eason the Board of which he was a mem
Ter had decided to be more lenient with |
lew buildings in order to encourage a
better class of buildings.
1t was decided to send copies of the
esoluCion to the Mayor, Board of Finance
md City Hall Commissioners.
In reference to the gas contract Mr.
Dear said that inasmuch as the Board of
finance and another corporation had en-
tagged counsel to test the validity of the
ontract, any action the Board OF Trade
night take would be superfiuous. Secre-
ary TAFT offered u resolution to that
fleet which was unanimously adopted,
nd the Board adjourned.
False Economy
practices by people who buy inferior articles
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