The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-21

Sheriff Edward R. Stanton today took
the oath of Office and Immediately as
sumed the duties and responsibilities of
Sheriff. His first official act was to place
John Heavey In his Office as clerk and the
representative of the Sheriff during his
absence.
The oath of Office was administered in
the Office of the County Clerk by Judge
Lippincott. in the presencs of a
large number of Sheriff Stan
toms friends. The oath is a
peculiar one and differs very much
from that administered to any other pub
lie official. The bondsmen who became
surely for Sheriff Stanton In $40, 600 bonds
were beside himself. James L. Minturn,
Corporation Attorney of Hoboken: Jacob
e. w. Kuper. Fire Commissioner of
Hoboken; John &. Crevier. a prominent
Hoookeu real estate broker; Augustus A.
Sede of the Hoboken NelUS; Peter Hauck.
t.e millionaire brewer of Harrison; John
D. Stover. retired Hoboken grocer, and
Patrick Hayden, Police Commissioner of
Hohoken.
1t was refreshing to find Mr. Stanton's
b nd signed by men who are not con-
stantly signing bonds of high public Off
clais, particularly the SberiR's, simply for
poiitlca! purposes and III the anticipation
that by SO doing they would have claim
pnlIticaily, OH the powerful office Of
Sheriff With the exception of Peter
H9uck, the names of the bondsmen are
all Uew ones in the County Clerks Office.
Mr. Hauck was on the bond of Sheriff
McPhillips and he wanted to be con-
tinued on Mr.. Stanton's because of the
personal frieudshiO between them.
FIRST OFFICIAL ACT.
After Sheriff Stanton look possession
of his Office aud Installed his assistant in
office, John Stewart, warden of the Old
Mems Pavilion at Snake Hill requested
to be reappointed special Deputy Sheriff
Sheriff Stanton at once swore him in.
The Sheriff will not interfere with the
Court Constables this term of court,
bus when the April term of court
opens, but very few or the con-
81 b!es who have SO long been attached
to the courts will probably be retained.
The Sheriff will also change the con-
.stahles who serve Grand Jury papers,
and he will try to have these places con-
sidered positions of trust and work, in
stead of a haven for political ward heel
ers. as has been the case for the last FIVE
years.
RESIGNED AS MAYOR
The Common Council of Hoboken will
this evening decide who will be Mayor
till the sprlug election. Mayor Stanton
having resigned. The law oD the sub
ject is decidedly contradictory, and lead
lug lawyers say the matter will have to
he settled in the courts
Freeholder Ellis will undoubtedly re-
celve the appointment so far as the Couu-
oilmen can confer it. 1t is believed the
county will sustain the action of the
Council
FRIEND OF EDUCATION.
AT meeting of the Public Library
Trustees of Hobpken last evening, the
I'M it,fH
Trustee Rnss. were Unanimously
Whereas, Our worthy fellow member and
president, Edward r, Stanton, is about to leave
is and his duties as one Of the library trustees
of the city OF Hoboken to assume the duties
which we feel he will fulfil and carry out with
the same honesty, courtesy and unassuming in
tegrity as he did amongst us; therefore be it
Resolved, That while we regret that he will
cease to be among us, we also heartily congratu-
late him upon his accession to an Office which
We feel he will fill not only to his own satisfac-
tion but to that of the public at large as his
actions in the past have proven him to have
been at all times worthy OF the confidence re-
posed in him. and
Resolved, That we, his associates in the BOARD
OF Free Library tru.tees, extend to him our best
wishes in his future career.
Mayor Stanton responded and said he
was proud of the library. He thanked
his colleagues in the Board for their
efforts TO obtain permanent home for it.
and urged them not to relax their efforts
He had seen President Stevens. he said,
In relation to land upon which to erect
the new library building, and he thought
in short time plot would be given. 1t
was evident to anv person, he said. that
the room was not large enough to accom-
modate the demands made upon it, Many
patrons of the library sought through
Its channels to better their condition. He
deeply appreciated opportunities offered
at the present day and realized that it
would have benefited him If there had ex-
listed free public library in his younger
days.