The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-28
CONSUMMATE
IN|QU|IY,
street and Water Board
0VerrideS the Consoli-
dated Veto.
CITIZENS PROTEST IN VAIN
Two Other Resolutions Passed Not
wlthstanding the Mayors
Objections.
CITIZENS PROTEST IN VAIN
EVIL WORK OF ToDAY'S MEETING

A large number of property owners
visited the office of the Street and Water
Commissioners this morning to protest
against granting to tie Consolidation
Traction Company a practical monopoly
of all the streets in the city that are
worth anything for street Car purposes.
Among the throng were several ladies,
who sat patiently upon the hard benches
in the meeting room and labored hard to
keep themselves ccoi with fans. The
Commissioners went into secret session
st one O'Clock. It was evident that some
thing of unusual Importance was going
on. II Was generally understood that the
Acting Mayors veto of the Consolidation
fractions grab was the chief matter
under consideration. At inter walls a
member of the board would come out
with handkerchief around his neck nd
the perspiration streaming down his
face.
Getting hot in there. ain't it?n asked a
bystender of Commissioned Cook as he
came out of the room and went 10 the
front door TO endeavor to get W hiff of
fresh air.
"Pre,tJ warm, pretty warm,u re-
marked the genial William with that
bland smile of mis- which knocks lat of
Lne ElstOEicas An Slo ell SILLY.
DlSTRuST ONE ANOTHER.
1t was said that Commissioners Yoe,
Fndden and Cook were for passing the
ordinance over the veto. but that Com
missiouers Somers and Dugan would not
listen to the prooosition. Then Messrs.
Yos, Madden and Cook refused to vote to
pass the ordinance yac2tiug Railroad
avenue unless tneir colleagues would
fall III line on the Traction orriinance.
Tits was the snug, IL was said, upon
which the raft of business mad stuck, and
there was no prospect that IL could be
gotten off.
TINS complication it the result of
spirit OF distrust which appears to exist
among the Commissioners. Messrs
Ougan aud Somers want the Railroad
ordinance passed first, aud Yoe, Cook
and NJ adden want the Traction ordi.
nahce put through before, they will con-
siaer ut all The Traction grab. Each COM
binatiou disLrusts tie other ana is afraid
@-t65 vote fer Etfe other,s ordin lest
their fellow commissioners deceive them
aud leave them III the cold. cold world
PROTESTS LISTENED TO.
The board concluded that il would hear
the ciLiZens VINO had coma to protest
against granting franchise on Bergen
Avenue 10 the Traction COMPANY, but
they also concluded TO hear tn em in
kecrst, aud net in The open dayligh of
tne meeting room.
~.
Thomas n Williams and several other
property owners went in to say tn cir lit
lie suy. These gentlemen began to tell
what great damage it would be to the
line old Bergen avenue TO run tro rolley
through that Ihoroughfare. wnen tbey
were met ~ several bland smiles aud i
letter from the Traction Company, in
winch the company formally Abandoned
the route whicn included the avenue.
After some further talk the COM
nntlee withdrew. The Commissioners
declared that they went away
perfectly satisfied, while from what
could be learned from the entlemen
themselves they went away all ou con-
tent. There is q conviction that the
waiver woult be imperative In case the
ordinance Was adopted aud that it has q
small but miscnievous Ethiopian lurking
honewne, 9 in its woodpile. They will
not abandon their efforts at present
THE MEETING.
At the meeting Of the BOARD, which
was held iD the afternoon, the waiver
was read and ordered spread upon the
minutes.
Another citizen, who came to protest
against the passags of the ordinance
anu was not tipped on the secon d hear
ing. got disgusted at the delay OF the
board In coming together and left before
Inc board mel.
EVERYTHING FIXED.
After a while the Commissioners came
out and walked around a little. Then
they went back into their CAUCUS room
and the doors were shut tight. BONE time
afterward the Commissioners appeared.
and the look upon their faces ssut the
hopes of the opponents of the CDnsol-
dated Company way down below Zero
1t was evident that the Board
had cached an agreement ana that was
Co pass both the traction and the Railroad
avenue ordinance over the Mayors veto.
This proved true at the meeting of the
board which followed.
After considerable routine business
had been transacted the board took q
recess OF ten minutes and the commits
siouers filed ont into the front room.
They remaiued there but a few minutes
and when they raturned Clerk Boutou
began TO rattle OF q number OF reSelL.
tions IN his inimitable manner. Then
Mr.. Somers moved tnaE the
veto of the Railroad avenue
ordinance be taken from the table. The
resolution WIS carried by the votes of
all, as was also the motion of Mr. Soniers
To pass the ordinance. Notwithstanding
the objections or His Honor the Mayor."
The same course was followed in the
matter of the Traction Company. There
was no discussion, and Mr.. Somers was
the only one who said anything except
Mr.. Dugan, VINO firmly seconded each
motion.
WHAT THE MEETING DID.
The board was called to order about
one O'Clock. Mr. i. Hammerdinger, q
manufacturer Of Pine street, was given
the floor. and he asked that something
be done with the Pine street sewer. This
sewer lie the outlet for the greater part OF
South Lafayette. Il passes under the
Central Railroad In cuivert. and there
by a series of bitches reaches the bay.
Mr. Hammerdinger declared that the
sewer was choked up SO that whenever
there was a heavy rain the water backed
mp into the houses, filling the base
menis with sewage, setting tables
cuairs and furniture floating
anout and endangerfng life and
property Que man suffering with inter-
mitteut fever was taken from one OF the
houses in an ambulance, and physicians
had told several of the tenants al ing the
street. that If they did not moVc Out they
would lose lheir lives.
Proposals to pave Ocean avenue from
Myrtle to Gates avenues with Synite,
trap rock or granite were then opened.
~There were sixteen bids. one of which
was declared informal. Assenlblyman
Henry Holmes was the lowest bidder for
trap ock and granite, aud Contractor
Harrington for the Synile. The Board
will determine ~ future meeting