The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-08
VEq0HS SUSTAINED.
Street and Water Board Up
hold Acting Mayor Simp-
son = Much Work
Done.

HiSuouku sSkJ uuSy yeStotu"J m"h1Sou
to find time enough to look over the re-
quest of the Board of Fluance for a de-
tailed statement of the receipts aud dis :
bursements of the water accounts from
May ! of last year TO May l OF the
present year. Commissioner Cook, who
IN. chairman of the Commit ee on Assess
ments aud Exte nsions offered the neces-
sary resolution. and Water Registrar
Hsaly will prepa re the report as soon as
practicable. CT ERIK Bouton explained
that duplicates of all bills against the
Department passed last year, must be on
file in the Board OF Finance Office, IL the
Office was properly conc ncted- The Com
missioners. however, decided to comply
with the request of the financiers. The
board excelied itself in the matter of sus-
tainiug veto es. All the streets de-
cided by resolution to be improved
at once, were vetoed by Acting Mayor
Simpson. The Acting Mayor was sns-
tanned and a new list of streets will be
with his approval. Then again the
Acting Mayor vetoed the acceptance of
Hoboken avenue by Charles O'Neill as
complete and also the issuing of a war;
ant for final payment. lie WAS sus-
tanned in both these matters.
A petition from John Miller for the
repavinR OF First street, between Bruins
wick aud Coles street, was referred.
The Acting Mayors veto of the
appointment of Frank Decker as q
general clerk was, laid over as WAS also q
similar on the acceptance of
Sherman avenue as improved by Albert
Miuarho.
IMPROVEMENT OF TIE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
ln The matter Ut the Immediate I'm
provement of the Public SCHOOL,, bids
will be- advertised for at Once. A new
feature of the advertising Will be the
separating of The painting work from the
Carpenter work. The painters mad been
complaining that successful carpenters
had favored painters. The preliminary
sketch of the improvement of Summit
avenue was filed. West Side avenue will
he improved, rs petitioned for by William
Zimmerman and others. The contract
FOR the Improvement of Paterson street,
etween Central aud Pearce avenues,
was awarded To Dennis Burns. Septem-
Der II Was fixed as the time for a hearing
on tile sewsriug of Summit avenue and
Grace street. The final assessment for
the opening Of Pavonia avenue Is also 10
TIE prepared Is soon as the complete list
Ut damages awarded ca u be secureu. The
Duyrolls of employees C leaning sewers and
basins for July. ani ounting to $500. was
passed; also for laburers on uupaved
air eet-, $685.. 40, for July; also laburers
EN- ployed paving over street openings,
1924.
A few appointments were mads. John
Cayanagh Will De the Inspector on the
paving OF Jersey avenue, from Non
guuirry street To Newark veuue nnd ON
the same street from Montgomery 10
Grand; William Kennedy will view the
work GU Ninth st eet, between Hender-
son aad Provost streets. TAom IS Cayle.
n laborer on streets, WAS discharged aud
Patrick OiMhra appointed ,iu his S eai.
Colgate q Co.. after considerable Jug
CLING Win Resolutions. were ON powered
To lay a trench from their works on
Grand street to the river. The petition
for sewer III Arlington avenu, was re-
ported upon favorably. Tbs improve
ment Of ST. Panl's avenue was awarded
to Ed v ODonnell. Tbs Bsileville
aud High Service payroll for July was
passe /.
precinct station house will now be made.
The FInaucc Com mis- .ioners q appro-
priated the amount Of money necessary
aud bids for the. work will be advertised
Tor At once.
IF THE FiNANcIERs CONCUR.
The REQUEST OF The Board OF Ed acatiou
for the purchase of Two more lots on
Stegnan avenue for public school uur-
poses. will Us granted lt the Is ,ar or
Finance will c5Hcur III a resoiutioa
authorizing the purchase. The school
site now covers twelve city lots
aud although Commissioner Dlgan
Thought that fifteen lots should comprise
a Iluy round CLERK Boutou thought
thought hat twelve was sufficient, SO it
hati TO 20 ut thut.
The Board of Finance iu making up the
budget for the coming fiscal year over
looked The repairs 10 engine houses. The
houses are in q tumble down condition,
aud as q result they will now have TO deal
with a petition for $40, 900 for the WORK.
10 Juhu Nolan was awarded the con-
tract for the paving with beigian blocks,
Henderson street, Pavonia
avenue aud the Hoooken line.
Having transacted mis- much business
the Board adjourned to meet next Mvn-
day morning at ten O'Clock sharp.