The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-19
MORE WATER TALK
Board of Trade Discusses
Syndicates, State Boards
and Private Com
panles.
PRACTICAL STEP AT LAST
A Committee Appointed to Con-
slider a System of Tenn
porary Relief.

&A@0 0t"
the member of the Street and Water
Boardd, the Good Government Club and
everybody else who is thinking about that
vexata ~questio-pure water. In Response
to the invitation, Commissioners Hooker,
Cone, Kellers and Harding of the Street
and Water Board We're on hand, and with
Mr.. Holt of the Goo Goo Club, there
were besides ex-Judge Voorhis, Con-
gressman-elect T. McEwan. Jr., Assem-
blyman w. E.. Drake, J.. D.. Carscallen,
j. A. Dear, A. ]. Corcoran, H. v. Condict
DR.. L. j. Gordon, I. G. Haskins, w. j.
TAFT, c.. c. Jewell, G. c. Fountain, ex-
Alderman Hoos, Frank Stevens, 1. E.
Banks, Chairman John ]. VOORHEES, and
Mr.. Lebbeus NJ. Ward.
Mr.. Lebbeus B. Ward.
preached, a few business details of an
nual election of officers and other mat
ters were attended to. The election re-
suited in this:-President, John j. Voor-
hees: First Vice President, c. c. Jewell,
Second Vice President, James G. Has
king; Third Vice President. A. j. Cor
coran; Treasurer, Frank Stevens; Sec
rotary, w. J. TAFT and this Board of
Directors, Joseph A. Dear, R. Anderson,
E. R. Vessels, H. V. Condict, F. c. VOL
bert, NJ. j. uTSl, l.. E. SASGAJs ." ASo'
H. W. Carr and B. L. Stowe.
\ communication received from the
New Brunswick Board of Trade
agitating the abolition of the three days
grace on bills and notes. was referred
to a committee, also one from the Manu-
facturers' Association of Cincinatti,
seeking cooperation. Mr.. Richard II.
Reed of Taylor's Hotel was elected
q member and with the appointment of
a committee to max arrangements for
the annual dinner, these cleared away
the routine business.
WHERE ARE WE AT.
Mr.. Joseph A. Dear, in introducing
the water question, started in to define
the position of the city: in fact to tell
where we are at in this tangled up wa
ter question. AS the speaker has been
prominently identified with the efforts
of the Board of Trade in that direction,
his statements were ex-eathedra and in
an able and lucid address, traced step
by step. all the efforts made, winding
up with the recent specifications and the
appointment by the Board of Finance
and Street and Water Commissioners of
experts.
Mr.. Dear frankly said that the Board
of Trade had put itself in a wrong light
by seeming to have its own way and in
sisting upon specifications condemned by
the public. Personally he did not per-
ceive the flaws in them until the elev-
enth hour, and with others had tried to
influence the Mayor to reject them, but
1t was too late.
Mr.. Dear then detailed the difficulties
between the Finance and Street and Wa
ter Boards, and said that a great mis-
take had been made in selecting experts.
Mr.. Barnes, he said, had an unsavory
reputation, and as to Mr.. Church, his
association with the New York Aque-
duct Board, from which he was com
PEELED to retire, made him particularly
Objectionable. Mr.. Fteley came in the
latter category.
It was a nice quarrel, Mr.. Dear re-
marked, wherein the Board of Finance
insisted on a man of good reputation,
and the Street and Water Board want
ing a man of smirchced reputation, and
because Justice Lippincott called atten-
ton to the matter, it was dropped and
is now in statu quo ante bellum."
Mr.. Dear went carefully into the pro-
visions of the act known as the Board
VI AL anu odtd lAdt oCl0lO
Bradley is much in favor of it and will
present it at the coming Legislature.
Its fate depends on the attitude of
Jersey City, and if we can get it adopted
we will have taken a long step towards
supplying Jersey City with a good and
pure supply of water" (Applause).
DENOUNCING SYNDICATEs.
Mr. John D. Carscallen next moved the
following resolution
Whereas, The almost unprecedented
drouth of the past summer has demon
strated the necessity that exists for
Jersey City to carefully consider and
devise means for obtaining a supply of
pure and wholesome water; therefore
be it
Resolved, That in the opinion of the
Board of Trade, the proper authorities
of Jersey City should make a deter
mined effort to secure from the Legis-
lature of the State at its next session,
the passage of q law creating a State
Board of Water Commissioners, whose
duty it shall be to furnish Jersey City
and other municipalities of this State
with a supply Of pure water and in such
quantity as to meet the requirements of
our growing cities for many years to
come
In moving this, Mr.. C~arseallen de-
nounced the private syndicate, "schem-
ing people who own options and don't
own anything
Mr.. Carscallen said that these syndi-
Gates are dangerous and the city should
not buy water from private corpora
tons.
1--WE ought to own our own supply
(Cheers.)
Mr.. H. w. Carr endorsed the last
speakers remarks, and strongly urged
the passage of the Board of Trade act.
Counsellor Condict pointed out the two
bills suggested to give Jersey City pure
water. One is to give the city the right
to issue its own bonds to procure a water
supply and the other is to pass the
State Water Bill. Whichever may be
he said, the better bill, the question to-
day is water for this city as soon as
possible. What ought to be remembered
is that the people of this city are alive
to schemes, and if water is expected, the
city wants to have a good square deal.
Then, turning to Mr.. Lebbeus B. Ward
the speaker asked why the Attorney
General had pronounced the act uncon.
stitutional.
BONDS OBJECTED TO.
st don't think replied Mr.. Ward
sthat the Acknowledgement has fled his
report, but from a talk which l have
had with him, I understand he finds OBJ