The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-24
NEW BOOMERANG
Continued from First Paae.

lnS COUNCIL were Dtlu6 oiiOWCa ~ 0N
| cordance with the amendment to Mr..
Bragaw's resolution. and they insisted
| that the mode of procedure would not be
MR.. BRAGAw SHOWS FEELING.
This meeting disclosed some OF the
highly economical ana
| people's-sake-ways in which the Repupn-
| cans spent the city's money when they
held the purse strings. One OF the pii.s
was for three dozen glass gopiets at 90
per dozen. The glassware was purchased
from a furniture dealer by ex-City CLERK
The prices of wooden pals for the
| sewer gangs varied considerably IN a
few months. At n time they cost "
price paid was 81. There was a differ
| ence, too, in the cost of rubber boots for
| the sewer cleaners. In one bill SS;f2 was
charged for a pair, and a month later
81. A little later the price jumped up to
$3.72 again.
Mr.. Bragaw showed some feeling as the
work progressed. All the fgures could be
believed the bills were all right, as
Mayor Haynes signed them.
What sense was there, then, for the
Harrigan. why didn't you get the
figures you wanted from the books?
Mayor Haynes did sign the bills, and
Mayor Lebkuecher, too. signed a great
is a simple matter for an Alderman or
anyone else to get a look at any bills
without the passage of a resolution or
the holding of an investigation, and
since we have begun we can only con-
tinue and make a comparison OF these
talked-of ex-travagances.'
TUMBLERS IS PER DOZEN.
The investigation Jagged somewhat as
Mr.. Harrigan insisted upon having every
bill read through, and it was evident
that 1t would take a long time to get
kuecher and Chan Riker's administra-
ton.
This did not suit the Republicans at
all, and at the next meeting Dr.. Ayres,
one of the Republicans, protested viSor-
ously, claiming that the reading OF some
of the bills caused a waste OF time, put
Mr.. Harrigan insisted that the inyesti-
cation would not be a thorough one un-
less the committee probed into the bills
of every department.
Goblets that were evidently considered
of fine enough quality for the Aldermen
purchased from G.. w. Laurence for 81
per dozen. On Wednesday the. discovery
was made that a furniture dealer had
supplied three dozen at the rate or 30
per dozen.
Make a note of that" said Mr.. Har-
rigan; Il don't think any further com
parison on glassware is necessary. The
duty or something else must nave peen
taken off at that time
Another bill which Mr.. Harrigan said
wouldn't &c with the present administra-
~ NOtN~
said he to Chairman Trabold.
MI. BRAGAW LEAVES IN A HUFF.
At the next meeting Mr.; Bragaw tried
to have the bills of 1893 and 1894 taken up,
but the Democratic members insisted that
the examination should go on in the
usual manner, and the bills of 1886 Were
taken up. Then Mr.. Brdgaw got mad,
and after a while left the meeting In a
high dudgeon, stopping In his wrath only
long enough to tell THE News corre-
spondent that the Democrats had turned
~ Kf0A into n ia rnn
He, however, came back to the next
meeting, which was held Thursday, and,
as clipper as ever. renewed his motion
to take up the bills of 1893. But he might
as well have saved his breath, for Mr..
Harrigan's order was resumed, and the
Clerk went on to read the bills for 1886.
Soon he struck a lead, as the miners
say, and read a bill for 1855 for differ
ence in trading horse" The animal had
been used by the Superintendent of
Public License, Next was brought to
Haymarket tower. which cost the city
s., 1S5 for iron work alone.
It was remarked that an offer of $50
had recently been made for the structure.
sum of money expended for No. 8 en-
CINE house, rebuilt in 1886 at an outlay of
$8,e26.S4, which was considered by the
members of the committee as a sufficient
sum to put up a new building. Large eX-
penditures, it. was said, were made since
1886. and No. 8 house was conceded to
be a very costly building.
ONE TALL CUSPIDOR, 81.
The first bill read from the Public
Buildings Committee of that year con-
tanned an item two floor brooms at
s1.25 EACH Then came charges OF re
pairing five office chairs, $40" These
were followed by a bill for "one tail
cuspidor, 81"
The Clerk read it again. "One tall Gus
Mus be one of the kim they put
umbrellas in," dryly remarked the Alder
man from the First ward.
1T must have been hand-painted," put
in Alderman Ayres.
Alderman Bragaw adjusted his glasses
and took a look at the bill, but the item
was there. Goblets at $3.50 per dozen
were bought for the Council Chamber.
A lot more bills were passed over,
chairs, 500" The chairs were for No. 2
engine house. The item was followed by
another for repairing chairs at IS each
table $40. Spring beds for No. Z engine
house were bought for $3.50 and 81, and
three other bills for upholstering chairs,
at $40 a chair, were read. Charges of So,
81 and S. for repairing chairs were rather
plentiful. Carpets cost from ninety cents
to $1.50 per yard, with extra charges for
making and laying. Linoleum was
e caafge e ya arp f aa f iayin per yafd' ana ten
NkAtt Co J@A1 -
An interesting feature was brought out
in the expenses of the Committee on
Bridges, which amounted that year to
81, 04O.1 6, and which Alderman Harrigan
claimed represented just what it cost the
city for the privilege of placing Centre
Market over the canal. There were bills
of $40 for a desk for the Tax Commission
er's Office, $50 for one in the Tax Re
ceiver's department and $40 for a top for
the City Clerks desk. All these passed
without comment, but not SO with a bill
in which $3.50 was charged for repairing
along with it. Alderman Bragaw want
ed to know who used all the Cash
mere Bouquet and "Elderberry'' soar
furnished in those days, remarking that
they were imported goods.
An architects bill for s25 "for profess
house, caused Alderman Harrigan to
remark:-'He could treat me for less
than that"
Bills ordered paid by the Board of
Health came in with the rest, and the
Clerk was instructed to read some of
them. Nothing out of the ordinary came
to light until a bill, which read, 'To
car fare and expressage per chasing
bottles, $780," was reached.
Three dollars and a half for chasing
bottles,'' remarked Chairman Trabold.
What was that for?' The bill was
passed around, and finally Alderman
Bragaw made per chasing to mean
VERY COSTLY FURNITURE.
The last meeting was held Thursday
night, and after Mr.. Bragaw's Inevitable
motion about 1888 had been disposed of
in the usual amer the committee be-
gan the scrutiny of the bills of 1887.
nights work were the exceedingly high
prices maid for dry goods, all of which