The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-28
CHOP, CHOP, CHOP!
The Song of the Merry Gull
1otine in the Street and
Water Board.
BUT THE REPUBs STALK IN.
Twenty-Five Appointments to Nine
teen Dismissals-public
Works Moving.
BUT THE REPUBS STALK IN.

The Street and Water Commissioner met
again this morning. They removed nineteen
democrats and appointed twenty-five repup-
hcans. The dismissals ordered today were
agreed upon at a conference of the board
held last Thursday evening. There was nc
hitch, the Democratic members, Cone and
KelleEs, having agreed to vote with their
colleagues. The removals go into effect
June so. The appointments become oper-
EXIT FROM BELLEvILLE. A.
The first brigade of democrats to walk the
plank were Bellevilleites. They are Patrick
Fallon, rigger; John Noonan, John Murray
and Peter Byrnes, engineers; Patrick II.
Donovan, machfnist; William Edwards and
Erwin Brauer. firemen; John Bradley, gen
eral %workmen; Edwin ]. Hall. weigher and
Waterman; John McGuinness, engineer, and
James [. Dean, general workman.
Frank Coyle and William GALAXY, fire
men at High Service, were also discharged.
COMMISSIONS Hooker then got tired of hear
ing dismisSals and offered a resolution ap-
pointing these Republican workers
George B. Morgan. carpenter, S3.25 per day;
Leonard Wilson. William Cunningham and
William P. Stivers, engineers at Belleville,
SIT per month; 0 Somerborn, machinlst,
SIS: W. J. Macarthur, William Theiler and
James A.. Geraghty, firemen, sos; Daniel F.
Aines and Joseph Reilly, general workmen,
$50: Louis Drachmann, weigher and watch
man, and James II. James, engineer, S0;
David Jordan and George Drinkwater. fire
men at High Service, 500.
Daniel P. Aines, who was appointed a
general workman. was appointed a fireman
last week. He did not ill the bill and was
accordingly reduced.
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The next batch of unfortunate democrats
to go composed laborers laying water pipes.
They were Alex Beatty, S. L. Barry and
Thomas Allen. Jacob Eller and James Nc
Grath, general clerks, and M. f. Harvey, a
bIaoksmith's helper at the pipe ward, were
then dismissed. James Kelly was appointed
Eller's successor at a salary of $50 per
month; j. w. Written was named Nc
Grath's successor at S75 per month;
Thomas G. Jones was appointed a black
smiths helper at $3.50 a day, when engaged;
Joseph Walsh was appointed a laborer on
meters at sos per month. Alex Beatty, who
was discharged as a laborer, was appointed
a watchman; Richard Behan and John
Twornay were appointed laborers at So a
day; John Lally was appointed Inspector OF
the Improvement of Newark avenue, be-
tween Fifth street and Palisade avenue. This
concluded the decapitations and appoint
ments for the day.
MORE STILL TO GO.
The board is to hold a conference next
Thursday evening, and another batch of re-
movals will be made. Commissioner Hooker
declares that although about one hundred
dismissals have already been made, more
will follow. 1t was rumored at the Office
building today that the engineering bureau
would probably be r~eorganized at next
Mondays session. A wholesale clearing
out of general clerks in the Water Depart
ment is also slated for the meeting.
Messrs. s. L. Harvey, James Dodds and
Jacob J. Detwiller appeared before the
board this morning on behalf of Greenville
property owners. They want the Brown
place sewer properly covered, Chapel ave
hue guarded against encroachment
by the Lehigh Valley Railroad,
and the Dwight street sewer
pushed to a speedy completion, They urged
upon the board the necessity of arranging
with the Lehigh Valley and National Docks
Railways and the Morris Canal Company
for the laying Of the Dwight street sewer
under the tracks and canal, SO that there
will not be a delay such as characterized the
work on the Woodlawn sewer.
Several months ago it was decided to con-
struct a sewer in Summit avenue, fromILaid-
law avenue to Sanford place, through Nell
son avenue and Bowers street. That portion
of Nelson avenue through which the sewer
was to pass has been acquired by the Board
OF Freeholders for County Road purposes.
As a result, If the city built a sewer in 1t,
the county would own it. To avoid this
Chief Engineer Ruggles has prepared a new
plan which provides for the laying of the
sewer under the sidewalks. TIL plan was
adopted and work upon this much needed
Improvement will be begun at once.