New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-02-09
PASSAIC COUNTY.
PATERSON.
r,,.>.,,v COMPLICATIONS OVER CENTENNIAL. cEID.
RRATION EXPENDITURES-AN ELEClioN
DISTRICT IN DIFFICULTY.

DISTRICT IN DIFFICULTY.
Tho oo,,or or the Board OF Chosen Freeholders
IN instr,,cting its counsel, De Witt c. Bolton, 10
sue the members Of the Paterson centennial |o,"-
n,ttee of one Hundred for the soVV which .h'
county appropriated toward the celebration oi INC
citys Tooth anniversary in 1872 has some uiVe'.i"
features the chief Of which is that Mr.. Bolton
will have to proceed against himself ct al, as he
was a member of the committee. The step taken
by the Freeholders eXctes more derisoh IMAM any
thing else Three years ago the grant OF the sum
to the city by the county met cheerful acqulescehce
from the great Of taxpayers. Later II was
discovered by somebody that the appropriation was
Illegal But as no Grand Jury has thought 1t
proper TO indict the Freehoders OF l@S Tor the
innocent violation OF law. II such there was the
general opinion Is that the present BOARD "oulu
have done better to let the matter drop. lhere
mover has been any question raised about the wise
and economical way in which the money was
snent and a considerable balance remains as q
nucleus of fund to raise statue to Alexander
Hamilton. Patersons chief founder Inc commit
tee OF one Hundred has no corporate existence
and II money Is TO be recovered from anybody, II
must be from the individual members surviving
and still resident OF the original list eight have
died and about the same number have removed
from the city. There are dozen prominent
lawyers who served on the committee, so that the
defendants ought not TO lack able counsel. -
group photograph of the committee was taken
tousy suggested that 1t offered in evidence for
the county Another proposition Is that IL JudS-
ment is obtained. those who appear in the front
row OF the picture pay assessment proportionate
10 the honor. those in the next row smaller
amount and so on. The county also, AT the time,
granted 5000 toward the publication of a centen-
NAL history OF Paterson. The book has not yet
appeared and the Board of Freeholders has IN
structed its counsel to demand either the volumes
or the money, the alternative being another law
Several OF the cltys election districts have grown
in population until their vote is too heavy to be
cast conveniently within the election hours or
counted before morning. one OF these Is me sec
ond district OF the Seventh Ward and Aiderman
Durgett, in behalf of the West Paterson people,
has introduced ordinance setting off new pre-
cnct. Unfortunately. the law requires that pre-
cnct. 10 entitle IL TO division, must nave cast ov
votes at the last election, and In November owing
10 the disgust and apathy that prevailed IN max
heavily Democratic section, the poll 50 light
as TO fall little under the prescribed figure This
has only just been discovered, and the ordinance
was Withdrawn
satisfied with the building now approaching
completion. and at nearly every meeting ne mas "A
stands u5 for the archtects CAREER & Hastings.
the architects say that they have not yet finally
Commission they resent Mr. Graham action.
There Is also trouble impending about the furnisn-
ing OF the new Gy Hal The IN 'n anS
the building oTNr to the city ready for oecu-
pancy. but some of the Aldermen insist that their
The circus agents VINO wanted the license fee
for tent shows reduced from 500 10 500 day
could not convert enough Aldermen 10 pass the
ordinance which requires a two-thirds vote. and
,re Great spectaces which used 10 carry many
thousands Of dollars of the workingmens money out
OF town. The emissary OF one OF me pig SHOWS,
who got the privilege or the Moor at sie % no,
reducad his circus would not visit Paterson, but
even this threat failed Of the desired effect.