The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-17
REPUBLICAN, INFAMY
Board of Aldermen Pass
the New Ward Lines
Ordinance.
MOST SHAMELESS GERRYMANDER
Only Three Out Of Twelve Wards
Are Democratic Boundaries of
the New Districts.
MOST SHAMELESS GERRYMANDEI

The noble efforts of the Ward Line COM
missioners were upset by the court, put
there is very good reason to believe that
-----st nights ordinance will stand. OF the
ewelve words created to take the place
\ of the SIX Aldermanic districts. nine are
positively Republican. two are decidedly
Democratic and one is doubtful
These are the new wards created by
the ordinance
FIRST WARD.
The First ward begins at Henderson
street produced and extends scatneas.l-
erly 10 the boulissdiy fsse OF the CITY,
II 1hei.ct a1cfg AeiloetSIdl SiHset 70 kdle
B cealtrs line OF fsailrosa1 avenais: thence
81 the easteriy boundary lac of Jersey C1l5
:, then suItherl5 - tte gIsteS ol ssssa1Hi'.--s-
6 bouns,aiy line oil the GUY and extends
"a 70 ;n@ centre dine Oh SlXtn street. wei eLg-
IA el.s - Erie street: tileace nortnerly
Az. IL, .os ,,>.l.a avenue westerly Through Pa
!. IN <i5:.i.s avenue. westerly lfIouga AaaAli-
s, s, sn pari. TO Pavonlia avstaue; inence %
IN ,ei+s centre line of Newark aYoRue. west
= rly To Pal-sssde ay6lue ana hofl1sriS
\. 1o iiobokea avenue. aitd eissnce iiorln
pne y 80 the eastsr-ly boundary hne 81
ifofthe city ana soutnefiy 20 The DsDce u
FL os's'''-'-'iS'' THIRD WARD.
Third ward begins at Railroad ayenus
"a ana Grove street, noltheriy 90 sixth
street westerly to Erse, s9o,,ah s9nragriy Ham ~
B s,te9 ParE ana Pavor,ia avenue to Mon
mouth street southerly to Railroad ave
niue and easterly to pAe p4dee Oh pesii-
al1''- FOURTH WARD.
& Fourth ward begins at ftaliroaa ave, e.
4 Enue and Henderson street. westerly 70
WSMonrnouth street. scutherly TO Grand,
es Sastelly to HENDERSON and 1ortherly to
l lao place Of FfssRai PsSshn.lMIE.A WARD.
81 ~ fifth ward begins at Grand and Mon ION
streets eNtendiS R0renes fbrogb PayonIa
Venue produced to Newark avenue,
.,esteriy TO Waldo avenue, southeriy to
fenue and easterly 20 Fremont street,
southeriy TO Grand and easteriy 10 the
place OF 0egiInnRlTnEg ggInTEg WARD.
4 Sixth ward, beginning at Henderson
ogtgeet produced and the soutnea53terttg Ss3,s ~
Fl .slnd street westerly and southwest
81 10 ocean avenue and Clarernont
Ess9enue, easterly to- Garfield avenue
ay to, the southeasterly boundary hne
E " &he city and northeasterly TO the place
~ ,ss sl l.li..:sf; sEf;vENTH WARD.
Seventh ward begins at the southeast
sssnue. extends westerly to Garfield av-
e1 de, nertherly TO ClareE1ont avenue,
westerly 70 Ocean @ ar ayenRe y norIheray 70
city, southerly to the southerly boundary
line of the city and northeasterly and
S0ufheasterix1 Ex1GaTM s faf pW1aaagR pWaRp B DAA-is.
4 Eighth ward begins at Grand street
r. and Summit avenue, westerly to Ocean
81 avenue to Newark and New. York Rail
road westerly to the westerly boundary
avenue produced, eesterly to Summit av-
enue to the. place Of beginning.
Ninth ward begins at Grand street
and Summit avenue, nortnerly to Bel
mont avenue. westerly to the westerly y
Stuyvesant avenue. easterly to Sip ave-
nue., easterly to Tonnele avenue south
erly to Academy street, easterly to Rail-
southerly to Grand street, westerly to
the place Of rFSgspI bsgIpnipMg: MARn
Tenth ward begins at Waldo avenue
and Academy A street, westerly to 7 Ionnele n1,e4
vesanf avenue, westerly to the westerly
line of the city, northerly to Manhattan
avenue where it intersects the. westerly
Ene of the city .easterly to Manhattan
avenue to Summit avenue, southerly TO
Newark avenue, easterly to Waldo ave
nue. and southerly to the place Of begin
ELEVENTH WARD
Eleventh ward begins at Newark and
PalSade avenues, extends westerly to
Summit avenue, northerly to Manhattan,
easterly to Central, noruherly to South
erly to Hoboken avenue, southwesteriy
TO Palisade avenue and southerly to the
place Of 5asWglpnipggi aWP m .RgrH wan
Twelfth ward begins at South strees
produced, where 1t intersects the bound
ary line of this city and Hoboken. ex-
tends westerly to Central avenue, south
erly to Manhattan avenue, westerly to
the westerly EIs LIZ line G Of the the city along the
boundary line of this city and Hobolxen
southerly to the place Of beginning.
THE CROWDED FIRST.
SO many Democrats have been crowded
INTO the First ward that Alderman Day
asserted last night that three Demo
Ito tn,
tr.ct, poll a fair vote. and one would
come out winner over a Republican
candidate.
The same delightful condition of affairs
prevails in the Second district.
The Fifth is the doubtful district II
Is doubtful. because It has only a Repub-
Iican majority of 200 The creation of the
wards will necessitate the election OF
pne Alderman from each ward. instead
pf two Aldermen from district. as n
The Republicans are strictly m it. Mo-
snly Do they. hops e ,a retain tnelr their. h2ie GO
redistricting, but they propose making
he fight of their Ives to get their claws
, n the fat & funds Of the Board card Of fais free e
The. Republicans appointing six Free
holders 10 represent the SIX wards, whict
40 Representatives in the BOARD. This
tcheme, as was told IN ."rhe News {
eW Gays ago, has Deen dropped, as Int
Freeholders do not relish the idea of the
.ed-stricting law being tested too Sc
Yerely as to its constitutonality.
THE FREEHOLDER GRAB.
The present Board of FreeholderS i.
composed Of twenty members, thirteer
If whom are Democrats. Under the re
iistr.cting the Freeholder membership
will be twenty-ssx. Should the Republi
AN Aldermen appoint twenty-four Free
aolders, as they claim they have ths
light to do under the law of 1891, tht
,oard would be 13 to Is. The Republican.
ire PLAYING a different game. They dt
lot want to appear too grasping, and con
teauently wilT not touch the Freeholdel
,uestion until next fall.
Several thousand dollars of election
,slls were ordered paid last night. Alder
nan Day objected to some OF them, bu
CITY Clerk Woolley was ordered ,pait
lis first months salary of s4le, and late
ie was paid $500 for his extra service
m election day and night. For twenty
our hours work $500 is regarded DEG e.
air compensation. 10 be paid ssls I
ne night is a streak Of luck that ~ i
arely enjoyed by city official IN
oard viii meet again next TUESDAY
Wening.