New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-28
PATERSON.
FIVE JUDGES ON THE BENCH AT ONE
TIME.
PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT THE PAssAIC RIVERA
FIRE DEPARTMENT HITcH-NoTEs OF

PEOPLE WORRIED ABOUT THE PAssATC RIVERA
FIRE DEPARTMENT HITcH-NoTEs OF
INTEREST.
The unusual circumstance OF five judges the
bench attended the opening Of the Passaic County
Courts September Term. Supreme Court Justice
Job Lippincott OF the Hudson circuit, there to
charge the Grand Jury and he will have to preside
at the two murder trials which expected There
was nothing beyond ordinary Formally In his re-
marks Circuit Judge Miller OF Camden came 10
arrange for trying the civil list in the absence OF
Judge Dixon who is i'll. and County Judge Hopper
and Lay Judges Inslis and Van Hovenberg made up
! the quintet OF magistrates. The Grand Jury is
somewhat remarkable In having physician OF ac-
tive practice for It's foreman and the city editor OF
a newspaper among Its members. The former is DR..
William h. Newton, who has been city Health In
spector and State Dairy Commissioner. An
usually large proportion of the civil including
about all OF any public interest. was marked of
FOR the term and Judge Mer's extra task will
thus be made light. The two expected murder
trials are those Of Daniel Alderman. of Smiths
Mills who killed his wife in fit OF jealousy. ard
Mrs. Mary Van Wyck widow who drowned her
nleglmate baby in the river. Both confessed their
deeds at the time Both cases were referred TO
briefly by Judge Lippincott and re also said that
the Grand Jury should look into the charge OF
slaughter made against the conductor and motor
man OF the troey-car which on Labor Day caused
the Greenw God Lake Railroad accident at Sngac.
one important thing delayed by Judge Dixon's alb
sence Is the appointment OF commissioners to have
n new courthouse Quilt. Another is Paterson's CITY
Hall furniture matter.
Paterson people are worried. and with good cause.
about the energetic efforts OF residents along the
banks OF the Passac below the cty's borders to
have laws passed that may compel Paterson 10 build
lateral sewers TO tdewater and stop dlschargng Its
sewage into the stream. Such work would cost
several millions OF dollars and how the taxpayers
could meet the interest bonds for such a gigantic
enterprise is not plainly seen. The State courts
have decided that a river Is a natural sewer, adj
there seems to be relief for the down the-rver
people through injunction, but they hope TO In
iuce the Legislature TO forbid the pollution OF the
river with sewage The condition OF the stream
and the odor that attends Its course from Pater-
son down TO Newark 10 certainly bad enough. and
the evil Is Increased BY the long drouth
There IL another hitch about appointments to the
Fire De partment The putting OF twenty-sx
permanent or fully paid men on the force. displac-
Ing seventy odd callmen and making the depart
ment entirely paid, delayed by technical point
requiring the sage OF new ordinance. and 1t has
ust been discovered that there 10 another complca
lion which may upset the whole programme. II Is
alleged that the latest batch OF permanent men APP
pointed sixteen In number, was put on Illegally. the