The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-29
BURY The WIRES
Alderman Dohrmann Wants
the Telegraph and Tel
ephone Companies to
Use Conduits.
MRS. GROSS LICENSE REVOKED
Ordinance Introduced at Last
Nights Meeting to License
Beer Bottlers.
MRS. GROSS LICENSE REVOKED

At the meeting of the Board of Alder
men last night Alderman. Dohrmann in
troduced a resolution requesting the
Street and Water Commissioners to take
such action Immediately as will compel
the various telephone and telegraph COM
panies to remove their unsightly poles
from the streets and place the wires I'M
der ground in conduits.
Jersey City has been slow in this mat
ter" explained the Alderman. "There is
no reason why enormous telegraph or
telephone poles should mar the beauty
of our streets. There are instances where
the sunlight is practically shut out by the
| great net work of wires. The time is COM
ing when all those wires will have to go
under ground and in my opinion the pri-
vate corporations should be compelled to
place theirs there at this time.
"Our streets are being paved rapidly
and there is no reason why these cor
porations should be allowed to leave
them up and destroy them in later years.
The companies should be compelled to
place their wires under ground now and
more particularly in streets where paw
ing is contemplated. They should also he
compelled to make provision for the care
of the police and fire department wires in
their conduits. l intend urging the Street
and Water Commissioners to act in this
matter and I hope this resolution will
pass"
THE LICENSE REVOKED.
There were no objections raised to the
resolution and it was passed by the votes
of all present.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
a few years ago applied to the Street
and Water Board for permission to build
conduits in many down town streets. but
the necessary ordinance was never pass
ed. The Telephone Company, however,
was granted that privilege and for the
past seven or eight months has been
placing some wires under ground. They
are, however, only the long distance
wires. The local service wires still adorn
poles. The Aldermen will probably wage
a war against telegraph wires now until
something definite is accomplished.
Residents of the vicinity of No. IS
Greene street sent a tart application to
the Board asking that a concert hall
license, granted to Mrs. Gross to operate
a music hall in conjunction with a saloon
at No. So Greene street. be revoked. The
| petition charged that the place is patron
ment that is a disgrace to any commun-
ity.. Drunken orgies have been of almost
r fWaan t Ssdearr ans s ana y9un vea glrls nave pes
been congregating there and acting dis
gracefully with such. men as lounged
that sleep was out of the question n
that in the interest of good morals the
der, should be closed.
of the Exhibition COMMITTEE. declared
that he voted for the concert license only
upon the recommendation of the police.
their opinion of the place., he continued,
and | certainly did not suppose ! was
licensing a joint"
was made. by Alderman Vermilyea. AL
dermen Calnon and Witter made a fight
for the proprietress. declaring that she
should at least be given q hearing. The
uptown Aldermen wouldn't listen to ar
guments and finally revoked the license.
TO LICENSE BEER B0TTLERS.
An ordinance compelling beer hot.lers
to pay q License fee of $3.50 was taken
up for final passage Upon the recon-
mendation of Alderman Vermilyea- 1t
Sesn a made r. aom laal New ae p York botti haa
who deliver beer in this city to pay any
license fee. and the ordinance was re-
fcrred back to the Excise Committee
for revision. The ordinance as amended
will be passed as socn as practicable. as
it is a Republican measure and agreed
bottlers of beer in the city and the Ii
| cense revenue will consequently be in
creased $4,000 as soon as the ordinance
| becomes operative.
Overseer of the Poor Hewitt filed with
his office since January /. From thai
date he has assisted 70l families. repre-
senting 2,937 persons. In December he
sent fourteen to the Almshouse: Janu-
ary, t~hirty-six: February, twenty-five;
March. thirty-three: April, ffty-six; May,
twenty-nine, or 1SS in all. He has caused
ffty-two warrants to be issued for men
for abandoning their wives and families
and fifteen for men to support illegiti-
mate children. He has spent about
So, 1000.
The official BOND of Inspector of Scales,
Weights and Measures, John H. Wester-
welt, in 50, 200, with Horace Farrier and
lanes WarHer as sureties. was accepted
an opinion from Corporation Counsel
Blair as to the right of the Health
Bureau to collect the dog tax. Mr.. Blair
opinion, as none was filed.