The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-06-07
BROKEN PLEDGES.
Director Heller Condemns
the ]. c. Hoboken and
Rutherford Raiload
Company.
lREEHOLDERS CRITICIZE REGISTER FIELDER
Railroad Tracks on the Paterson
Plank Road to Be Removed
at Once.

The Board of Freeholders held a
meeting yesterday, and during it the
methods employed by Register George
B. Fielder to obtain books for his office
were sharply criticised. The unpleasant
remarks were brought about in this
way:-A certain Mr.. Lusk. a number of
years age, invented a system of record
books. and he had his invention patent
ed. He then began to put his system
before the public, and one of the coun-
ties to adopt it was Hudson. This was
done at the earnest request of the Coun-
ty Register, and it has since proved to
have been a costly experiment. Some
time ago Mr.. Lusk urged the Freehold
ers to pay him for the books that he
said had been furnished to Register Field
er. He said the bill had been running since
1893, that it was a just bill. and should
be paid. The claim was referred to
the Committee on Printing and Sta
tionery, which began an investigation
that has not been finished yet. Mr..
Lusk wanted his bill paid yesterday,
and a Freeholder moved that a special
committee be appointed to see If the
books in question had been furnished
the county. and if so to pay the bill.
Freeholder Heating objected to this,
because the matter was already being
investigated by the Committee on Print
.ng and Stationery, of which he is a
member. He asked the board to per-
nit this committee to finish its work.
Il would say remarked Clerk John
Boyd, these books were never ordered
by this board. They were ordered by
Mr.. Fielder and not the F~reeholders,
and some of them were ordered when
The county did not have the money to
oay for them. These books, ike all
other stationery purchased for the coun-
ty, should have been delivered at my
office, but they were not. I have never
received a single one of them. 1t is a
violation of the law for the county to
ouy anything when it has not got the
money n pay the bill"
"If the Committee on Printing and
Stationery is permitted to finish it's in
v~estigation Of these Bills said Free
holder Heating, and we find the bills
correct we Will pay them, but if found
incorrect we will not"
At the last meeting of the Freeholders
Title, Guarantee and Trust Company,
ceed-ngs, was ordered paid. Before the
warrant for the amount was drawn IL
was learned that there was an error In
uhe claim and that the amount that
should be paid was $500. The Freehold,
ers yesterday rescinded the resolution OF
the last meeting and adopted one to pay
the corrected claim of S., 600.
AN IMPORTANT NATTER.
me folloWlng communication from Di-
rector William Heller was read by the
"Gentlemen-It seems to me advisable
and necessary. to request your attention
to the following condition of affairs
action. or May i, 1888. a pei.
,on was presented TO this board by
the Jersey City, Hoboken and Ruther-
right TO locate its tracks in Hudson
county, and to use thereon las we'll as
horses electric or chemical motors or
and to erect poles or other appurtenances
as might be necessary for the purposes
Of said railroad, as by reference to
his board did grant the right 10 sa:o
Jersey City, Hoboken & Rutherford Rail-
yay Company 20 use the Paterson Prank
authority TO use the motive power set
forth in the petition (excluding stean), 10
maintain poles. wires and other neces-
rating the road (but for no other pur-
pose) under certain conditions, and sub
Iect to certain restrictions agreed upoD
ford Railroad Company, in a certain
contract entered into with the Board of
Chosen 5 F. Ere SdU 8 ISa,a presen n at the
In this contract. in consideration of
the permission, consent. privileges and
a aaeh 70 dyy GsS given ana granted by the
road Company agreed: First. to keep and
maintain IN a good state of repair the
Pe]o asersn1 q SD Ra road, oc snow9 as as the the
railway, except bridge, unless used, so as
., be at all times %eonyeaient and safe for
al1V on R0mnlatinr nf the railway Srbir1
30 steam. Fourth, sixteen feet clear be-
tween inside rails when two tracks are
tracks as might be agreed upon prior to
location of said tracks. Fifth, to in
demp,fy Hudson county from damages
Qf any to persons or vehicles occasion
ed by motors or cars of the railway COM
BROKE IT'S PLEDGES.
ion Of the Board of Freeholders passed
lay 4, 1893, giving permission required
FIRST. All persons, vehicles, etc. to
rossing. entering on and leaving tracks,
: map not filed. Such. gentlemen, are
promises Of the Jersey City. Hoboken &
Rutherford Railway Company in coa-
sheraton of the vast powers and most
without cost by a former Board of
Chosen ~Freeho1ders. a franchise of i'm
rense and growing value to any rams
pany carried out its pledges TO the
people of this county?
1T has persistcntly, impudently and
lefiantly broken its agreement. A uni
versel cry of condemnation of the reck-
less obstruction of the Paterson Plank
Road by this company has come from
the citizens of this and adjoining counties
who are required to Use this road for
business or pleasure. Travel is tnipeded,
The road is almost impossible. Instead
1f q great pubic boon to the people who
n 1fh~ramy rave these enumerated great
privileges, the Traction Company IS :
menace to trade. comfort and even 70 life
Itself. Second, no yrnen of the sum
greed upon has been made. (No th.rd.)
Fourth, this promise has been continually
Violated. No attempt has been made to
keep it. Crossing. entering and leaving
racks. On the contrary it would seem
rs though an organized effort had been
made to defeat this requirement of the
DoaTu.
your counsel has tired in every way
TO bring to the attention of the COM
2any these constant violations of its
contract, and has received a contempt
nous inattentian that brands these vio-
lations as studied and malicious. The
former board seemed TO have. been I'M
aware of the value and extent of the
franchises they were granting The rail
way company seems to consider that Q
title IN fee simple to the ownership of
the Paterson Plank Road to the OK
clusion of the public had been given il.
IN yiaw of those we'll known violations