The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-06
BOARD OF FREEHoLDER.

BOARD OF FREEHOLDER.
foflcial Proceedings.9
lsegupar meeting Of the Board Of
bed IN the Court House on Thursday,
December 5. 1895. Present at roll cali
Director Heller and Freehciders Binder
Green, Groth, Hanna. Heating. Kelly.
Niein, Mucomb. Piercy. Riordan and
Itlppe-a6. Absent, Freeholders Heiney,,
NaIly,5, Freebooter Kenny was excused
from the meeting. Freebooter Heiney
appeared and took his seat
Freehoider Riordan moved to amend
pass sss' & Pi mssiias hs 81 gS 5as R9a' ses
said work to Be commenced forthwith
and continued without delay until com
pleted" Question being taken on the
voted as Observation-Disclosures roth,
Hanna. Klein, Riordan, Ripe and Direc-
tor Heller- Nays-Fresholders Binder
Green, Heiney, Kelly, Heating. McComb
and Piercy-11. Neutrality-suspicious. Ken.
ny Klumpp.. McNally and Macfarlane-l1.
lost.
~Freeholder Kelly moved to approve the
minutes OF the meeting held Thursday.
manual. Question being taken ON the
as follows:..YeasFreeholders Bindernagle
~ "
Groth, Heiney. Keatsng. Kelly, Klein,
McComb, Percy and Director Heller-l4.
Mays-Freeholders Riordala,, Ripple and
Hanna-3. Observation-Disclosures Kenny.
Klumpp. Mentally and Macfarlane4 The
Director declared the motion adopted.
On motion of F~reeholder Kelly the
minutes of the meeting held November
2, 1885. were approved as printed in the
manual. Adopted.
PETITIONS AND cQMMUNICATdoNS.
Co.. asking permission to run gas mains
across the Hudson Boulevard at the fol-
street. Union STREET and Ege avenue. Free
holder Heating moved the communication
be received and referred to the Commit
holder Ham asked for the privilege. of
the floor to present a communication.
Granted From Freeholder Hanna
East Newark. Nov. 80. 1895.
bers of the Board of Chosen Freeholders
and the public of Hudson County. N. j.:
Gentlemen-An article appeared On the
Jersey City Evenig Journal Of Friday.
November, q, relating generally to the
visit of the freeholders to inspect the
ner given at Kearney by Mr.. Woolson,
to the attempt made by certain reporters
to son ext9rt money nc ayys fT9m M. Wo refsrencs aa 10
theboard at large 1 will say nothing; as
thing we are all all ac ;nIns M +n to ele that;
plant pa t. for the public road. the visit to
Kearny, andthe socalled dinner. I will only
saythatI knew nothing about it until at
like the others. partook Of the hospitality
extended by Mr.. Woolston. AS to the at
tempt to extort money from Mr. Woods
fact that it has come to- me that the re-
porters who. were at, Kearny par
took of the lunch, and who attempted to
and it appears that instead of writing me
UP. themselves they have gotten the jour.
nal a to do it n for them m tn As .. to she a!temps
Mr.. Woolston terms it, I do not wish to
injure my of the reporters. but as OF
that it was agreed between three re-
porters who were at Kearny and at the
lunchthat they should attempt to get
money from Woolston. and one OF the three
reporferswas appointed as spokesman. The
attempt was made and / was called into
it by one of the reporters. and ! told Mr.;
warned them. as far as they said anything
aboutme,t to tell the truth. ] mention this
to show that there is animosityand revenge
eithertaken it up Intentionally to fn1ure
meg or has been grossly misled.
in the Journal article referred to, thai
I am directly LOT indirectly, through
the Kearney Company or the
wise, connected with the Boulevard
job, 1 beg to state
First,I will quote from the Journal ar
.ticle to show, as It occurs to me, how the
Journal directly associates me with the
companies referred to and the Boulevard
electric job, and closes by a reference to
a clause in the criminal laws citing the
amount Of fine and imprisonment for such
an offense as they infer | have been.
guilty of. If the article in the Journal
Is true l cannot blame either the Free
i am unduly and uniawfully associated
with the said work. The Journal states
as fonows:-"when the contract was
awarded It was Mr.. Michael Connolly
He a the contract for the electric
light plant. His versatility failed him
Plant plant the poles poles, but he = Knew nothing
about the electric light plant. He found
it convenient to sublet the contract.
relieve him Of this portion Of the work
he found an electric light company out In
Kearny that was willing and anxius to
hslR aim. T This w eIectr E ve aigh Urta eomea nv
seems to have been part OF a very much
larger concern: The larger concern has
headqua q n Chi Chicago Rgoaa ana IN New New
is connected with this electric lighs
company in Kearney, This was pos
81 sibly = another pa,ng fresbo a9%fncid fneW
exactly what the Board wanted. He
could aid Mr.. Connolly in turning out
to e p tSe e CO M9rk ana adat sa Woale oe a to sre fhe
people re and ali persons c~oncerned, "The
connection that Freebooter Hanra has
with the company and it's sub-contract
.conrection with the Board of Free,
holders is quite clear" The Journal
be heard from.
Now for the facts: I was a member
of the Board of Freeholders at the
time the bids were received for the pub
lie road electric plant. Connolly being
one of the bidders and the lowest bid
der. While the contract was awarded
of foul freeho1ders who voted against
the award, as Connolly'S bid was 81, 900
less and / believed that he was entitled
to the contract. The case reached the
courts, where it remained for some If
and the award was made after my
first term as a freebooter had expired.
These bids were originally received
by the Board. about the first of Febru-
airy, 1894, while, as stated above. I was
4 member. The award was finally made
was not a member of the board. | did not
know either Mr.. Woolston> or Mr.. Connolly
or the Standard Electric Company Of
Chicago at the time thes bids were pre-
scented In February, 81 and at the time
tric Light and Power Company was not IN
at that time. nor for some eigh-
teen mnoths thereafter, as 1t was incor-
porated in June, '95. I did not know
either Mr. Connolly or Mr.. Woolstonk when
the contract was finally awarded to Con-
molly in the early part of '95, excepting
nolly's bid was presented, and Woolston
having AsrnA before the board in the in
terest of the electric machinery of the
Standard Company, knew that they