The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-07
A GENERAL KICK
The Hudson County Protective
Association Condemns Al
most Everybody and
Everything.

The first meeting of the Hudson City
Protective Association, since they ad-
journed for the summer last June, was
held last night in the associations quar-
ters, at Oakland ard Beacon avenues. It
was a very peculiar session inasmuch h ia
almost everybody n everything in the
old Fourth district came in for adverse
criticism.
The members were full of fight against
every one but themselves. The first to
get condemned was the Jersey City Elec-
trio Light Company. President Muir and
Secretary Barber complained that the
company turned on the electric lights in
that section of the city at five o'clock,
then turned them off at six. and did not
light them again until eight o'clock,
which compelled the residents of that sec
ton TO either carry lanterns to find their
a home without getting into the
myriads Of mud puddles the district
abounds in or else cropping their way
through the darkness, or swimming half
the distance.
Charles Bucklin, the bicycle iend of the
association, then kicked against the on
dition of Beacon avenue, from Central
venue to the Boulevard. He said that
he could not ride his wheel over the Dis
graceful street, which was filed with
cobble stones, rocks. mud holes and de-
br:s. William Curdy, who has to catch
a boat every morning, complained that
the belt line of the North Hudson County
Railroad did not run its cars often enough
and never on time.
That stirred ex-Alderman Dohrmann up
and he kicked about the old unused car
tracks of the same company on Jefferson
avenue. Mr.. Wackernow then jumped up
and said that the car tracks in the street
were all right until the street was paved
and otherwise improved.
IF it was not for those car tracks,
said Mr.. Wackernow, "the people living
on that street would nave TO wade through
mud. AS 1t is, by balancing themselves
they can walk on the tracks and thus
escape the mud
He then made a desperate effort to get
the association to draw up a petition
and present it to the Street n Water
Board for the improvement of that
t~horoughfare.
The Committee on the Hoboken avenue
sewer reported that a new petition was
being gotten up and would be ready in
a few days
It was said that the Board Of Education
had asked the Legislature 10 authorize
the appropriation of funds for new
school houses in Jersey City. and the
association wanted TO know If the Hudson
City SECTION gould not come in for a
share of II. The matter was laid over
until the next meeting.
Mr.. Dohrmann then wanted st. Paul's
avenue, from Summit avenue to Ton
Mulle reported that he had secured the
passage of a resolution for the improve
nent of Beacon avenue last summer, but
that the resolution had been hanging up
since. A committee OF two. consisting
Of Messrs. Daniel Black and Charles
Bucklin, was appointed to wait upon
Engineer Ruggles and ''lay him out"
The next kick made was against the
careless blasting In the quarTies on Hobo
ken avenue, neal Christ Hospital As yet.
there has not been a-single accident, n
the blasts the police say are all lone pro-
perry.
More complaints were then made
against the North Hudson Railway Com
pany in regard TO car tracks, but no one
seemed to know what about.
Carl Lamp. Der Corner Grocer" then
caused q sensation by stating tina friends
Of his, who were anxious to see Mayor
Wanser elected, came to him shortly be-
fore Election Day and asked him to use
his influence among the Germans in the
Eleventh Ward to vote for the Mayor,
claiming that the Mayor had done more
to improve the city than any two or three
previous Mayors ever thought of doing.
Mr.. Lampe said that he went to Commits
sioner Harding and told him that the Old
Fourth had been shamefully neglected,
n that the Commissioner only laughed
at him, and said that the residents Of the
Old Fourth wanted the earth, and so it
was that the Mayor was Knocked out in
the Eleventh Ward.
The meeting then adjourned.