The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-01

approval turns the Street and Water
Board over to the Democrats. The pres
ent Board will meet for the last time
Monday morning and approve the min
utes of previous meetings.
Last night the Democratic Commission
ers caucussed at the home of Commits
sioner Boltwood. 1t was agreed Mr..
Boltwood should be President. 1t was
further decided to retain the present eff
cient Clerk George T. Bouton. No other
appointments were decided upon.
After approving the official bonds of
Messrs. Hauck and Nolan the Finance
Commissioners appointed John Creech, a
G. A. r. man, a clerk at $50 a month
His duty will be to record sales of prop
erty under the Martin Act and keep a
record of all transactions concerning
account. John Pringle's salary as clerk
to the Comptroller was fixed at $100 a
month The official bond of Deputy
Comptroller Frank Van Saun was fixed
at 5000
Edward Conklin, Sanford E. Smith, A.
E. Bagnell, Frederick E. Meyers and Ed
ward L. Cowen were appointed deputy
personal tax collectors. They will be paid
so cents for every warrant they serve on
persons in arrears for personal taxes.
The Court -Clerkship fight has been set
tied. Notwithstanding reports to the
contrary, Frank Higgins has been select
ed by Justice Potts as his Clerk.
This morning Police Justice Nevin APP
pointed James F. Norton his Clerk. JUS
. tice Nevin will continue to sit in the First
Criminal Court. This morning one of the
few thousand persons who have been
showering congratulations upon him sent
him magnificent bouquet of red roses.
The attitude of the journal in critics.
ing the appointment of Mr.. Nevin is
charged by politicians to be due to the
disappointment of a gentleman not
wholly unconnected with the staff of that
paper, who wanted to be appointed a
Tax Commissioner Again the paper tried
to foist clerk on either of the Police
Justices, but to no avail. The denuncia-
tion of Justice Nevin by William W.
Farrier is causing amusement. As Sec
retary to Mayor Wanser John Nevin has
been a thorn in the side of the whole Far
rier family. A recent act of Mr.. Nevin's
tied up bills of the veteran party work
err aggregating s11,1s4.
An unconfirmed report was abroad to-
day that the only feasible way of getting
into the city's Wayne street stable is by
balloon. For the last week residents of
the locality have been mystified by seeing
horses, trucks, carts and so on raised
over the fence surrounding the stable by
a monster balloon. The balloon was
brought into requisition in order that the
bountiful supply of hay oats and feed
Which has been laid in, may not be dam
aged by being driven over.
The supply is sufficient to last for a
year at least. The Commissioner who
had the supervision of the stable under
his care is great lover of horses. He
stocked the stable fearing that his sue
cessor might overlook the animals The
bills have not been paid yet.
A stir was created in political circles
today by the announcement that John
+. Conway, Chief of the Fire Department.
had been suspended Chief Conway is a
Democrat. At midnight last night the
Buffalo system passed out of existence.
The men appointed to make up the full
PAID department reported at midnight at
the engine and hook and ladder houses
to which they had been assigned.
Chief Conway was at Fire Headquarters
and as reports were sent in that the
new men had reported for duty the
Chief replied that he could not recognize
them, not having been officially notified
of their appointment or given instruc-
tions what to do. The news spread quick
ly that Chief Conway had refused to rec
ognize the new men. There was sour
rying of heelers and Commissioners
Mills and Brennan hurried to see what
kind of trick the Chief was springing on
them.
The thought of their plans providing
seventy-two heelers with berths, being
overturned maddened them.
Encountering the Chief on Newark
avenue, where he was discussing the
situation with friends. they sat sail for
him.
Both Commissioners lost their heads,
and indulged in expressions which would
not look well in print. Brennan was
particularly abusive it is reported. Chief
Conway answered the men as best he
could. The upshot of it all was that he
was suspended.
An hour later the suspension was with
drawn, the Chief explaining that he had
no intention of defeating the creation of
the paid department He pursued the
course he did, not caring to exceed his
power. The trouble has been patched up
and all the new men are today at the
quarters assigned them, being trained by