The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-20

The Board Of Trade cannot permit its
meeting to be thus used for the pur-
lpose Of attacking It's W expert With
9 ferfeiting-the public respect. Yours
T4 css sesSTHoMAs M,EwAN. Jr.
aaid HAT he vas requested ~ Dr. Cor
kdonotoamoves that the Mayor be requested
tHpasaa sah big signature e. the contract MIRA IN
for the Water COMMITTEES, said MI. Cole,
they now presented MI. Rafters report.
when he saidpshat the committee had not
done aliHits duties. It had to arrange
public hearings, and he would Xix to
Mr.. Joseph A.. Dear ridiculed this. The
Lcommsttee. he said. was not SO instruct
ed. Such a molten had never passed the
Mr.. Furst executed q brilliant flank
movement on Mr.. Dear by quickly asking
S sssred Z Tar ara to 9 resd m slSnd the aano mosIon
the Water Committee, consisting Of
Messrs. DR.. LII. Gordon. Frank q. Cole.
l.ISeeAa. a neaf President sshn I. & eon !. c 5ona ]: ve and
defining its duties. That motion, Mr..
Furst said, distinctly. instructed the
fopm and sho 10 irr repsst for e z Bpu BULLS h hsaT-
ing in the new city Hall. The Commit
tees report at last nights meeting, Mr..
Fire Commissioner John j. Gone thought
that Mr.. tFurst was mistaken as to the
duties of the committee Mr.. Dear called
ton of the motion; but that gentleman.
amid much msrriment, said that as he.
Tas not present at the meeting alluded to,
able. The debate-then travelled to such
an extent that it seemed a rejection IN
Secretary Tait,s accuracy in keeping. the
paid a high compliment to Mr.. TAFT.
Mr.: Cole, in his way, child-like and
| bland. let a nice little cat out of the
Board of Trades bag. He said that four
of the committee were in favor Of APP
| proving Rafter's report and two were
against. He closed by moving that it
was the sense of the meeting that Mr..
Tait's minutes were accurate.
Mr.. Dear insisted that no suggestion
was made as to a public meeting. 1t was
never thought Of or talked of in COM
| mittee.
Mr.. Furst chuckled on hearing the read
ing of Mr.. Tait's minutes, which con-
frmed his idea of the committees duties,
and said that if the committee was SO
that was their fault. He urged the test
of a vote as to Mr.. Tait's accuracy.
Commissioner Cone, while not intend
ing e tba im potT,t the g secret S accuracy mas.
| appeared in the minutes they were not
contemplated or uttered.
Oh. yes, they were uttered" said
| President Corcoran.
Mr.. Humphrey w. Carr tried the
| straddIe position and said he wouldn't
vote for it. The vote wasStaken and Mr..
TAFT was trIunphantly vindicated.
Now, SIR" said Mr.. Henry v. Condict,
I'VE have been playing at schoolboys and
i move we advise the Mayor to sign the
water contract.
moved as a substitute for Mr.. Condict's
notion aspecommendatson Of Dr.. l..
JssGordon that the signing OF the con-
tract be delayed and Mr.. Vermeule should
This didn't suit MI. Dear, who said that
while Mr, .:Rafter's; report threw some
light on the subject there were no serious
objections to the contract yet stated. The
present action was delaying an important
public matter. He did not wantaany snap
Judgment and he proposed that the Board
should meet next week to discuss the
matter.
IT move. !" saidyMr. John ]. Voorhees,.
that Mr.. Condict's motion be laid on the
table" 1t vas carried. Then Mr.. Voor-
hees, in his cool, collected manner. said
that the action was foolish and ridicu-
of Trades oMn expert. At this rebuke
Mr-Dear forgot his previous attitude and
said that he favored DIR. Gordon's policy
ofdefayr and moved that the Board should
meet on Wednesday, january q. to re-
| ceixe fhesreport Of the Water Committee
I'm the new City Hall?" slyly interposed
I Mr.. Deaf. emphatically said aNo.. A
public meeting he said had taken place
some years ago and the hall was packed
with hoodlums ana the Board looked like
2 lot Of ehumps, After some.more talk Mr..
question CAME up about Mr.. Vermeule's
presence at that meeting. Mr.. Dear
thought he should be invited not to refute
talk about the committees report. This
| view originated with Mr.. Voorhees,, who