The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-15
Kick FOR FRBBBOOqHRS
Hoboken Good Roads AS
soclation Say They
Should Be Wiped
Out.
MASS MEETINGS 70 BE HELD
People Tired of Asking for Honest
County government Plans
for Street Cleaning.
MASS MEETINGS TO Be HELD

If the members OF the Hoboken Good
| Roads Association were blessed with the
I power of carrying into effect everything
they proposed things would be very much
| revolutionized in Hoboken and in the
| county at large. There would be no
Board of Freeebooters, no unfinished
Boulevard, no ash carts without covers
| on them, nc dust in the streets, no
crooked eurbstones, no trucks without
tires three inches wide, no uneven paving
| stones, no heavy grades for cyclists to
climb, mo trolley companies which would
refuse to pave the space between their
ear tracks, no street sprinklers which
| would dare flood the streets with an over
| dose of water, no difficulty in finding a
policeman on the Boulevard without
travelling a mile or two, and numerous
| other innovations that don't please every
| body.
The members met last night in the club
house of the Castle Point Cyclers at No.
1929 Park avenue. The principal subject
of debate was the neglect of the Board
of Freebooters in taking care of the
Boulevard. Although this was not brought
up Until the close of the meeting it was
the most spirited of all the discussions.
1t ended in the inauguration OF a big
project to wipe out the Board Of Free
hooters and institute in it's place another
| board which will serve the purpose Tor
which it is intended.
The members propose to get up a mass
meeting at which every person in the
county who is interested in good roads
and good government will be invited to
attend. A petition will be drawn up with
as many signatures as can possibly be
| gathered and when the next session OF
the Legislature opens it will be presented
The petition will request that the Board
of Freebooters be abolished and that the
81 600, 900 Boulevard be placed in the care
of other hands.
The members are unanimous. in the
movement. They are tired talking about
the condition of the Boulevard. they say,
and now they are going TO make a final
| attempt TO save it from ruin.
There is no use complaining to those
| pot-house politicians" remarked Mr.
RoIlfss they don't pay attention to any
body"
A committee including Messrs. Rollfs,
I Lang. Rocker. yolk and Eicke was APP.
pointed to easl the mass meeting, Notices
| viii be sent out to.eyery bicycle and rid
| ing dSSOCldlPCu III tlS tculiy.
and place Of the meeting lave not yet
| been fixed. 1t viii take some time before
| proper arrangements can be made; but
the committee will make all possible haste
in their work. Hand bills. will be printed
and distributed notifying the residents OF
the purpose of the proposed petition.
Chairman Cogan, of the Road Commit
tee, submitted 4 report in which he called
- -.A. - ,1aalnl IN, prnyyo-
ments. The proposed ordinance to pro-
hibit the driving of heavy trucks on the
asphalt pavement, he stated. had not been
passed by the Board of Council and he
advised the members to request its pas
sage. He dwelt upon the deplorable con-
dition of Garden street and Willow ave-
| nue.. The construction of the Boulevard
loop had also been dropped and he urged
| the authorities to continue the work
| Heavy traffic was permitted on the Boule-
ward despite the ordinance passed by the
Freebooters and the street sprinklers We're
flooding the streets.
L. c. Cells complained about the man
ner in which the curling along Hudson
street was being paved. The newly, as
| phalted streets, he said. had never been
| cleaned and the filth was piled IN the
cutters. An ordinance was passed by the
council SolHegtllue a5o Sphipoi 49,.
| drivers to keep their vehicles covered,
hut It was not being enforced. The com
| plants were all referred to the Road
| Committee
sThe appropriation allowed to clean the
| streets" said President Philip Hexamer,
lis not sufficient. The only way | see
that we can keep our streets clean is for
! each property owner to contribute TO the
| cleaning of the street in which he lives.
Mr.. Whittemore said that he; was told
that in spite of the great appropriation
made for street cleaning in New YORK
| thoroughly clean. He suggested that the
residents in each street form an assoela-
ton and pay men 10 Go the work; Inc
| sion.
missioners to appoint policemen TO patrol
mittee was also instructed to investigate
the DELAY in the extension of the Wee
hawken loop of the Boulevard.