The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-20
BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSION
ERS.
Proceedings,


Regular meeting of the Board of Police
Commissioners held in First criminal
Court room, Thursday, January Is. Pres
entail the members. Minutes of last
meeting approved as printed.
PRESENTATION OF COMMUNICA-
TIONS AND PETITIONS.
communications, ETC., were received and
disposed of as follows
Communication from Chief of Police.
recommending officers for honorable mem
ton.
Ordered spread on mute
Chiefs Office. Police Dept,
Jersey City, Jan. 2S, 1897.
Honorable Board of Police Commission
Gentlernen[ take pleasure in present.
ing TO you names of officers who ave in
my judgment performed acts of meri-
torious conduct that would entitle them
to honorable mention by your honorable
board. Sergeant James Hopkins. First
precinct. for the arrest of Louis Mann,
Tor murder and arson: also Detectives
Michael Doyle and William Dalton for eff
ficiency IN procuring the evidence neces-
sary to convict this firebug. Patrolman
Henry Gonser. Fourth Precinct, for til
capture of Edward Cayayana, burglar,
whom he found breaking into a store on
his post Patrolman Christian Briere,,
First Precinct, for the capture of a thief
with ststoien property, as the thief was
about to escape over the ferry to New
York.
Very truly yours.
BENJAMIN MURPHY,
Chief of Police.
Communication from DR.. Talbot R.
Chambers, requesting to nave trained nurs
appointed for the poor.
Referred to Committee on Hospital.
Communication from DR.. Talbot r.
Chambers, thanking the Board for the
building to be used for the eye and ear
infirmaly. Received and fled
Petition Of James coyne to be granted
special police power on Bergen avenue.
Referred TO the Chief with power.
PRESENTATION OF CLAIMS.
Claims were presented and referred to
Payrolls of Department, January,
e., ss75s; payroll Of Police Justices and
Referred to Committee on Salaries.
CHI. S~pringsted, coal to Fourth pre-
cinegt, January sloe; John G. GopstIl, coal
kindling- wood to hospital, January, $40;
Alex. Watson. meals to prisoners, City
Prison and First precinct. January. s1lS-
T6ir ae1 pree hsgah Ja MARS a SIS Sc; pr cHaTles;
0,Neill; meals to .prisohers. Fourth pre-
photos to prisoners, December and Janu-
airy. $40; BENZ. Murphy, incidentals, De-
eember, 1895, and January, 1897; .s106.S4; j..
$3.50; Kopldo & Sons. furniture to head
quarters. January. s2a,5S; s. NJ. Jensen.
precinct. January, $i6.5o; A. T. Witter.
papering and vanishing Inspectors
Witter. painting stable, January, SIG:
Fred unger. repairs Z, g. to harness Fifth pre-
ea'rs' q aq Fiasf a precin w. VI 1an Farrler b re- 6.
5 Mm / ant 81: F Fspalf sch aS sin meat pf &c hSa,
aRifiiaRs CO. mI1k to SsI hospital tai 5 j. Sond sas.ai
A. A. Smith. groceries TO hospital, Janu-
airy, s2lssS Samuel J; Blakey. green gro-
ary, ssis&: 7. G. Brown S 1 Van Ang la
60. dry goods to hospital December and
signs TO hospital, January, sic; j. G.
Mars. supplies to hospital, January. $50; ].
Elwooa Lee Co, supplies to hospital. jan
hospital, January. 1914; W. w. Farrier.
repairs to hospital. January, $3.50; William
AZ As 81 rep oslpor5 to ,a hglsSpItali January.
Der to- January, $3.50; John F. Mullery.
labor and material new building hospital.
$S11ssS 20. John F. Clarke, printing, January,
AUDITING CLAIMS.
The following claims having been re-
ported correct, by committees to whom
they were referred and resolutions pre-
scented ordering warrants drawn on CITY
Treasurer, by the following vote, the
yeas and nays having been ordered and
taken
Yeas-Al the members.
Committee on SalarieS:-
Payrolls of department, January, s2S.-
6S7-5S; payroll of Police Justices and court
clerks, $sl6 s.: payroll of sick and PEN
%sioners, $l,113.37.
Committee on General Claims Account.
Hoboken Coal Company, sss. 20 and sal. 10:
Coughlin Bros, sl2S.50; Newman Mission.
$40; G.. H. S~pringsted. SIG So: e. A. PYLE
S6.2s; Henry Pfoertner, $3.50: Wander
beck y Sons, Ssl0sWood & Menagh, Ss1. 81;
T. g, Jones & Co. S12: Weston. Cathcart
y Go, $50: Brinkman & Hauck. $So.95;
anthony Watson, 1913; Henry Smith.
Menagh. $10.oS; John Daily, $12o; United
Gas Improvement Company. $SS2.5S and
slO6,sS: ]. c. Electric Light Company, Ssl
and $3.50; Q. 8. Penning, $2lS.20: Hudson
River Ice Company. s2i.9; J.. g. Mars.
81. l5i Steele & Son. SIC: E. Taussig &
Co, Sla.50; f.. B.. Jones. 50; A. T.. Witter.
S1S0; Weston Cathcart & Co.. $3.50; Woed
& Menagh. SS8.71; Hygienic Dust Absorb
ing Floor OIL Co., S19: Vanderbeek &c
Sons, sleS.5Q;- E. A. Pyle. S1.50; w. w.
Farrier. 1855; NJ, Abernethy, $3.50; J. G,
Printing Coz. IS.
APPOINTMENTS.
BY President Abernethy and adopted.-
Resolved, That the following promo-
tons be and ore hereby made sahiect u
the usual ~ tminatiNn.-