The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-29
FIRE LIMITS WIDER
Ordinance Before the Al
dermen to Take i'll a Big
Slice Of the Hill.
PAssAIC POLLUTION RESOLUTIONS
fog Abattoir Heard From via
Lafayette-Row Over
a Saloon.

Though several matters of at least or
binary importance were touched upon at
last nights meeting of the Board of
Aldermen, the meeting was not what
might be termed warm The Assembly
Chamber itself would have stood a few
degrees of warmth" from the radiators
that adorn the big room.
There were just thirteen present. They
were:-Messrs. Austin, Burns, Calnon,
Moran, Tracy, Maxwell, Heavey, YER
milye, Decker, Weiss, Hartmann and
Frye. President Midlige was absent, and
Alderman Austin was called to the chair.
Matters pertaining to fire limits, the pro-
posed erection of a hog abattoir on the
Communipaw flats, Passaic River pollu-
ton, and excise, were included in the
business transacted.
With reference to Passaic pollution the
following resolutions Were passed.
Whereas, The Board of Aldermen of
the city of Jersey City has been in
formed that certain persons who are
injuriously affected by reason of the
pollution of the PasSaic River have re-
tanned counsel and intend to bring suit
to enJoin the continued pollution there
of; and
Whereas, The said Board has been
requested to give its consent to the
city of Jersey City to join as one of
complainantS in the suit; and
Whereas, The city of Jersey City has
suffered, and until a remedy therefor
IS provided and enforced by law, must
continue to suffer incalculable damage
from said pollution; be it therefore
Resolved, That the Board of Alder
men of Jersey City hereby gives its
consent to the inclusion of the Mayor
and Aldermen as party to said suit;
be it further
Resolved, That the Honorable the
Mayor of Jersey City be and is hereby
requested and empowered to take such
steps in the name of the corporation
of Jersey City as he may deem best,
or as counsel may advise, to protect
the interests of the city in such legal
proceedings as may be had in the
premises, and to designate counsel to
represent the city in such proceed
ings.
The resolutions passed without COM
ment.
The resolution passed recently by the
Lafayette Citizens Association, viewing
with alarm and denouncing the proposed
erection of a hog abattoir in Communi-
paw We're received, coupled with a re-
quest that the Board use its power to
prevent the health menaeing nuisance .
The communication was referred
The Board ordered warrants drawn for
the payment of Thomas Hadslead. James
0ldIk ana 1uOHlGS SulIIl4nES lOF S0J
each for special clerical services rendered
in connection with preparations for the
general election of 1896, also one for the
same amount to Mrs. William Wanser,
mother of the late Jarvis Wanser, who
died pending legal proceedings instituted
by :ex-City Clerk Wooliey for such SER
vices
At the last meeting of the Board the
Committee on Laws and Ordinances, of
which Alderman Barr is chairman. pre-
sented an ordinance within which the
erection of frame buildings of any de-
seription is prohibited. On Monday even-
ing the committee held e conference over
the terms of the ordinance and as a re-
suit it was reintroduced last night in re-
vised form The new limits will start
at the Morris Canal where it intersectS
the Hudson River, and run 100 feet east
of Pacific avenue; thence to 100 feet east
of Communipaw avenue; thence to Mon
ticello avenue, to the junction of Fair
mount and Bergen avenues, along the
centre line of Bergen to Sip avenue, 10
Summit to Hoboken avenue, to PaliSade,
to Newark avenue, to Seventh street, to
Brunswick to Eleventh, to Coles, to
Fourteenth, to Monmouth, 10 Sixteenth,
to Jersey avenue, to the Hoboken city
line to the Hudson River; thence to the
place of beginning. In reading the ordi-
nance the City Clerk chanced to miss
the following sentence:-
Ualess the Board of Aldermen shall
first direct the Building Inspector to
issue permit
."Does that ordinance make it impos-
sible for person to build any sort of a
frame building inside those limits? ask
ed Alderman Weiss, "and does 1t take
from the Board the power OF granting
permits? 2?
ordinance, explained that the document
took no power from the Board.
"My understanding of it is that NO
frame building can be erected unless our
L, + No snf fain
power we have at present, only after
looking into the application we direct the
Builing Inspector how to act.
Alderman Vermilye proposed explaining
the ordinance and was doing so clearly
when Alderman Tracy interrupted him. :.
"If there is nothing before the Board,
he said, q move we adjourn.
81 have the floor" retorted Alderman
| insist that no member has a right to
interrupt me.
the Committee on Laws and Ordinances,
nothing before the Board insist upon
my motion to adjourn"
HAD [ known answered Alderman
vermilye, quietly. that this matter had
been referred to the Ordinance Committee
would have had nothing to say. do,
however, insist that there should be
among the members. There is
no reason why member OF the minority
should be treated with dlScourteSy. TniS
ordinance concerns us all and common
courtesy would have prompted the Alder
man not to interrupt me-
Alderman Tracy made no response. His
motion to adjourn was put and carried.
Henry Mahnken, an excollector of the
Colonial Brew cry, petitioned the Board
to transfer a license, which he had pro-
cured as agent for the company, from
August Balcer, of No. 467 Henderson
street to Louisa Smarkowski. The trans
fer was refused. Mahnken in a commune
cation accompanying his petition accused
the company of sharp practice.
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