The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-23
H. SMITH,
City Collector.

$3.50: Thee. Smith & Bro: repairs City
Prison. January, $59.3S: Thee. Smith 8
Bro. repairs. Third Precinct. january,
$2s45; Ed. &. Decker, carpenter work Sec
Son, repairs to clock, Fifth Precinct, De-
eember. 1897, 81; John DAILY, rent or Sew
enth Precinct station. December TO MaTehs
$3.50: the United Gas moroyemen 60.
gas in stations, January, SllS.3S; tna
United Gas Improvement Co.. gas in hos
pitaL. January S122.55; John f. CarKe,
s. pmpan sHRDLU cMFwY BGKCM
~SheIlenberger & Co, supplies to hospital,
January. $780, Vanderbeek & sons. lum
Der to hospital. December, S21.41; Janu-
airy. sT.92; j. F. Clarke, printing and sta
tiorery to hospital, February. 81. Re-
ferred to Committee IN Hospital and
AUDITING CLAIMS.
The following claims having been re-
ported correct by committees TO whom
they were referred and resolutions pre-
sented ordering warrants drawn on City
Treasurer by the following vote, the yeas
and nays having been ordered and taken
Z Abaent-President Abernethy.
COMMITTEES or General Claims:lCough.
lin Bros, $3.50, s11s.60, $500, $500. $ls.4s
and $3.50; Newman Mission. 81; J. shea-
Sons. s.. 2s, 1888 and $26.4 A. Won Both
mer. S45; E. A. Pyle, s.; p c EItscher
& Co, $15.75 Thes. G. Hunter $alao; Aug
straus. s. Kopddo & Sons, $1.so; A +
Witter, S3l; the United Gas Improvement
Company. s1.80, $11S.S5, and $722 So; Theo.
Smith Bro. s59.sS and $40; e. G Decker,
SIS; Walter & Son, 81, John DAILY, $ls9,
John f. Clarke, si6S. Is, Jersey City Print
; ing Co. ss2.
Committee on Hospital and Dispense
ries: Hudson River Ice Co, $1512, NJ. ABB
ernethy, s1i6.61 and So. j. G. Mars. s42.35
Parker Manufacturing. Company, so; e.
A. Pyle. $3.50; J.. S-hellenberger & CO.,
/ 50. %: vanderbeek & Sons, s2247 and sI.s2;
REPORT or CHIEF OF POLICE
Chief submitted report OF the business
of the department for The year ending
Dec. 81, 1897, ordered spread in full on
Headquarters. Police Department,
Jersey City, Feb. Is, 1895.
Gentlemen-I have the honor to respect
fully submit to your honora sle body my
report of the business of the department.
for the e year e9dnin lin d Dec Sas c q gss':-
The city has been free from strikes,
riots or serious trouble of any kind dur
{ Gambling. policy and pool selling on
horse raees.This city is quite clear OF
al kinds of gambling; policy IS peing
played. but is SO Inat y y
conVict those engaged III this business
There are no policy shops, the. writers
and runners for the packers OF the game
go from place to place and do business
with regular customers. These writers
who are known to the police are fire.
quently brought into the{ station house
and searched, and when slips or such pol
icy evidence is found upon them they are
placed in arrest. There is no dou.
this city where pool selling on horse rae
ing was carried on, the greatest watchful-
ness on the part of those interested in
the business was maintained to prevent US
getting proper eviderrce; men were sta
Toned at the doors who were well ae-
quainted with the men of our force TO
guard against our getting into where the
Gambling was carried on. The vigilance
of the police, although for a long time not
entirely suppressing. the crime, was sEc-
i cessful in keeping the gambling down TO
those who were personally known
to the packers or who were
+ device is entirely driven out.
DISREPUTABLE SALOONS.
A vigorous fight has been carried on re-
Gently by the police against saloon keep
ers who have private roomsi in their places
gambling. The slot machine gambling
70 the pool rooms. AT the present time
/ and possibly for five weeks past there is
/, no pool room gambling in his city.
! Eighty-one persons have been arrested
during the year for various kinds of
where women and men resort for immoral
purposes. These rooms are secured by
j lock or bolt on the inside, so that the
occupants are as safe from intrusion az
IL they were in a bedroom in a hotel.
MANY Young girls are lured into those
! places, not knowing where they are go
ing and filled with liquor, until their ruin
is accomplished. These places are, In my
judgment, the greatest curse that exists
in our city. Many mothers can tell of
! their daughters being led astray from
their visits to those vile places. There is
ure in a saloon. and I don't believe there
| should be such a law. Neither is it q
| violation of law for women to go into
4 saloon and drink there, but there should
| be a law enacted thereby all such rooms
or enclosures should be so constructed
| that entire privacy could be ensured. We
| have about eleven hundred saloons, mesr
ST which are conducted by honorable
men, who would not permit any Such con-
duct as Irefer to. Realizing the existence
of this fast growing evil in our MIDST, |
consulted with the captains recently and
| the result was that the captains visited
all saloons in their precincts where wo-
| men and men so into private rooms n
| told the prcprietors that they must remove
! The doors from their private rooms n
substitute half or swinging door. The
/ Captains report that their request was
| hoped that some one Interested in decency
will present a suitable bill to the present
| LEGISLATURE covering this matter and urge
GRIMES AGAINST THE PERSON.
There were 1,217 persons arrested on
these crimes. Among them We're two for
murder and ten for m~anslaughter. This
is a remarkable falling off Of those
! crimes; last year we had six mufuers. 1t
is pleasing to know that the guilty par
ties were arrested for what murder and
AiS'' cRIMsEs AGAINST PRoPERTY.
Eight hundred and forty-ive persons
were arrested for crime against property;
We nave been quite free from any large
robberies. either from business places or
private dwellings. with but four excep-
/ lions. All of the after-midnight robberies
would have been preyented 4 people
secure their lower windows. Nearly all
Of the ordinary burglars VINO enter dwela-
j lazy to work. AS they carry no tools
Ito be C~ontinued.J