The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-20
JERSEY CITY'S TURN
Board Of Trade Wants a
Cruiser to Be Named
After This City.
FRANK 0. COLE WANTS AN INCOME TAX,
Traction Company to Be Conn
PEELED q TO sprinkle the
Streets--Liyely Meeting.


| regular meeting of the Board of Trade
there were only ten member present and
| there was much speculation as to whether
or not the paucity of attendance had any
thing to do with the rumor thai the Board
of Trade, which had resolved recently to
form a regiment in case of war with
| Spain, was about to appoint officers and
put the regiment on a war footing. Ger
tainly so. far as the worthy president and
a few others were concerned there was
no shrinking SO far as patriotic duty was
concerned. Even Mr.. Frank o.. Cole was
present and he wore his G.. A. r. badge
on the outside of his coat. AS for Mr..
Andrew J. Corcoran he was primed for
war. bloody war, on windmills, Spain, or
any old thing. even the Erie Railroad.
Mr.. Joseph A. Dear, gazetted as
trumpeter-in-ordinary to the Board of
Trade guards, was absent.
Secretary W. j. TAFT further inflamed
the Board of Trades war spirit by read
ing letters from j. Addison Porter, secre-
tary to President Mckinley; Vice Presi-
dent Carrot A. Hobart. Governor Foster
NJ. Voorhees,. Congressman Fowler,
Loudenslager and Gardner, Senators W.
J.. Sewell and James Smith. all extolling
the recent action of the Board of Trade
in offering to raise a regiment of citizens
to fight the Spanish. The letters We're re-
ceived with great satisfaction and filed.
Mayor Hoos sent a letter acknowledging
receipt of a letter expressing the views OF
the Board of Trade on the water question
and assuring them that he recognized the
communication relative to the city's
water rights and thanking the board for
its interests in city matters.
Mr.. Samuel G.. Mount. when unfinished
business was reached, asked that the
committee to investigate the Mayors re-
port on the financial business of the city
should report at the next meeting.
request was unanimously approved.
Mr., Mungo J. Currie sent the following
resolution to the Board for adoption,
Which was garfield
whereas. The acquisition of public
parks in this county would be of great
benefit to the people; and
Whereas, The bill known as House
bill No. 1S1, if 1t becomes a law. will
enable the voters of this county. at
the November election. to avail them
selves of the Act of 1895, known as
the County Park Act. and which pro-
vides for the establishment OF parks
in irst-class counties of this State;
and
Whereas, The said bill passed both
Houses at the last Legislature and is
now in the hands of the Governor for
his action;
Resolved, That the Honorable Fos-
ter M. Voorhees,, Governor of this
State, is most respectfully requested
to cause bill No. ISL to become a law.
Mr.. Frank O.. Cole moved that Com
mittee on prepare a memorial
to the Secretary of the Navy that one of
the ,,, new ships acquired by the Navy 4
speaker said that some time ago he was
out West when some one asked him
where he came from, and when he said
Jersey CITY that ignorant Westerner act
ually didn't know that there was such
a city or such a Board of Trade. It
would only mean a silver service of 81 ,0oo.
serape up that sum.
Il think said President Furst. with a
sly smile at some of the members, I'VE
Jersey City should be SO honored and we
would have no difficulty in raising the
sum. This is an imperial city of 200, 0c0
tary of the Navy wouldn't nam a tug
boat after US" Laughter)
Mr.. B.. L. stowe reminded the green
ones that battleships were named after
States, n cruisers after cities.
Leave that to the committee, ex-
claimed Mr.. F. Q. Cole; they Will know
what to do"
Mr.. Andrew +. Corcoran put his wind
mills in motion and sent a blast of cold
air on the patriotic motion by saying that
the Government having ceased building
D-S SillgS WE'RE DutlIlS SllDS OF llRlt
d~raught, and it was ~repugnant to put this
name of Jersey City on a yacht whose
owner was tired of running it. Jersey
City ought not to be satisfied with any
thing less than a battleship.
Mr.. Humphrey w. Carr, with ponderous
gravity, discussed the a~dvisability of leav-
ing the selection of the vessel to Mayor
Trade. Mr.. Humphrey W. Carr and a spe-
cial committee to go to Washington and
lay the matter before the President.
Af- V 9fnrra ~ q lrTo tc ao+t- 80
iterated his statement about armored
cruisers and added that 1t would be a
long time before one was to be built, but
the committee might get their application
in as soon as possible.
Ex-Assemblyman Isaac F. Goldenhorn
approved of the plan and left it to the
were public spirited, and the idea was
! good, and he had no doubt they would
look after Jersey Cfty's pride in naval his
tcsv
Mr.. f. o. Cole said that New Jersey
had been passed by in the nomenclature
of battleships. and Newark only had been
thought that if Jersey city had petitioned
for a vessel to be named after her she
would have been so honered.
After some little w~rangling and entan-
glemsats of a parliamentary nature,
which President Furst deity made
| straight and simple. the motion was car
ried, and Jersey City will soon have the
honor of presenting a service to one of
Uncle Sans cruisers. the Secretary of the
Navy always permitting.
President FurSt then suggested that a
committee of lawyers be appointed to
the Consolidated Traction Company
by the neck and force it to sprinkle the
streets. An ordinance would be the proper
caper, and if the gentlemen of the long
robe were or hat committee something
might be done.
Mr.. Isaac F.. Goldenhorn put a snag in
the way of the project by saying that
passing ordinances through the Street
and Water Board was futile. He had
had some experience with attempting to
force the Traction mpa to make re-
forms. The only way was to so to the
ompan and request them and he be-
Mr.. Humphrey w. Carr advocated legal
enforcement through the Board of Health.
President Furst was dubious about go
ing to see the company. He also had
had little experience. with the little ways
of that extremely wicked company. He
Mr.. Furst-believed that a committee of
| LAWYERS would surely find some way,
either through the Grand Jury or the
Board Of Health, to secure the relief.
company should furnish the water in
| spite Of their reason that they were liable
t0 Indictment for giving the water away.
rI am satisfied that moral suasion can't
| he done with the Traction Company
concluded the President I'VE must use
| force"
sdded Mr.. r. 81. Cole. II am not IN ia
| yor Of giving that company the water.
They pay us nothing for their franchise,
! and they ought to be made to pay. Are
| the gentlemen present prepared to advise
| the Board Of Works to give them the