The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-03-22
TOWN IMPROVEMENT.
Committee Met Yesterday
at Hasbrouck Institute
Twelve Chairmen
Chosen.

From Room 1, Hasbrouck Institute, here
after will issue orders concerning the con-
| dition of streets in Jersey. In other
words, from the Town Improvement Com
| mittee. The ladies held another meeting
| yesterday afternoon to talk over and take
action in the matter.
Mrs. Benson now has the city divided
into wards with a chairman at the head
of each, whose duty it shall be to see
that all the streets in her ward are
cleaned and swept the requisite number
of times according to contract, a copy of
which is to be placed in the aides
hands, these ladies to choose their own
helpers.
The work has been divided as follows
First ward, Miss Bradford; Second, Mrs.
Cook; Third, Mrs. J. H. Noe; Fourth,
Mrs. G.. w. Clerihew: Fifth, Miss A.
Frost; Sixth, Miss Justus Slater; Seventh,
Mrs. Hudspeth Benson; Eighth, Mrs. w.
d. Edwards; Ninth, Mrs. E. W. Newbury
and Mrs. Whitney; Tenth, Mrs. Edward
Van Wrinkle; Eleventh, Miss Johnston, and
Twelfth, Mrs. u. Allen. Nus is thec city
covered.
Yesterday these various chairmen were
called upon to report. OF course, the ma
jority had nothing to say as they had
not yet chosen their helpers. Though one
lady did report that she had seen by the
newspapers that the resolution of the
committee requesting that receptacles for
fruit skins be placed at each street
corner, drawn up at the last meeting and
dispatched with all diligence to the Street
and Water Board by the secretary, had
been tabled by that municipal body at a
recent meeting. This caused much indig-
nation, and the secretary was instructed
to again send the resolution, this time
making the request insist"
Mrs. w. d. Edwards, chairman of the
Eighth Ward, reported progress. She has
held a meeting of her helpers, among
whom are Mrs. Alice May Scudder, Mrs.
Brice Collard and Mrs. Bowen, each of
whom has provided herself with a little
note book with a newspaper election not
ice clipping, setting forth the ward
boundaries, pasted in the title page as
guide, in which is to be kept a list of the
streets with the number of times swept.
This, when compared with the contract
above mentioned. will prove at a glance
whether or not the Street Cleaning De-
partment is living up to the contract, any
delinquencies to be Immediately reported
to headquarters of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners
Then too orders have been issued for
a sort Of Christian Endeavor'' pledge
card to be distributed among the resi-
dents of various streets. 1t reads as
follows:-
Jersey City, N. J.
Il promise to cooperate with the Town
Improvement Committee of the Woman's
Club, representing the Eighth Ward, in
all their efforts to keep our streets clean
and free from nuisance, especially in
front of my own house, and to do what
l can to interest my neighbors.
The five dollars appropriated for a
''Waring'' push cart to be placed at he
Junction has not yet been spent, but Mrs.
Benson promises to have this in working
order with a man to push it at the APP
pointed places before next meeting,
April IS.
Among those present were:-Miss Web
Der, Mrs. Hudspeth Benson, Mrs. w. D.
| Edwards, Miss McNaughton, Mrs. Whit
ney, Mrs. Justus Slater, Mrs. E.. w.
Newbury, Mrs. Brice Collard, Miss
Cornelia Bradford, Mrs. Alice May Scud-
| der, Mrs. Gaddis. Mrs. Bal1on, Mrs. Joseph
A. Dear, Mrs. Warren, Mrs. Bowen and