The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-18
N'ENAN'S LONE HAND.
Mayoralty Candidate Alone
Stems the Tide Of the
Flynn Water Con-
tract.
AND he Is VERY GENTLE
Protest "Orally Filed" With
Mayor Hoos Today-Pe-
tition With a
Mystery.
AND he is VERY GENTLE

Ex-Congressman Thomas McEWan has
called on Mayor Hoos and orally entered
his protest against the signing of the wa
ter contract award to P. H. Flynn. Mr..
McEwan has been threatening to call on
the Mayor for the last three weeks He
had promised himself and select few of
his followers that he would convince the
Mayor in short order that signing the con-
tract would be signing his political death
warrant because the contract to his way
of thinking, is not for the best interests
of the city
The ex-Congressmans protest was j
mild one. To the Mayor he made the
statement that the city is not in position
and, in fact, is unable to bear the burden
that will be imposed by the making of
an IS, ,OO0, 900 water contract. 1t is the fear
that the taxpayers will be unable to sur
vive the new burden that causes Mr.. Nc
Evan to maintain that the interests of
the city will not be conserved if the con-
tract is signed. Another fear entertained
by Mr.. McEwan is that it will be prac-
ticable impossibility to prevent the pollu-
tion of the supply preferred by Mr..
Flynn.
Mayor Hoos, with his accustomed
diplomacy listened attentively and said
nothing. So attentive was His Honor
that Mr.. McEwan was convinced that he
was making a great impression upon the
Mayor. So impressed was he with that
idea that much to the Mayors discom-
future he said he would put his objections
in writing. The ex-Congressman proposes
writing his objections TO the Flynn con-
tract while he is in Washington. He has
frequently declared that he often gets in
spirations while in that city.
The Mayor will probably make the book
Mr.. McEwan will write on the water sub
ject public.
The ex-Congressman, in letter to the
Mayor about ten days ago, said he and
sat least one hundred others would re-
monStrate against the execution of the
contract With view to making that
assertion good, Mr.. McEwan left with
the Mayor remonstrance which was
signed by sixty persons reputed to be
property holders. The Congressman is
shy forty demonstrators, but he says they
will be forthcoming in a few days. OF
the sixty protestants there is only one
man who owns any great amount OF
real estate. All the others appear to be
holders of small tracts in the McEwan
infected quarter of Hudson City. The
| list of signers has not been seen nor
will the public ever see it, as Mayor Hoos,
at the request of Mr.. MeEwan refuses
! to make it public. The fact has been
discovered already that the name of at
least one signer does not appear in the
directory.
l
| this week as a result of Mr.. McEwan' S
| appearance on the scene. His Honor Says
| he has decided to give Mr.. McEwan every
| opportunity possible to state his reasons
| why the contract should not be signed.
| The objections, will be fully and carefully
| considered Mayor Hoos anticipates hear
| ing from Corporation Counsel McDermott
and Counselor w. D. Edwards on the sub
| ject by the time Mr.. McEwan has framed
| his objections in writing.
| A letter from an anonymous writer, re-
ceived this morning, requested the Mayor
/ not to sign the contract under any cir
! cumstance. The writer says that there is
| a political scheme in the purchase, and
that the public, knowing it, are watching
| the Mayor TO see whether he will cast
/ his lot with the political schemers e1
| with the public. The writer concludes
| by suggesting that the old Passaic. supply
| should be returned to or that the city
| should exercise the right of eminent do
| main and condemn watershed on its
| own hook.
Frederick M. Kellers, a downtown gro.
Ger, has made application for an increased
| supply of water for the Gammontown Sec
| ton of the city, Kellers owns flats dowr
! town and during certain hours Of the day
| it Is impossible to get water on the upper
| fioors The Street and Water Commits
soners propose remedying the evil by lay
| ing larger water mains in the thickly pop
| ulated sections.