The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-18
BAY0NNE REUSED,
Mass Meeting Protests
Against Councils Daily
ing With Boiler
Works.
URGE GRANTING THE PERMIT
Prominent Men Meet In St.
Mary's s~chool-Resolu-
tons Passed.

III o&LAoNA e--
Council on last Tuesday night, IN feler-
ring ordinances to close parts OF streets'
in -the Fourth ward of the city, 70 a spe7
rial committee and giving the COMMITTEES
5be optfon of reporting at its pleasure
caused such a deep feeling OF lnolgha7
tfon among citizens of all conditions thae
the examination was a mass meeting u
the haIl of the newly erected sehool OF
ST. Marv's Church, on West Thirteenth
street. on Saturday evening. The OBJECT
in closing the streets is to let the BAD
cock & wilcox Company, boiler manufac-
t,,rers. locate in Bayonne. The company
works are now located at Elizabeth They
employ LOCO people and have secured OPP
fions on six blocks of property fronting
IN the Kin Won Kull and extending back
TO Fifth street. The locality is dead as
a residential section, and the Fourth
ward. in which it is situated, has wit
messed a steady decline in property value
for the past ten years.
One of the significant features of the
action of the Bayonpe Council, on last
Tuesday evening, was the fact that
Councilmen MeQuillan, Cassidy, McCur-
min and Sharkey, who voted to refer the
matter to a special committee, are all IN
the employ of the Standard Oil Com
pany.
The signatures to the call for the meet
ing embraced men of different races.
creeds and political belief. Among them
were ex-Mayors Newman and Farr. the
Rev. I. F. whelan of ST. Mary's tR. CD
Church. the Rev. H. W. F. Jones of the
First presbyterian Church and the Rev.
s. J.. Belts of the Peoples Mission)
Nt-s-+go vrncf1nnf Of the
Good Government Association; Thomas
Hewlett, president of Bricklayers ana
Plasterers' Union; w. M. O'Neili, presi-
dent of Master Plumbers Associations
a. A. Smith, ]. Hermann Mahnken, w
C. Alpers, ex-Councilman Patrick Nugeht'
Assenblyman Allan Benny, George j.
Donegan and Patrick Nolan
The meeting was convened by the
Rev. Father Isaac P. Whelan, rector OF
st. Mary's r. c.. Church, who said it
was the first time in. his career OF
twenty-three years as a clergyman that
he had left the pulpit for the puoac
platform. He said his action was caused
by the vast import to the IN
having the works established in the
town. He said the subject was one OF
such vital interest thai it could be con-
sidered by every one on equal terms with
his neighbor.
1.-THE authority Of our representatives.
in the Council he added, must be di-
rected as we dictate. for they are re-
sponsible to US. When they tell US we
cannot c~riticise their actions they are
making a mistake. Any one who opposes
the location of the boiler works in
Bayonne ought to be buried in political
oblivion"
To dispel any illusion that the concern
did not mean business, Father Whelan
read a letter from President Wells, Of
the Babcock & Wilcox Company. who
said he was surprised to a any per-
son question the firms honesty OF pur-
pose in finding a new location for its
works, and that the firm was ready to
build Immediately on the selected site
providing the streets extending through
the realty were closed as the owners
have p~etitioned, some contracts for the
purpose having already been condition
ally made. If. however, the site could
could be made available without delay,
the concern would be forced to %investi-
gate propositions to locate its plant
elsewhere.
Mayor Egbert Seymour was chosen
chairman of the meeting. and Henry
tinker was made secretary. The Mayor
expressed himself as heartily in favor of
the project. and said he had written to
the New Jersey Board of Riparian Com
missioners requesting the consideration
of B~ayonne's interests by fixing a reason
able price for the rights along the site.
Assemblyman Allan Benny, an earnest
advocate of the project. said the streets
could be legally closed. The mention
by Mr.. Benny of DR.. Lucius F. Donohue,
the local sponsor for the project. was
greeted with cheers, while his illusions
TO the Council provoked Kisses for the
city officials. MFR. Benny said the boards
action was due to the desire of the
members for Information concerning the
project, and the Gouncilmen should not
DE causelessly condemned.
DR.. William c. Alpers. the Rev. Henry
w. f. Jones, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church; Councilman Horace
Robertson. William A. Cassidy, John If.
Donohoe and Edmund e. S~tinson, Sam
uel Franklin, Patrick Nolan. Rev. Syl-
yester j. Belts, pastor of the Peoples
Church, and President of the Council
Patrick Flanagan also made speeches.
Mr.. Flanagan defended the course the
Council had pursued, explaining that
the members only desired the protection