The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-08
GREATER
JERSEY CITY
Commission Expected to
Begin It's Work Next
Wednesday.
FULL LIST OF THE MEMBERS
Representative Citizens Who
Enjoy the Confidence of
Their Municipalities.

Governor Voorhees, is in earnest in the
matter of the greater Jersey City and he
proposes to do all in his power to have
carried out the provisions of the act
which provides for the appointment of
commission to consider the advisability
of consolidating Hudson county into one
municipality. Yesterday he sent to each
member of the Commission this letter.
sir-I have the honor to inform you
that, pursuant to the provisions OF
chapter 1S5 of the laws of 1899, you
have been duly appointed by the pro-
per official of the municipality in
which you reside one of the commis-
sioners to inquire into the expedien-
cy of consolidating the various mus
inequalities in the County of Hudson.
In accordance with the notice grven
to the other members of the Commis-
sion, may | recommend that you re-
port for organization at the Court
House in Jersey City on Wednesday
next, June IA, at ten o'clock A. N.
Yours respectfully,
FOSTER NJ. VOORHEES,,
Governor.
According to the provisions of the act
referred to by Governor Voorhees, each Of
the executives of the twelve cits- !, towns
ships and towns in the county was to ap-
point one member of the commission and
the Governor was to appoint one more
The Governor appointed Charles L. Cor<
bin as a sort of member at larges
Joseph A. Dear, Henry Brautigam.
Samuel D. Dickinson, Georgh r. Hough
and John j. Nevin, of Jersey City; Aaron
S. Baldwin and Edward A. S. Lewis. OF
Hoboken; John w. Newman, OF Bayonne,
Herman Walker of Gutenberg. Fredericlr
Frambach of West Hoboken, w. ]. Davis
of Harrison, William Logan. Kearny
Those who were appointed by the ex-
ecutives of the various municipalities ares
William d. Edwards, Jersey City; Ru-
dolph Rabe, Hoboken; N. r. Trask. City
Treasurer, Bayonne; Augustus Rich.
West Hoboken; A. v. Hill, Gutenberg:
E. A. Duer, Weehawken; W. H. Schmidt.
West New York; ]. T. O'Brien. Town OF
Union; NJ. NJ. Forrest, Kearny; Edward
]. Grace, Harrison; P. McGlenion. East
Newark; G. Bruce, Sr., North Bergen.
In speaking of his appointments today
the Governor said that in appointing these
gentlemen he had endeavored to do so in
such a way that each municipality would
be fairly represented according to its size
and Importance. Politics, he declared.
had not been taken into consideration at
all by him. his only desire being to ap-
point such men as were acquainted with
the situation, and would act for the best
interests of the various communities con-
cerned He expects that his suggestion
vii lbe complied with and that the com-
mission vii lorganize on Wednesday and
get to work Immediately There is much
to be done and only a little more than six
months intervenes between this and the
meeting of the next Legislature, when the
commission is expected to make its re-
port. The commission is a body of reps
resentative men of all political faiths. ard
from all sections of the county. They are
men of such character that no municipal-
ity however small need think for a miris
ute that its interests are in danger while
in their hands. -