The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-21

the budget with the exception " eAAStN
the Tax Board. The amounts requested
by each board are as follows:-
1901. 1899 1900. Increase
Bee1 Hoard = 2sO. 90 s25S,62O s254,67O.Oo
Police Board. 465, 1890 4l7.244 .......
Board OF Alder - n-o nn
men .........-. 04,1vV-Vv 0o'4o9 WV"
afS eaton . SO % 8. q o go R2ss 9ss 50 50
Fire Board -. 229, Sz9.i3 zz1,ouo o'4zS''o
Assessmt I Com
mission ....... 13U.U 40V .s....'.
ARRsst5 misson g0A.. $1,000 q s.Ss 60 5000
Tax Board Not in O,SU ....''..
City Hail Com 40
Two members of the Board of Finance
were absent from yesterdays meeting of
that body. They were Commissioners
Mullins and Midlige
At an executive session the Commits
sioners present listened to the arguments
of Police and Health Departments in
favor OF the erection Of new city hos
piral 10 take the place of the present one.
The two departments were represented by
DR.. McGill, president of the Police and
Health Boards and Police Commissioner
Thomas w Tilden. Chief of Police Muir
ply was also at the conference. 1t Is
proposed to erect 100000 structure.
DIR. McGill, who is a member of the
surgical staff of the hospital, declared
that a new building was absolutely aeces-
sary. The present frame structure, he
stated, were inadequate to the demands
of the growing city and the wards were
fairly alive with disease germs. He also
said that was next to impossible to per-
form an operation in the operating rooms
without rendering the patient liable to
blood poison. He advocated the erection
of large centre structure with wings
stretching from each side. The
Financiers were deeply impressed with
the Doctors arguments and one of them
after the conference said that the press
ing need of new hospital was fully
realized by all the members of the Board
and that all of them favored the early
construction of the structure asked for
'.The appropriation asked for will in all
probability be granted" said this Com
missioner. land work commenced upon
the new building before the fall"
1t is proposed to locate the new build
ing on the grounds adjacent to those upon
which the present structure stand The
city already owns almost enough for the
purpose. The subject was referred to the
Committee of the Whole.
1u6 OOHIHuHlCdllOn HUH OOtPOi obAOh
Counsel McDermott expressing an
adverse opinion on the question of
Issuing bonds for the erection of a new
High School building, as published in
yesterdays News was received
Clerk Kelaher announced that all the
estimates submitted for running the
various municipal departments for the
coming fiscal year had been received ex-
cept that of the Tax Board. The News"
on Tuesday published the estimates of the
Boards heard from up to that time. to-
getner with a. comparison of the figures
asked for with trose granted for 1SS9-19O0,
showing increases all around
The estimate of the Street and Water
Board was handed in yesterday. 1t asks
for $513, ,290. Last year it received
$25s, CO. making this year request an in
crease of $254,67O.
The communications from Mayor Hoos,
published in yesterdays News" urgently
requesting the Board to appropriate the
money necessary to convert the old aban-
doned reservoir site at Summit, Central
and Manhattan avenues, into recreation
ground, was received and filed. The Com
missioners had adjourned and were leav-
ing the building when they were met by
a joint committee from the Hudson City
and Twelfth Ward Improvement Associa-
tions with a big petition roll signed bv
thousands of pupils in Public Grammar
Schools Nos. G, z, 8 and 25; pupils of St.
Nicholas and st. Paul of the Cross Par
ochial Schools and the German-American
School in Sherman avenue. Robert Muir,
Henry Wackernan and w. Barker as Off
GERS, represented the Hudson City I'M
provement Association and President
George Hoehl and Secretary Frederick
Bugasch the Twelfth Ward Improvement
Association.
The June payroll of the city's employees
was passed.
Temporary loan bonds in the sum of
$40 734.35 were ordered issued, payable on
demand with interest at the rate of 31a
per cent, to pay the July interest on $S47,-
1894, six years Improvement certificates
Warrants were also ordered drawn to pay
the July interest for 1900, as follows:-on
general account, $45, 5,659.25; to pay interest
on assessment bonds, $4,000, and interest
on water account, $50,352.50.
The Board adjourned to meet July 5. 1t
will start in on the work of making up
the tax levy in July.