The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-06
.COUNTY'S WAITS
Freeholders Asked Not to
Send Them Out in Their
Pauper Uniform.
SAVING COUNTYs MONEY
Taxpayers Approve of the
Boards Method of Buy
ing Coal.

Only six of the nine members of the
Board of Freeholders were present when
Clerk Egan called the Board to order at
six o'clock last evening. Director Holmes,
who had attended the conference of the
members in the afternoon, was unable TO
remain, and Freeholder Kuper, who was
chosen Director pro TEN, surprised Ms
colleagues by the able and expeditions
manner in which he disposed of the busi-
ness.
Ex-Freeholder John D. German, who
was present, was on motion of Freeholder
Moran, invited to a seat inside the rallied
enclosure.
complaint from Township Clerk Emil
J. Foersch of North Bergen, stated that
The receiving basin at Browning place.
draining from the fterson plank road,
was in need OF cleaning and repairs, as
The water would not run off. The matter
was referred to the Road Committee.
The State Board of Children's Guardians
in a communication signed by its secre-
tary asked for the payment of bill of
some 5000 for clothing furnished the young
county dependents who they had placed
in outside homes. The communication
stated that the board did not think it
wise to have the little unfortunates go
to their new homes in the rough uniforms
that branded them as paupers. The at
tention of the Freeholders was called to
that section of the act creating the Board
of Guardians which provides for the pay
ment by the county of $1.50 week for
each dependent child. 1t was pointed out
that as so many children had been placed
in free homes that the county would suffer
no actual pecuniary loss by paying the
BILL
The communication was referred to the
Almshouse Committee in conjunction with
the counsel
A number of judgment claims for goods
furnished the old Board were ordered
paid.
The reports of the wardens of the sew
eral county institutions for the month of
August were read at yesterday after
Moons meeting of the Board of Freehold
ers, as follows
observation-disclosures and employees,
16s; cost of maintenance, So, 653. %, as fol-
lows:-Provisions $S1O.75; miscellaneous,
$4s1.6 .66; salaries, $l,7S6.5O; COAL s574.34
average per capita, s22.271s
Asylum-Patients, 523; employees, 49,
Total cost of maintenance $5,9O1 "a, as
follows:-Provisions, $3,107.10; clothing,
s1SS77; miscellaneous, s467.76; salaries, ST.
S74.9S; coal, s261. %; average per capita,
s10.53.
Almshouse-Inmates 49S; employees, "a;
total cost of maintenance, $4595.S0; aver
age per capita, 1888.
The Freeholders decided to award the
contract for $1,000 tons of coal to James
Coyle whose bid of s3.07 a ton was the
lowest received.
The contract is for the fiscal year COM
mencing December next, the idea of the
Board being to obtain its supply now
while the price of coal is low rather than
to wait until later when the usual raise
in price will occur.
AS County Counsel Griffin advised the
Board that it could not now enter into
contract for goods to be paid for out of
next years appropriation, the coal con-
tract will not be formally signed until af-
ter December l, although the contractor
will start to deliver at once.
Instead of hauling the coal to Snake
Hill in wagons the contractor will deliver
1t at the Hackensack DOCK from where it
will be carted to the different institutions
by county carts.
In connection with this contract the fol-
lowing communication was read:
''I, as a taxpayer of Hudson county,
and thousands of others, have been
watching your honorable body with great
satisfaction on account of the way your
board has been saving the county thou
sands of dollars. I saw advertisements
in the papers for 1900 tons of pea and
other sizes of coal, which contract has
not been awarded as yet.
Continue your economy and do not ac-
cept either of the bids. Advertize over
again for buckwheat coal and save from
so cents to 81 on each ton.
"All large factories and even our pres
ent Board of Public Works have done
this and found it a valuable change. For
the past eighteen months it has been
used at High Service and saves the city
from 81 to 50 ton.
Hoping your honorable body will in
vestigate this matter and If you do you
will find the statements honest.
II heartily approve Of your plan of hav-
ing the coal unloaded at the dock and
having it carted by the county carts.
VERY respectfully,
HERMAN HAASE,
1888 Sip avenue