The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-01-24
NOT LIKE SAMPLES.
Freeholders Reject Goods
Delivered by Four
Contractors.

Despite the repeated warnings Of Direc-
tor Holmes and the members of the
Board of Freeholders that contractors
would hereafter be compelled to furnish
goods strictly according to the saiaples
on which they bid, four of the successful
bidders have seen fit to furnish goods of
an inferior quality.
This fact was reported to the members
of the Beard when they visited the Snake
Hill institutions yesterday afternoo.i. At
the Almshouse and the Asylum it was
found that certain articles of dry goods,
groceries and vegetables were not equal
to the samples on which bids had been
received, and they were ordered at once
returned to the contractors.
The Freeholders are determined that all
must live up to the letter of their con-
tract.
The monthly meeting of the Committee
on County institutions was first held and
then considerable time was spent inspect
ing the improvements in progress under
County Superintendent c. P. Smith. 1t
was found that work on the new recrea-
tion park was progressing rapidly. Six
carts are at work, and it was decided to
employ all the available prisoners and
pduRSiS dDlt " WOIh ~ DIS " nave tlit
park completed as speedily as possible.
The addition to the penitentiary stable,
where all the county's horses win be
cared for, was found to be completely
It is practically settled that there
will be more dismissals at the
next meeting of the Board Among those
likely to go are the employees of the gas
plant. By that time 1t is expected that
the company to which was recently
awarded the contract for supplying gas
will have completed the work of laying
it's mains to the county institutions, and
the expensive Snake Hill plant will be
done away with.
1t was found that under the direction of
Freeholder Ellington, chairman of the
Penitentiary Committee, and Warden
Grimes, three times more stone was now
being crushed than ever before. The
scales at the asylum are completed and
in every way satisfactory.
A special meeting of the Board was
held at the Court House last night for
the purpose of passing a resolution set
ting forth the necessity of a new bridge
over the Hackensack River on the line OF
the Paterson Plank Road. This was the
only business transacted.
Director Holmes said that the members
of the Board were all tired out after their
days work at Snake Hill. He stated as
the object of the meeting that the Board
had been advised by counsel that in order
to assist the Bergen County Freeholders
ii would be necessary to pass resolu
ton setting forth the necessity Tor
bridge.
Freeholder Caparn offered a resolution
to that effect, and Freeholder Sugent
asked County Counsel Griffen to explain
the object Of the resolution.
The counsel said that Bergen county
had advertised for bids under an old act
which required them to pass a resolution
similar to the one offered by Freeholder
Caparn. Such resolution was not seces-
sary to enable Hudson county dispose of
her bonds, but in order to satisfy the
purchasers of the Bergen county bonds
and remove all question as to their val
idity, it was necessary for this Board to
adopt such resolution. 1t was adopted
by unanimous vote.
The counsel said that he had rasolu-
ton to offer in connection with the Hud-
son county bonds for the bridge, but as
he desired to talk with County Collector
Dugan in relation to the matter he would
postpone offering it until the next regular
meeting.