The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-02
SOLDIERS GRAVES
Freeholders Have Purchased
Additional Plots in Two
Cemetaries.
DIRECTOR HOLMES THANKS
He Acknowledges the Sy M
pathy Shown in His Re-
cent Bereavement.

The regular monthly meeting OF the
Board of Freeholders was held yesterday
afternoon, but owing to the large number
of adjourned meetings he'd recently there
was but little business to be transacted
Director Holmes was obliged to leave
before the close of the meeting and be-
fore surrenderlng the chair to Freeholder
Kuper he took occasion to thank his col
leagues for their kindly sympathy for his
recent bereavement in the death OF a
favorite SON. The popular presiding officer
spoke fee.ingly as he expressed the nope
that none of his associates would ever
be forced to bear the sorrow which had
been his, through the repeated visitations
of the angel of death. in the past year
He also thanked the clerks of the board
and the reporters present for the sym
pathy expressed by them.
Freebooter William j. Moran called the
Boards attention to the fact that the
Bar Association had some time ago re-
duested accommodations in the building
at Pavonia avenue and Willow court,
which had been leased at the request OF
LAWYERS. who wanted place in which to
confer with clients awaiting the DISPOSE
ton of their cases. Mr.. Moran said that
those who had induced the county to go
to the expense of providing the accommo-
dations asked for seldom or never used
the building, and on his motion clerk
Egan was directed to notify the Bar AS
sociation that the rooms in the building
asked for by them were at their disposal
as soon as they cared to occupy them.
The committee appointed to secure addi-
tional burial plots for the interment of the
veterans of the Civil War, reported that
in addition to the plot in Flower Hill
Cemetery already purchased, they had
bought three burial plots in the Catholic
Cemetery on West Side avenue for $3.50,
and plot of zoos feet in Bay View Gene
terry, GreenvilIe, for $500.
The action of the committee was con-
Cured in and Collector Egan was directed
to issue fVe-year bonds for $1,000 to pay
for the improvement of the old plots and
the purchase of the new ones under the
act passed by the last Legislature.
By a resolution offered by Freeholder
Fincke. John lazarus was appointed
night engineer at the County JAN for the
unexpired term of Benjamin Evans, de-
ceased.
Fire Custodian John Keegel reported
that he had examined the fire plugs in
and about the Almshouse and found that
thew were useless without the assistance
OF the emergency pump He recommend
ed that stand pipes be placed in the Aims
house and old mems pavilion and connect
ed directly with the reservoir on TOP OF
the Hill, so as to be available at once in
case OF emergency. The communication
was referred to the Committee on County
JrstitI1tions with power.
Warden Ryan reported for the month OF
April. 1902. 526 inmates and p employees,
cared for at an expense of 81, ,302SA, an
average of $3.50 per capita.
The report of Warden Grimes of the
Penitentiary for the same month showed
l7s prisoners. "a keepers; total cost Of
maintenance 3,763.S4; average per capita,
s21.sS.
The Board will meet again next Wed
nesday afternoon when the specifications
for coal bids will be reported by the
special committee preparing the same