Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1902-03-13

cnase Pubic Park Ordered Pub
lished.
City Council met in regular session
tuesday evening at 7.30 O'Clock, and
Tor two hours Kept up one of the live
lest sessions perhaps ever held within
the walls of the new City Hall. Beside
the transaction of vast amount of
business considerable time was taken
up by some of the members in debat-
ing topics, calling up things of the
past, and sort of general free and
easy scoring for points
All the members were present save
Mr.. Ackley, of the Fourth ward.
President Deal was promptly in his
chair and the business of Council
opened in the usual way by the call
ing OF the roll and the reading of the
minutes of the previous sessions by
Recorder Hewitt.
An application from Cox Bros. &
Co, machinists, for permit to build
workshop and store house of CORFU
gated iron, on Warren street, was
unanimously granted.
A communication from Mayor
Hampton, asking that new city ordi-
nance books be printed and furnished
the city officials. was on motion of
Mr.. Woodruff received and the matter
referred to the Ordinance and Print
ing Committee with power to prepare
new book properly and have printed
and bound sufficient number of
copies.
a petition of VIM. P Clark, accom-
panied with the usual $40 and asking
for transfer of his license to keep a
saloon, from so South Laurel street to
northwest corner Broad and Atlantic
streets, was finally granted but not un-
til after a reconsideration and at a
time when one of the anti-license
mbers was not in the room.
When the application was first read,
the vote to grant was taken by roll
call, and was as follows =
Yeas s-Deal, Ware, Matthews, But
Ter, Sellers, Morrison and Bacon.
Nays-Garrison, McGear, Hurff,
Lupton, Nichols and Edwards.
Mr.. Woodruff passed; which made
the result of the ballot yeas, 6 nays
and l pass. President Deal declared
the transfer granted, but reversed his
decision promptly when the City So
licitor called his attention to the fact
that fourteen votes had been cast and
that only seven votes for granting
transfer, and seven was not a major
ity OF fourteen. The matter was al
lowed to lay over until late in the
evening when the transfer was granted
by the following vote
Yeas-Deal, Ware, Matthews, But
Ter, Sellers, Morrison and Bacon.
Nays Garrison, McGear, Woodruff,
Hurff, Lupton, Nichols. Result, 7
yeas, nays. Mr.. Edwards had in
the meantime retired for the evening.
An application for license to keep
saloon, of Leonard H. Meyers, at IL
Washington street, was received and
laid over under the rules.
Bills aggregating $6, 159.01 and
which had been approved by the FL
nance Committee, were ordered paid
A bill of Ogden & Platt for curbing
on Monroe street, amounting to
$l91.10, and which was not approved
by the Committee, was finally paid.
The reason for the Committee not ap-
proving this bill was that they
thought the owner of the property,
Mrs. Woodruff, should pay the bill.
A bill of N. j. Buzby in the amount
! of S22. so, for patent fire ladder
which it is claimed was purchased in
1900, caused quite an argument. The
ladder had been left at the engine
house by somebody for trial; that it
never was used because it was no
good. A motion to pay the bill was
lost on tie also motion to send
ladder back resulted in tie vote.
Letters from Mr.. Buzby were read
before Council the tone of which
would indicate that a law suit will
! follow.
Mr.. Woodruff arose at this point and
wanted to know why bill of $50
which had been ordered paid in Janu-
airy, for the dinners of the.Councilmen
at the Parker House on New Years
day. had never been paid. Comp
troller Sharp stated that the City So
licitor told him the bill was not legal
and that he should not pay it. This
called Mr.. Matthews to his feet and in
speech of ten minutes or more he
paid some very complimentary(?) p re-
marks to the Solicitor and anti-license
members of Council. The amount
will not be paid out of the city treas
ury as the majority decided to go
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