Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-06-16
COUNCIL Proceedings

President Reading and all he members
were present at the stated nl.vting Of City
Councio on Tuesday evening st
After the minutes Of The last meeting
were read and approved TIE matter of
the purchase of the Manley lot for school
purposes came up under the head of I'm
finished Business.
Mr. Burkett moved that petition from
the First Ward against the purchase of the
site be read. He said 1t represented about
so per cent. Of the people Of that ward.
After this was read, Mr.. Glover asked that
Maj. G. WalterShivers be granted privilege
Of the floor to present similar petitions. He
said four-ffths of the tax PAYERS were rep
resented in his petition. Mr.. Shiyers then
made statement against the purchase of
the lot. The signers, he said, were all OPP
posed to the purchase of the lot, some for
one reason some for another.
Mr.. Card, who circulated the petition in
the First Ward, said everybody signed it
and said they were darn glad to to do so.
A. L. Rogers, Esq, told Of his experience
in circulating a petition, and made plea
against the purchase Of the lot.
An invitation was extended to any citizen
present to speak on the subject, but none
responded.
President Reading left the chair and said
he had taken pains to count the names on
the various petitions and found 95 on that
which was reported to represent so per
cent. of the people of the First Ward, when
in fact there were 300, and there were 134
on those from the second, and shird wards
out of 900 voters, or about 229 people had
protested out of between eleven and twelve
hundred voters He did not consider the
petitions very imposing protest. He then
went into the merits of the Manley lot
for school purposes and concluded by say
ing that if this opportunity to secure it
was neglected, the city would regret it be-
fore ten years had passed. While he had
the greatest respect for the petitioners he
felt that as they represented SO great a
minority of our people that it did not
change his view and he should vote to adopt
the recommendation of the Boards Of Edu-
cation and School Estimate.
Mr. Burkett moved to lay the recon-
mendation on the table and this was lost
by the following vote.
Aye -Burkett, Glover, Henderson, Mum
yam.
No-Chenoweth, Davis, Kugler, Pier
son, Reading.
The motion to adopt the recommendation
to purchase the site was then carried by the
following vote -
Aye-C Chenoweth, Kugler, Pierson, Read
ing.
No-Burket, Davis, Glover, Munyan,
Henderson
Before the vote was announced Mr.. Davis
changed his vote from MOI to faye, and
the motion was adopted by vote Of 5 to A..
New sewer notes for period Of six
months, were ordered negotiated as fol-
lows -
First National Bank. .. $56, 500 1S
Farmers and Mechanics. ..... 14,313 79
Woodbury. Trust Co.. 21,694 80
Mr.. NJ. J. Murray, Of Gloucester City,
was granted plumbers license.
On motion Of Mr.. Glover, the fence in
front of the City Hall was ordered re-
moved.
The Solicitor advised Council that Water
Superintendent Wilmer could legally fill
the position of Water and Sewer Superin-
tendent SO long as he received but one
salary.
The water receipts for May were reported
to be $524.14.
Mr.. Davis reported the sewers completed
and working nicely, 2s8 applications for
taps had been fled, and 2o5 already made.
Adj