The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-02-25
TRUANT OFFICERS
SALARY.
Board Of Finance Provides
5000 for This New
Appointee for Nine
Months Work.
FOUR POLICEMEN WILL ASSIST HIN
Percy Gaddis Ask Rsadjust-
ment of Taxes-Bid for
South Cove.
FOUR POLICEMEN WILL ASSIST HIN

AT an adjourned meeting yesterday the
| Jersey City Finance Board adopted a
resolution providing for an appropriation
of 5000 for the payment of nine months
salary of truant officer to be appointed
| by the Board of Education. This was
done at the request of the Organized Aid
Society, representatives of which, includ-
ing the Rev. Father Foy, of st. Joseph's
R. G. Church, and Secretary Henry
Wilson, recently appeared before the
School Directors and advocated the ap-
pointment of such an officer. The Direc-
tors admitted the need of truant officer
and asked the Board of Finance to ap
propriate 1000 to pay his salary. The
Board ofEducation also asked the Board
of Police Commissioners to detail four
policemen to assist the truant officer in
his work. In order to raise the money
for the truant officers salary the Finan-
ciers decided to issue four per cent. tenn
porary loan bonds, the amount needed to
be inserted in the next tax levy.
Real Estate Agent Percy A. Gaddis
appeared before the Board and asked to
have the taxes assessed on FIVE lots at
Fox place and West Side avenue refer
red back to the Commissioners of Adjust
ment for readjustment. Mr.. Gaddis re-
Gently sold the FIVE lots in question to the
Brewster cocoa and chocolate. manufac-
turing concern, whose factory is at pres
ent located at Washington and Morgan
streets, for s2,5O0, or $500 apiece. 1t
was subsequently ascertained that the
city had a lien Of over $1,000 against the.
Senator William D. Edwards, trustee
for Cecile Tonnele, owner of the prop
erty, cannot give full title to the prop
erty to the purchaser while the city has
a lien against it, and in this instance the
lien amounts to about a t4lird more than
what the property is actually worth.
Mr.. .Gaddis pointed out that the prop
erty was purchased by the Brewster con-
cern as part of a plot upon which they
are to erect a $4,000 building for the
manufacture Of cocoa and chocolate. The
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it more valuable to the city If the lots
were put up for sale under the Martin
tax act they would bring nowhere near
$500 apiece The matter was laid over
until the next regular meeting.
The property in question is located
in the vicinity of the old watch factory
in Marion
A letter from R. NJ Cooley, of the
firm of R. M. Cooley & Company, miners
and shippers of bituminous coal and
coke, stated that he represented con-
Germ that desires to lease the South Cove
dock at the foot of Warren street, now
occupied by John Swensen, and would
agree to pay an annual rental of 1000,
the lease to run from fifteen to twenty
years. Mr. Cooley stated in his letter
that there was lots of repairing neces-
sary, which would be done to the dock
in the way of dredging, erection of bulk
heads, ETC., at an expense of several
thousand dollars, and that if the city de-
sired the concern to vacate at the ex-
piration of the lease the dock would be
found in first class condition. The pr
position was referred to the Committee
of the Whole.
The Board ordered paid $4,000 on ac-
| count of county taxes for 1903
John T. Colligan, of the Fifth Ward,
qualified as constable in the sum of
$1,000, with William Colligan and
Thomas higgins as sureties.
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