The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-06-19
Board Last Night Made Ap-
pointments From the List
Of Those Who Passed the
Civil Service Examination
MAYOR FAGAN's VIEWS
He TELLS THE COMMISSIONERS
TO RESIST ALL TEMPTATION
/ AND NAME MEN FOR MERIT
i oNLY-DErEcTIvEs COMMEND
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From the list of eligibles-men who
have passed the civil service examination
for positions on the police force-the
Board of Police Commissioners last
night appointed twelve new men. They
sre:
( Frank A. Manoas, John P. Mannion,
Hugh P. O'Connor. John O'Connor. Her
man T. Ammen. Michael j. Malone,
Martin H. Anderson, john ]. Lynn, Mi
chael ]. Toney. Frank Mcdonald. Frank
VA. Reynolds and Ambrose q. Rooney.
The following communication on the
subject of new appointments was recelv-
ed from Mayor Pagan
"The Hon. Board of Police Commission
ers of Jersey City
"Gentlemen-I have followed with a
great deal of interest the first applica-
tion of the new civil service law in the
selection of Policemen. The examina-
tions have been held and there are a
larger number of eligibles than there are
positions to be filed. Under the law.
as l am advised by the Law Department.
you can either fill such vacancies as are
at your disposal by taking the eligible
list in the order of the rank which the
successful applicants obtained under the
examination, or you can take the first
name on the list to fill the position. In
that event the applicant who is appointed
is removed from the list and the two
who were not appointed should imme-
diately form part of the next three from
whom you must select one to fill an APP
pointment. and so en- until all the ap-
pointments have been made. Under this
system you would have the power, if so
. desired, to practically reject two men,
either for some good reason or you can
reject them for political reasons. OF
course, temptations will always be
sprung on any appointing power to use
this discretion to prevent the success of
any applicant who may be offensive po-
litically. / think it extremely important
that the people of this city should un-
derstand that appointments in your de-
partment under the civil service law
should be on merit alone, and in order
that there may be no question of the
law / am strongly of the opinion that it
would be wise fer your Board to fill
such vacancies as are at your disposal
from the eligible list in the order in which
they have certified to you by the Com,
mission and l recommend your Board to
take action accordingly
President Potts announced that Thorn
as H. Devine, who was some time ago
dismissed from the force on charge of
intoxication, would appear at the top or
the list of eligibles from which the next
appointments are to be made.
The Board ordered that honorable
mention be made of Detectives Lee and
Van Horn for the arrest of Edward
Moore on a charge of numbering Geor,ss
Lewis in this city recently. Moore and
Lewis quarreled over the affections of
Miss Purcell and left her home to set
tie the dispute on the sidewalk. Moore
knocked Lewis down and in falling Lew
ISIS skull was fractured, and his death
followed shortly afterward in the City
Hospital. Lee and Van Horn found
their man on farm near Demarest.
Patrolman Alex Hamill also got honor
able mention for the arrest of negro
who had murdered his wife in Philadel-
phia. The arrest was made on descrip-
tion sent out from the Philadelphia po-
lice department.
Acting Patrolman Joseph p Short,
Jacob Seiben and William Tiedemann,
of the second grade, were promoted to
FIRST grade.
Reports received on gambling houses
were referred to Committee of the
Whole.