The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-11
Hudson News
ASSESSOR ANGRY
SERGEANT. OF KEARNY, HITS
AT COUNCIL.
Says Davidson Libelled Him and That
His Pay Is Being Held Up
without Any Cause.

W1LnOuL any bduSe,
Assessor Edward Sergeant, Of Kearny.
in a communication to the Kearny Town
Council last night accused Councilman
John Davidson, 1r., of libeling him at the
last meeting of the Council by making a
public declaration that the assessors books
had been declared full of errors by an
expert accountant, Herbert S. Green
wood. The assessor commended that no
such intimation appears in the report the
accountant submitted to the Council
Il do not think / said that such a state
menf appears in the report" replied the
councilman. "but. l do know that the ac-
cusation was made by Accountant Green
wood before most of the members of the
Council"
The assessor further wrote;
Il may now say hat some of the
finance committee had the audacity to
leave me off the last payroll after allow
ing me five months salary. l may also
add that the Mayor called In the town
counsel for his opinion as to my standing
as an assessor, ard the attorney gave
Mayor Goldberg a written opinion of the
case, and because the opinion did not suit
the Mayor and his colleagues 1 suppose
they struck me off the roll"
The latter statement was not discussed.
but 1t was learned at the close of the
noaatinp that the assessors name did not
appear among the list of bills presented for
payment.
.-zaa.a. .,,,.tton has been
So " aa,aauman
se'Neu'
peddIers Can't Shout.
Councilman William Greenfield, jr.. did
nor want the street peddlers' ordinance
misconstrued. ms he said 1t was being, and
The basis of his contention was that he un-
derstood the ordinance to apply to unusual
and neeenIv noises in the street, not to
shou,s of peddlers who depended upon the
sales of their wares for their daily bread,
opd be cited the case of a vegetable dealer
being arrested and fined for shouting In
tbe nublic street. Contending that the or
dinonce sbould he modified, he offered a
resolution 70 that effect, but Mayor Gold
berg refused to entertain it until Town
Attorney Crowell gave an opinion on the
locality of such procedure.
1T advise that il there is to be a modih-
% ZION Of the ordinance said he. ait ought
70 ha dona nv amending the ordinance as
II stands
Councilman Greenfield withdrew his mo-
ton and the ordinance committee was
asked to prepare an amendment.
Councilman David Nv. Reid raped the
contractors VINO are oliators III Tue "3iA
of street improvements.
"rhere are contracts now ~ aoeyanee
that are two years DID, -saio ne ana
still these contractors are allowed 70 20
on, without even ASKING lor an
OF time. EVERY con''ac. lnaoe
penaity as wen as d pUn.s
Is time that MS oou'.ii pD o..1 -
these pehaities, 50 lnae uo WIN W" -
readily completeo' u.
Mayor doioperg was snnpna.e ~
denunciation OF the careiessness Oh CON
tractors In TINS regard.
Two years ago | mace tne same sus.
gestion regarding penalties SAID me- OUT
It has never been taken up. Inc time mas
come for decided action IN TINS Important
matter. These contractors could at least
ask for extension of time. II Is up 10
this Council to enforce these penai'lese
and we alone are responsible Tor sucn
conditions
Councilman Greenfield wanted to know
why, If there were bonuses in the eon-
tracts, penalties should be Imposed
There are bonuses replied councilman
Reid, in every contract made In
fact, if there were no bonuses to onset
penalties the contracts would not stand"
No action was taken.
NO action was '"Me".
10 "e' t"sen. o's
The appeal of the Aldermen of Harrison
In a Communication regarding the neces-
sitv of q bridge across the Erie tracks
- on,iru - tba cootin,al
at f1th street, o"ins ~ tHsa
growth OF the two towns was responoeu
to by Mayor Goldberg appointing COUNCIL
men Reid, Caithness, Davidson, Greenfield
and s,,r>,avo, wreiner as a committee to
~ a. ~ arosact
represent ISeeiny !" 'Ho pto!N
EDWARD sarSeant' CONTRACTOR was Or