Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1907-01-08

local improvements, was submitted
to the Board of Aldermen last night
at the first regular meeting this year.
1t was read by the city clerk. The
mayor sat adjoining Alderpan-at-
Large Pfeiffer. An elaborate floral
display had been arranged at the in
stance-of friends. The Council Cham
Der was filled.
The message in full is as follows,
covering nine typewriter pages:
'To the Honorable Board of Alder
men of the City of Perth Amboy;
"Gentlemen:-F the Gus
tom of my predecessors in Office,
beg to offer to you a few suggestions
for changes and improvements in
municipal affairs, and strust that
you will give them careful considera-
tion; for I feel that the different mat
ters of which will make mention will
be of great benefit to the city and its
citizens.
"Let us be ever-mindful that we
are the servants of all the citizens of
this community, and that, in our eff
forts to serve them, we should always
keep their welfare at heart, rather
than to glorify the political parties
which we represent, and to this end
we should work together hand in
hand, so that the greatest good can
be accomplished toward the advance
ment of our rapidly growing city.
New City Hall.
II desire to call your attention to
the need of a modern city hall, and,
as part of it, new and better quarters
for the police department and the
police court, The city offices are to-
!. tally Inadequate; there being no ia
cilities for privacy in the small and
incommodious spaces which are al
lotted to the respective officers. There
is little or no provision for the proper
filing and storing of valuable city
documents, making it extremely diff
cult for the city officers to carry on
the municipal business in an orderly
and convenient manner. Good, roomy
Offices should be provided for each
chief official and department of the
city as speedily as possible. These
Offices are necessary, so that each
official could be found in his particu
lar place at a particular time of the
day Further, provision should be
made for Office and desk room for the,
mayor, as he now has no place at
all which he might term his head
quarters or where he may keep his
city records and papers. do not
think that such building would
mean the outlay of any large amount
of money, and feel very certain, that
the returns in the way of increased
efficiency of the city departments
would more than Offset the cost 1t
has been represented to me that the
present city hall property could be
so remodelled as to carry out, with
very modest expense, the suggestions
above made.
Lookup Disgrace.
"The question of the police depart
ment is, to my mind, a very serious
one both from the view of quarters
and of personnel. The present police
offices and police court room are not
at all what they should be for the.
proper handling of police business.
The lookup, in it's present condition,
is disgrace to any civilized commu
nifty. 1t is an unsafe, unsanitary,
filthy and barbarous place of deten-
tion which should not be tolerated:
it has frequently occurred that the
magistrate was obliged to let petty
criminals go, rather than to confine
them in this place. No provision is
made to keep prisoners of the sexes
apart, nor to keep juvenile offenders
from confirmed criminals, or the sane
from the insane. Persons in state
of delirium are obliged to be con-
fined in ordinary rough, filthy, un-
padded and unprotected cells. The
subjects which, either by misfortune
or circumstances, are compelled to be
detained in this place, are obliged 10
undergo a confinement bordering on
barbarism, and it is hoped that some
provision will be made by your hon.
orable body in this regard, whereby
it will become possible to obtain de-
cent and humane treatment to those
persons WHiCH tuS poHCo uOpdt ClnCut
must place under arrest.
Recommends More Policemen.
Il would recommend for your
consideration the increase of the.
personnel of the police department.
which is now made up of "a SUI
perintendent, three sergeantsA one
roundsman and twelve patrd men,
making total of seventeen Wen.
Although this cosmopolitan q n-
munity has in the past been ne
from any disorder and much seri
crime, rejecting great credit D "a
our police system 50 modest in
her. y nevertheless IS my iudg
that the force should ;be enlar n
ursler ID give our vast increasty ''-