Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-23
". R. CHAPMAN IS
NAMED MEMBER OF
KEARNY COUNCIL
Councilman Terry Appointed Tax
Collector to Succeed Fred. l..
Pierce, Who Resigned.

Walter r. Chapman was appointed
councilman from the Third ward at the
meeting of the Kearny Town Council
last night to succeed Samuel b. Terry,
who resigned to take the place of Town
Collector Frederick L. Pierce. Pierce
resigned because of ill-health. Mr..
Pierce's resignation will take effect on
June 80.
Councilman Hugh Wilkie thought the
choice Of a successor to Mr.. Terry
should be left to the voters of the Third
ward, who could submit a petition Civ
ing their preference. Councilman
Harry B. Cuitnen, however, nominated
Mr.. Chapman, and every member con-
cured.
Mayor Brock announced that the law
provided that the council could fill the
vacancy to the collectorship by ap-
pointment for the remainder of the
year, or until the collectors term
would have expired. Mr.. Terry, he
said, had been suggested as a man
peculiarly we'll fitted for the position
and had acquiesced in the suggestion
that he take the place. He was ac-
cordingly nominated by Councilman
James J. McAteer and was unanimous
ly appointed, having first submitted
his resignation as councilman from the
Third Ward.
Mr.. Terry has been chairman of the
finance committee of the board and
was for many years a leading account
ant In the United States sub-treasury
in New York. Mr.. Chapman is a leader
among the New ldeaites in the Repub-
lican party and is in the fire insurance
business in New York.
Councilman Robert e. Torrance said
that he had on Monday night attended
the conference in Jersey City of rep
resentatives of the municipalities of
Hudson County regarding the scheme
fathered by the Jersey City Board of
Trade for the construction, at public
expense, of a subway and rapid transit
line along the fourteen-mile Hudson
boulevard, and hat he had made II
strong protest against the proposition
and had declared that the West Hud-'
son section would never stan for any
such scheme, when it could not posi-
bly, be benefited by 1t.
Michael j. Kennedy, in a letter to the
board, complained that he had been
for the payment of arrears Of
water rent when he had a receipt to
show that he had paid the charge. The
matter was referred to the water COM
mittee. ri
The report OF Recorder James T. KEEL
ly showed the receipt of $3.50 in fines
for May. Tt was resolved to allow an
appropriation of 81 1000 to the Free PUB
lie Library Commission for 1910. 1t was
decided to grant a petition for the OIL
Ing of Laurel avenue, between Kearny
and SCHUYLER venues.
Isabel Dashe, Postmaster James
Freeman and Mrs. Mary M. Bininger.
a petition, asked that a sewer be
a on the east side Of Belgrove drive
from a point 100 feet south of Midland
avenue to connect with the lakewood
avenue sewer. 1t was later explained
that the petition lacked the number OF
signers required by law.
An application from Thomas J. Ward,
of SIG Davis avenue, for appointment
as a constable. in order to serve pro-
cess, was referred. A resolution was
adopted, after a form drawn by the
Hudson County Board of Taxation, and
as suggested by Assemblyman Edward
Kenny, calling upon the State Board
of Assessors to give the Hudson board
full access to all the data regarding
the valuation of the Pennsylvania Rail-
roads new line across the Kearny
meadows.