Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-01-06
APPOINTMENTS
MADE; WESTER
STARTS DUTIES
Standing Committees Named
One Motor Maintenance
NAME BUCKLEY AND INQUIRE
For Health Board; Stas to Wa
ter Board; Sheehy to
School Board

The first meeting of the 1920
Board of Aldermen was held last
night with John N. Wester. the re-
Gently elected Alderman-at-Large
occupying the seat of president of
shat body in the place of Ira X.
Grouse. All OF the six aldermen were
the same as last year. large floral
piece, shaped like horse shoe, bear
ing the words Good Luck" adorned
the desk of Mr. Wester, the Perth
Amboy Republican Club hav-
ing presented him with this tribute.
Mr.. Wester conducted his first meet
ing in an excsilent manner and there
were no siip-ups during the session.
The work of making appointments
: for 1920 and longer terms was first
entered into and took UP most of the
time Of the meeting.
Alderman-at-Large Wester made
the following appointments Of stand
Ing committees for 1920: JUDICIARY,
Waters, Anderson, Wilson; streets and
sewers, Anderson, Riedy. Patten, fire,
Riedy, Wilson, Waters: police, VIII
son, Reidy, Waters; lamps and Lights,
Wilson, Anderson, Waters; public
grounds and buildings, Riedy, Waters,
Wilson; taxation, Clark, Anderson,
Riedy; printing and stationery, Riedy,
Waters, Wilson; building, Wilson An
deson, Clark; water, Patten, Ander-
son, Riedy; market, Anderson, Riedy,
Patten; salaries, Clark, Wilson. Ander
son; finance. Waters. Wilson Ander-
son: poor, Wilson, Clark, Anderson;
Anderson.
A motion was made by Alderman
Chris Anderson and carried, that Will
liam c. Wilson be made vice presi-
dent of the council.
In announcing the standing COM
mittees Alderman-at-L Large. Wester
added new committee, that of
motor maintenance" He explained
that it would be a paying proposition
to have the city care for, its own au-
tonlobiles in municipal garage,
where the city could hire mechanics
to keep the cars in, condition instead
of having them sent to the various
garages
Tho work of making appointments
was then gone into with the follow
ing results: City clerk, three years,
commencing Jan. l, 1920, Arthur E.
Graham; city treasurer Ferd Garrett
son, three years; city comptroller,
Olaf j. Morgenson, three years; col
lector of revenue, Ellsworth B. Walk
er, three years; city attorney, Leo
Goldberger, three years; overseer of
the poor, Math Hansen, term prescrib-
ed by law; city surveyor, Morgan f.
Larson, term prescribed by law; street
commissioner, Antonio F. Munoz,
three years; harbor master and port
warden, William c. Walters, one year;
time keeper, William Tce, one year;
commissioners of aSSeSSm ent for street
improvements, John II. ~~Mehaffey,
Adolph H. Koyen. MAIDS ]. Dinesen,
terms prescribed by law; tax assessors,
William Mccullough, John E. Poulson,
Sol lRubenstein; city marshall, L. Burt
Moore, term prescribed by law: water
commissioner, Frank Stas, five years;
board of school estimate, Alderman
at-Large Wester and Alderman An
derson, one year; city electrician, Jay
B. FRANKIE, three years.
In the appointment Of Frank Stas
as water commissioner there was a.
difference of opinion. Alderman AL
bert G. Waters nominated Hugh Tim
minis, the retiring member, for re-
appointment and his motion was sec
onded by Alderman Thomas Patten
Alderman Clark Joined these two in
voting for Timmins but the four Re-
publicans favored Stas, the latter be-
ing elected.
All of the appointments of Mayor
Frank Dorsey were unapiln ously
confirmed by the board, they being
as follows Board of Education, John
X. Sheehy. five years; Sinking Fund
Commission, Ferd Garretson ana
Jesse Seaman, three years; Library
Board. Louis M. Rossi, five years:
Board of Health, John J. Buckley and
Robert MCGUIRE. Jr., three years.
No action was taken by the alder
men with reference to naming a ma
tron for the police station although it
is still under consideration, Definite
steps along this line are expected
shortly as the demand for such an
appointment is continually being
heard.
p: A: Hardware for Yankee tools.
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