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VOL. XIX. NO. 4
PALISADE, N. J., JANUARY 8, 1926
PRICE 4 CENTS
MAYOR ANO COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN!
IN CLIFFSIDE PARK MAKE REPORTS
AT ORGANIZATION MEETING JAN. 1
Retiring Councilman, H. V. Dietrich, Receives Gold Watch
and Fountain Pen—Herbert Olsen Takes His
< Seat—No Appointments Made.
Mayor Joseph Marini, Councilmen
Joseph Woodcock and Herbert Olsen,
Collector Herbert Post and Assessor
John Timony took their oaths of
office before a large gathering of citi
zens in the auditorium of the Cliffside
Park High School on New Year’s Day.
After finishing the old business the
Council Board of 1925 adjourned and
the members of the 1926 administra
tion, recently elected, were sworn in,
the only change in the personnel being
Herbert Olsen, who replaces Council
man Dietrich.
Mayor Marini presented a beautiful
gold watch to Councilman Dietrich in
behalf of the Council Board and paid
a tender tribute to him as a man who
had worked tirelessly and conscien
tiously fot principles he believed to be
right. Attorney Edward A Kennedy,
with a most appropriate address, pre
sented the retiring councilman with a
gold fountain pen, a gift of the Town
Club, of which Mr. Dietrich is presi
dent.
Councilman Frank Meyer presented
to Mayor Marini a gold badge of office
from the townspeople. The Mayor
also received a large palm from a
friend in Florida.
lilt; iYicl.Y Ul ill a. vie M. * * w - - -
year’s activities, which is printed on
page two.
All the committee chairmen made
annual reports, embracing recom
mendations and in the case o£ each
the report was received with applause.
The recommendations included the
erection of a Are house in the Grant
wood section, printing of the official
minutes, the selling of the old Public
School No. 1, and the funds derived
from sueh a sale; to be use4 in paying
.fortfie recently, purchased property
'? adjacent to the high school, erection
1 of a war memorial on the memorial
park site now in possession of the
borough. *
Councilman Meyer, chairman of the
Building and Grounds Committee, re
ported that during the year just ended
accommodations . for 392 additional
families had been made ip one, two,
and multi-family houses and flats,
totalling in cost 12,238,225, which is
$211,751 in excess of that of 1924.
County Committeeman Seymour N.
Sears, as the speaker of the day, laud
* ed the past administration for its effi
ciency in handling the borough affairs
for the last two years, and praised all
the departments for the fine service
they have rendered. He deplored the
practice of organizations asking the
public officials to subscribe to various
forms of charity and buy tickets for
everything going on, explaining that
they were serving without compensa
tion and were entitled to; considera
tion.
Two machine guns, trophies of the
late war, adorned the front of the
stage where the< Council sat, and in
speaking of the guns, Mayor Marini
said that they were put there merely
for ornamental purposes and were not
to be looked upon by the audience as
a protection to the board to keep the
citizens from attending the meetings.
The appointment of standing com
mittees and borough officials will be
made at the first regular meeting of
the new year, on January 11.
POLICE AND FIREMEN
. GET PAY INCREASE
Edgewater Gives Men $250 Per
Year; to Buy Land Adjoining
" Borough Hall.
The Mayor and Council of Edge
-water at the regular meeting on Tues
day night passed the resolution for
salary increase in the police and fire
departments, which was auth3rized
' by a referendum vote taken at the
November election, following a re
quest from the members of the de
partments for a raise.
Under the new ruling all officers
and men in the police and fire depart
s ments will receive an Increase of $250
a year. Vhe salary of the fire chief is
fixed at $3,372; that of the police chief,
$3,252. Edgewater is now ahead of
Englewood in its salaries to fire and
police departments. The local police
department was organized about twen
ty-two years ago, and the fire depart
ment was organized in 1913.
A resolution was passed authorizing
'the borough attorney, William E. Ellis,
> to institute condemnation proceedings
for the purchase of property adjoining
the borough halU on which it is pro
posed to build a new borough hall at
some distant date.
The Board of Health was requested
to make a complaint to the Mayor and
Council of North Bergen against the
dumping of refuse from that borough
onto property within the boundary of
Edgewater.
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FINE MALE MEMBERS
OF PETTING PARTY
Hudson County Folks on Lark
in Coytesville Arrested by
Patrolman Burns.
Patrolman Burns of the Fort Lee
police arrested a party of two girls and
three men found parked in an auto
along the roadway in Coytesville-last
Monday evening, and all were ar
raigned before Recorder Ennis on the
charge of disorderly conduct. The
men were rfned each and the girls
given suspended sentence.
They gave their names as Ella Wil
liams, 17, of 525 Clinton avenue, Union
City; Catherine Ahearn, 18, of 317
Jefferson street, Union City; Alexan
der Belanver, 356 Fourth street, Ho
boken, chauffeur hired by the party;
Charles Padrone, 23, of 523 Jefferson
street, Hoboken, and Frank Mulbruk,
25, of 258 Second street, Hoboken.
According to Patrolman Burns’ tes
timony, he was attracted by a wom
an’s screams while patrolling his beat
in the vicinity of Hudson terrace, near
the Villa Richard, in Coytesville, at
9:45 o’clock. 'fhe screams continued,
rising in intensity, and were distinct
ly those of a woman in distress, he
said: J
He summoned a ta;xi and was
driven at top speed in the direction
from which the sounds came. In a
darksome spot of the road leading to
the Villa Richard he found a parked
car, with the chauffeur on the front
seat and a man and a girl on the back
seat.
Another man and girl were out of
the car. When the officer inquired
the caUSe for the screams, all'denied
that anybody had been screaming, but
said that they were only singing.
When faced with arrest they ac
cepted the situation with bravado, and
were overheard to say that they would
“frame up a story.” This they car
ried out when brought before the re
corder, all denying that there was
anyone screaming. They said they
were singing, but couldn’t remember
the names of the songs.
Only One Change in
Fairview’s Official Family
At Fairview’s council inauguration
meeting on New Year’s morning the
only change in the official family was
the appointment of *Howard Freitag,
building inspector, to succeed Frank
Hatch, who resigned because of his
moving from Fairview.
The others reappointed were:
George Ehel, borough clerk; John S.
Tracy, recorder; Ernest Greenhalgh,
board of health; Henry Landahl,
plumbing inspector; Joseph W. Ma
rini, borough attorney.
The appointment 'of the borough en
gineer was deferred until a- subse
quent meeting of the board. McClave
and McClave, present borough engi
neers, are one of the candiates for
reappointment.
The meetings of the council will be
the first and third Thursdays in each
month.
Edgewater Starts New
Year With. Bills Paid
In Edgewater at the meeting on
New Year’s Day of the mayor and
council no change was made in the
official family, Mayor Henry Wissel
and Councilmen Gaul and Scheld suc
ceeding themselves. All of the bor
ough officials yrere reappointed. The
ceremonies were brief and routine,
the only variation being a communi
cation from B. F. Andrews, represent
ing the congregation and Sunday
school teachers in the Presbyterian
Church, deploring the recent action
of the council in passing a resolution
approving Senator Edge’s bill for the
modification of the Volstead act. No
action was taken on the communica
tion.
The borough enters .the new year
with no outstanding obligations and
all debts paid.
Palisade Home Entered
Louis De Stephano reported to the
Fort Lee police on Saturday that his
home on Bluff road and Beresford
place, Palisade, was entered, but as
far as could be ascertained nothing
had been taken.
He does not reside in the house, but
visits it twice a week to see that
everything is all right. It was on one
of his visits that he found one of the
rear windows jimmied open and the
house in disorder.
^The Fort Lee police have several
clue?.
Details of the meeting of the Help
ing Hand Society on Tuesday last
will be published in next week’s pa
per.
FT. LEE SCHOOLS TO
CLOSE AT 3 O’CLOCK
Request Granted by the School
Board—Budget for 1926
Adopted.
The adoption of the budget for
1926-27 and the change of closing time
in the schools from 3:30 to 3 o’clock
were the leading features of interest
at the meeting of the Board of Edu
cation of Fort Lee on Monday night.
The budget appropriation, which
was unanimously approved, is as fol
lows: Current expense account, $109,
000; repairs account, $10,500 as
against $11,000 Iasi year; manual
training account, $2,200 as against
$1,600 last year. Out of the current
expense account the sum of $95,000 is
devoted to teachers’ salaries.
The matter of the earlier closing
precipitated considerable discussion
at the December meeting of the board,
and it was decided to get the senti
ment of the majority of parents in
the borough before taking definite ac
tion. Questionnaires were submitted
throughout the borough, with the re
sult that a large majority of parents
of school children favored the change
of closing time.
Backward pupils or those otherwise
delinquent in their studies will be
given the opportunity of special atten
tion from 3 to 3:30 o’clock, the major
ity being dismissed at 3. The change
was advocated by the Palisade unit of
the Parent-Teacher Association, which
voted unanimously for the change and
presented its request to the board at
the meeting in December.
• A communication from the Carpen
ters’ Union asked what action the
board intends to take on the opening
of a vocational department in carpen
tering in the High School, which has
j been pending for some time.
It was the opinion of the board that
no such department will be opened
under its authorization, but the use of
a room in the building will be granted
if such is desired, the union to pro
vide its own teacher.
Jack Van Epps to Be
Manager of “Jimmy”
~ Moore's Movie House’
The Fort Lee Theatre, on Main
street and Center avenue, Fort Lee,
which for many years was conducted
by Peter Grieb, has changed owner
ship and is now conducted by Judge
James D. Moore and managed by Jack
Van Epps.
Jack is well known in moving pic
ture circles, being a member of the
profession himself, and he will be the
active manager of the show house.
‘‘Jimmy” Moore will also be active
around the theatre, so the moving
picture fans will be assued of seeing
some “reel” good pictures In the fu
ture.
The new owners took possession ,of
the playhouse on Wednesday last and
have made many nfew improvements
around the place.
Local U. C. T. Entertains
Grand Officers Jan. 9
Cliff Council No. 533 meets at Ma
sonic Hall Saturday night, January 9,
at 8:30.
This meeting is very important in
that it marks the time of the official
visit of the grand officers, and the lo
cal officers are expecting a big turn
out of members to greet the visitors.
Cliff Council is rapidly growing and
is looked upon by other councils in
the New Jersey-Delaware jurisdiction
as a real live wire organization with
a membership consisting of*go-getters
who can show the way to other older
councils.
Cliff Council No. 533 does things in
its own characteristic way, and the
others appreciate this.
Another important phase of this
meeting will be the announcement by
Mr. Vican, manager of Cliff Council’s
bowling team, that the team repre
senting the local council will meet
that of Jersey City Council next Mon
day night on the Mystic Lee alleys, in
Union Vjtty. The team that will in
all probability carry the banner of
the local council is as follows: W. J.
McDonald, F. W. Shepherd, W. John
ston, C. J. Leeger, J. Cochoran, Jr., J.
Gerrity.
The team expects a large delega
tion from the Cliff Council to do the
rooting. .
New Members Elected
Into Exchange Club
The Exchange Club of Cliffside
Park met at 12:50 Tuesday and im
mediately delved Into the buslnes be
fore it. Most of the time was taken
up with committee reports.
The committee on welcome signs
reported that the signs •will be avail
able in about two weeks and when
they are up and doing their work of
greeting strangers who come into our
borough, the people at large will be
proud of them because the signs are
really works of art and are beautiful.
The club voted favorably on three
new members, viz., Dr. J. H. Irwin,
"tVilliam Michaelson and Otto Stem.
This brings the roster up tq 15 men
and just as .soon as the membership
reaches the 25 mark a public affair
will be held at which the presenta
tion of the club charter will be made.
Free Examination for
Food Handlers
Free medical examinations for
food handlers will be hold at the
Borough Hall in Cliffside Park by
the Board of Health on the follow
ing dates: •
Monday, January 4, 11 and 18,
from 11 to 12 a. m.
Wednesday, January 6, 13 and
20. from 11 to 12 a. m.
Friday, January 8, 15 and 22,
from 11 to 12 a. m.
January 25, 27 and 29, from 8 to
9 p. m.
NEW LETTER CARRIERS
TO MAKE CANVASS OF
HOMES ON JANUARY 16
Actual Delivery in Palisade to
Start Few Days Later to
Homes Equipped With Boxes
and Numbers.
The letter carriers will begin their
work on delivery system in Palisade
cn Saturday, January 16. They will
make a house to house canvass, the
purpose of which is to obtain the
names of all persons in every resi
dence to which they will deliver mail.
Residents will also be informed that
if their residence is not equipped with
a suitable mail receptacle no mail will
be delivered by carrier until same is
provided. A house number must also
be displayed conspicuously on each
residence.
This service has been installed for
the benefit of the residents of this
community and co-operation in pro
viding mail receptacles and house
numbers will aid in starting the de
livery system in promptly.
Preliminary work by the carriers,
as stated above, will begin on Janu
ary 16, and will consume a few days’
time, immediately after which the first
actual mail delivery will be made to
those having receptacles and house
numbers.
CASS GILBERT.-N. Y.
ARCHITECT, TO ASSIST
WITH HUDSON BRIDGE
Architectural Beauty to Be Fea
ture of Span—Local Men on
Advisory Committee.
It was announced by Julian A.
Gregory, chairman of the Port of New
York Authority, on Monday that Cass
Gilbert, architect of the Woolworth
building, the Essex county courthouse
in Newark and other notable struc
tures, had been engaged to assist from
the architectural standpoint in de
signing the bridge which will span the
Hudson river from Manhattan to Fort
Lee, N. J„ and that the firm of York &
Sawyer, whose achievements include
the Kensico dam and the Federal Re
serve Bank building of New York, had
been engaged to render similar serv
ices in the building of the bridges
which will cross the Arthur'Kill, one
from Elizabeth to Howland Hook and
the other from Perth Amboy to Tot
tenville, Staten Island.
These announcements were made at
a joint meeting of the New York and
New Jersey Hudson river bridge ad
visory committees at the New York
State Chamber of Commerce building,
65 Liberty street, Monday. Luncheon
preceded the meeting. Both Mr.
Gregory and Mr. Gilbert were speak
ers at the joint meeting, and both em
phasized the desirability of combining
beauty with utility in the building of
the Hudson river bridge so that the
structure would not only afford con
venience for traffic, but would also
serve as a monument of its day and
generation. William W. Drinker,
chief ehgineer of the Port Authority,
another speaker, explained some of
the details of the work which is ahead
of the bridge builders.
As the Hudson river bridge is yet to
be designed by the engineers, the
architect can work from the start
with them on both the bridge and the
approaches. Professor W. H. Burr of
Columbia is consulting engineer on
this bridge, and the preliminary
studies are being conducted by O. H.
Ammann.
Mr. Ernest Sibley, architect, of Pal
isade and B. Duncan McClave. engi
neer, of Cliffside Park are on the Port
Authority’s advisory committee.
Car With Sentimental
Value Stolen Last Week
Patrolman Scheurer of the Fort I^ee
police found the Essex coach belong
ing to Arthur J. Rooney of Grantwood
with its four tires missing on Hudson
Terrace, in Fort Lee, on Thursday of
last week.
The car had been stolen from in
front of the home of one of Mr. Roo
ney’s real estate salesmen the night
before.
When Mr. Rooney was asked, "Was
the auto very valuable?’’ he said,
“WelL yes; it was the car 1 did my
courting in."
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GRANT-LEE THEATRE
PAYS i% DIVIDEND
Checks Covering Four Year’s
Dividends at 8% Per Annum
Mailed to Holders of Pre
ferred Stock.
The Grant-Lee Theatre at Palisade
Junction said: "Happy New Year” to
their hundreds of stockholders this
year with dividend checks covering a
period of four years.
The directors declared the dividend
of 8 per cent per annum on the pre
ferred stock since the incorporation
four years ago, thus paying back to
the investors 32 per cent of their en
tire investment.
Besides declaring a fine dividend
the Grant-Lee has in the past year or
two made many improvements on
their property, including a fine Mollar
organ, additional scenery, added light
ing effects, a new- decorative scheme,
and a fine new heating and ventilat
ing system.
The incorporators knew years ago
the Junction would be an ideal spot
for a playhouse and with that purpose
in mind acquired the land. A portion
of the building now housing the Pali
sade National Bank and H. D. Schall’s
office with offices above was first
erected and quickly occupied. A stock
selling campaign during which many j
local people took shares in the amuse-1
ment enterprise was followed by the
erection of the theatre itself with
additional stores and offices. The
street in front of the playhouse was
graded and curbed and in January.
1923, the Grant-Lee Theatre opened
for business wtih a capacity house and
has prospered ever since.
I E. Thornton Kelly was the origi
nator of the plan and has been its
active head from the outset. He has
worked hard and tirelessly in behalf
of the corporation and the large divi
dend was made possible largely
through his management. Mr. Kelly
attributes the success of the under
taking to the faith the people of the
community have had in him and his
associates.
Assails Ft. Lee Man
For No Apparent Reason,
Escapes in Heavy Fog
The dense fog that enveloped the
Palisades ridge recently proved an ef
fective covering for the escape of
James Putrino, an Italian youth resid
ing in Hudson street, Fort Lee. after
he had made an attempt upon the life
of Michael Ferfero, also of Hudson
street, for an unexplained reason.
According to the police, Ferfero was
walking on the street with a girl
named Angelina Cello when he was
intercepted by Putrino, who without
cause started an argument w-ith him.
A telephone call was sent to police
headquarters that a quarrel was im
minent and Patrolmen Burns, Wall
and Lee were dispatched to the scene.
At the approach of the policemen
Putrino dropped a .32 caliber gun and
started to run for the Coytesville
woods. The police gave chase and
fired Putrino’s gun. He disappeared
in the fog and has not been found.
At the police station Ferfero told
the police that he knew of no reason
for Putrino’s action and that he only
knew him by sight and had never
spoken to him before the afTair. Nich
olas Ferfero, a brother of Michael,
told the police that he met Putrino on
the street and the latter told him he
was looking for Michael and that if
he found him he would “cut him up.”
Gay New Year’s Eve
Party at Ft. Lee Studio
Much noise and gaiety filled the
large studio of the Fort Lee Studios,
Inc., on New Year’s eve, when that
corporation had its second studio par
ty and dance.
Many guests from New York city.
Fort Lee and neighboring towns were
present to see the old year out and to
celebrate the birth of 1926.
A full program took up the first
part of the evening, after which the
guests danced to the music of a seven
piece jazz band. The program con
sisted of several acts of vaudeville
from a New York vaudeville house, a
pageant of Father Time and 1926, a
Charleston contest and the raffling off
of prizes.
The pageant of Father Time took
place at the entrance of the new year,
when an ancient gentleman, dressed
as Father Time, was led to the abode
of the Forgotten by the cherubic
youngster, dressed to represent the
New Year.
Derfuss, Bergen County
Distributor, Garford Trucks
R. G. Derfuss of Hackensack is the
Bergen county distributor of the Gar
ford trucks, known all over the coun
try for their economical fulfillment of
heavy or light hauling. These trucks
are made in from one to seven and a
half ton capacity, and manufacturers
in many parts of Bergen county are
already convinced that the Garford
trucks fill the requirements of their
trucking and hauling problems.
Derfuss has showrooms at South
Moore, Hackensack, where several
types of Garford trucks are on dis
play and where demonstrations will
be given at any time.
MAYOR WHITE'S FIFTH INAUGURAL
PROVES EVENT OF GREAT INTEREST
WITH FINE TALK AND BEST SPIRIT
Before Fine Crowd New Year’s Day New Fort Lee Admin
istration Starts Out Amid Cheerful Feeling, Happy
Speeches, Good Cheer and Much Enthusiasm.
The inauguration of Mayor Edward
A. White of Fort Lee and his new
council took place last Friday, New
Year’s Day, in the diminutive borough
hall before a packed audience. The
occasion brought out the fine execu
tive qualities of Mayor White and
demonstrated the further fact that in
the handling of a council session May
or White is there with skill, under
standing and feeling. He wielded the
baton like a veteran and in several
delicate situations developed the fact
that he is of even temper, fair above
every other consideration and un
afraid. One of the councilmen chose
to tell the mayor that he questioned
his authority to vote on a question up
for decision, and Mayor White prompt
ly said, “Well, I’ll assume the respon
sibility and vote anyhow,” which he
did. The incitlent was dramatic in a
way and showed that the mayor does
his own thinking and moves along
like a well oiled piece of machinery.
Mayor White read a short inaugural
address and included the aims of the
council for the coming year. These
embrace lower taxes, a borough hall,
a new high school, the extension of
Palisade avenue and other ambitious
efforts for the better government of
the people. If half of these are car
ried out Fort Lee will have gone one
step higher in her place among suc
cessful boroughs of Bergen county.
The new councilmen, Messrs, Elkan
and Wood, were duly inaugurated and
took their places on the board. The
mayor asked each to say a word. Mr.
Wood said he was pledged to do his
duty and asked that hs be judged by
tbe record of his service. Capt. Harry
said he was not a speaker and said
that actions speak louder tnan words.'
Mayor White then made a state
ment about the extension of Palisade
avenue, soon to be a state road, and
thanked the board of freeholders for
informing him at Christmas time that
they were'ready to do the work' at
once. This work will cost $125,000, of
which the borough will pay $25,000.
The work will begin as soon as pos
sible, Mayor White said.
Following the mayor’s appointments
of standing councilmanic committees
and other appointments he asked that
those who might want to say some
thing, as is customary, be heard.
Looking over the audience he spied
W. R. Goodman of Palisade, who went
up front and made a very fine little
talk about how glad he was to be
there; how he had voted for a Demo
crat because he liked it and hoped
Mayor White would have a term of
usefulness and benefit Jo the borough.
Mr. Goodman was quite felicitous and
told of his father’s having a Democrat
wagon, a thing he could never under
stand. But he said he was glad to
have voted for Mayor Wrhite and
wished him and the council a happy
new year.
Judge James D. Moore was called to
the front by the mayor, and he made
a dick-nailing good speech—a charac
teristic speech—for he always makes
a good one, and this was one of his
best. He said the mayor had been
elected on a nonpartisan platform, a
thing he likedl in borough politics.
Judge Moore spoke of the many things
done recently by the borough, includ
ing the building of Palisade avenue,
but said the outstanding thing before
all minds today was the Hudson river
bridge. He told of the recent efforts
to discredit this enterprise and told in
detail the faililre of the knockers to
put the Port Authority out of commis
sion and detailed the ugly part played
by Hudson county at Trenton in aid
of the nullifying of the Port Author
ity. He then told in detail how the
mayor had played really the winning
hand at this Trenton attack- by telling
of the part Fort Lee had played by
donating its great waterfront to pub
lic use without charge or price. He
said Mayor White made the big point
in warding off the attack on the'Port
Authority. Judge Moore made a big
hittmd was roundly applauded.
Charles T. Logan, editor of The
Palisadian, was next called on. He
said he voiced the sentiment of the
voters of Palisade in expressing pleas
ure over the election of Mayor White
and offered him congratulations. Mr.
Logan made the following allusion to
Mayor White’s being accustomed to
inaugurations, having been mayor so
many years. He alluded to the great #
benefits of the Hudson bridge and
said Bergen county had a billion dol
lars added to its values in the past
year and that that was a mere drop
in the bucket to what would come
with the finished bridge. He said
Bergen county would be a second
Long Island on an enlarged scale and
that in five ydars there would be a
million population in the county.
Mr. McNally of Fort Lee congratu
lated Mayor White also.
Annur iverwein was re-eieciea pres
ident of the council; Charles S. Le
bright was re-elected borough clerk.
Practically all of the borough officials
were re-appointed. Some heat was
occasioned over the reappointment of
Judge W iliam S. Ennis for recorder.
When the vote was . called for
Messrs Cook and Wood voted in the
negatits^jSijj^ Councilman' Hoe be!
passed. "TKe'rfl&ofHalTerfof a *««=•
ond vote, with the same result. He
then said he would consider Mr. Hoe
bel’s vote in the affirmative. Council
man Cook wanted to know on what
authority he made such a ruling.
Mayor White replied that he made it
on his own authority and that a mem
ber of the council must vote either
one way or the other and could < not
be a “mollycoddle.” He then called
for a third vote, with the result that
Mr. Hoebel voted in the negative.
The mayor then cast the decisive vote
in favor of the reappointment of En
nis.
The following committees were ap
pointed: Elections, Hoebel. Cook,
Wood; finance, Schall, Kerwein, El
kan; licenses, Kerwein, Wood, Schall;
fire, Kerwein, Hoebel, Elkan: health.
Wood, Hoebel, Cook; printing. Cook,
Elkan, Wood; laws, Cook, Elkan,
Wood; streets, Kerwein, Schall, '
Wood; lights, Elkan, Hoebel, Schall;
police, Schall, Kerwein, Elkan; sew
ers, Kerwein, Schall, Elkan; build
ings, Wood, Cook, Hoebel; records, *
Hoebel, Elkan, Cook; building and
zoning, Elkan, Wood, Kerwein.
Mackay & Mackay were reappoint
ed borough attorneys, and McClave &
McClave were reappointed borough
engineers.
The Fort Lee Sentinel, the Bergen
Citizen and The Palisadian were
named as official papers. ' '
Judge Zabriskie to Be
Bergen County Counsel
Judge John B. Zabriskie will suc
ceed Clarence Mabie, resigned, as
county counsel of Bergen county.
This was announced Thursday of
last week by William Beswick, who
on Saturday will become director of
the new Board of Freeholders. Bes
wick will at that time begin his
eleventh term in the county board.
Another announcement made by the
new director was the personnel of the
1S26 committees. Hereafter the com
mittees instead of being composed of
one will be composed of two men. The
•new committees will be as follows:
Public Works: E. B. Gorham and
A. Z. Bogert.
Public Welfare: H. J. Wostbrock
and C. W. Wright.
Public Safety: Walter A. Kipp and
William Beswick.
Property, Building and Grounds: H.
! S. Mabie and A. Z. Bogert. »
\ Finance: A. Z. Bogert, E. B. Gor
ham, W. A. Kipp, C. W. Wright, H. S.
Mabie and H. J. Wostbrock.
Break Up Crap Game
A gang of youthful gamblers gather
ed on a concrete slab in the woods di
rectly in back of the old public school
on Gorge road, Cliffside, and were
busily engaged in a game of “gallop
ing dominoes” w-hen the appearance
of the Cliffside Park police put a sud
den end to their activities.
The crap shooters heard the police
car coming and made a hasty retreat.
Fame is queer, and all the average
American knows about Wales is that
he rides horses and isn't married.
u. •
FT. LEE 1926 BUDGET
TAKES $23,000 JUMP
$7,500 Increase in Police Fund.
$7,000 Increase in Road Fund.
Councilman Kerwein Presides.
The proposed budget and tax ordl*
nance of the borough of Fort Lee for
1926 was introduced at the meeting of
the Council on Wednesday night.
The total appropriation this year is
S245.696.41, an increase of about $23,
000 over 1925's total. It is interesting
to note that nearly one half of this
amount is paid in interest on debt and
the liquidation of indebtedness.
The total operating expenses for
| 1926 are estimated to be $158,750,
which is $22,250 higher than last year.
Big increases were made in the police
appropriation ($39,000 as compared
with $31,500 last year), and the road
appropriation ($25,000 as compared
with $18,000 last year). The budget
in full will be printed in the Pali*
sadian next week. The public hearing
has been set for February 3.
Mayor White had to be absent on
account of sickness in his family and
the president of the Council, Arthur
Kerwein, presided, and handled the
meeting very nicely.
The only matter of public Impor*
tance outside of the budget that waa
acted upon was the resolution to ad*
vertise for bids on the repair of the
fire engine of Company No. 3. The
advertisement for bids, together with
specifications, appears elsewhere ii&
this issue.
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