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The Palisades Are the Balcony of the World'*
William A. Mackay, Coytesville
PALI SAD IAN
"Finds tongues In trees, books In running brooks,
Sermon*, in stones, and good In everything.”
—As You Like It.
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VOL. XIX. NO. 6
PALISADE, N. J., JANUARY 22, 1926
PRICE 4 CENTS
RIGHT OF MAYOR TO DECLARE VOTE
OF COUNCILMAN WHO "PASSES"
CAUSE OF ARGUMENT IN FORT LEE
Councilman Cook of Coytesville in Verbal Tilt With
Mayor White on Question—Hall Packed for Assess
ment Hearing—Palisade Avenue Assessment Hear
ing Postponed to March 3—To Discuss Fire Sirens
for Palisade and Coytesville.
Whether or not a Mayor has the right to declare a “pass”
vote by a councilman as being a vote with the majority was the
cause of some exciting moments at the meeting of the Mayor
and Council in Fort Lee on Wednesday night.
jjonowing me imum: ueaims on
the Dead Brook sewer assessments,
Councilman Harry Cook of Coytes
ville asked why the sewer was built
through solid rock and water forced
to run uphill instead of following the
natural water course along the trol
, ley tracks.
iviayur wmitj sttiu ute qucsiwu uau
no bearing on the subject at hand,
that being the fairness of the assess
ments as made by the assessment
commissioners. He entertained a
motion by Councilman Schall to have
a public hearing before the assess
ment commissioners on next Thurs
day night and defer the consideration
of their report until February 17.
Councilmen Schall, Kerwein and El
kan voted "yes,” Councilmen Wood
and Hoebel "no,” and Councilman
Cook said “pass.”
At this point the Mayor declared
Cook’s vote as "yes” because the ma
jority had voted "yes.” Mr. Cook said
he wanted to know by what authority
the Mayor voted for him. Mayor
White said he had that right, could
prove it, but did not want to delay
the progress of the meeting.
„ The attorney, George Mackay, en
’ tered the discussion and said the
Mayor was right, and explained if a
councilman was allowed to “pass”
the government could not function,
and the councilmen were elected to
transact business. Mr. Cook said he
' > ' would like Mr. Mackay to show him
: i „ -_the_law_in a book, and Mr. Mackay
promptly Informed him that he was
not required to bring the law library
- to the council to prove anything, that
his opinion was sufficient reply.
Mr. Cook still questioned the May
or’s right to vote for him, whereopon
the Mayor told him if he didn’t at
tend meetings he could send a police
officer after him and make him at
tend.
Mr. Cook refused to change his
vote until the question was answered,
■ and Councilman Kerwein volunteered
an explanation, which was augment
8 ed by Engineer Thomas Fox of Mc
Clave & Clave’s office. Many techni
calities entered into the choice of
the course for the sewer and follow
ing their recital the three councilmen
reversed their votes and the post
ponement motion passed.
■* The small room was jammed with
interested persons and many filed
. complaints relative. to damages to
their property and numerous ques
tions were asked regarding the as
sessments. Those already connected
with this trunk sewer had average
t assessments of about 9250 per lot.
The prospective assessments in most
cases was the same, with a present
assessment of about $30 per lot.
Those not connected with the sewer
are liable >only for the smaller as
sessment until they connect with the
i sewer.
hi u ii ft Liiuae picscui wuu <i»n.eu
for information were Messrs. Gils
dorf, DuBois, Gunther, Edward
Lyons, Charles Hart, J. A. Celia and
, Mrs. Louise Brown.
Palisade Avenue Hearing
Because the clerk had not had time
to complete sending out the notices
the consideration of the Assessment
Commissioners’ report on the Pali
sade avenue improvement was post
poned until March 3.
Mrs. Mulligan of Palisade, was
present representing the! present
owners of the former McElroy estate
(comprising all the land between the
Cliff and Anderson avenue, running
from Palisade to Fort Lee) and filed
an assessment protest in writing.
Mrs. Mulligan also submitted a sub
division map of this property, to be
known as Palisade Gardens, which
was accepted by the borough.
Award Contract
The job of repairing the fire engine
. of Company No. 3 was awarded to the
lowest bidder, P. Castellini, of Fort
Lee, at $1,359. Other bidders were
Ernest A. Cuny ($1,875); Fort Lee
Auto Sales Co. ($1,535); Charles A.
Heft ($1,410.25).
Other Business
At the request of Collector Bender
the annual tax sale was postponed
for 30 days.
' The fire committee was authorized
to meet with the members of fire
companies Nos. 2 and 4 to consider
the installation of fire sirens in Pali
sade and Coytesville.
The Board of Trade in a communi
cation asked that an appropriation
for snow removal be provided in the
1926 budget. This will he considered
at the next meeting.
Councilman Cook announced that
the property owners on Second street
in Coytesville are willing to give the
borough six feet of property to widen
the street if the borough agrees to
replace their sidewalks and fences.
Murder Man and
Steal $6,395
A dwarf-like man with sleek,
dark features leaned through the
doorway of the American Rail
way Express office in Hacken
sack yesterday morning, aimed a
pistol at the back of Frank Bran
nan, 23 years old, of 615 Madison
avenue, Paterson, and fired two
shots. While two accomplices
covered the cashier and the office
manager, the robber stepped over
the body of the dying man and
helped himself to S6,395.18. Then
the three robbers sped away in an
automobile.
ANDERSON AVE. IN FT.
LEE TO BE IMPROVED BY
COUNTY IN THE SPRING
Borough to Act on Proposition at
a Later Date—County Will
ing to Pave 24 Feet.
A communication from the Board of
Freeholders to the Fort Lee borough
council announces that the part of An
derson avenue extending through the
borough of Fort Lee will be improved
this coming spring.
The county will improve twenty
four feet of the roadway, and it is up
to the borough to construct sidewalks,
curbs and gutters as well as arrange
for all under-surface connections such
as water, sewers and gas.
Just what Fort Lee will do will be
determined at a later date when the
council meets as a whole.
The Freeholders recently improved
the part of Anderson avenue that runs
through Cliffside Park and Fairview.
The officials of those two boroughs
were successful in influencing the
county to pave thirty feet instead of
twenty-four feet, and the boroughs
paved the balance of five feet on each
side, and built the sidewalks, curbs
and gutters as well as providing all
under-surface connections. The cost
of the borough’s part of the work will
of course be assessed against the prop
erty benefited.
Scots to Honor Poet
January 25 was a great day wi’ the
Scots, being the anniversary of the
birth of Scotland’s immortal poet,
Robert Burns. Scotsmen and their
friends from all sections of Bergen
county on that date gather at the
county seat to do honor to his mem
ory.
The banquet this year will be held
at the Lunin Restaurant, Main street,
Hackensack. Pipers, singers of the
auld Scots sangs and a speaker who
will talk on the life and works of Rob
ert Burns will help make the evening
one to he remembered.
Scots and their friends can get in
communication with Mr. J. W. Mercer,
Mr. J. M. Smith or Mr. H. W. Hardie,
Hackensack, and get further particu
lars.
EXCHANGE CLUB TO
ASK FARE REDUCTION
To Help With “Save the Pali
sades” Movement Started
in Hudson County.
A plan was submitted at the Cliffside
Park Exchange Club meeting at the
Park Inn, to be sent to the Public Serv
ice Railway company on a reduction
ot fares for Cliffside commuters. At
the present time it is necessary for a
person boarding a trolley car for the
125th street ferry to pay two five-cent
fares, and if the rider is desirous of
traveling to the Weehawken ferry the
fare also is ten cents. The distance
to the Weehawken ferry is more than
four miles, while that to the 125th
street ferry is less than two miles. It
is due to this difference in distance
that the club is backing a move to
have commutation books issued to
Cliffside Park commuters at a reduced
rate of fare.
The “Welcome to Cliffside Park”
signs have been received by the club
and will be erected within the next
day or two. These four signs are a
work of art and will undoubtedly
cause much favorable comment from
transients entering the borough.
A complaint was registered with
the club that the parking space owned
by the buses operating along Ander
son avenue, at Lafayette avenue. W.
J. Jacoby, one of the members of the
organization, stated that the owners
of this parking space had constructed
a concrete driveway on the Anderson
avenue entrance, but that on the La
fayette avenue side nothing has been
done, with the result that the heavy
buses have broken the flagging and
the walk is continued mud puddle for
passersby. The matter was referred
to the mayor and council for action.
President Joseph W. Marini report
ed that although a comparatively new
organization, the Cliffside Park Club,
was the best represented organization
from the various exchange clubs at
the conference held at the Capitol
Restaurant, Union City, when the mat
ter of saving the Palisades from de
struction was discussed. President
Marini said that State Chairman of
Exchange Clubs Colonel Butler had
commented very favorably on the
rapid strides being made by the Cliff
side Park organization.
The committee on securing the pub
lishing of house and street numbers
in the directory of residents in Cliff
side Park reported ' that the matter
was now in the hands of the New
York Telephone Traffic Department.
Marini Boosters Fix
Up Otto Stein’s Car
On Thursday evening, January 7,
at “The Laurels" in Ridgefield, the
Marini Boosters met to do honor to
their president, Otto Stein of Grant
wood. At the close of the dinner
Mayor Joseph W. Marini gave a short
talk thanking the Boosters and Mr.
Stein ■ for their assistance in the past
campaign. After several other ad
dresses Richard J. Fox spoke and
told Otto that there was a specific
reason for this meeting which every
one excepting him knew, and present
ed him with his Chevrolet sedan, en
tirely reconditioned and repainted, and
showing no traces of the accident
which befell the car on the evening of
December 5, when the Marini Boosters
tendered the honorary dinner to Mayor
Joseph W. Marini.
Cashier Hardman Made
One of Bank’s Directors
Fulton R. Hardman, cashier of the
First National Bank of Fort Lee, was
made a member of the board of di
rectors of that institution at the an
nual stockholders’ meeting during
the past week. The following officers
were re-elected to the positions which
they now hold: John C. Abbott, presi
dent: Herman H. Ghent, vice presi
dent: Joseph Huger, M.D., vice presi
dent: Fulton R. Hardman, cashier; E.
L. Richter, assistant cashier; Leon C.
Klingberg, assistant cashier.
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Weber of
Grant avenue attended a performance
of “May Flowers” at the Forrest Thea
tre on Friday evening last.
Englewood Cliffs Council Budget
Of $31,472 Discussed at Council Meeting—Many Im
portant Matters Discussed. _
Although the budget was the princi
pal subject under, consideration at the
last meeting of the Mayor and Coun
cil, many other matters were discuss
ed and disposed of.
Numerous communications were
read, chief among them being a letter
from former'Mayor John G. Ropes, re
lating to the bill for taxing the Inter
state Park property. It was stated
that the value of the exempt proper
ties in the four boroughs of Alpine,
Tenafly, Englewood Cliffs and Fort
Lee amounts to $1,700,000, which at a
.0004 tax average reduces the taxes
approximately $75,000. He mentioned
further that Bergen county has been
asked to co-operate in trying to have
this itfitrd bill, patterned alter the New
York bill, passed by the governor. In
view of the fact that the last bill had
been passed by both houses, only to
be turned down by Governor Sllzer,
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showed the necessity of finding out
definitely how Governor Moore re
gards the new bill. Mayor Jenkins
then reviewed the work that had been
done and stated that of the one and
three-quarter of a million dollars’
worth of property in Englewood Cliffs
one-half million dollars’ worth is ex
empted for various reasons and that
revenue derived from taxing the park
property would materially decrease
our tax rate.
A letter dealing with the apportion
ment of policemen to population was
next read and filed with the comment
by the mayor that we were well with
in the limits, having provided for four
policemen for the new year.
The resignation of Mr. Frank Wake
ham as portmaster was accepted with
a few words by the mayor expressing
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New Bridge Bill in
New York Legislature
Authorization would be given the
Port of New York Authority under
a bill introduced in the New York
Legislature on Wednesday by As
semblyman John P. Nugent (Deni.,
N. Y.) to construct and maintain a
tunnel or bridge under or across
the Hudson river from points be
tween the vehicular tunnel now un
der construction and between 125th
and 133rd streets, Manhattan, and
points opposite in New Jersey.
The measure carries an appro
priation of $150,000 for borings,
surveys, engineering studies, neces
sary investigations and other pre
liminary work.
Under the bill introduced by Sen
ator Mackay at Trenton, providing
for the construction of the Fort
Lee bridge over the Hudson, there
is a provision that no other river
crossings for vehicles shall be per
mitted until the obligations entered
into for paying for the Fort Lee
bridge have been met or an inves
tigation shows that the traffic war
rants other bridges and that they
won’t detract from the anticipated
revenue from the 178th street
bridge.
State and County News
in Brief
—A rumor well defined about the coun
ty last week to the effect that Prosecu
tor Archibald C. Hart intended to re
sign drew forth a reply from that of
ficial that, although he had been think
ing of the same, he would not leave
his present post until after the state
^police raid cases now before the grand
jury are completed. “I have been turn
ing the thing over in my mind,” Mr.
Hart stated to newspaper men, “but I
have not come to any decision one
way or another. I would not say that
it is possible that I will quit the prose
cutor’s office, nor would I say that it
is probable.” Mr. Hart declared that
the appointment of his successor
would be up to the governor.
—Declaring that there were too many
frills, fads, fancies and foolishness in
our school systems and too little ap
preciation on the part of high school
students of what a high school course
means, former Surrogate Robert A.
Sibbald, who at one time was a mem
ber of the State Board of Educa
tion, created a distinct stir in county
educational circles when he issued a
long statement on the subject a few
days ago. He asserted that it was
“lamentable to note how the king’s
English is maltreated; one thing is
certain—mastery of the three R’s is
becoming a lost art.” He declared
that many students left high school
actually knowing less than when they
entered and suggested that local
Boards of Education ought to meet
with the public and get a slant on its
attitude, not only on further expendi
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Hospital Auxiliary
Holds Annual Meeting
The annual meeting and election of
officers of the Grantwood Auxiliary of
the Holy Name Teaneck Hospital was
held Friday, January 15, in the clinic
rooms of the Lawton avenue school,
with a good attendance of members
and the president, Mrs. G. Siegrist, in
the chair.
The following financial report was
read by Mrs. Siegrist:
This non-sectarian auxiliary was or
ganized April 14 at Epiphany Hall for
the purpose of giving help toward the
payment o*f the equipment of the new
non-sectarian hospital in Teaneck,
and the following sums have been
raised from April 14, 1925, to January
1, 1926: Regular membership fees—
Initiation fees, $55; monthly dues (25
cents a month), $49.50; associate
membership fees, at $1 a year, $25;
food sale May 21, Mrs. Siegrist’s,
$155; card party, Mrs. George
Brown’s, July, $80.40; card party, Mrs.
Broderick’s, September, $86; card par
ty, October, Mrs. Glynn, chairman,
$176.10; food sale, Mrs. Siegrist’s, No
vember, $141; cash donations, Octo
ber 16, Mrs. Mary Aragona, $10; Mr.
Gustav Dopsloff, $5; November 4, Mrs.
Adiel Vanderweighe. $200; total, $983.
The Auxiliary has paid for a three bed
semi-private room furnishings $800;
balance, $185.
At this annual meeting $21.75 was
taken in, making a total of $204.75.
The members voted to make an initial
payment of $200 toward the pledged
$1,000 for the baby delivery and ster
ilizing room equipment.
The following officers were elected
for the season of 1926: President, Mrs.
G. Siegrist; vice president, Mrs. Anna
Glynn; corresponding and recording
secretary, Mrs. Margaret Ahearn;
treasurer, Mrs. Josephine Schlckling.
New members enrolled: Mrs. Jo
seph Joseph, Mrs. Julia McCann; as
sociate member, Mrs. Susan Reynolds.
The program of the Auxiliary for
January and February will be a drive
for associate memberships, endeavor
ing thus to raise the additional $800
needed for the baby delivery and ster
ilization room equipment.
Mrs. Siegrist makes an appeal to
everyone to join and to give that sum,
which will be well invested in a noble
cause. Any member of our local aux
iliary has enrollment cards, which do
not obligate anyone to more than the
$1 tor this good cause.
BIG JUMP IN BUDGET
OF CLIFFSIDE PARK
Edgewater Budget Higher, Too,
but Taxes Will Be Lower.
Cliffside’s Raise Over
$50,000.
An adjourned session of Cliffsida
Park Council was held on IWonday
night and the budget was discussed
and various appropriations approved.
The total appropriation for 1926 is
8202,600. an increase of $50,144 over
last year.
Appropriation for administrative
and executive accounts is $16,500 the
same as last year. For the police de
partment the appropriation is $29,500
against $23,000 for 1925; $1,000 is the
appropriation for the police pension
fund. For the fire department, the ap
propriation is $9,800 an increase of
$2,300 over 1925. The firemen's pen
sion fund appropriation is $200. The
appropriation for the poormaster this
year is $1,000 an increase of $700 over
1925. Public library appropriation
was set at $2,200 against $1,900 for
last year. The amount for water and
hydrants is $6,860 building and ground
$5,000 an increase of $300 over 1925.
Palisades Amusement Park license
was fixed at $1,500 New York ped
dlers’ permits, $1,000; police court
$500.
The amendment to the police ordi
nance, providing for a uniformed chief
a captain and two sergeants will be
introduced at the regular meeting on
Monday night.
Edgewater
While the amount of the 1926 bud
get for Edgewater, as submitted at a
meeting of the council shows an in
crease of approximately $15,000 over
last year, Mayor Henry Wissel an
nounced that the tax rate will be four
points lower this year. This decrease
is brought about by the increase in
valuations, approximately $1,440,000
the greater portion of which is on fac
tory sites.
The total amount of the budget as
passed recently amounted to $320,023
against $314,592 in 1925. Rates for
local purposes was 1.46 last year and
as announced recently will be reduced
to 1.44. With the school budget show
ing a reduction from .67 to .65 and
the state and country rate the same,
the total tax rate reduction in*te bof
ough is 4 per cent. The new rate will
be 3.47 as against 3.51 last year.
The police and firemen increase or
dinance was passed on final reading.
This ordinance provides for an in
crease of approximately $250 per man
to take effect January 1, last. There
were no objections to either the
budget figures or the police and fire
men rates.
Bergen County’s Budget
Of $3,272,078.60 Passed
Without One Objection
The principal item of business trans
acted by the Bergen County Board of
Freeholders held Wednesday after
noon at the county court house in
Hackensack was final passage of the
1926 budget which calls for total ap
propriations of $3,272,078.60 of which
amount the sum of $2,935,178.60 will
be raised by taxation, the difference
between both amounts $246,900 being
provided by anticipated revenues.
The amount to be raised by taxation
is this year but $15,500 more than
1925.
This budget had been first approved
at a public meeting called for -the pur
pose and held in the morning, there
being but four lone spectators present
besides the newspapermen, and
though Director Beswick called for ob
jections if any, none were forthcom
ing.
Edge water Woman Dies
Miss Helen O’Callaghan, 46, of 13
Beverly place, Edgewater, died early
Saturday morning from a heart at
tack.
Funeral services were conducted
Thursday morning at the Holy Rosary
Church, Undercliff avenue, Edge
water, Father McGuirk officiating.
Interment was in Madonna cemetery,
under the direction of James A. Hunt
of Fort Lee.
CLIFFSIDE PARK'S POORMASTER
MAKES REPORT OF INTEREST TO
EVERY RESIDENT IN THE BOROUGH
Applications for Assistance Doubled in Year—Over 200
Cases Received Attention in 1925 — Wanderers
Among Those in Search of Help—Thanks Council
for Co-operation.
RECORD CROWD AT
MOORE’S INAUGURATION
New Governor1 Denounces Fed
eral Encroachment on State’s
Rights.
In the presence of about 25,000 per
sons A. Harry Moore, New Jersey’s
new governor, took the oath of office
at the Capitol Theatre, Trenton, on
Tuesday, the city being festooned in
holiday attire. Visitors to the capital,
who began arriving from all parts of
New Jersey early in the morning,
found flags and banners streaming
from all buildings. At least 10,000
represented the Hudson County De
mocracy, which led in the fight that
made Mr. Moore governor. They came
in fifteen special trains.
The inaugural exercises commenced
at 11:30 o’clock. Chief Justice Gum
mere administering the oath. The
new governor was then given the
great seal of the state by George S.
Silzer, retiring governor, following
which Governor Moore delivered his
inaugural address.
The principal feature of the mes
sage perhaps was the denunciation by
the governor of the encroachment of
the federal government upon state
rights, as exemplified particularly in
the prohibition amendment, and a pro
posed plan whereby, he said, New Jer
sey, New York and Pennsylvania
could break the coal strike and anni
hilate the “coal trust.”
The organization of a tri-state com
mission with power to condemn an
thracite coal lands and the construc
tion of a railroad from the mine fields
to tidewater would be the solution of
the vexing coal problem.
State government was rapidly dis
appearing, and the governor charged
that through dry regulation, or at
tempts to regulate, Washington would
interfere with our innocent social con
duct.
“Federal courts overrule state
courts, fixing trolley fares, water
rates and the price of necessities,
even attempting to control education.
Having attempted In the Eighteenth
Amendment to regulate the throats of
the people, in the proposed Twentieth,
it would regulate the minds of the
young.”
Governor Moore recommended that
the legislature memorialize Congress
to modify the Volstead act, urged the
repeal of the state enforcement act
and branded the Anti-Saloon League
as inimical to popular government.
Other recommendations called for
tax reduction, including repeal of the
half mill tax to finance the building
program of the department of institu
tions and agencies; utilization of mo
tor vehicle funds for the purposes now
financed by bond issue or direct tax;
defeat of the proposed constitutional
amendment providing for biennial ses
sions of the legislature and the elec
tion of a. governor every four instead
of three years.
Repeal of the June primary law and
the election of assemblymen from dis
tricts instead of counties and the dis
continuing of the state road tax after
1927. The governor also urged fewer
laws.
NOTICE
The telephone number of the Tax
Collector’s Office, Borough of Cliffside
Park, has been changed to Cliffside
1723.
New Bank in Grantwood to Open
New Bank in Grantwood to Open Tomorrow, Saturday,
January 23, for Public Inspection—Opens
Monday for Business.
Grantwood's new bank, the Cliff
side Park Title Guarantee and Trust
Company, will open its doors tor pub
lic inspection on Saturday (January
23) between the hours of 3 p. m. and
9 p. m. The bank will open for busi
ness on Monday next. The hours will
be 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. daily, except Sat
urdays, and on Saturdays from S a.
m. to 12 m.; Monday evenings from 6
p. m. to 8 p. m.
The new institution will perform
every banking service, including the
management of estates, and the offl
,cers announce that money deposited
in savings accounts prior to February
1 will receive interest from January 1.
The officers of the new bank are:
E. C. Hellstern, M. D., president;
Erich E. Leheten, first vice president;
Theodore Vogt, second vice president;
Joseph A. Preston, secretary and
counsel; Arthur H. Reichel, treasurer
The directors are: Francis A. Ban
ville, Raymond Barvier, Charles
Bischoff, Anton Bohm, Justus Hatte
mer, E. C. Hellstern, M. D., Erich E.
Lehsten, Dennis J. Mahoney, Arhand
Nagel, Henry Kissel, Arthur H. Rei
chel, Joseph A. Preston, Adiel Van
derweghe, Theodore Vogt.
The bank’s opening fulfills the
dream of its founders, who long ago
felt that Grantwood was large enough
for a bank of her own, and already the
response from the citizens has been
most gratifying. The charter for this
institution was granted last April, and
on December 12 the certificate of au
thority to begin business was re
ceived.
The Palisadian sends congratula
tions through its columns to the offi
cers and directors and wishes the new
bank success beyond expectations.
The following is the report of the
Rev. S. C. Gozzo, poormaster of the
borough of Cliffside Park, which will
be of interest to all the residents:
Herewith I submit the annual re
port of the poor’s department, of
which I have the honor to be the
overseer.
During the year just closed (1925)
the applications for relief have been
doubled; in fact, they have jumped
to the round figure of 350 applica
tions. After careful investigation
and consideration, many of these ap
plications have been dismissed, but
about 210 cases have received our at
tention and have been dealt with
according to the nature of each case.
While1 our community has grown
rapidly in the last two years, and
while many splendid and fine people
have chosen Cliffside Park as their
residence, at the same time the un
fortunate element, the poorer classes,
have also increased considerably. -
Furthermore, the location of our
borough, being somewhat of a link
between the great metropolis and
the interland, hundreds of the so
called tramps, vagrants, hoboes
and bums pass through our avenue.
and quite often they knock at the
door of the overseer of the poor for
help. Then also we have the wan
derers type, that is, the people who
come from the West and the inter
land centers to visit the great city,
and these, too, lacking the necessary
money for traveling, come to our of
fice for assistance.
Now, according to the new ' poor
laws, the overseer of poor must con
sider and assist these poor unfortu
nates, and must do his utmost to re
move as quickly as possible the poor
element and the vagrants, hoboes,
tramps-*- * v*th.: community.
But our appropriation has been
very limited, and therefore the work
of the poormaster has been handi
capped and, many times with regret,
we had to dismiss many worthy cases.
And the work of the overseer of the
poor does not consist in giving relief
alone, but in finding jobs, in settling
disputes between father and son, be
tween mother and daughter, in look
ing after deserted minors’, in trying to
keep families united and in peace, in
going after deserting parents, in as
sisting the recorder in the search of
responsible parents, who usually,
when they are out of work, try to
avoid responsibility, and in punishing
persons responsible for domestic
crimes. Of these we have had our
hands full during the year 1925.
Beside all this, we have dealt with
hundreds of hospital cases, especially
the hundreds of cases of tonsillitis
which require, investigation in order
to satisfy the hospital authorities and
to save money to our borough; we
have also co-operated with the Coun
ty Tuberculosis Clinic and the county
institutions, and the cases of widows’
pension and the State Welfare Board.
All in all, this is a work that requires
attention and careful consideration.
The following are the activities
recorded this year:
Cases of widow pension. 22
General hospital cases.75
Special hospital cases. 14
Families relieved . 36
Desertion cases attended. 24
Families reunited . 9
Abandoned children cases. 11
Cases of real destitution. 4
Vagrants, tramps, hoboes, tran
sient cases . 95
Orphans admitted to orphan homes 4
Meals provided for transients.... 37
Work and position provided. 69
And besides all these cases, many
bundles of clothes and shoes and
baskets of food have been distributed
to worthy cases. Special mention
should he made of the kindness of
the Woman's Club and many other
ladies, who during the past few days
have sent many discarded clothes,
which have been a blessing to many
unfortunate children; and also I wish
to mention the kindness of the relief
committee of the Whitehead Lodge
in providing 14 families with baskets
of food during the holidays.
In closing this report, I wish to
| thank the council for their readiness
! in helping me in assisting the poor
I and unfortunate of our community,
! and for the honor and trust they have
i given me to be their almoner.
Very truly yours,
S. C. GOZZO,
Overseer of Poor.
To Name Park Commission
Over seven years of strenuous and
continuous effort for a study of the
needs and requirements of Bergen
county for a system of parks has met
with success. The first tangible step
towards the study of this problem is
about to be taken by Charles W.
Parker, Justice of the Supreme Court
of New Jersey. Justice Parker la now
prepared to appoint an unsalaried
commission and has written B. Dun
can McClave, the original sponsor for
| this movement, to this effect.