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O'Sullivan, J. F., 1876-7-8-9.
Pangborn, J. W., 1872-4-5-6.
Hillier, G. B., 1872-4.
Parker, J. A., 1876-7.
Hollins, F. C., 1874-5.
Parker, J. W., 1852-8.
Holmes, James, 1853.
Pearsall, Wm., 1873.
Hope, A. D., 1852.
Perkins, G. F., 1885.
Horsley, -, 1861-3.
Hornblower, J., 1883-4-6-7.
Hoos, Ed., 1893-5.
Potter, Thomas, 1872-3.
Insley, H. A., 1854.
Plympton, G. S., 1876-7.
Jeliffe, W. H., 1857-9.
Ramsey, Alex., 1854-6.
Jewell, A. S., 1853-4.
Jewell, C. C., 1873-4-5-6.
Jones, J. M., 1892-4.
Jordan, R. S., 1880-1.
Kelly, John, 1883-4.
Kelly, H. A., 1888-9-90-1-2.
Lacy, Thomas T., 1855-66.
Laird, W. R., 1882-3-4-5.
Laverty, P. H., 1872-3.
Romaine, Isaac, 1880-1-3-4.
Lyman, L. C., 1852.
Romar, J. B., 1867-8.
Lyon, John H., 1863-8.
Rooney, C. J., 1870-1.
Lyon, William J., 1874-5.
Rowe, John, 1878-9.
Male, Job, 1863-6.
Ryan, Patrick, 1870-1.
Mangels, J. F., 1883-4-6-7.
Mason, Mial, 1880-1.
McAnerny, J., 1870-1.
McCabe, J. 11., 1861-3.
McCoy, J. W., 1852-4-63-9.
MeDonald, T. J., 1874-5.
Ryerson, J. A., 1854. Sanborn, Hiram M., 1875-6.
Schermerhorn, L., 1873-4. Semler, Peter, 1873-4-5-6-8-9-80.
Shain, F. W., 1893-4. Sherwood, T. P., 1885-6.
*Ex-officio members.
Randall, E., 1852-3.
Randolph, B. F., 1865-9.
Record, George L., 1885-6.
Reid, John, 1889-90-1-2-3.
Richardson, R. T., 1877-8-9-80.
Ritter, W. F., 1883-4.
Roe, C. A., 1882.
Robinson, Francis, 1864-6.
*Earle, Thomas, 1863-4. Edelstein, John, 1869. Edge, Benj., 1885-6. Edge, Isaac, 1869.
*Ege, H. N., 1872-3. Finck, M., 1881-2. Fleming, James, 1852-62.
Mills, C. D., 1864-6-70-1.
Olney, E., 1852.
Heins, J. D., 1874-5. Henwood, H., 1865-7-70-1.
Perveil, C. W., 1865-8-70-1.
Pfingsten, C. A., 1888-9-90-1-2.
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CITY HALL COMMISSION
2. Emil E. Datz.
1. Tulin Pierwun. 4. George P. Farrell (Clerk).
3. James Burk
VARIOUS CONTRACTORS IN CONNECTION WITH ITS CONSTRUCTION ; & John Kiernan.
L. 11. Bronme.
la. W. W. Farrier. 8. Richard W. English. 7. Patrick Connolly. 6. William D. Tallman.
HISTORY OF JERSEY CITY.
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Simmons, W. H., 1882-3-4.
Van Doren, Jos., 1862-5.
Simpson, R. A., 1894.
Van Houten, E., 1882-3.
Slater, Justus, 1855-8.
Van Riper, B., 1884.
Smith, A. T., 1854-7.
Van Vorst, John, 1870-1.
Soper, James, 1870-1.
Van Vorst, C., 1860-1.
Soule, H. M., 1852-62.
Voorhees, J. J., 1886-7-8-9-90-1.
Spencer, D. L., 1879-80-2-3.
Vreeland, G., 1870-1.
Startup, Wm., 1862-5.
Vroom, P. D., 1852-64.
Steger, Emil, 1870-1.
Wakeman, E. B., 1852.
Tate, J. R., 1870-1.
Wallis, A. H., 1870-1.
Terrill, S. R., 1861.
Walker, John A., 1885-6-95.
Theis, Charles, 1872-3.
Warner, James, 1859-60-3-8-70-1.
Thomas, H. A., 1872-3.
Warwick, Robert, 1884.
Thomas, W'm. H., 1873-4-5-6-7.
Wells, Umstead, 1878-9.
Thurston, J. V., 1860-1.
Welsh, B. F., 1870.
Tierney, Miles, 1868-71.
Westervelt, J. C., 1870-1.
Tilden, C., 1877-8.
Wilcox, -, 1854.
Traphagen, H. M., 1861-4.
Wild, Henry, 1867-8
Van Buskirk, J. A., 1858-61.
Wickware, M. S., 1859-62-8-9.
Vanderbeck, I. I., 1867-71.
Witsch, Otto, 1879-80-1-2.
Vanderzee, W. L., 1885.
Woodruff, W. T., 1857-9.
ROMAN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS.
The Roman Catholics have organized a school system of their own, which now numbers sixteen schools, with an enrollment of 7,643 pupils and 125 teachers. The first Catholic school was opened in 1844 in the basement of St. Peter's Church, at 110 Grand Street, on the site 110w occupied by St. Aloysius Academy. The second was a pay school, kept by Morgan Nolan, on Grand Street, between Hudson and Greene, in 1847. In 1851 a Mr. Smith opened another. in Grove Street, near Fifth. The parochial school in St. Peter's became a free school in 1851 and had 200 male and 220 female pupils. James Brann was principal in the male department and Henry Brann assistant ; Margaret Carey was principal in the female department and Mary Dickinson assistant.
The present list of schools comprises St. Peter's College, on Grand Street, under the charge of the Society of Jesus, with 9 professors and 150 students ; St. Aloysius Academy, for girls, on Grand Street, under the charge of 10 sisters, with 170 pupils; St. Mary's Academy, on Jersey Avenue, with 7 teachers and 140 pupils ; Sacred Heart of Jesus and Mary Academy, on Jersey Avenne, with 4 teachers and 100 pupils; St. Dominic's Academy, with 10 teachers and 135 pupils. The parochial schools: St. Peter's, 15 teachers and 900 pupils; St. Boniface, 6 teachers and 279 pupils ; St. Bridget's, 19 teachers and 1,052 pupils; St. Joseph's, 11 teachers and 725 pupils ; St. Luey's, with 6 teachers and 441 pupils ; St. John's, 8 teachers and 496 pupils ; St. Mary's, 18 teachers and 1,270 pupils; St. Michael's, 10 teachers and 650 pupils ; St. Nicholas, 4 teachers and 253 pupils ; St. Paul of the Cross, 7 teachers and 373 pupils, and St. Paul's, 10 teachers and 489 pupils.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CITY INSTITUTIONS-CITY HALI .- POST-OFFICE-CITY, CHRIST AND ST. FRANCIS HOSPITALS- PUBLIC LIBRARY-HOME FOR THE HOMELESS-CHILDREN'S HOME-HOME FOR AGED WOMEN.
N the early days of Jersey City the town house was used for a school in the daytime and for official meetings in the evening. Later the city officials met in hotels and halls. The selectmen held meetings in the Hudson House, on Grand Street; in Hugh MeCutcheon's hotel, on York Street; in Buck's hotel, on York Street; in Temperance Hall, at Gregory and Montgomery, and in the Lyceum Hall, on Grand Street.
The town committee of Van Vorst met in the Weavers' Arms; in David Bedford's tavern, on Newark Avenue : in the parlor of one of the members, and in the meeting room of Washington Fire Engine house, now fire headquarters.
The town committee and common council of Hudson City met in an old church on Oak- land Avenue, the site of which is now occupied by the Third Precinct station-house.
The town committee of Bergen met in various taverns until the township was very much reduced in size by the lopping off of Jersey City, Van Vorst, Hudson City, Bayonne and Greenville. The first regular meeting place was Smith's hall, at the junction of Jewett, Storm and Summit avennes. When this hall was burned down the common council met in Belmont Hall, on Monticello Avenue. It found a permanent home at Library Hall after a city charter was obtained. When the city was consolidated the city hall of Jersey City became the only one for all sections.
In 1860 the business of the common council in Jersey City had increased with the growing population, and the quarters rented in Lyceum Hall became inadequate. A committee, in searching for a site, chose a plot on the corner of Cooper's Alley and Newark Avenue. This was a central location, as the city was then constituted, and on the main thoroughfare. At that time there was a row of two-story dwellings on the south side of Newark Avenue, extending west from Cooper's Alley. These houses were white-painted frame structures and had front yards, ornamented with lilacs and hollyhocks. They were built by Dudley S. Gregory, and when new were very comfortable little houses. Two of them were torn down to make way for the new city hall. Stephen Quaife was appointed as architect for the building and the contraet was awarded to Evan Jones & Co. There were twelve competitors when the bids were opened on July 3, 1860, but through some oversight the amounts of the bids were not recorded. The cost of the city hall can only be learned from the record of the bonds issued to pay for it. The land cost $11,500, including the houses that were on it. The building cost $23,645, making the total cost $35,145. During the same year the police station and bell tower was built at the corner of Gregory Street and Cooper's Place, in the rear of the city hall. The bell tower was built on the roof of the station-house, and was removed about ten years later because it en- dangered the building. The station-house did duty for thirty years, and was torn down to make way for the present police headquarters building. The old station-house was built by Hunt & Armstrong, a New York firm.
The city hall was known officially as the " Temporary City Hall." The men who were in charge of the city government at that time recognized the future that was before the city and knew that it would not be many years before the needs of the municipality would demand a more commodious building. In 1870, when it was proposed to build a new city hall for the consolidated city, Mayor O'Neill. in a message to the board of aldermen, said the temporary city hall would do until the city reached its growth and included the rest of the county.
The last meeting of the common council held in the Lyceum was made memorable by an address delivered by Hon. A. A. Hardenbergh, the president of the council, in which he elo- quently bid farewell to the old hall. On April 1, 1861, the new city hall was completed and
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thrown open for public inspection. It was crowded with visitors all day. The first meeting of the common council was held in the council chamber on the night of April 2, 1862, less than ten months after the contract was awarded. The council chamber was the finest meeting room in the city. It was artistically frescoed by a brother of Gen. Garibaldi, who was one of the Italian refugees at that time, and had found employment with Henry Steffins, who had the con- tract for painting the city hall. The wall behind the president's desk represented a Venetian scene from a columned piazza, and was very effective. About thirty-two years later a house painter was employed to decorate the chamber, and he retouched the dainty scene with bar- barous effect.
The old chamber has been the scene of many exciting events, and much of the city's his- ory has been made within its walls. Here patriotic meetings were held in war times; here the sanitary fairs were held to provide aid for wounded soldiers ; here the sympathy of the people was expressed for victims of disaster in sister cities, and here mass meetings have been held to express the wishes or indignation of the people on many municipal subjects. Here aldermen have turned on floods of eloquence and wrangled over matters great and small, and now it is to be abandoned.
The city outgrew the temporary city hall long ago. The fire board, the board of educa- tion, the street and water board and the police board have quarters and offices elsewhere. Citizens having business with the several departments have to travel considerable distances to accomplish their errands. Even in the matter of paying taxes the house-owner must go to the city hall to pay city taxes, and to the street and water office on Jersey Avenue to pay water taxes. A desire to concentrate all the city offices in one place gave birth to the new city hall.
On April 5, 1887, Gov. Green approved an act authorizing the mayor to appoint three com- missioners to select a site and build a new city hall. The time was not propitions, and no action was taken until February 10, 1890, when Mayor Cleveland appointed James Burke, Emil E. Datz and John Pearson as the commissioners. They held their first meeting on June 9, 1890, and organized by electing John Pearson president and Frederick Kissam clerk. No change has been made in the organization except in the clerk. George F. Farrell was appointed to succeed Kissam on January 10, 1892. The financial question caused some delay in selecting a site, and the commissioners examined a number of sites before selecting a plot fronting on Henderson Street, between Mercer and Montgomery, and extending back 150 feet. On December 17, 1891, they got an extension of fifty feet, making the plot 200 feet square. Plans were advertised for on April 25, 1892, and a number of architects competed. The office of the mayor was deco- rated with pictures of possible city halls for a month. While the plans were under consideration the Board of Trade held several meetings to consider the advisability of buying the whole block and having the city hall erected in a small park. On June 2, 1892, the Board of Trade recom- mended the purchase of the entire block and the commissioners decided to wait until the citizens had applied to the legislature for authority to make the purchase. In the meantime the four plans which had been most favorably considered were selected from the competition. They were marked "O. I. C .. " " Maltese Cross," "Hudson " and " Unity." The award of the contract to "O. I. C." revealed the identity of the architect, and L. H. Broome took charge of the building. The Maltese eross plan was awarded $250, the Hudson plan $150 and the Unity $100. The land was purchased and the whole block included in the site before any work was done. The owners of the houses on Montgomery Street were : Ann Miller, George R. McKen- zie, Helene Hinse, Horace 11. Farrier. Martin Devitt and James T. Gough. There were nine plots, including over a dozen houses, and the award for them was $142,550. On the Henderson Street front the owners were : Julius C. Wittpen, George H. Klink, Hugh Cranshaw, John Whitfield, George W. Morris, Mary F. Brown, Robert R. Sterling, W. S. Weed, Philip Growney, Sarah C. Van Zandt and the estate of Daniel Keenan. The award was $79,500. The owners, on the Mercer Street front were: Margaret Granger, James Hunt. John Edelstein, D. E. Cleary, John Durkin, Peter P. Smith, Thomas J. Mann and August Fengado. The award was $74,375. On the Grove Street front the owners were : W. W. Van Cleef. Amelia Hammond, Lizzie Fos- dick, Patrick Rooney, William Robertson, Martha Bumsted and Mary Ann Bumsted. The award was $96,600. The thirty-five plots and the buildings on them aggregated $393.025. The contracts for work on the building were awarded late in 1893, and it was December 28, 1893, when work actually began. The contracts and contractors were : Richard English, mason
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work, $236,436 ; John Kiernan, carpenter work, $75,000; W. W. Farrier, plumbing work, $18, 160 ; Patrick Connolly, pile-driving, $13,646.56. Total, $343,242.56, making, with land damage, $736,- 267.56. The corner-stone was laid at 12 o'clock on May 26, 1894, with but little ceremony, and the work will be completed on January 1, 1896.
THE POST-OFFICE.
The early residents in the territory now embraced in Jersey City had little use for a post- office. Their letters were sent either to Newark or New York, and remained until called for. The few business men had their letters sent in care of the wholesale dealers who supplied them, and thus prevented extreme maturity in their mails. When the Associates of the Jersey Com- pany seeured control of Paulus Hook, they had many schemes which they thought would help their little eity to grow. One of these was to have a post-office created on the Jersey side of the river. A petition was sent to Gideon Granger, postmaster-general at that time, and so strong was the influence of the Associates that a post-office was created. The first postmaster was Samuel Beach, whose appointment was dated January 1, 1807. The post-office is recorded at Washington as Jersey City, Bergen County, N. J. Beach held the office for several years and was succeeded by Waters Smith on January 1, 1813. He failed to qualify, and Charles A. Jackson was ap- pointed on February 20th of the same year. He was followed by Daniel Hin- man who was appointed March 1, 1815. He retain- ed it but little over six 1 months, when he was su- perseded by Joseph Lyon. He was lessee of the ferry and kept the hotel. The office was in the hotel office for five years. William Lyons was appointed July 20, 1820, and served fifteen years. William R. Taylor next took it on May 2, 1835, U. S. POST-OFFICE. and held it until May 21, 1837, when Samuel Brid-
gart, a groeer, was appointed. Feeling ran high during the campaign of 1840, and Brid- gart infused some polities into the postal arrangements. One of the early results of the whig victory was the appointment on July 26. 1841, of David Smith, a general storekeeper. His place was one of popular resort, on the northwest corner of Grand and Greene streets. He lived above the store. The old building was removed to a new site on Grand Street near Mill Creek a few years ago, and is still standing. While David Smith was postmaster, the name of the office was changed to Jersey City, Hudson County.
When James K. Polk became president, the change was made apparent by a change of postmasters. Thomas J. Frost was appointed June 18, 1845. He soon wearied, and John Ogden was appointed on August 26, 1845. He resigned the following year, and Samuel Brid- gart was reappointed on August 17, 1846. He moved the office to his grocery, and kept it until June 1, 1849, when President Taylor's administration made another change possible, and David Smith was reappointed. Under his charge the business of the office increased rapidly, and on August 27, 1850, it was made a first-class office. Smith remained in charge until another demo- eratie administration came in, with the election of Franklin Pierce. Samuel M. Chambers was appointed postmaster on April 6, 1853. Ile moved the office from Smith's store to 66 Washing- ton Street, where it remained until 1867, when he moved to 121 Washington Street. The elec- tion of Lincoln caused the next change. llenry A. Greene was appointed April 6, 1861, and re-
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mained in office eighteen years. He retained the office that had been fitted up by Chambers until 1867, when he moved to 117 Washington Street. A few years later he moved to the basement of the Hudson County Bank Building, at 251 Washington Street. The office was there several years. In 1873 Congressman George A. Halsey, of Newark, secured an appro- priation of $100,000 to build a post-office for Jersey City. The amount was inadequate, and a compromise was made between what was possible and what the city needed. The Gregory residence at the corner of Sussex and Washington streets was bought, and somewhat altered to suit it for postal business. As soon as the new building was ready for occupancy Greene moved the post-office, and for twenty years the building has served its purpose. On November 3, 1879, John G. Gopsill was appointed postmaster, and continued until January 10, 1888, when John F. Kelly was appointed. Another change in the administration was followed by the ap- pointment of Col. Samuel D. Diekinson on June 4, 1889. During his incumbeney the ground floor of the building was extended northward, and the accommodations materially increased. On April 5, 1894, Robert S. Jordan was appointed. He is the present incumbent.
The first postmaster in Bergen was Daniel Van Winkle, who was appointed in 1870. He kept the office in his store on the corner of Communipaw Avenue and the old Bergen Point road, now Garfield Avenue. The first postmaster in Hudson City was H. A. Hellerman, and he kept the office on Newark Avenue near the Bergenwood Road, now Summit Avenue. He was appointed in 1871. In 1874 the Bergen post-office was made a sub-station of the Jersey City post-office as Station B, and W. Van Zee was made superintendent. The same year the Hudson City office was changed to Station H, and Postmaster Hellerman was retained as superintendent. In 1876 G. W. Farnham was made superintendent of the Bergen station.
For a number of years after an office was opened in Jersey City no letters were delivered at the houses. All who suspected that there might be letters for them called at the office and in- quired for them. Once a week the list of letters remaining in the office was published in the newspapers. Later, private individuals were authorized to deliver letters, and they charged one cent each, which was collected from the recipients of the letters and was the only compen- sation allowed to the carriers. After the war carriers were appointed and half-a-dozen men were sufficient. There are now ninety carriers and fourteen substitutes. The two sub-stations have been increased to nine. There are five stamp agencies and two hundred lamp-post boxes, The receipts of the office in 1893 were $202,470, and the total expense of operation was $77,787.22.
THE CITY HOSPITAL.
When Surveyor Mangin made a map of Paulus Hook for the Associates of the Jersey Company he laid out a plot at the foot of Washington Street for a public market. It was on a point of land that projected into South Cove. The Associates intended to build a market- house in the middle of the street with room on each side for market wagons. A bulkhead was to be built along the southern side to afford a landing for market boats. Something like Washington market in New York was intended. This plot was not sold with the rest of the property when Anthony Dey transferred his purchase to Col. Varick. After the Morris Canal was built the plot was isolated and insulated. In the cholera epidemic, which visited New York during the early part of this century, a small pest-house was built on this island, and on several occasions it was used for small-pox patients. It was abandoned for several years and was finally turned to account as a poorhouse. It was given up in 1861, when the Snake Hill institution was built, and no practical use was made of it until 1866, when it was used for cholera cases. On December 15, 1868, the aldermen by ordinance made the plot the Jersey City Charity Hospital. It was enlarged and did good service, but it was too small for the needs of the community, and the growth of manufacturing establishments made that section of the city undesirable. In 1882 a new site was secured on Baldwin Avenue near Montgomery Street, and a large hospital building was erected. The appropriation was not sufficient to cover the expense of furnishing, and a theatrical entertainment was arranged at the Academy of Music to supply the deficiency. The hospital was finished in December, 1882, and was opened at once with George O. Osborne as warden. He still retains the position, and much of the success of the institution has been due to his faithful service.
In 1885 the name of the hospital was changed from Charity to City Hospital. The de- mands upon the hospital grew with the growth of the city, and a few years ago it became neces.
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sary to add a second hospital building. The old building was set apart for male patients, and the new one is used for female patients. The hospital grounds are large and well kept, and the location is one of the healthiest in the city. The buildings comprised in the institution are the two hospitals with over a hundred beds in the wards, the stable and dead-house, and the warden's house, which contains the pharmacy and dispensary, the warden's office and rooms for the em- ployees and resident physicians. The staff is composed of the best surgeons and physicians in the city, who give their services without charge. It is under the control of the police depart- ment, and the committee in charge has always been well chosen and effective. Among the more interested of the commissioners who have given the hospital their attention the most eon- spieuous services have been rendered by Commissioners Van Riper, Roberts, Feeney, Benson and Abernethy, though there have been others who devoted a great deal of time to the institu- tion. Samuel D. Kay, the pharmacist, has served continuously for twenty-five years, and aver- ages 1,800 prescriptions a month, and has made over 1,300 miles of bandages for wounds sinee his connection with the institution. Two ambulances are kept busy in bringing in cases. The large number of railroads converging in the city, and the number of manufacturing places, eause a great many accidents, and give the hospital a high death-rate because many of the cases received are hopelessly injured. The staff of the hospital is : George O. Osborne, warden ; Samnel D. Kay, pharma- eist ; Mrs. G. O. Osborne, matron; W. W. Varick, president of the medical board; W. J. Parker, sec- retary ; surgeons-W. W. Varick, John D. MeGill, Gordon K. Diekinson, E. P. Buffett, I. N. Quimby and T. J. M. MeLaughlin ; physicians-W. P. Watson, W. J. Parker, J. J. Ea1- man, S. V. W. Stout, John H. Finnerty and A. J. Loomis. The house phy- sieian is Dr. Bone, the am- bulance surgeon, Dr. Pol- lard, and the nurses, C. W. Moore, Robert Silver, W. H. Goldey, Peter Seaman, CITY HOSPITAL William Boyce, Maggie Dolan, Ella Regan, Catha-
rine Seully and Mary Wyatt. Some idea can be formed of the amount of work accomplished in the hospital by the following synopsis of work done since Warden Osborne has been in charge of the hospital :
Total treated.
Disch'd cured.
Disch'd imp'd.
Sent to Co. In-
Died.
Surgical Disp.
Medical Disp.
Ambulance calls.
Prescrip- tions filled
1882
312
227
37
9
39
562
324
295
6.321
1883
494
288
45
14
47
792
523
375
7,428
1884
594
466
16
64
874
630
412
8,732
1885
689
506
75
27
1,046
790
504
9,764
1886
883
691
So
24
87
1,235
875
596
10,752
1887
956
706
113
29
107
1,624
966
793
11,811
1888
1,016
644
165
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