New-York tribune., 1882-09-26
TIE nAMAGE IN NEW.JERsEY.

TT pA-sAIC RIVER FALLING - ME. ZABRI~KlE's
DNM-THE BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY ALONG STONY
BROOK
At the meeting of the Board Of Public WORKS Of
Jersey City yesterday afternoon petition. signed
bv fflv-six residents or the neigborhood bounded
10y coles Monmouth, Fifth and >iXth-sts., was pre-
-entcd asking that some imncdiat. action should
be- taken to relieve them of the destructive
con .cqu,uces of saturdays storm. Their houses
are all flooded. their furniture on the first
floor floating aaut, and tLey have been
nat 10 great loss and Inconvenience
by the failure ol the sewers to carry of the wa.cr
They asked that a connection should be made at
once between the lateral sewcr4 in the streets
named abA D. and the main sewer IN sixth-,t..
winch has been found 10 be op u. They also asked
that the Pcnusyl yauIa Railr ad Company should
be- required to open the sewers in Fourth
and >eeoud-sts., which DO caused To- be closed up
some time ago. Commissioner Van keuren stated
that the Pcnus, wanna Company had offered to
Dui.d % new sewer an llcuder,ou-,t. from Fourth 10
second ST.. and through Secoud-st. 70 the Hudson
River. tor rhe sum of 81. bus the work had not
been begun because President Wheiau. Of the
Board Of Works had refused TO
sign the contract. He called upon the
president for an explanation of his
action. but the latter declined TO give any. Resolu-
streets 10 make TIE connection asked for with the
oixih-st. sewer and also requesting the PenusyI-
wanna Railroad Company TO cause the Second and
Fourth sts. sewers TO be opened. Ii the company
does not open them, the work viii be- done by the
Committee on streets and the expense collected
from the company if possible Chief Engineer Sites
submitted "a report To the Board that ne had made
a partial examinatlOn of the damage done by the
storm and had found more than hundred places
in which the streets ana sewers were damaged
more or less seriously. He estimated
the cost of repairing the damage at $4,000.
Commissioner Haley, chairman of the Committee
on streets and Sewers, SAID 10 a tribune reporter
tina, the committee had already Incurred obligations
to the extent of 800 M excess OF their apprOpra
ton. When tins deficiency Is paid there VIII re-
main only &3lOO 10 meet the expenses of
the two remaining months Of the fiscal year.
his amount Will not pay morc than half the ex-
t,.,-e oI removing he ashes and garbage There Is
i.n money TO repair tho damage caused by tine
s.or,u uulcS- the Board of Finance should make
an extra appropriation, which Is not likely. A
re iOlutIOn Was passed, asking the board 10 make
an cX Ia appropriation Ol 9lO'OOo
Iuc-rnglnes we're at WORK AL day IN different
part, OF the city pumping the wafer Out oil cellars
ana Easements. Ga account of the chokcd cOnul-
non ot tuc =, the WOrk was not very elective,
tne water coming back almost as fast a. II was
pumped out. Iue trti"5 on al the RAILROADS. were
INNING regularly yesterday.
IN. Pts,uc RlyeI III Paterson continued 10 rise
uutil a0out miduIght Of sunday. lis total rise
,i,nNr extreme loN-Ndtcr mars was eleven lect,
,,,. ,icl-. more than IN the ireshet of 1878, aud
H., ,tne number Of inches less han IN the mem
or,nle Hood of l,j4 From mdngnt unul about
= o',ioch Yesterday morning Tie water remained
-f,tlouarv Ibeu It began to fall aud 10 KEEP gong
ao,,u gradually al uay. By Ocl0cA III the
.tr..ruo1u ID mad fallen nom loot TO hiteen
inCtr. Ram tell duing great part of the day,
bnt moi IA quantities suthclent 10 cause fur
.tirr rise ,Itv surveyor Hilton reports that
ii-,,r, VAS real, y.i,cd by three storms, easily
d,.tingul.uaole A local thunder shower on Thurs
day causrd fail OF water OF 80 men, ana
sr,rn lu-iug from 10 a. ~. to p III. OH riday OF
= ~ turur. Inc storm on SATURDAY causes the
par.r.uu NV HAL gauge 10 register ll.3O inches,
,,r "A total of Z. .9O Inches Tor the three day s..
Nv, q. -,r1e ,cepucsm Is 10 the accuracy OF the
,,ar,,e nut the authorities assert tnat II was
t.,,,nt from "a reputable New York house and Was
tII,,lly tested here before being taken 10 Gdler-
sou. l. l,,. nj,
y, t,ud ali OF the bridges Withn their clly limits
80, he p.t,-ac still standing. hr lulsc report OF
H. .trI,, mon ot tho Lincoln Buugc, at the west
,.r, Imtf. AROSE. fIOm th- washIng away ot small
t,,'. bridge near there. As the Lincoln Bridge WAS
,1r.tv inaccessible from any quarter, all the al-
nro.cn,s being Hooded, II could not o.
Learned for some time whether the aunt
r,eufs were injured Or NOT. The fa-smc
Ii.r IN II, course through Paterson Is spaAhrd 10y
-, hrldues erected by the county at an aggfe-
,te rost of about 1870 OJO, besides three railroad
hr,dges Every one ot these survived the ueshel,