The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-06
THE NEWS OF BAYONNE.
Mayor Newman's Congratulatory Letter
to the Council.

to the Council.
Prompted by a hopeful outlook for
the healthful growth and continued
prosperity of the city, Mayor John
Newman, of Bayonne, has sent to the
Board of Councilmen of hat city, as
his message, a congratulatory docu-
ment. After pleasantly commenting
upon the fact that no serious differ
ences of opinion have existed to
maj or interfere with the policy and
aims of the legislative and executive
departments of the city government,
His Honor takes up as the matter of
most import to the community the
subject of drainage and sewers.
During the past year, he says,
1--WE have completed a work of great
Importance, an Improvement indis-
pensable to the protection of the
health and comfort Of the community
in the abatement of what is known as
the Cottage street sewer nuisance"
Speaking of assessments for sewers
the Mayor says
AS I understand the method of assessment for
main sewer, the property on the line thereof is
assessed the cost of a lateral; the balance, being
the difference between the cost of a lateral
and main, is spread over the entire sewerage
district emptying into the main, as an equitable
manner on the basis OF the number of square
feet contained in said district and including
the property on the line of the main. | am
free to confess 1 cannot conceive of any
fairer mode of performing this at best unpleasant
duty. Any departure from this method would inn
ply favoritis1n, the least part Of which in the per-
Torrance of d public duty should be suT1lnarily
and effectually dealt with in its inception. If
those who object to this principle of assessment
can suggest any more Just method for one would
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its adoption. have dwelt longer on this subject
than l anticipated; the Importance and magni-
tude of its influence on the future growth and
development of the city must be my excuse.
In commenting upon the water
scheme he says that it is constructed
upon purely business principles, and
is in a satisfactory and prosperous
divers message of April 30, 1885, to
show that there then existed 4 net de-
ficiency of So, 440. 43, and he further
shows that the results of the work
performed since then leave to the
credit of the system at present a
balance of $12, 540.2 20, while for water
mains extension, vault improvements
and meter stations SIS, 014.1 5 has been
expended from water rents.
He deems the financial affairs of the
city to be in a satisfactory and en-
c~ouraging condition. He says that ten
wears age seven per cent. ten-year
bonds only realized ninety-five cents
on the dollar, while the last issue of
bonds, five per cent. thirty year Sc
curities, sold for 10S. ~, the highest
premium ever obtained for the city's
paper. These facts he considers as
indicative of confidence in the city's
future by investors, particularly so, as
every obligation and expense OF the
government has been discharged with
out the issuance of a single tax bond
or the borrowing of a dollar.
He speaks hopefully of the educa-
tional interests of the city. He COM
mends the police force and Fire De
partment for their efficiency and organ
ization and felicitates the community
upon the scarcity from crime and fire.
The dilapidated state of the sidewalks
in many portions of the city comes in
for his condemnation.
TO aid in retaining clean streets and
pure atmosphere, he suggests that the
Board take action toward institut-
ing q system for the removal of gar
baee and ashes, which may be dumped
upon the city's property on the Kill
Won Kul1, at Bergen Point.
In regard to the bridge OF the New
Jersey Central Railroad over Avenue
ID. Bergen Point, being an unmiti-
gated nuisance, he is emphatic.
Bayonettes.
The Bayonne Board of Education
for 1SS9-90 will hold its first regular
business meeting this evening.
Bayonne Council, No. 695, Royal
Arcanum, will entertain several coun-
ellis of the order from New York city,
Brooklyn and Jersey City in Ar
canum Hall this evening.
There was little, if any, fast driving
along the thoroughfares of Bayonne
Yesterday. Horse cars We're run at
frequent intervals and each was
crowded by pleasure seekers from
Jersey City and New York. The
Bergen Point shore of the Kill Won
Kull was a veritable promenade until
late in the afternoon. Crowds crossed
the Kills on the ferryboat Lark to
visit the Staten Island resorts.
Mrs. Tom Ri Jon, who has been
living for over a year at Bergen Point,
was taken to police headquarters by
a patrolman Saturday evening be-
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