The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-09
BERGEN DISTRICT MEN.
The Citizens Association
Considers Some I'M
proVements.
pT0VementS.
DISCUSSING JOURNAL" FAKES.
Commissioner Van Keuren Puts
Them on the Right Track.

The Bergen Improvement Association
held an unimportant session at Fair
mount Hall last evening The attend
ance was somewhat slim, but this was
accounted for by Mr.. McBurney. who re-
marked that on account of the late cleo
tion he did not wonder that some Of them
had the blues.
The new school house problem was
topic OF some discussion. The evident in
tention to erect a school house on Tonnele
avenue was criticised. Mr.. McBurney be-
lieves that there is greater need of
school house In the Fifth district than
over near the present No. II on Bergen
square.
He advocates the purchase of land
somewhere near Woodward street. Mr..
McBurney knows of over a hundred chill
dren in that neighhorhood who run about
the streets from morning till night,
simply for want of school room.
ut would be better to educate them
now" said Mr.. McBuruey, than to
support them later in Snake HILL -
Land, according to Mr., McBurney, is
cheaper now than it ever Will be again In
the Fifth district, and he would advise
that small buildings be erected tenn
porarily aud as improvements grow up
around them large and more substantial
structures could be put up.
A SOURCE OF TRANSPORTATION.
Mr.. Mc3urney in speaking on the new
school to be erected, possibly on Tonnele
avenue. said that S60, 600 was too much to
pay for one school building. He was
laboring under misrepresentation
though, as no such sum was thought of
| for one building. and Commissioner Van
Keuren, who by the way joined the
organization last evening, took him up
ffrr.f
| thanking him for the explanation Mr.
| McBurney explained that he obtained his
| information from the Journal.
well, know as much about the mat
| ter as the Journal does, :" remarked the
Commissioner, and g general laugh fol-
| lowed. There was second laugh at the
| expense of our esteemed contemporary
| later when w. w. knight made some
| misstatements relative to the requirement.
! of Montgomery street. Commissioner
| Van Keuren again made the correction
| and Mr.. Knight attributed his mistake to
| the Journal This brought on a general
| laugh that did not subside for some min
utes. The Board of Works was criticized
| for procuring the granite blocks being
| used in this work from foreign State.
1 Those who spoke on the subject, prin-
| cipally DIR. Watson, thought that the
| trap rock which is being turned out from
| this city's impromptu quarries was OF
| sufficiently good quality to answer the
| purposes to which the expensive speciA-
cation blocks now being used are put.
| EXTRA GOOD BLOCKS.
| Commissioner Van Keuren also re-
/ piled to these evidences OF dissatisfaction
with the explanation that the blocks
being used are of such superior quality
that the city will save considerable in
/ the long run, and that all the trap rock
blocks are being used in the county just
as fast as they are being turned out. Mr..
| McBurney remarked that a driveway, at
| least sixty feet in width, should be con-
structed from Bayonne to Union Hill.
| This. Mr.. McBurney thinks, is an improve
! ment that must come within ten years,
and we might as well have it now as
4 then.
The matter was referred to the Conn
1 mittee on improvements. The extension
| of Monticello avenue through to Mont
gomery street was also discussed and was
| referred to the Improvement Committee.
| The conversion of Mill creek into great
| sewer into which all the smaller sewers
| will empty, and which will have its out
| let at about the mouth of the Hudson was
| discussed at length and was advocated By
everybody present. The matter was re-
ferred to the Sewer Committee.
This will about settle the fate of thiE
! ancient nuisance.
i Other minor matters were discussed
and the organization adjourned to meet
on November %.