The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-04-12

the east has for many years been In most
disgraceful condition. The garbage and
dirt trodden down by the travel of many
years oblfterated all traces of the pave
nent In many streets and the greater part
OF the residents If asked II the street was
paved would have replied "no." The
authorities turned their attention to this
section. removed sixteen inches OF soil on
several Of the streets unearthed the pave
ment and put The thoroughfares in ex-
cellent condition much to the surprise
and delight of the Inhabitants.
The cobble stones on Warren street
from Dudley street to Montgomery street
were taken up and relaid. and Jersey aye
nue. from Wayne street to Newark ave-
nue. received the same treatment. When
the Republicans were in charge of the
government, with great flourish Of
nue. as an elegant avenue for speeding
horses. In a few years the condition WAS
such that no one cared to trust q light
wagon or q carriage over It's rats and pit
falls. The present Street and Water
Board has thoroughly macadamized the
avenue for a distance OF two miles. GAR
field avenue, TOO. from Thompson Lane to
the Bayonne line has been rolled and
leveled and covered with crushed stone,
making with Ocean avenue two excellent
and safe drives.
Another noticeable Improvement
is Palisade avenue, from Newark avenue
to Hoboken avenue. That avenue was an
eyesore, and made every citizen who saw
1t groan with anguish. il was more like
road through some mountain pass than
a thoroughfsre IN the heart Of the chief
city of great State. 1t was full OF big
boulders. ruts and holes, SO that an
empty truck went through at great
risk. The authorities leve1ed off the
boulders, filed the ruts and holes so that
truck loaded with three or four tons
can traverse IT IN perfect safety.
Wherever there were holes in the
streets they were filed up, and the streets
generally throughout the city have never
before been in such good condition as
they are now The branch of the city
government having this matter in charge
proposes TO continue this good work, and
promises that within the next three
years every cobblestone will disappear
from the streets.
NEW SCHOOLS.
Nothing denotes the standard of COM
munity more emphatically than its edu-
cational facilities. No one realizes that
and they have made great Improvements
in this direction They completed and
furnished School No. % on Van Horne
street, and they have begun the erection
of No. % on Pavonia avenue, west of Ton
ellie avenue, which is to cost SO. 600, and
NO. ~ Oh tERlulA AVENUE uetWe6U w cSb
Side and Bergen avenues, upon which
there viii be expended $4,000. In addi-
ton to this two wings have been added
to School No. 4, on First street, at cost
of $4,000. These wings will accommodate
400 pupils. School No. 10 has also been
thoroughly oyerhauled and placed in a
hrst-class sanitary condition. Besides
these the authorities are looking for site
for another school in the. Fourth dis
trict.
P0LTcEE PRoGREss.
In the police department, which IS one
OF the most important in the city, great
improvements have been made and the
force has been brought up to a high de-
gree of efficiency. A new headquarters
building, which is an ornaments to the
city, has been erected at a cost of $4,000
a new station house for the Fourth Pre-
clnct is about completed on Communipaw
avenue. This is one of the finest police
buildings in the State and will cost
Sc, 600. Work has begun for similar
building on Seventh street, between
Grove and Erie streets, for Captain Kelly
and his efficient force OF the Second pre-
cinct. Ground has also been purchased
at Gator and Ocean avenues for a build
ing for the Fifth precinct, which will be
an ornament to the Greenville section.
RAILROADS BROUGHT TO TIME.
5 In dealing with the railroads the pres
ent city authorities have improved mat
tiers to the advantage of the city. There
was time when the railroads came into
the city and did pretty much as they
pleased. 1t seemed as if the people had
no rights which the companies were
bound to respect. All that has changed
now. For example; the Central Railway
company attempted practically TO stop
forever the extension OF Van Horne street
and to block up Woodward street. They
laid down their tracks and thought the
city would go into The courts, where the
matter would hang while they did about
as they pleased. But the present authori-
ties did not look at the matter that way.
They tore up the tracks and made the
railway company go into the courts. with
the result that Van Horne street was
saved for future extension, and the COM
pany WAS compelled to vacate Woodward
street.
The attempt of the Lehigh Valley Rail
road Company TO lay its tracks across
Chapel avenue as it pleased without as
much as asking the consent of the Alder
men, was met with the same prompt
action, and the company was compelled
to submit to the city's terms.
For sixteen years the title to the lands
of the South Cove tract was in dispute
between the Central Railway Company
and the city. For five or six years the
question hung fire in the courts, and the
railway company enjoyed the possession
of the property. Wnen the present adj
ministrabion came into power it shook
the matter up, and won the case in the
Supreme Court. The matter is now pend
ing in the Court of Errors and Appeals.
MORRIS CANAL TAKES.
For years the liability of the Morris
Canal to pay municipal taxes was another
disputed question and the city was
swindled each year out of
large sums which it should have
received as taxes from that source. This
matter was also taken up and vigor-
ously pushed through the courts with the
result that through the efforts of the
present city government the city receives
S60, 900 or $4,000 annually from the canal
in taxes.
The suit brought by the Board of Fin
ance in the matter of the Snake Hill pur-
chase shows that the members of that
Board are on the alert at all times TO pro-
tect the city's interests.
THE SEWAGE PROBLEM SOLVED.
For twenty years or more one of the
greatest problems in JERSEY City has been
the question of sewage for the west slope
of the Hill, and although the matter was
frequently discussed during that time the
present government was the first to arrive
at a solution of the problem. They laid
two main sewers, one in Duncan avenue
from West Side avenue. to the Hacken-
sack River and the other In Sipp avenue
over the same distance. These Two mains
will afford ample sewage for the entire