The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-12-16
BROWN PLACE AGAIN.
Greenville's Petition Reached the
Board Too Late-Uther Matters.

The Street and Water Commissioners
met this morning, with Commissioners
Cook absent. The recent debate between
tile Board ana the Greenvillites concern
ing the right OF tue National Storage
Railway Company to cross Brown place
was revived by the receipt of petition
asking that Brown place be dedicated as
public sJreet TO the water front.
Tie Commissioners. when debating
with the Greenvilieites. contended that
Brown place was not public street. and
thatib was not at all probable that 1t
would be opened for public traffic for
years. II Brown place had been
II street the railway company would
have been unable to cross 10 with a
bridge, but the petition came too late.
The company is pushing its work with
The greatest haste under the right
given hem bv the Street and Water Com
missioners. The petition is given herewith:
The undersigned taxpayers and cit liens of
this portion of jersey City known as Greenyiile.
her, by represent that ce tain strip of land
partly occupied by wha IS known as the Brown
place sewer, was acquired bv the city of Jersey
tlts in he year 1885 Or 1885. but has never been
formally opened by the city as public street;
that ii Is extremely important that said strip OF
lai should be forthwith declared 10 be public
street.
We, your petitioners. therefore earnestly re.
quest that you declare the piece or parcel OF
land of fifty ct in width. above center line is
herewith particularly descrb.d to be public
eas.erly line OF Avenue E., distant twtn-
iyfive feet, northwesterly at righf.
angles from the notheastsrly line Of
property of late A. A Brown. thence north
westerly at DIS ,ncs of twenty five feet from
and parallel to said nortneasterly line distance
of nine hundred and seventy-five feet TO the
or ginal high water line in New York Bay
TIE .ttioI was signed by Henry Lsmbeck A.
L. Harvey, J. 1. Dodds, Hugo Wilks, ]:
Fem ng, j l.. Biumann, Edward Losey and
one hundred and forty five others
The petition was properly referred.
PUBLIC SCHOOL NO rs.
The contract for the hniidlng of Public
School No. rs at Columbia avenue and
z hri kie street was awarded 10 the indi
vidual bidders:-P. j. Condor, the con-
tract for the mason work at the price
named in his bid, $25, ,999: Kelly Brof hers.
caspenter work. SIC 500; Phillp e
Martin. steam heating and gas, $l0.500;
John English. cur stone, $500. The
awards must yet be concurred In by the
Board Of Finance. Terence j. Mcdonald
was appointed inspector OF the new build
ing
The petition of d. Bermese for the
construction of a sewer IN Virginia ave
nue. was granted. The work will be be-
gun at once. A complaint az to the con-
dition of Bostwick avenue, from james
Dunlap, was referred for investigation.
Hugh Douglass petitioned TO have re-
moved from the foot of Eighth street a
number of squatters. The matter will
he attended to by Corporation Counsel
Edwards.
A Greenville citizen complained Of the
inadequH cy of morse car accom- nodatton.
He also stated that il the horse CIR COM
panies would not agree to transfer pas
sengeIs for one cent extra, they should be
compelled to 10 so.
The Sixth d strict Taxpayers Associa-
tion asked 10 have street lamps placed on
Chapel avenue and also on upner Mont
gomery street. A warrant for $16.50 for
the payment OF the new High School site
Mt Bergen and Fairmount avenues, was
ordered hrawn in favor of w. q. 4. See
and the Board adjourned.