The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-27

upon which is constructed the Brown
place sewer aud has therein offered and
agreed in case the said application is
granted to construct for the support of
their tracks to maintain bridges over
the said land and sewer having an elevation
Of not less than fifteen 15) feet in the
clear above the crown OF the sewer rest
ing upon stone abutments or foundations.
to be constructed on each side Of the said
sewer not less than twenty coy feet apart,
and to be SO constructed that excavations
may at any time be made by the city be-
between the foundations thereof to the
full depth of the sewer, and the sewer not
to be injured by the Company, and If in
jured 10 be forthwith restored, and has
also offered aud agreed that in case the
said strip of fifty (50) teet in width owned
by the city shall hereafter be opened and
graded as a street under said rail-
road hen when required by the said city
said abutments shall be set Eack and
placed outside Of said strip of land Of the
city, and a clearance shall be left of not
less than fifteen (15) feet above the crown
of the said as now constructed and
thai the said company will pay the city
one hundred dollars damag for said
crossing"
AS your board is on record as ia favor
of this fifty feet of land or which the
Brown place sewer is constructed being
declared a public street now that the Lee
high Valley Terminal Railway Company
is preparing to build a bridge under the
provisions of the resolution of your Board
of January %, 1892, which will permit the
occupation of thirty feet OF the city's
property without any adequate compensa-
tion, and which can be prevented under
the saving clause In said resolution,
to wit, when the said strip of
land is opened as a public strip.
Ihave no doubt you will be willing to
u.-z - daoIorir - + n is ~ -
land fftv feet wide TO be opened and dedi-
Gated as a public street. In case this is not
lone q valuable strip of Ian running to
the New York Bay water lines, purchased
as 1 think by the city with great fore
sight, will be made valueless. Your
Board has now the opportunity to show
whether the saving clause in the resolu-
ton permitting the building of the bridge
was inserted for the city's benefit, or for
the security of the railroad company, for
as it stands the company builds but q
twenty foot bridge instead of one fifty
feet wide. obtains not only thirty feet of
land without any equivalent, blu destroys
the city's and aud makes possible more
railroad bridges over the same.
The time to stop a railroad euoroach-
mentis In the initial stages the city should
not sleep on its rights until the railroad
is in operation.
In case this strip of land Is declared a
public street your Board, the legal adj
vise1s of tue city and l can consult about
the proper notices to serve upon the COM
pany, and the obtaining OF an injunction
it necessary to prevent the erection of
this bridge.
AS l have written above, this strip Of
lane fifty feet wide goes to the tide water
of the New York Bay. it can be used rs u
street by going over or under the various
railroads crossing it. The end of the street
will he m0qt uS1fnl for a pnhli0 GooE for
the business of the G%reenville district as
that part of the city d~evelopes. Just az the
only dock in old Jersey City, the Morgan
street dock, has proved valuable to the
business interests using IL.
Can any good reason be given why the
railroad should not be compelled to
bridge with a fifty feet span. other than
the trlfiing expense of a fifty feet span
over a twenty feet span.
The reason of this attempted encroach-
ment is TO make it impossible to open
this land as a public street, because it