The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-26
MUNICIPAL MATTERS.
Pennsy Wants Pearl Street
VaCated-Mr. BumSted
Wants PennsY
Bounced.
BEFORE MR.. DUGAN'S COMMITTEE.
Meetings of the Street and Water,
Tax and Police Boards
Mr.. Bedell Sworn In.

The Street and Water Commissioners
held an adjourned session yesterday af-
ternoon. The gas and electric light con-
tracts referred to casually by The JETsEY
CITY NEWS were passed and for term OF
five years as THE NEWS predicted over O
month ago.
To the United Gas and Improvement
Company the contract for the lighting,
extinguishing and cleaning of not less
than one hundred and fifty gas lamps for
the Greenville section was awarded. The
bid was for the month of December, g. %
per lamp; January, 50 IL; February, SLIT;
March S1.79; April. S1.54; May, $1.3S;
June, Sl.26; July, S1.29; August. 81 .46;
September, 81. .6s; October, Sl.sS, and No
vember, So 05.
10 the same company the contract for
lighting and cleaning not less than fif-
teen hundred gas lamps for the Bergen
and Hudson City sections was awarded
at the same prices.
Another resolution provided for the
furnishing and lighting of nine hundred
gas lamps for Jersey City and Lafayette
at the same figures. The United Gas I'm
provement Company also received this
contract.
The New York and New Jersey Globe
Gas Co. received the contract for the
lighting and cleaning of one Thousand oil
lamps, their bid being 81. 6S per lamp per
hundred and twenty electric arc lights of
fifteen hundred candle power was award
ed to the Hudson County Electric Com
pany. The bid of this company was 50. rs
per lamp per month or $l17 per annum.
The resolutions making these awards
11x II a..
Attorney Hudspeth will prepare the prop
er contracts at once. and it will be signed
by the respective companies and by the
city officials.
PENNsY IN PEARL STREET.
Having disposed of the street lighting
work Clerk Bouton read petition from
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ask
petition read as follows:-
To the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners.
GsNTLEMEN:-The petition of the undersigned
respectfully represents That they are the
of Pearl street at one time named Wayne street,
from Washington to Warren street in Jersey
City. That Pearl street extends no further than
ton of said street from Washington street,
west, has never TO the knowledge Of your petit
tioners been opened as a street If such por-
ton of it ever has been used for the purposes of
O street it has not been SO used for at least
twenty years past.
The petitioners. therefore, respectfully apply
for the vacation of said portion Of Pearl street,
from the Westerly line OF Washington to the
easterly line of Warren street.
The United New Jersey and Canal Company,
Pennsylvania Railway Company by JAMES b.
VREDENBERGH.
A COUNTER MOVE.
The petition was referred to the Com
mittee on Streets, of which Mr.. Dugan is
chairman. Under the head of miscel-
laneous business, Mr.. Dugan's colleagues
were somewhat surprised when resolu-
ton was offered by Mr.. Dugan, coming
he explained. from Mr.. w. G. Bumstead.
This resolution read thus:-
Whereas, 1t appears from the report and map
of the chief engineer, presented to this Board,
that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company In the
elevation of its tracks between Warren and
Green streets, has encroached upon the public
street known as Pearl street SO as to render the
same impassible;
Resolved, That the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company be directed forthwith to remove ali
tracks, structures, abutments and other encum-
brances heretofore placed by it upon Pearl street
between Warren and Green streets and especially
that part OF the abutment erected on the east
erly side of Warren street which closes to nearly
it's whole width the westerly end of said Pearl
street, and that in the event of failure upon the
part Of said company to remove said incum-
brances within thirty days from the service of
a copy of this resolution upon the Acting Sup err
intendent of said Company the Superinte tendent
of Streets and Roads be directed to remove the
same at the expense of the company
The Committee on Streets will take
charge of the resolution and the outlook
is that there will be a lively fight on in a
short time for the possession of Pearl
street.
WANT MORE LIGHT
A petition from Henry Lembeck and
others for more gas lamps in Jackson
avenue, .Bartholdi place and on Pearsall
avenue was referred to the Lamp Inspec-
ter.
On resolution by Commissioner Mad
den it was decided to transfer certain
furniture from School No. IS to No. IA.
and from Nos. and Is to No. II.
Preliminary assessments of the i'm
provemenrs of Sherman avenue and Erie
street were ordered filed, and an extra
appropriation of $1,000 asked for the main
tenance of the Engineering Bureau, the
money to be taken from the contingent
fund or borrowed on temporary loans.
A batch of claims and all the old paw
rolls were passed. The Board will meet
for reorganization next Wednesday even
lug.
To the surprise of everyone familiar
with the inside history of the gas CON
tract, Mayor Cleveland signed it this
afternoon.