The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-06

WILL REACH THE HILL
Residents North of Pavonia
Discuss the Situation.
PLANS OF CHIEF RUGGLES.
President Feeney Tells the Meeting
Of Citizens What He Has Done
About Cleaning the Streets
As a Health Measure.

A00 NHA Ian 4O0OACh NOV Ia 90
Lucy's Hall last night to take action in
reference to extending one or more streets
to Hoboken The meeting was
held under the auspices of the Citizens
Improvement Association and q general
invitation to be present at the meeting
had been extended to everyone. Less
than one hundred interested citizens &C
cepted the Invitation and among them
were John P. Feeney, President of the
Board Of Police Commissioners. Police
Captain Kelly, A. j. Corcoran, NJ. j.
Connolly, Chief Engineer Ruggies. Lay
Judge Kenny aud Father Gillen.
T. j. Connolly presided. He iRvited by
name each Of the mas t prominent persons
in the hall TO take a seat on the ''rostrum."
Nearly all declined. President Connolly
said the meeting had bean called for the
purpose of securing concerted action con-
corning The securing of a pub ic highway
to the Hill. At the last meeting the
Street. aG0 Water Commissioners had off,
cred the services of Chief Engineer Rug
giles, and the chief was present. He hal
drawn Il number OF proiiles of streets
from which the citizens could select The
most desirable. A motion was pnt to re-
ANaN2R bAA axe w HiG OaS RAOAAS5 dlo
it prevailed. notwll~ hstanding N dis
gruntled citizen voted me"
THE SITUATION A IT is.
Chief Engineer RuggIes said he had
made proiles of Thirteenth, Fourteenth.
Eff eeuth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets to Jersey avenue. They showed
the grade to that street. He hud made
no estimate of cost of construction for he
did not think that advisable until the
people knew which street they want II
would take w weeks to prepare esti-
mates on all the stree is. In regard to the
streets he found that TO reach Hoboken
avenue, Thirteenth street must be filed in
fifIy-fiye high, or Il bridge be built. Tine
lat!er woui tie the cheaper. Fourteenth
street won d require thirty-eight feet of
filling. Fifteenth street would need fifty
five feet and Sixteenth street must BE-
filled in thii ty-t 80 to pass over the West
Shore trustle. Seventeenth street does
hot require much FILLING, but the Wee
hawkeu branch Of the Erie Railroad is
not ut grade, being five feet below the
grade of Monmouth street and this should
be considered. The road would have to
cross three tracks.
Tie grade on Sixteenth street would be
10 feet 5 inches TO every 100 feet: Seven
1eeuth street, 2 feet 4 inchss to every 100
feet; Fifteenth sLreei feet To every 100
i. Fourteeeth street q feet 6lnches to
every 100 feet; Thirteenth street 9 feet to
every 100 feet. The chief said bridging
wou Il be the cheaper for The bottom
W. I'D be raft to fill in and when the work
III ID be once begun no one cGuld tell
hos much il would take to complete il.
81 woulsi like to know the distance
from Jersey avenue to Hoboken avenue"
said MIR. Casey. a prosperous liquor
dealer.
about /, roo feet" was the answer.
CHIEF ENGINEER RUGGLEs THANKED.
A motion was made and prevailed that
the profies be filed aud the chief be
thanked for his kindness. Another mo-
tiun was made that the chair appoint a
committee to select the street. This mo-
tim created trouble, and 1t was readily to
lie cen that every man wanted the street
10 pass his property.
UT. Casey Jumped to his feet a de-
claimed O the superior advantages OF
Thirteenth street, which is severed from
the Hill to the river. the only Que of the
streets named that has such an outlet for
sewerage. The sewer in Fourteenth
street only runs from, Jersey avenue to
The river. Mr.. Casey claimed that to ill
III any other street Would be the destruc-
tion of this ever He did not explain
why, but he was confident the sewer
would be destroyed, and it had cost the
people mani thousands of dollars. True,
the sewer is broken now and more sewage
runs outside of it than through it, but it
is a sewer just the same, and ii Is on Thir-
teenth street, and thatWas eEough for Mr.,
Casey. The speaker here became melau-
cholly ana declared thai property had de-
precisted twenty five per cent. in the
neighborhood during the past ten years.
IN Avo OF FIFTEENTH STREET.
Mr.. James Mccarthy boldly declared
he WAS in favor of Fifteenth street for he
believed it the best location. He believed
that the Hudson River tunnel was a
failure aud that the foot of Fifteenth
street could be obt lined by the city for a
water trout.
President Connolly favored Seventeenth
street, and he informed the audience that
while 1t. was considering Thirteenth
street for the street extension. which
would cost $125. coo, or Fifteenth street.
which could not be improved fer less than
$4,000, it would he we'll to look at the adj
Vantages OF Seventeenth street. This
street has been graded from Henderson
street to Jersey
James Waters made a plea for Thir-
teenth street. He said the grade would
be 8 feet 6 inches to euery 100 feet, or one
half the grade of Newark avenue. The
extension of that street TO Hobokeu ave-
nue. would also protect the saver. He
claimed that the city owned the water
front at the foot OF Thirteenth street, and
it should be protected by a street. He
declared that If the citizens would
owners then would cooperate with citi-
Zeus at any time in an effort to open
other streets. In reply to a question. Chief
RugSies said:-
"Ihirteenth street would require to be
filled III fifty feet high unless Dridged. II
filed in it would have q worse effect than
Montgomery street had on the meadow
lots and would shut them out"
WANTS SEVENTEENTH r
M. T. Connolly advocated Seventeenth
street in a brief speech. Police Commits
sioner Feeney i'll reply to q request for his
views, said he was present-to listen, not
speak. ''But." said he,se"I will promise
you this, that when You agree upon the
street you want opened, l will aid you
all / can in your efforts TO have the ex-
tension made"
Judge Kenny was invited to express his
preference. He declined to state it, but
like Commissioner Feeney, said he would
help obtain the opening OF the street
when IT was selected. He quoted inuch
law and then declared he believed the
Street aud Water Board had the power to
open streets and tax the city at large for
the improvement. He advised that an
opinion be obtained from the Corporation
Counsel as TO whether this could be done.
Judge kenny then complained bitterly
that the section of the city in question
: neverreceives any benefits from the city.
It never even gets any money for i'm
proved streets, although the Board of
Finance each year ~dppropriates large
sums for streets. He thought it was an
outrage to leave the Thirteenth street
sewer in the condition it is