The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-05-02

! President E. P. Wilbur in his letter of
| formal notification to tie authorities of
| Newark. This is not the reading of the
contract. 1t positively demands and re-
| iterates the demand tor the full supply on
| May l, 1892 There is apparently no loop
hole by which the water company
can get out of the obligation to
conform to this part Of the contract.
In the contract the party of the
first part is the Lehigh Valley Railroad
Company, the party OF the second part is
the East Jersey Water Company, and the
party of the third part is the Newark
Aqueduct Board and the Mayor and Com
| mon Council of the city Of Newark. In
article of the contract the following
words appear, (which conduit or conduits
shall be capable Of conveying, and through
which there may be conveyed to the party
OF the third part daily supply OF water
not less than fifty million gallons per day
during each and every day Of the year."
In article the contract binds the COM
pany as follows:
The parry Of the second part further
covenants and agrees to and with
the party Of the third part, that all the
PLAIN TERMS.
works necessary to be constructed and
hereby agreed to be built and con-
structed (Which shall be capable of de-
liyering the maximum quantity of water
hereby agreed to be furnished. of which
not less than twenty-five million gallons
per day may be delivered at the high SER
vice reservoir), shall be completed, fin
1shed and in every respect perfected ac-
cording to the terms and conditions of
this contract on or before the first day OF
May, 1892, on and after which date all of
the water agreed to be furnished shall be
ready for delivery both at high and low
service as herein provided"
Then there is clause stipulating that
the party of the second part shall pay 500
day damage for delays not incident TO
strikes, injunctions, Judicial proceedings
article the contract says again that upon
the payment of $4, o00, 900 the party of the
second part shall convey to the Mayor
and Common Council of the city Of New
ark, freed and cleared of the claims and
demands of every person or persons what
soever, the dams, reservoirs, reservoir
site, conduit or conduits, and all the works
of every nature and kind built and con-
structed by the party of the second part,
as required by the terms of this contract,
for the purpose of furnishing the supply
of water herein contracted to be fur
nished by the party of the second part to
the party of the third part, with all their
appurtenances, together with the water
rights aforesaid, sufficient to supply 5O,-
000,000 gallons daily forever. by good and
sufficient conveyances in law for invest
ing the party of the third part with the
title thereto absolutely"
DUBIOUS STATEMENTS BY THE ENGINEER
Engineer Herschel is quoted as saving
very recently:-"We expect to be able to
supply new water to the city of Newark
as a permanent thing on May l." And
then he eadded:-'.Perhaps the water will
be in on May l. and then again 1t may be
off for that particular day. We are Gull
ing out little by little every defect In the
pipe line all along its course. and some of
the defects are such that it is necessary
to have the water cut off at particular.
portions of the pipe line for while.
AS matter of fact, Mr.. Herschel has
not said a great deal at any time TO Civ ell
the people of Newark feeling Of confJ
dence in the new supply, and his lieuten-l
ants, as well as his employers, have beeni
equally reticent. Little has been done tol
assist the clty's engineers, and what theT
have learned has been through intellid
gent observation from day to day. In tha
office of the Street and Water Board
there is, more genuine ignorance about
the new supply than anywhere in New-l
ark. They are lucky there IL they hear
within twenty-four hours whether the
water has been turned on or off at Belle4
vile. Superintendent Marsh has nod
been permitted to know much aboua
water matters. as 1t Is thought he haA
enough to attend to In the other departA
ments, SO that what he says to reporter5
is entirely voluntary and unofficial End
gineer JACOBSON knows great deal, but
reserves his Information for his monthly{
reports. The Commissioners know what
they hear. and Mayor Haynes, who visits
the works frequently, believes what he is
told by he gatehouse Keepers and assist
ant engineers.
The two facts at the headwaters are
that the Oak Ridge Reservoir is CONSTANT
ly overfiowing, and that the Clinton Res
ervoir has never been full since the dam
was closed. 1t leaks to be sure hut not
enough to prevent the big basin filling IN
II the supply was at all proportionate to
its area.
There was rumor last week that the
East Jersey Water Company contemplate
ed going ahead with one of its original
propositions and damming the gorge be-
low Dunker pond so as to make storage
reservoir behind Oak Ridge, but this was
officially denied on Thursday.