The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-21

JOHN McGRArH.
Counsel.
Freebooter German moved the COM
muuication from the counse be received
and the bonds of Robert Davis with sure
ties of Lawrence Fagen and John M.
Shannon in the sum of ten thousand dol
lars each be approved and the contract
ordered filed.
Question being taken on the motion on
yeas and nays there voted as follows:
Yeas-All the members of the Board
~present-9.
Observation-Disclosures Perry.
The Director at Large declared the mo-
ton adopted.
From Edlow w. Harrison. Chief En-
gineer:
To the COMMITTEE on New Public Road,
Board of Chosen Freeholders of Hud-
son County:
GENTLEMEN:-In my opinion the new
public road can be carried below the pro-
posed grade of the Lehigh Valley Ter
minal Railway with a clearance of ID feet,
with the least possible damage to the in
terests of the county by the grade hnes
as herein proposed. This plan contem-
plates q grade which leaves the present
established grade OF Avenue A (Which at
this point Is about the present Svrface) at
the centre line of West Fifty-seventh
street, and dropping a grade of $50 per
100 to u point midway between West
F%ifty-nInth street and West Sixtieth
street, or for $50 feet, said point being at
the south line of the right of way of the
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway Com
pany thence level beneath their right Of
way for 100 feet; thence rising at a grade
of 22S per 100 to the present surface at
the centre of West Sixty-second street, a
distance of $50 feet.
This grade has many advan tages over
the one proposed by the Mayor aud Coun-
Gil of Bayonne, and which the courts have
set aside. to wit: The average depression
below the surface between West Fifty :
seventh street and West Fifty-ninth street
bv the grade set aside was about esght
feet. The grade herein proposed makes
an average depression between the same
points of about foul and a half feet. The
| grade set aside made a cut OF between
| three and foul feet between West Fifty
| sixth street and West Fifty-seventh street,
| while the grade herein proposed allows OF
| the surface or the establithed grade being
adopted.
The grade set aside required an average
| cut of seven and one-haIf feet bet ween
| West Sixtieth and West Sixty-second
| street. The grade proposed required but
| ak feet average cut between the same
| points, a gain of one aud one half feet.
The grade set aside called for a cut of two
| feet at Slxty-second street, running out at
the canal. The grade submitted allows
of the surface being accepted between
| these points.
The grade set aside called for almost a
| level at a depth of nine feet below the
| surface. between West FiftY-ninth street
| and West Sixtieth street. a distance of2OC
feet. The grade proposed reduces this
| deepest part to 100 feet immedialy below
| the proposed bridge and track of the rail
road. The grade set aside affected some
| 900 feet of the new public road In order
to accomplish the object which is at
tanned by the proposed grade with a less
average cut of between two and one-hali
and three feet and affecting only about
5000 feet of the new public road in ord 81
to accomplish the object which Is attained
by the proposed grade with a less average
cut of between two and one-half ane
nrae feet and affecting only 1900 fe ct Of
he road.
In order that the work shall be executed
without adding to the cost to the county
of construction and maintenance OF ths
Public road by reason of the changes
called for to allow of the railroad crossing
at their proposed grade, the followln G
conditions should be imposed apo TN
railroad company:
First-They to pay all claims for lam
ages arising by reason of change of grade
Of Public Road from established grade.
Second-They to deed to the county fo'
a nominal consideration thirty feet b,
one hundred feet OF their right Of way re
quired to add to the seventy feet of Ave
nue. A. to make a public road 100 fee
wide.
Third-They to grade the public roat
for the full width to the grades proposed
between West Fifty-seventh street III
West Sixty-second street.
Continued.