The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-01-08
PAVING AND PAYING,
Clerk, Bouton's Report on a
Years Street Board
Operations.
GOOD WORK BY THE MILE.
.0ld Streets Repaired and New
Ones Opened Sidewalk
! Improvement.
Hosts of Facts About Public Build.
ings, Sewers and Water
Supply.
WHAT 1T ALL COST.

The following interesting report.
which sets forth the work done by the
Street and Water Commissioners. the
amounts of money appropriated and the
amounts expended for improvements Of
various sorts during the past eleven
months was prepared by Clerk George I.
Boaton. The work demonstrates Mr..
Boaton's clerical ability, and it is credit
to him. while the contents prove that this
branch of the city government does con-
siderable public service which escapes
casual observation.
The report says:-
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER
COMMISSIONERS FOR JERSEY 7
CITY, N. j.
JERSEY CITY. Dec. 1, 1891.
Tothe Hon. Board of Finance:
GENTLEMEN:-In accordance with Sec
ton 20, Chapter 1874, of the laws OF 1891
we herewith submit a detailed report and
statement showing the condition of all
the public works and property OF the city
under the government, control and man
agement of this Board.
NEW STREETS AMI oEWh
The number of improvement certifi-
Gates issued, together with the cash pay
ments made on asseSsable Improvements,
iulicate that the city is fully maintain
Ing its average of permanent betterme nts.
While some localities have fallen little
behind, others have more than compen-
sa.ed. We are certainly keeping pace
with the natural growth of the city.
Dnring the period indicated by this re-
port the following petitioned for i'm
pYovements have been completed:-
North street, from Central avenue to
Durham avenue, graded, tagged and
curbed.
Cambridge avenue, from Hutton street
to Griffith street. tagged, curbed aud
paved with Belgian blocks.
Vroom street from Summit Avenue to
Gray street. graded. tagged, curbed and
severed.
Forrest street from jackson avenue to
Ocean avenue, paved with Belgian
blocks
Fifteenth street from Grove street to
Erie street, paved with Belgian blocks.
PearsaH avenue from Old Bergen Road
to Avenue E, graded. tagged, curbed and
gnttered.
Montgomery street from Bergen ave-
nue. 10 West Side avenue, graded and
tagged.
nue. to Maple street, paved with Belgian
blocks.
Woodward street from Grand street to
Canal street paved with Belgian blocks.
Irving street from Cent? al avenue to
Nelson avenue. graded and tagged.
Water avenue from Montgomery street
to Vroom street, paved with Belgian
blocks
Jones street from Sip avenue to New
kirk street, graded. tagged and gut
tered.
Monmouth street from Railroad ave-
frnn
Bright street to Grand street. graded,
curbed and paved with Belgian blocks.
Bright street from Jersey avenue to
Brunswick street, graded, curbed and
paved with Belgian blocks.
Hopkins avenue from Central avenue
to Palisade avenue. paved With Belgian
blocks.
Twelfth street from Jersey avenue to
Coles street. graded, curbed and paved
with Belgian blocks.
Clifton place and Westcott avenue,
graded, curbed. tagged. severed and
paved with Belgian blocks.
Duncan avenue, from West Side ave-
nue. to Hackensack river, AZ and 36 inch
main brick sewer constructed.
Sip avenue. 81 incn main brick sewer
constructed.
Second street, from Warren street to
Bulknead 4S inch iron pipe sewer con-
structed with pilIng, Gaping. etc.
HOPKINS avenue, from Central avenue
to Palisade avenue, "a inch brick sewer
constructed.
Hancock avenue. from Congress street
to North street, "a inch brick sewer con-
structed.
UNPAvED STREETS.
The unpaved streets OF our city are a
source OF continual trouble, for while the
appropriation at command Is always iiul-
tied. the requests for repairs are constant.
1t Is, perhaps, we'll that large city
should have for the purpose of light
driving several natural roadways; but
where a section has become closely built
with consequent Increase of roadway
traffic, it is reasonable to expect that
property owners will petition for some
substantial pavement aud chus add to the
permanent betterment or the city. The
repairing of uupaved streets is unsatisfac-
tory al best, no lasting good can be ac-
complishei. while to maintain them
properly requires Il vast amount OF atten-
ton and the expenditure of no. little
money. There are in the city numbers
of streets either wholly or partially uD-
paved, the improvement of which should
have been long ago petitioned for, and
without which petition this Board is
powerless to act.
During the period in which localities
are growing, no fault could be found
with the lack of request for street in-
provements, but when neighborhoods
have become thickly populated 1t is
udruly Ldlr W eApoct tuelG TUE CITY suOulu
continue understandable expenditure.
The following shows In detail what has
been performed by us on this account.
These streets have been rounded up and
put in as good condition as the clrcum-
stances of each case would permit.
Boland street, from Fairmount avenue
to Montgomery street.
Paramount avenue, from Bergen avenue
to West Side avenue.
Duncan avenue, from Bergen avenue to
West Side avenue.
Fairview avenue, from Monticello ave-
nue. TO West Side avenue.
Jewett avenue, from Monticello avenue
to Bergen avenue.
Kensington, Belmont, Bentley, Harri-
son. Vaudeville, Oxford, Lexington,
and Clendenny avenues, Uuiou street and
Boyd and Virginia avenues, from Bergen
avenue 10 West Side avenue.
Eye avenue, from Bergen avenue to
West side avenue.
Clerk street from Newark and N. Y. r.
r. to Wilkinson avenue.
CartRret and Claremont avenues from
Ocean avenue to Garfield avenue.