The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-18
SEVENTEENTH STREET.
Good Prospects of the Bill
Providing for Its Open
ing to the Hill.

gers OF Tue ClCl2ens' SIreeb 1mproVeuen1
Association, of which Mr.. Patrick Con-
molly is President, there Is no doubt but
| extensive improvements would be made.
| The Citizens Street Improvement AS
sociation is composed principally OF hard
working men, who, by economy, have
managed to erect homes of their own,
north of the Erie Railroad tracks. That
| part of the city has been neglected for
| years in the matter OF public improve
ments and the result has been that prop
erty has remained at a standstill. Property
adjacent to these houses has been utilized
| chiefly as a receiving basin for the sew
| age of the Heights. The effect has been
| disastrous to the locality. But now the
members are striving for an improve
nient, which, il carried to successful
| termination, will enhance the value OF
their holdings threefold. 1t is the OPEN
ing of Seventeenth street. 1t will when
| completed be the only outlet to the Hill
between Newark and the Hoboken line.
TIE JERSEY CITY NEWS has from time to
time pointed out the great benefits which
| Will result from such an improvement.
more particularly In the enhancement OF
| real estate.
| Last night there was meeting of the
! Association, and the earnestnesS OF the
| members was displayed in the mere fact
that fifty were present in spite of the
| storm. In the gathering was the repre-
| sentative of the district in the Legislature.
| Mr.. T. j. Carroll
| RAcEIvING BASINS.
| President Connolly who with Charles
! Hill was appointed to ask the Street and
| Water Commissioners to construct re-
| ceiving basins at Seventeenth and Grove
| streets reported that the matter had been
| referred to Chairman Dugan of the
| Committee on Streets. The construction
| of receiving basins at this point will carry
| off ali waste water from the immediate
| property and tend TO make land now un-
| improved aud almost useless, fit for
| building purposes. President Connolly
| also reported that House Bill No. 1873.
which authorized the opening
and grading of Seventeenth
street, had passed the House, owing to
| the instrumentality of Assemblyman Car
| roll, aud that it was now in the hands of
Committee of the Senate. of which Sena-
| tor DAILY is Chairman. Assem- Dlyman
| Carroll suggested that committee be
| appointed TO wait upon Mr.. DAILY to urge
| him to aid in the passage of the bill. M.
Z. Connolly, Charles Hill and President
| Connolly composed the com mittee to wait
upon the Senator.
LIKELY TO PASS.
| Assemblyman Carroll gladdened the
| hearts OF his constituents by reporting
| that the bill might pass the Senate dur
| ing the coming week. the bill contains
| proviso, which makes it necessary to
| have the entire Board of Street and
Water Commissioners to order the i'm
provemenG made after The bill becomes u
| law. The msmbers of the Association
had no fear but that the consent of the
| Board will be given to the Improvements.
A vote of thanks was extended to
Assemblyman Carroll and Senator Daily
! for the assistance given By them in pass
| ing the bill through the Lower House.
The outlook is SO bright that the bill will
become law that property north OF the
Erie Railroad tracks has sti1fened up in
value. Owuers won't sell, but say that
as soon as the improvement Is begun
they will erect houses suitable to be oc-
cupied by the employees of the various
manufacturing concerns in the 1mme-
diate neigh borhood.
The opening OF the street will replace
part of The million dollars lost in tax
able valuations by the recovery of the
South Cove grant by the city.
Notes.
For real estate advertisements see Sec
ond Page.
Agent Murphy is authority for the statement
that flat houses are pretty well rented up in that
portion of the city north Of Tenth street.
Agent McCoobery has long list of buyers
who want houses to cost from three to five
Thousand dollars.
Warren g. Nugent have fine piece of pro-
perty for sale, at No. II Atlantic street. 1t will
be sold at public auction on the slst INST
Small houses preferred by house seekers,
north of Newark avenue.
The elevation of the Erie Railroad tracks will
havs a booming effect upon property nof5h of
Sixth street.
Citizens north of the Eris Railroad tracks re-
shaking UP Sidewalk In spector MulJoou. tn ey
insist upon having sidewalks kept in order
Agent MCCARTHY is renting whole houses n
| lor RI ff Str paf for
Half houses on Barrow street are renting for
S35 per month.
Brunswick street from Newark avenue to the
Erie Railroad is to be improved In many
places the street is six feet below grade. Agent
McCoobery says the Improvement will result iu
buildings being erected and q general increase
in prices for real estate. When the improve
ment is made, the property owners will petition
for sewer and then gas.
Pavonia avenue between Monmouth and
Brunswick streets is to bo improved. There are
fifteen houses now on the block and a company
composed of Swedes is erecting four more
rhrse story frames the same block.
Eighth street aud Pavonia avenue are the
next streets slated to 6e opened to the Heights.
Eighth, when opened, will connect with Newark
avenue at the Division street bridge, while
Payonia avenue will cut through the Harrison
estate property.
By Real Estate Agent James K Murphy of
Erie and Ninth streets, property Known as No.
ISL 1-2 Twelfth street, to Bridget Breen, for
IS, 100. Former owner, ). y. toye
Transfers.
James Dunn to Eugene Murphy, for $500, lot
10. block 2x7 on the old, Harsimus map, located
on the southerly side OF Minturn str eet.
Lawrence Pagan to Frank Warren Merriam,
for $3.50 lot lO7 on the easteriy side of Se-eurh
and Wilhelm streets. in Harrison.
John Newman to Henry B. Newman for 81,
lot aud premises in Bayonne located on the
eastery side of Avenue G, 90 feet southerly
from Fourth street.
LYMAN khoeder, executor, and Julia Cole
man to Bernard Kearns for $1,000, lots z, s and
8 on the Old Bergen Road, and lots 25, rs and ~
on Virginia avenue.
Thomas Ready and Julia, his wife, to John H.
Smith for So, 800, lot and premises on lot 4S,
block s57 on the southerlY side of Atlantic
street. between Jackson avenue and Sackett
street.
Richard and Henry Jenkins, ct ux, to Richard
Jenkins for. ST. lot SO on Palisada avenue aud
lot 65 on New York avenue the Washington
Village Land Association map.
Mortgages.
Eugene Murphy to the Washington Building
and Loan Association for $56 0, lot 10, block 227,
located on the northerly side of Minturn street,
1876 feet from Coles street,
Thomas L. Smart, $500, on property on the
westerly side of Avenue B. leo feet from the
southerly side of Fifteenth street.
James Warner to John d. Carscallen, In the
sum of $12, ,500 on lot So. Block B, on Newark
avenue on the Van Worst mar
Bernard Kearns to Virginia Olmstead, In the
sum of 81 100, on lots :, s and on Old bergen