The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-29
Highest of all in Leavening Power-Latest u. S. Govt Report
.@ q! BssI;'g
ABSOLUTELY PURE

| their Canal. from which water might
| flow into the Passaic ABOVE Paterson,
which contract they had openly disre-
garded.
| opening which they were bound py writ
ten contract TO keep free for the How OF
water from their canal for the use OF the
society. The agents of the society had
violently broken down the gateway OF the
opening, The Canal Company replaced
It and asked for an injunction to prevent
further interference by the society. line
injunction vas granted.
the society then pleaded an agreement
under seal between the Canal Company
and the society in 1886, and showed that
the Canal Company, in breach OF the con
tract, had nailed down the gates or the
wasteway and stopped the How OF water
from the canal to the river, and the
society asked the interference OF the
Court to prevent the Canal Company
from repudiating the contract, aud there
fore moved that the injunction be dis
solved. The motion was denied
A cross bill was then filed by the
society praying for a decree for specihc
performance of the agreement and TOT an
injunction preventing the Can Com
pany from oostructing the flow of water
from the canal to the stream.
The grievances recited by the S. u. NJ.
were athau the Canal Company had
drawn water rroE; the RockaWay and the
Pompton tributaries of the Passaic-at
one time nine-tenths OF the Pompton-a6
another they had diverted all the water
OF the Pompton into their canals, and
nearly all the water of the Rockaway at
Boonton, and at the same time brought
no water down from Long Pond: by rea-
son whereof nearly all the mills OF Pater-
son were stopped"
The Chancellor, not satisfied that the
sufferings Of the society were a direct
consequence Of the acts OF the Canal
Company denied the motion.
In 1916, the society sought a new field
of battle with their antagonist, and
brought an action of ejectmens against
the Canal Company, in the Passaic
County Court, TO recover possession OF a
lot of land occupied by the Canal Com
pany, and for which the society had re-
ceiyed no compensation. The suit was
decided in 1854, adversely to the society.
In 1S47. the society brought an action
for damages against the Canal Company.
See 3, Stewart AS. Demurrer interposed.
Suit unsuccessful.
In 1853, another action for damages was
brought In the Supreme Court. Same
parties with same result.
the Supreme Court (laid at $50, 000). Same
v. Same, removed to United States Cir
cult Court, and suit abandoned.
In 1877, the society brought suit for
damages against the Canal Company in
the Supreme Court, claiming damages
only for the preceding year $500. Cause
noticed for trial January s. 1878 resulting
in a final quietus.
THE LAST STRAW.
AT this ju~Ecture the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company, lessees of the Morris
Canal, petitioned Chancellor Runyon
''that the society may be ~enjoined from
setting up or asserting any claim to the
water against the complainants, aud that
they may be restrained from prosecuting
the suits at law The injunction was
granted, as shown in 8 Steward 154.
The case was appealed, and the Court
of Appeals in 1880 Is Stewart 329) suS-
tanned the decision of the Chancellor.
Thus ended the ABSURD pretansions of
the S. q. NJ. to the exclusive right of the
waters OF the Passaic, cautended for by
them in successive litigations for a period
or over fifty years in the courts both of
law aud equity In which the society
gained q single suit, but was defeated in
eleven different attempts to gain from
the Courts some recognition Of their pre-
posterous claims.
LIKE MARX TAPLEY.
Driven out of ali the Courts and en-
Joined against institurfng any mora suits,
they next sought to gain from the Legis-
lature the rights denied by the courts
and so the course of history brings US
down to 1882 when their Attorney Garrett
A. Hobart appeared in Trenton as the
champion of the famous Hobart bill.
This was intended TO give the society
the right to appropriate the waters of the
great Passaic water shed for the purpose
of supplying the cities of Newark, Jersey
City and New York with potable water.
Mr.. Hobart, by use of potential argu-
ments, carried the bill through the Legis-
lature, but it WAS vetoed by Governor
Ludlow, and popular indignation was SO
aroused against the Vaccinations OF the
s. U. NJ. that the attempt has never neen
repeated. :
DECIDED TO SELL OUT.
The condition ofSthe society. owing to
bad management, had now become des-
perate and the owners became urgent to
sell out. After several years Of vain at
tempts TO find purchasers, their adroit at
torney succeeded in inducing certain New
York capitalists to believe that the S. U.
M. really held the monopoly of the water
supply of Northern New Jersey and, evil
IDENTIFY in ignorance of the extraordinary
record here published, they organized the
Bartlett syndicate and bought the stock
OF the S.. U. N. The history of Bartlett's
achievements is so recent that most
Jersey citizens are familiar with his ex-
traordinary career. His audacious and
reckless management defeated the pur-
pose of m~onopolizlng the water supply.
and after involving his associates In
enormous and useless expenditures, he
retired from the field, aud the shrewd
Lehigh Valley people having made an al
lance with their old enemy, the s. u. NJ,
have since assumed the management of
the water business. This railroad COM
pany from Pennsylvania, plying the
stupidity and helplessness of New Jersey
citizens, has enlarged it's area Of useful
ness SO as to include the business of ped
ding water among the people of New
Jersey, and has already succeeded in
selling the city of Newark and a water
supply at one and the same time.
Jprcu mann pt5IR gruyn