The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-01
Big FUTURE HERE.
The Swamps Beyond Jersey
Avenue Available for
Factories.


avenue and Montgomery and Monmouth
streets is tract Of land, which to all ap-
pearance is vaiueless for residential pur-
poses and apparently of little value for
any other purpose. The tract escribed
Is, as whole, a low marsby waste. The
famous and disgusting Mill Creek, which
operates to depreciate real estate values
for radius of q mile either side of 1t,
is conspicuous in this region. Other
parts of it have been used
as dumping ground for ashes and garb-
age by Street Contractor Henry Byrne.
The property is not of character to war
rant any great amount of consideration
by anybody except those who have manu-
featuring enterprises in contemplate ion.
For Misunderstanding purposes the land has
Il value; for manufacturing purposes 1t
has bright future, and its day is not
far distant.
1t is just such property as the Lehigh
Vsllev Railroad Company owned at
Pacific avenue aud Grand street. Readers
oil TIE NEWS will recollec5 with what
filth these lots were filled in. Today they
have value on Il par with all other pro-
perty on Grand street. They have been
built upon, and are now almost covered
with coal pockets. operated by
company backed by the Lehtgh Valley
Railroad. The filling of these lots and
their subsequent utilization for such an
extensive business encouraged holders OF
property on the other side OF the street, as
Van Keursn & Son, for instance. They
began filling in the sunken lots and
bringing them to grade. In this manner
the surrounding sWamps We're dried
up; small frame tenements were
erected, and all these are
now tenanted. The success of this move
resulted in the filling in of more lots, and
and good, stiff price is asked for lot in
any part of the old swamp Manufac-
tories are springing up all around and it
is perhaps but the matter of
few years, when the tract
will be covered with factories.
business in the vicinity; j ames Mcdonald
has established a wagon manuf aetory;
Jacob Ringle & Son are operating a big
factory on the site; C., A. Woolsey q Co.
manufacture all their paints and var
nishes In a factory in the immediate
peig hborhood. The Jersey City and
Bergen Railroad Company's motive power
plant occupies a conspicuous position in
the tract, and Leo's box factory is at the
southern extremity of II. G. A. Heidt's
barrel mandatory is also there, and one
might continue at length In this man ner
pointing out the industries which are To-
Gated on or near the tract, which are OF
recent birth.
With the building up of the city there
will fellow the location of new manufac-
turing concerns. Every new improve
| ment adds TO the value of such property
as Is suitable for manufacturing pJlr-
poses, and holders of this class of property
feel content that the time is rapidly ap-
preaching wneu such property will as
sumo a higher value than that fitted for
residential purposes.
South of Montgomery street not one of
the streets extends to the foot of the hill
until Grand street Is reached. York
street could be extended to CorneIison
avenue at small outlay. 1t Ia now built
upon to Brunswick street 1t Is full sixty
feet wide above Jersey avenue. Bright
street is still another which could very
readily be opeDsd to the Hill.
The orening of either OF these
streets through the tract Of land described
would work wonders in real estate VAL
ues, to such an exteut that the expendi-
ture would soon fiud it's way back to the
city treasury from increased assessments
for taxation.
Small property owners, by dumping
cart loads of dirt on certain of the CROSS
streets from time to time, have made 1t
possible to go from Montgomery street to
Grand without walking back to Mou-
mouth to f1ud a sidewe'S. It is highly
probable that II t. Ny would fill in
York street to T. ~ of the Hill prop
erty owners ius - neigh5orhood would
willingly pay q direct assessment for
having the cross streets brought to grade.
Trans fers.
Catherine T. Perkins of New York to Henry ]:
Lemmer for $50 land and premises on part of
lot 25 in Block 80, West Hoboken.
Lizzie De Kay to James Hamilton, Jr., for
81 o00 land and premises on parts OF lots 10. Il,
"a and 2S, Block 101, on the easterly side of Mad
son avenue, subject TO two mortgages for
s., 900
Phillip and Clara soney to. Jane Booch, for
81, ,500 land and premises on the northeriy side
of Belmont avenue 243 feet westerly from Ber-
Dwight B. Fuller to George W. * Her and
wife, for $780, lots 48, 49, block 81, on the n :th-
erly side of Elm street. 244 feet from Quincy
avenue.
Ralph G. Packard to Josiah l. Packard, all his
share cf the Packard Estate in Bayonne.
The Central New Jersey Land Impro vement
Company to Hamilton W. Hunter for $3.50,
property on the southerly corner of Avenue
and East Thrty-second street, extending along
Avenue E 80 feet and 95 feet on East Thirty
second street.
William Kelly to Martin Costello for s., 300,
land and premises on the northerly side of East
Tenth street, 1870 feet easterly from Avenue d.
Gottfried Boriginaux ct al to Herman KratZsch
ct al for ST. lot g. Block D, the northerly side
of Lincoln street, lis feet westerly from Summit
avenue.
Herman Kratzsch to Elizabeth Boriginaux,
above described property for ST.. -
William G. Strange to Mabel Susdam of
Brooklyn for $14,590. lots ana IL in Block @,
Be cot SNAP, with premises.
Gardper K. Clarke Jr., to Francis Saunders,
for 49, 100, property on the northeasterly side of
Emory street, 10 Block G.
Sophie Steffens to Frederick B. Kopf for $5,100,
lot 20. block 10, on the southery side OF York
street.
Mortgages.
Jane Booth to Philip G. Soney, u property
on northerly side of Belmont avenue, 243 feet
westerly from Bergen avenue, for $500.
George w. Miller to the Trustees of the First
Sweaish Baptist Church of New York, prop
erty on westerly side of Elm street, 244 feet
northerly from Quincy avenue, in Kearny, 5000
Julius Reiner TO John s. Byers, on lots and
80 Block 276 on the corner of Railroad avenue
and Twenty eighth street, in Bayonne, for $50.
ton, on property on northerly side of Jewett
avenue, l73 feet easterly from Monticello ave-
nue. for S700.
Elizabeth Bunting to Mary A. Hay, on prop
erty on northwesterly corner of Sussex and
Fou rth streets in Harrison, for $500.
Frank Eley ct ux 10 Maria L. Booth, on land
and premises on southeasterly side OF Avenue
E, 1870 feet from East Thirty second street. for
$500
Martin Costello to william Kelly, on property
on the northerly side of East Tenth street, 1879
feet from Avenue D, for $146.70.
Mabel Suydam to William @ Strange, on lots
and premises, and is, in Block c. for $4,000
block l. lots 121, 122, 1923, 12i, in Block l2t in
Township of Union, for 1000.
John Beer to James H. Deas, on lots adioin-
ing Barbara Seibert estate, 100 feet from Fulton
street, for $3.50, in Town of Union.