The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-28

rolls bill provides that road beds shall
hereafter be limited to 100 I eet in width.
Mr.. Carroll has two other bills in the
hands of con Inittees, the need OF the
passage of which becomes more apparent
each day. One provides for another pipe
line across the meadows from Belle Vile
to the reservoir. The fact that; tine city
has only one such main, has caused the
city officials a great deal of real anxiety
and apprehension during the recent PFC
tracted period of cold westher. The
single main now in use Is an old one and
entirely inadequate to supply the present
demand. Moreover it Is weakened by the
course of time, and liable to burst any
day aud carry the precious auid out on to
the meadows, instead of to the thirsty in
habitants of The city.
Mr.. CarrolPs other bill provides for the
completion of The partially constructed
reservoir 10 the north OF the present new
one. The massive walls of that reservoir
were almost completed several years ago
when the work was stopped. Since then
the thick masonry. which was almost EN-
tirely built at the time has crumbled
away III spots glvlng tho place a look of
depressin desolation. Through the
breaches In tho massive trap rock walls
cows wander In and out at will and
browse on the thick verdue which grows
within the stone iuclosure
LOVES LABOR LOST.
Mr.. Dltmar's first effort to benefit the
public looks as though it might be loves
labor lost, but Mr.. Ditmar is none the
less entitled to the thanks of the resi-
dents OF Jersey City. His first bill
sought to compel street car companies
operating lines that conu ec5 to give trans
fer tickets over their lines for L fare
under a penalty of $50 Tor each offense.
The bill was aimed at the Jersey City an d
Rorrpn Pailpond Cnpananv Junfph haS
now in contemplation such o scheme as
Mr.. Dltmar's bill proposed to establish.
The companv has made arrangements
with a New York Bank Note Company to
eDgrave a series Of transfer tickets, and
when they are at haud the transfer Sys-
tenn will be pnt in operation.
Mr.. Harry Holmes, the energetic Re-
publican who did SO much to aid Mr..
Tuinilty to secure a yindication last fall,
also has the interests OF the travelling
public at heart. His concern, however,
is for the shop girls, Woodworking UNDER
paid clerks, and business men who cross
the ferries TO New York. He has intro
duced a bill providing that the ferriage
on all New York ferries shall be two
cents between the hours OF five and even
o'clock. In order that thera may be DO
misrepresentation as to what ferries he
means, be has limited the application of
his bill to those which carry over $40, 600
passengers per annum. Should the bill
become a law, the public may prepare
itself for a marvellous and miraculous fall
ing off in ferry traffic between this city
and New YORK, il the ferry officials are to
be relied upon for the count,
Another meritorious DILL which Mr..
Holmes has introduced is oae which
seeks to 10 away with the almost unbaar-
able nuisance of Mill Creek aud which
was Mr.. Holiness maiden legislative
effort. 1t seeks to enable the city to lay a
mammoth sewer along the course of the
creek and then close the pest hole up.
This would answer every purpose for
which nature provided the creek aud do
away with the horrid stencil which
the stream ernits in warm weather
and for which nature repudiates
all responsibility. Such a sewer would
drain all the vast territory whose Sc age
the creek carries off, aud it would admit
the ebb and flow of the tide the same as
the creek now does, which would cleanse
the sewer twice q day much better than
any bel of men in rubber coats and
boots could do with shovels and scoops.
1t is to be hoped that Mr.. Holmes can
succeed In securing the passage of his two
bills.