The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-26

exercise a monopolistic control over
certain water which no other person
or place needs except this city. This
water is the surplus of the Pequan-
nock's stream. 1t is the water New
ark does not want and cannot use. 1t
is the water which Newark has ex-
pressly bargained the East Jersey
Water Company may sell where II
chooses. 1t is the water which that
company has tried to sell us at the ex-
tortionate rate of $50 per million gal
ions. 1t is the water which now
spills over the Oak B ridge dam. ltls
water which goes wastefully ana
wantonly down to the see, doing no
particle of good TO man, woman or
child. 1t is the water for which our
people are athirst, and 1t is
the water which the East Jersey
Water Company-like the dog in the
manger-says we shall not have, unless
we will tax our people up to the ears,
and pay them a tribute which Will
| compensate them for the disastrous
losses which they incurred in their
| Newark contract through paying ex-
travagant bonuses to alleged owners
| of water rights and others and
through incredibly stupid engineer
ing.
All this has come to be we'll under
stood. The whole State is awaklng TO
the importance of stamping out the
claim to monopoly in water alto
gether. The recent agitation in this
| city has thrown much light upon the
subject. The offer of the East Jersey
| Water Company to this city has torn
to tatters every argument used by
| Senator Barrett against last years
bills. Governor Werts's message has
infused tone of public spirit into the
discussion, too. Democrats in par
ticular, have taken to looking at the
matter as a great public question and
not as a petty local or private SQUAD
| BILE.
Thus the ground has been a good
| deal cleared for Senator DAILY. Still
he cannot afford to trust too much to
general principles for a final victory.
| He is entitled to the highest COM
mendation for what he has lone
| already; but, to win the highest
praise, he must work hard and fight
hard. He must canvass among his
fellow Senators for votes, and he
must emphasize the principles upon
which it is founded upon the floor of
the Senate.
This is at once a great opportunity
and a great responsibility for the Sen
ator. We believe he will be equal to
the occasion, and will open his term
as representative of this county with
a brilliant victory for two-thirds of
its people.
IT looks now as if the bill to in
crease the City Hall appropriation to
a total of $3.50, 900 will go through
both Houses. As it has the endorse
ment of the Board of Trade, is, in
| deed. an emanation from that body,
it will probably be signed by Gov
ernor Werts. The sum of money is
doubtless a large one to spend upon a
single building; but the effect on sur
rounding real estate is likely to be SO
marked as to justify the expenditure.
| The increased taxes that will be levied
within a radius of five blocks about
the new building inside two years
will nearly, if not fully, pay the addi-
tional interest on the bonds.
The City Hall should face on Grove
street. All citizens are agreed upon
that point. Grove street has a very
important future ahead of it,
when the South Cove tract passes
into the control of the city and is used
for wharfage purposes, and when all
the great. space south of tho canal is
covered with store houses and rail
way yards. It is already n of the
great arteries of the city. 1t is a
beautiful wide street at the proposed
City Hall site. 1t is an ideal thorough
fare for retail business houses, and we
believe a new and busy trade will
develop around the new structure as
500 n as its walls begin to rise.
THE INQUEST touching the fatal col