The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-14
the capital stock of the Construction
Company was $500. 600.

the capital stock OF the CONSTRUCTION
Company was $500, GOO.
MR., FLEMMING'S VIEWS.
Counsellor James Fle.nmlng proceeded
to reply to Mr.. Barnes. He began oy
saying that every time new proposition
was made TO supply the city with water.
a new kind OF literature was sprung upon
the public, Each company foretold all
sorts OF direful things that would befaI
the city il the new company's water was
not bought.
"Au this water discussion has
been OF Cheap JACK ..M. 6narac.er,
Mr.. Flemming went on:-"They Come
here on their own account TO make
money, and Offer to sell us water at
speculation. / wish they would let as
alone, and let us get our own watet. we
have got along without them Tor 2ood
many years, and / think we might do SO
"A little longer. II we can take Newark rs
guide where this same water supply mas
already proved insufficient, and think
that these people assume that there Will
be enough water for twice as many people
next June, as il was too small for last
year, we see that il Is mere presumption
on their part to say tnat they have plenty
OF it. They say tnat it Is pure 1t was
not pure last August, and when Newark
people wanted u drink of water, they
came down to Jersey City TO drink good
Passaicn
Mr.. DEAR DENoUNCEs THE SCHEME.
MIR. Barnes replied that ne sufficleucy
of the supply would be guaranteed TO the
city by ample bonds. President Dear
called MIR. RIugle to the chair, and made
a speech in which he sald:-
81 am now in favor of rejecting this
offer of the Jersey City Construction
Company. Mr.. Flemmirg was right,
If the East Jersey people failed
TO furnish Newark with 27,O00,00O,
q day last year, how can anybody believe
that the same supply will afford 22.00o.OO0
! more than this year? L kaow That tney
claimed that their reservoir was new anu
leaked, and that last summer was
unusually and abnormally dry, but that
has nothing to do with it. A Croton
engineer says that the whole Pequaunock
water shed cannot furnish more than
81, ,000, 900 of gallons day in dry year.
These people have . losing contract Win
Newark, aud thsy want TO make them
selves whole by what they can get out or
US.
"It now costs us about SIS a million
gallons for pumping alone. and this pro
position wants us to pay more than Sl00
q million gallons, for the whole cost now
is about $50 million, or taxing out the
S18 for pumping. about $62 to be added 60
this proposed price-and this would be
for impure water. We have here some
samples of Newark and Jersey City
water, brought In by Mr.. Freise. There
is little difference in their appearance.
and we do not want anything so near like
what we already have.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
"I feel that nobody ought to have much
to say on this subject unless he has some
plan to propose, but 1 have u plan. In
looking over some figures from the
Rochester works find twenry-six miles
OF 40 inch pipe, Moffett. Hodgkins
and CLARK, $sS6,0oO. They wanted
us TO pay $4,000 for a
smaller quantity. We can 90 tne
work ourselves cheaper than anybody
else would be willing to do it for US, and
l desire that we should do it, NV plan Is.
that we ask the Legislature to re-establish
the State Board of Water Commissioners,
and that we then should go to work un-
der the law and get our own supply. In
order 10 attempt that l have two resolu-
tious to Offer"
The resolutions precipitated the tilt be-
tween the two members of the Journal
firm and read as follows:-
Resolved, That it be the sense of the meeting
that the proposition OF The Jersey City Con-
struution Company should not be accepted by
the city and that a committee be appointed to
present this resolution to our city authorities
Resolved That this Board petition the Legis-
lature to re-establish the State Board Of Water
Commissioners and to vest in that Board such
Dowers as will enable cities, towns and villages
to procure joint supply of pure and whole
some water.
PAsSAIC IS ALL RIGHT.
Ex-Judge "Wiilun" Rankin obtained
the floor and denounced the whole matter
of a new water supply as farce. The
Passaic water was good enough for him,
and he and his family had used it for
years, and none of them had suffered from
it. All that allied it, he declared. was
that the hydrants and pipes needed blow
was done it would be all right. He
parison of the Passaic and the Eibe, and
to him at Hamburg.
Mr.. Dear's resolutions were adopted,
as was also this one offered by Mr. Flem-
ming
Resolved That it is desirable, IN the opinion
of this Board, that egis iaton should be enacted
comforting upon the cities of this State the
the surplus waters capable of delivery from the
works owned or operated by private water com
panies organized for the purpose OF absorbing
the control of large bodies OF potable water,
and OF entire streams and watersheds, with the
view of controlling the water supply of exten-
sve districts and rendering it impossible for the
municipalities to secure satisfa crory supply Of
pure water except by purchase from them.
Resolved That this resolution be officially
communicated to the members of the Senate
and House Of Assembly from this city and
county.
A committee to 60 to Trenton and
eudeavor to OBTAIN the Legislation Deeded
was provided for and the meeting
adjourned.