The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-19
SORELY NEEDED Sewer.
The Lehigh Valley r. R.
Obstructs the Building
of GreenvilIe's Drain.

Inc lIenISH VaIiey 6alifoau oluctal5
not satisfied with gobblipg up the val
liable shore front at Greenville and seiz-
lug Brown place and Chapel avenue
have now put a stumbling block in the
path OF Contractor Condor, who is build
ing the new Woodlawn sewer. To com
plete his work on the sewer Mr.. Condor
siust pass beneath the LehiGh Valleys
tracks and the Morris Canal at Dwight
street. The railroad officials have MOTH
fleh Mr.. Condor that he cannot run the
sewer underneath their tracks or the
canal until next winter. I'M now the
property owners in the Woodlawn sec
ton are up In arms against the railroad
officials.
SEWER MUCH NEEDED
The sewer is sorely needed. as there is
no system OF drainage whatever In that
that this much needed improvement
would be ready for use before winter set
in. The sewer, when completed. will be
about two miles In length, and will run
through Dwight street from Jackson ave-
nue. to Garfield TO Richards streets
through the meadows across the canal to
the New York Bay. Over a mile Of the
Sc wer has already been completed, and II
Contractor Condor could 90 on with the
work without interference he could have
the sewer ready for use by November l at
the latest.
The railroad officials claim thai If the
work is c FRIED on IL will interfere with
their traffic. They say that while the
pipes are being laid underneath the rail-
road they canno use the road. They
also say that II the pipes are laid on the
bottom 0f the cana! they will be unable
to run any boats while the work is being
done.
The property owners of Greenville see
no reason in the arguments OF tue rail-
road people. The railroad is not yet In
running order, and the residents cannot
see nov traffic could be tnterfered with.
As to the canal, the property owners say
that the pipes could be laid without stop
plug the traffic.
CONDOR C~RESTFALLEN.
Contractor Condor Is crestfallen over
the matter, as he already had a large
force OF men excavating beneath the
railroad tracks and mad made considera-
BILE progress. Now the men are at work
filling In the excavation. Mr.. Condor
says now there Is no use in passing be-
meath the Central Railroad tracks which
ruu about two hundred feet west OF and
parallel with the Lehigh Valley tracks.
The Pipe line from the Bay TO the Lee
afS - . LINN AZ Aof4
don intended tunneltng under the Lee
highs tracks aud canal and 30 on to the
main sewer west of the Central s tracks.
In passing underneath the canal d large
syphon pipe will be used. 1t Will rest
on the bed OF tue canal.
Contractor Condor will now hustle to
complete the remainder of the sewer be-
fore September. He will not begin the
work on the section between the Central
tracks and the pipe liue until he receives
permission from the Lehigh Valley people
TO tunnel underneath theft tracks.
PROPERTY OWNERS INDIGNANT.
The property owners, however, are de-
termined TO bring the railroad people to
time and will invoke the aid OF the Street
and Water Commissioners.
Mr.. John Bauer, who owns consider
able properly In the Woodlawn section.
in speaking to u reporter OF The JERSEY
CITY NEWS about the matter. said
.Tne Lehign Valley Railroad officials
have no right whatever to order Mr..
Condor to stop work on the Sc wer, and l
nope that the Street and Water Com
missioners will bring the officials TO time.
The Lenigh Valley people are not giving
us q square deal. The city gave them
almost everything they asked for. Our
Street and alter Board gave them thirty
feet of Brown place, a right TO cross
Chapel avenue at grade and II few mail
sIreets at the foot OF Ocean and Garfield
emu
PRIVILEGES GRATIS.
"They secured all these important
privileges gratis and the city did not re-
ceive one cent for vacating these streets.
Now that The railroad can hello us by
giving US a right to go underneath it's
track it refuses to do so. l. rhis right?
Is it just? The railroad would not lose
anything, yet it refuses to oblige the
city. Why don't the officials give the
city a square uealf 1'hey certainly ought
to give us something for the streets which
they seized, and they can do so by giving
MIR. Condor permission TO 60 on with The
work"