The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-31
POSTPONED TWO WEEKS
Then the Thirteenth Street
Improvement Can be
Acted on Intel
ligently.
THE JUNCTION co. A HlNDRASGE.
Corporation Counsel Edwards Will
Endeavor to Secure the
COmpanY's Consent.

Misunderstanding caused another live
iy tilt this morning at the meeting Of the
Street and Water Commissioners be-
tween the members and the projectors of
the scheme 10 have Thirteenth street
opened.
President A. J. Corcoran and Mr..
Casey. who have laDered srudiously in
the interests of the proposed i'm
| provement, weIe somewhat discouraged
when they appeared this morning. and 60
make matters worse their counsel, a
young man named Speer, who has an
once down town, was so positive aoout
land valuations ana what was absolutely
necessary to make the Improvement
that Cooperation Counsel Edwards and
| the members of the board were puu TO
| the painful necessity OF showing him
that he did not know what he was talking
about. w hen the matter was first brought
upCorperationCeunse produced
map showing the street and all the OBJ
structisns, and the owners of the prop
erty abuttfng on the street. Rather than
| submit what has been done in writing,
| he made verbal report, which Was quite
| satisfactory to the rational memb bers of
The association urging the improvement.
MUST GET THE FUNCTIONS CONSENT.
thirteenth street, be explained, has an
from the hudson River ~ to Division
street. The land now dedicaGed as
Thirteenth street has been accepted By
the city, and as far as the opening Of the
street is concerned, 1t is opened as tar as
it can ever be. There is In the
OF land 240 feet long, extend.
ing from Division street to Hoboksn
| avenue aud this strip OF land, SO necss-
| sary Tor The making of the Improvement
\ is owned by the New Jersey junction
Railroad. To have the street opened one
OF two things must be done. In the first
| place the Railroad Company must sign a
petition asking for 1t because without
such petition the work cannot be done.
| The company it is said is willing to
petition, but objects to assessment for it.
HOUSE BELOW THE GRADE.
The Corporation Counsel referred to
Assemblyman CarroIl's bill, which
would remedy just such eases as this.
But the bill was lost, and ir has always
been toss-up in the minds of Huason
| county people whether "Bul' DAILY or
bob" Adrain caused its disap-
peala ance. Ii the street is opsned
under the present petition the New Jer.
sey junction Railroad tracks will be
cleared by about forty feet and the tracks
| OF the Weehawken branch of the Erie by
i.apont forty nye--a Houses hetHeen Jersey
| avenue and Monmouth street
| would be far below the
| grade and as q result neavy damages
would have to be awarded, in fact the
grade would be up to the tops of the
houses In the vicinity at present. To
| make the improvement the city would be
compelled TO buy considerable adjoining
property. Counsellor Speer said he hau
| looked over the property and IN his mind
| it WAS worth about $3.50 lot Mr.. Cor
coran enlightened the young man by in
fS.vsr zfr,r~ h -
5000.
sPEER CORRECTED.
Mr.. Speer started off in q peculiar
manner to improve the fate of the rhir-
| teenth street matter, but he was called
up with sharp turn by President Mad
| den, who informed him that Ne was
unreasonable. Commissioner Dugan
intimated that the petition new before
the board was incorrect.
This aroused Mr.. Corcorau. he did
not believe 1t was imperfect, and said SO.
He also informed the board that property
| owners north of the tracks were placing
a great deal Of the blame for the delay on
the memb bers of the board. and
he further said that there
For Gods sake" he exclaimeds "if
it can't be opened saw so, but don't keep
| jollying us along. We have worked hard
\ for this Improvement and want it to 60
through"
eve were teld," interrupted Mr..
\ Casey, that this board looked after
| property owners like father does his
children. God help the children who
get no better care than We have had
given u.s."
1t was finally decided to lay the whole
matter over for two weeks. in which
time Corporation Counsel Edwards
believes that he will be able
to get the .acquiesceuce of the
New Jersey junction Railroad in the
improvement. The difficulty with the
company now is that it is at swords
point with the city on account of the He
boken avenue Rr de crossing, which mat
ter is to be argued before Chancellor
McGilI this afternoon in Cnancsry Cham
hers.
PEARL STREET STILL BLoCKADED.
Boilermaker Leslie of Pearl street also
complained thar the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company WAS still blockading Pearl
street. Mr.. Leslie keeps boilers on Pearl
street also and he has been warning
with the company ever since the
tracks were elevated. The board adopt
ed q resolution directing Street Superiu.
tcndent TumiIty TO remove all obstruc.
tions in the street without any further
delay on his part.
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