The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-29

LUMLI 1890 - -
solidated Traction Co. to lay tracks on GER
tain streets.
Charge Ordinance account.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
Commissions Dugan moved to take from
the table the veto Of His Honor the Acting
Mayor OF a resolution appointing Frank w.
Decker general clerk In Water Department,
Carried.
The veto was then taken up aud read
Commissions Dugan moved that the reso-
luton do nowp pass, Notwithstanding the OBJ
~jections of His Honor the Acting Mayor.
The motion prevailed by the following
fvote, on the call for the ayes and nays:
Ayes-President Madden, Commissioners
Dugan, Voc and Cook.
Absent-Commissioner Somers-1,
The President declared the veto OF His
Honor the Acting Mayor not sustained.
Commissioner Dugan moved to take from
the table the veto of His Honor the Acting
Mayor Of a resolution accepting as complete
contract for and final payment to Albert
Minardow for improvement Of Sherman ave-
nue..
Carried.
The veto was then taken up and read.
L0kdl niOfIl tlAl Tic lCSU$
luton do now pass, Notwithstanding the OBJ
~iections Of His Honor the Acting Mayor.
The motion prevailed by the following
vote on the call for the ayes and nays:
Ayes-President Madden, Commissioners
Dugan, Voc and CookA4.
Observation-Disclosures Somers--1.
The President declared the veto of His
Homer the Acting Mayor not sustained.
he Rnard nm motion fnOl- a ~a~oce Cor
fifteen 90 minutes.
On r~eassembling.
Present-President Madden, Commits
missioners Yoe and Cooks.
Neutrality-suspicious. Somers and Du-
gam.
Commissioner Cook moved that when this
Board adjourns it will be to meet on Mon
day, August 81, 1893. at . o'clock Am.
Carried.
The Board on motion adjourned.
WM. A. ToLsoN,
Clerk pro tenn.
Adjourned regular meeting of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioner held on
Monday, August 81, 1893, at 8 o'clock Am.
No quorum being present the Clerk de-
clared the meeting adjourned.
w. A. ToLsoN,
Clerk pro TEN.
Regular meeting of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioner held on Monday,
August 81. 1898, at ten o'clock A. N.
Present-All the members of the Board.
FIVE in number.
Reading of the minutes of regular meeting
held On Monday. August IA. and adjourned
meetings Friday. August Is, Saturday,
August 10, and Monday, August 81, were
dispensed with, and on motion were ap-
proved as engrossed.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AND COMMUNE
CATIONS.
From the Union Stone Co.:
Filing notice of claim against Albert
Minardow on improvement of Sherman ave
nue..
Received and referred to the Corporation
Counsel.
Five 90 petitions for signs, etc.
Received and referred to the Committee
IN Streets and Sewers,
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Acting Mayor:
JERSEY Cry, Aug. 10, 1898.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioner;
Gentlemen-I herewith return without
my approval the resolution passed by your
Board at its meeting August z, 1898. grant
ing the petition of the National Dock and
New Jersey Junction Connecting Railway
Company to the vacation of a portion of
Railroad avenue and the establishment of
grades in Wayne street and Railroad ave-
nue., all as shown on a sketch accompanying
said application, etc.
The matter is SO complicated with agree
ments of various kinds, and as the agree
ments are of importance to both the COM
pany and the city, | desire that all the agree
ments be incorporated in one resolution, and
that a clause be inserted in the resolution
that the company must accept the terms Of
the resolution before the same becomes
operative.
l send to you the remonstrance filed
against the approval of the resolution, to-
gether with the agreement submitted to me
by the company.
Very respectfully,
REUBEN SIMPSON,
Acting Mayor.
JERSEY CITY, Aug. 10, 1893.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners:
G~entlemen-I herewith return without
my approval the ordinance passed by your
Board at its meeting August Z, 1898, grant
ing to the Consolidated Traction Company
a location for its tracks within the limits of
Jersey City.
This matter is Of large public concern.
and the objects sought by the company are
formed under an Act of the Legislature Of
last winter, and the methods are different
from those provided by former laws under
which street railway companies are organ
lied, and the details are not as familiar to
our citizens for that reason.
The Bergen avenue property owners pro-
tested rightly to the route on that street, be-
cause the street was misnamed as the old
Bergen road. The company have offered
to waive that route. but | prefer to let the
property owners act on that. 1t is claimed
that the routes named are so extensive that
they create a monopoly in the new districts
covered, and when operated in connection
with the Jersey City and Bergen Railroad
Company perpetuate that monopoly and
destroy all chance of competition of rival
car lines, The capitalists interested in the
company are also the owners of the Jersey
City and Bergen Railroad Company, and !
think. inasmuch as such company denies our
right to local taxation, that the percentage
clause should attempt a return on the earn
ings of the Jersey City and Bergen Railroad
Company. AS drawn the clause does not do
this. The Central Railroad Company OBJ
ject to the crossing on Pacific avenue because
of the necessity of employing watchmen at