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or all bids if deemed for the best interest of
Jersey City.
MISCELLANEOUS BUSINESS.
The following resolutions were presented
by President Hitler and were each adopted
by the following vote, on the call for the
yeas and nays:
Yeas-President HITLER and Messrs. Be
dell and Detwiller-3.
Excused from voting-Mr. Simpson,.
Nays-None.
Absent-Mr. Fraser--1.
Resolved, That the City Collector be and
and he hereby is directed and empowered to
forthwith advertise and sell in the manner
provided by Chapter 112 of the Laws of
1885 and the supplements thereto, all lands
and real estate in Jersey City wherein the
taxes for the year eighteen hundred and
Lightweight have remained unpaid for the
space of three years and have not been adj
justed by the Commissioners of Adjustment,
said sale to be made on October 10, 1893.
Resolved, That the City Collector be and
he hereby is directed and empowered to
forthwith advertise and sell in the manner
provided by Chapter 112 of the Laws of
1886 and the supplements thereto, all lands
and real estate in Jersey City where the taxes
for the year eighteen hundred and eighty
nine have remained unpaid for the space of
three years and have not been adjusted by
the Commissioners of Adjustment, said sale
to be made on October 10, 1893.
A recess of ten QO minutes was then
taken.
Upon the reassembling of the Board the
following members were present:
President Hitler and Messrs. Bedell, Det-
willer and Simpson,.
Absent-Mr. Fraser-1.
The following resolution was offered by
Mr.. Simpson and adopted by the following
vote, the yeas and nays having been ordered
and taken:
Yeas-President Hitler and Messrs. Be-
dell and Detwiller-3.
Excused from veting-Mr. Simpson,.
Absent Mr.. Fraser-1.
Resolved, That the City Treasurer and
City Comptroller be instructed to set aside
and keep apart out of the license fees re-
ceived in this city for licenses to sell spiritu-
Gus or malt liquors and to keep restaurants
and hotels for the year ending July l, 1894,
the sum of sixty thousand $3.50, 00U dollars
for the repairing, repaving and improvement
of Ocean avenue, "a paved street, from Myrtle
avenue to Gates avenue, there not being
sufficient funds otherwise provided for that
purpose in the judgment of this Board: that
when said moneys are so set apart they shall
be disbursed, applied and expended for said
purpose by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners, and for no other purpose
whatever.
Mr.. Detwiller on behalf of the Committee
on Concurrent Resolutions presented the
following communications, and the same
were received, ordered spread in full upon
the minutes and filed:
BROOKLYN, NY, Aug. Z, 1898.
JACOB 7. DETWILLER. ESQ.,,
Chairman of Committee, Concurrent
Resolutions.
Sir,-After receipt of your letter of in
structiens. dated July 2S-copy of which is
herewith annexed-and a visit to your works
in company with yourself and the Chief
Engineer, W. w. Ruggles, who readily and
cheerfully furnished all information and ex-
tended all necessary facilities, we beg to
| report as follows:
There is no doubt that the supply from
| the Belleville reservoir to the Summit avenue
| reservoirs must be increased as soon as posi-
bic, to leave a safe margin between supply
| and consumption. While in compliance with
| the written instructions and verbal statements
from yourself supplementing the same, we
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| measurements of the discharge through the
mains (which we had ~proposed) and although
records of the fluctuations at the Summit
avenue reservoirs were not available, the
facts seem obvious to us that the margin to-
day between supply and consumption Gas
given to us) is insufficient.
The proposed additional main would of
course afford ample relief; and its ultimate
adoption seems to us inevitable if the present
source of supply is adhered to.
We do not see, however, how this plan,
even if approved today, is going to remedy
the pressing necessities of the case. You
need relief at once, and it would not be safe
to assume that the main could be laid in less
than two years, while it might take much
longer time.
Admitting, therefore, the ultimate neces.
sity of an additional main. the question now,
as we understand it, is to increase, as speedily
as possible, the supply trom the B~elleville
reservoir, and to postpone the expenditure
involved in the additional main until better
financial conditions obtain; and, especially,
until the definite source of supply ior your
city is adopted and all LANCER Of having tc
lay and pay for still another main is avoided
We believe these ends can be attained as
follows:
/. BY laying an independent connection or
bypass from the W~orthington pumps to the
mains supplying the Summit avenue reser-
voirs, which will enable direct pumping into
the latter when required. There is 40 diff
fculty in the way, and by these means alone
several million gallons would at once be
added to the supply. The Worthington
pumps could easily pump against the slight
additional head required to effect this and
the increased strain on main is too slight to
be taken into account.
2. By raising the high water line at the
Belleville reservoir from six to ten feet.
There is no difficulty in the way of this work
either, and with the increased head the same
effect aimed at in direct pumping, as recon-
mended in the preceding paragraph, would
be attained. The Worthingtons could pump
then either into the Belleville or Summit ave.
nue. reservoir under increased head, furnish
ing in either case several million gallons more
to the supply, 1t should be stated
in this connection that owing tc
insuficiently high water line at the
Belleville reservoir, the full head that could
be kept at that reservoir from the Cornish
engines supplying it through the stand pipe
can never be reached.
g.. BY increasing, if necessary the stand
pipe at Belleville, which would simply near
the addition of a piece Of pipe at the top.
There is room for much more than would be
reouired With hioher hanks at Rellevil1e