The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-04
pENNYWISE POLICY
GreenvI1le Citizens Who
Walk IN Darkness
Complain.
NINETY-sEyEN LAMPS CUT OFF
Whole Blocks Left Without Light
Much to the Delight Of
Toughs.
NINETY-sEyEN LAMPS CUT OF

AS announced exclusively in THE JERSEY
CITY News on Thursday, fifty-nine of the
gas lamps in the Greenyille section were
abandoned. last night and west side of the
district presented a decidedly gloomy np-
pearance. The change was even more notice
able on the prominent east side thorough
fares where a few lamps were also cut off.
That portion of Danforth avenue between
the public school and Ocean avenue was de-
prived of a lamp, and although but one lamp
was cut off, citizens in passing up and down
the thoroughfare invariably stopped and
wondered what had happened. A few solved
the mystery, and those that did not went
home still wondering why the block was in
darkness.
Seaview Avenue, the ~thoroughfare most
used by persons in going to and from the
Schuetzen Park, looked dark and uninvitlng.
Every one of the four lamps between Old
Bergen Road and Bergen Avenue were
passed by the lamplighter, and they will no
longer cast radiance about the crooked paths
which do service as sidewalks. Tonight
there will be a picnic at the park and many
people will have to stumble and find their
way in the dark to reach the picnic ground.
If they do not go by this route they will have
TO make d UCUOuT ny way VI 4NcPuuHO sCnuO
and the County Road.
ROUGH ON THE PICNI PARKS
The Street and Water Commissioners
evidently nave a grudge against the picnic
parks for McAdoo avenue which leads to
Gantner's Passaic Garden was also deprived
of three lamps. Terhune avenue, the only
adjoining thoroughfare, also lost two lights.
10 make the trip to the garden disagreeable
to those who come by way of the Con-
sohdated Traction C~ompany's cars the
Warner avenue lamp was removed from
Rose and Warner avenues. This was the
only lamp in the block from Ocean to Rose
avenues. Another light also in Warner ave-
nue., but nearer to the County Road was
also shut off. Thus nearly four hundred
yards of street are left without any light
whatever.
Panrapo avenue, better known as "Chat-
ham Square" one of the toughest portions OF
Greenville, is made more dangerous to pc
destrians by having one Of its three dingy
lights discontinued. 1t will not be very
long before the police will be needed in that
section to settle a dispute, and then the
bluecoats will learn how difficult it is to
catch a lawbreaker in the dark.
CITIZENS THOROUGHLY
The residents on Clarelnont avenue, be-
tween jackson and Bergen avenues, are up
in~arms against the Commissioners for
shutting off the three lamps on that thor
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nues. There are no houses in this block,
and without light the residents find it a
difficult matter to travel over the ruts and
holes of the unpaved street. They must
| either do this OF make a wide detour by
Kearny avenue. But the work of the COM
missioners will not stop here. The district
is to be plunged into still deeper darkness.
Yesterday the Fifth precinct police were
notified that thirtY-six gas lamps would
be shut off. This makes a total OF ninety
seven abandoned lights. In the entire Fifth
precinct, which extends from the Newark
and New York Railroad cut to the Morris,
a distance OF two miles, and from the New
York Bay to Newark Bay, a distance of
nearly one mile. there are S27 lamps. When
ninety-seven of these are shut off there will
be but $50 lights in this large area.
III Holt A MASS MEETING.
The members of the Sixth District Citi-
zen'sI Improvement Association have taken
up the matter. and at the mass meeting
which will be held at Balnber Hall on next
Thursday evening for the purpose of discuss
ing plans to secure a new water supply,
resolutions condemning the action OF the
Street and Water Commissioners will be
adopted.