The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-01
NEWDITYHALL WORK
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Tne6Building Wil1Be Com
! Apleted by the End 8
of ISqsa 8
ICoNTRA ACTORS AHEAD OF TiAB
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Roof Will Be on by tie FalfAs
Limestone Blocks Tpt in
= ! Newark.

q A question asked daily by HaBdredsAo t'
PROPERTY owners and passengers onthe Mont
gomery street trolley line is, when will
the new CityHaI " sfinished27 The i'm
preston seemsto prevail that men who DE
young now win, whe1fhe halls finished.
be adorned with silver locks. Sother have
gone 50 far as to deelareeto MayoRsaYah nser
that the new hall will be- enjoged by the
ae7tegeneration. IF what City Hail Com
missioner DATE says is true, and there seems
reason to- doubt it, tile new
City HALF viii be completa and
ready for occupancy by the begaaning
of the year 1896, The contributors are under
bonds to havej il completed BY that time
and Il theSame splendid Roadway is made
which has characterized the work so farsthe
building WiA be,cpmpleted before the speci-
fled time Expires.
Atpresent the contractorsEa ARE ahead of
the specifiedCtinR and it is this fact that
gives the commissioners such encourage
ment. u "a
ALL AHEAD OF TIME. 9
I In thesfirst place Contractor ConnoHNhad
four mqIths, from January 3, in which to
complete. his partFof the work. Mr.. Con
molly Wfl1completeAis portion 9f the work
within two weeks if the weathenwil permit
J R s5s SSif Eagism tke mason, is allowed !
eighteen months dating from January 3.
Mr.. English is far ahead of the time even
now. Already he has laid a greater part of
the required stone foundation and today
work was begun by laying thesbrick work of
the foundation. u
AS soon as the foundation is laid, people
will be surprised,to see the building go up.
E-Arxy4lsn- - Is -, rao1ir1acc. 10 +hS,oyU IL tn
gether with arush, but at the same time in
such a substantial manner that if viii be
only second in appearance and construction
to the State House at Trenton.
The new City Hall is to be 1876 feet front
and 176 feet in depth and will stand in a
plot of20Q feet frontage on Grove street and
400 feet id depth. The foundation walls are
of Fox Island granite. This high class ma
terial will Be used to the water table md
from there Indiana limestone will be used.
| Although none of this limestone has been
seen on the site, still, every block which will
be used in the construction of the first Hoor
has been cut, marked and is ready to be set.
The blocks lave all been cut in Newark,
where fifty or sixty men have been employed
in the preparation. The stone as received
| from the. West is in block weighing from
twelve ia to twenty tons. 1t
is owing to the facilities
| at Newark for handling such blocks that they
were deposited there and prepared LOT use III
that city. All the blocks will be prepared
and dressed in that city and shipped as re-
duired.
The building is to be made fireproof and
the tiling for the floors is already being pre-
pared and half is ready for use even at this
| early date.
The same may be said of the iron work.
This part of the work is being done at Mayor
Fagan's iron works. and the iron girders re-
quired for the first story are ready for use.
| just as soon as Mr.. English
gets his work fairly under way
Plumber W. w. Farrier will begin
| operations. Everything necessary for the
fulfllment of his contract is on hand and he
is anxious to get at work. The two boilers
| to be placed in the rear hall have been made
| and tested and are ready to be set. The Otis
hydraulic elevators are also built, and all
the paraphernalia necessary to their con-
| ~struction and operation is ready to be placed
| in position. The steam radiators AVE been
| built and are ready for use at this early
date.
WILL BE ROOTED BY H FALL.
Wonderful progress has been made by all
| the contractors, and it is highly probable
| that by next Iall Contractor English will
nave a roof on the building, which will en-
| able the inside work to be pushed to a speedy
| completion, rain or shine. 1t is the inside
| work which is SO tedious and requires SO
! much time. The new hall hen completed
| will resemble, in outward appearance, the
| Postal Telegraph Company's building at
Broadway and Murray street, the Corn Ex'
| change Bank building at Beaver and Will
lam streets, and the Broadway Cable power
house at Broadway and Bleecker street, New