The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-01
REAL ESTATE NEWS.
Street and Water Board Vaeate
Grant Avenue for the West
Side Railroad.

The Street and Water Commissioners,
at a meeting held yesterday afternoon,
granted the petition of the West Side
Connecting Railway for the vacation
of the westerly end of Grant avenue.
The West Side Connecting Railroad Is
a branch of the Central Railroad, and
the object of it's construction is to form
a connecting link similar to the one
now in course of construction, known as
the New Jersey Junction Railroad. The
latter company has been at war Tor
years with the Pennsylvania Railroad,
and the outlook at present is that the
West Side road will be completed and in
operation long before the Junction road
manages to get under the Pennsylvania
| tracks at the Point of Rocks. When the
West Side road proposed crossing a
number of streets in West Bergen, the
property owners raised a big howl, sought
the aid of the police and flew to the
courts.
AS soon as the West Sid Railroad
officials learned that the property own
ers believed the proposed road would be
| detrimental to their holdings rather
than beneficial, they pursued straight
forward tactics and asked the people
what they wanted Property owners on
Grant avenue, west of West Side ave-
nue., who were most affected by the
proposed vacation, declared they would
never surrender their rights in the street
unless the company bought their prop
erty.
THE COMPANY BUYS LAND.
The company at once bought nearly
| an entire block, with a view to reach
ing an amicnble agreement. 1t then
owned all the property which in any
| particular would be harmed by the va
| cation. Still the West B~ergenites kicked
for more, and they got just what they
asked for. Charles Soltan and a num-
| Der of others presented a remonstrance
to the Street and Water Board, setting
| forth that the vacation of Grant avenue
| would ruin all chances of the locality
| ever being properly severed. They' mann,
tanned that in a few years sewers would
| nave to be built in Morton place, orient,
| Claremont, West Side and Pollock ave
nues, and that Grant avenue was me
only available outlet. This Was ene
most important protest filed. The rail
road thought they had done enough
when they purchases ed sea . me 1one Gr time the
matter hung fire. Yesterday, however
| they decided to comply with the wishes
of the property owners IN every IeSpeot,
and accordingly filed with the Street
and Water Board a liberal agreement
| covering the sewer question. tor the
/ vacation of Grant avenue the company
will at any time, at its own expense,
construct under it's road any sewer now
i built which requires extension or any
| sewer to be quilt hereafter. They VIII
also keep Grant avenue IN the pest pos
| sible order. The Street and Water Com
missionerS believed the agreement one
| in which the city's interests were amply
| protected, and, after accepting II, grant
| ed the vacation. Work upon that sec
tion of the connecting link will be be-
Reuben Simpson and John Morrell' who
are the star kickers' AGAINST the pro-
GRADE We're present at the meeting, pre-
| barred to repeat their protests. The
matter was not brought up IN any shape
| departed, promising to be on hand when
final action is to be taken lzen 1nppovr
MONTGOMERY ETR- IMPROVE
Property owners and truckmen, and
more particularly persons VINO are COM
PEELED to use the montgomery street
| street and Water Commissioners have
| adopted specifications for the improve
ment of Montgomery street from Sornei-
| movement will not be like the old time
fbluff" when a few loads of dirt We're
used to fill dangerous holes and then
| street to the bridge it will be remember
ed there was only a dirt road either
| side of the car track. The trolley runs
so fast. that when the dirt is dry the
clothes of passengers are ruined, their
eyes, ears, nostrils and mouths filled
with dust. So much complaint was
made that the Consolidated Traction
! Company sought to remedy matters by
the free use of a sprinkler. That made
riding at least bearable but then per
sons who used to drive through the
street. commenced to kick about the
dangerous holes, ruts and loose cobble
STONES which the Traction Company
employees regularly tossed into the drive
way after repaving between the tracks.
| Mayor Wanser hauled the Traction Com
4 pany over the Goals and more care
was exercised by its men. Now the old
dirt road is to be given a covering of a
few inches of sharp sand and spread over
with stones which will form a rude
Macadam. 1t is to be rolled and the
prospects are that the upper end of the
Street will. in a short time be quite
passable.
= This Improvement is only tempo
rary,, said President Macarthur, 'as this
| board proposes having that street paved.
AS it stands it is a disgrace to the city
| and it is the intention of every member
of this board to have all the streets put