The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-08
CONTRACT STOPPED
Citizens Want to Know Why
Work Is Not Pushed on
Old Bergen Road.
MAYOR WANsER CALLED UPON.
Board Of Works Will Next Be
Visited When a Lively
Time is Expected.
MAYOR WANsER CALLED UPON.

The Greenville property owners who
are interested in the improvement of
Old Bergen Road are worried because
| there is no evidence as yet hat the
t~horoughfare will undergo a change. The
contract for the improvement of the
street was awarded over a month ago,
and as the contractor has not yet be-
gun work the property owners are kick
ing. 1t was rumored a few days ago that
the contract was being held back by
Mayor Wanser because the Consolidated
Traction Company has a right of way
over the thoroughfare, and that if the
macadam is laid it will not be long be-
fore the Traction Company will rip it
up for the tracks which it is said will
be laid there. The property owners who
have been most active in the fight for the
improvement are Messrs. Henry Lem
beck and Michael Schultz, ST., and when
these gentlemen visited Mayor Wanser
yesterday to discuss water they asked
the General if it vas true that he was
holding back the contract.
SURPRISED BY THE MAYOR.
The Mayor surprised them by saying
that the contract had not yet arrived at
his office, and that in fact he had not
heard anything of the proposed move-
Where then is the contract?" was
the question the visitors put to one an
other, but as it remained unanswered,
they resolved to visit the Street and
Water Boards office and learn who is
to blame for the delay. The experience
OF Monday morning, when the gentlemen
visited the board and foun the com
their minds, so they resolved to put off
the visit until a later day. As they are
determined intheir purpose and some
what ruffied in temper by the apparent
neglect of the board, the meeting be-
tween the commissioners and the dig
nified Greenville citizens is likely to
be interesting.
The property owners on Old Bergen
Road are no less indignant than Messrs.
Lembeck and Schultz over the delay,
ana they threaten to take a hand in
Goals.
SORELY NEEDED.
The Improvement is sorely needed, as
the ~thoroughfare is now nothing but a
rough dirt road. Ruts nearly two feet
deep have been worn in the centre by
the many vehicles which pass over it.
w heneVer a heavy rain falls these ruts
become filled with water, and for a few
days the miniature rivers remain there.
me other portions Of the road are con
tlcally closes the street to traffic. The
t~horoughfare has been in this condition
many years., and the property owners
are ANXIOUS to nave it improved as rap
ldly as possible. 1t is a common occur
renee to see heavily laden vehicles fast
IN the mud and sand. Only yesterday sf-
ternoon a large truck laden with furni-
I'LL II I'll and. Il
though the team of horses strained
every muscle, it refused to bulge An
addltlonal horse was secured. but fba
10p was ever too much for the trio
Inen the driver and his two helpers
srapped the wheels and pushed" while
f fne horses rs pulled; But the truck re-
Two hours in the effort to move II thee
driVer unloaded the furniture. and thor
When the horses pulled the truck to more
Solo ground, piled it on again, and re-
sfnea ms Journey, saying ali tanner
vi,,e c44mlpnfnentary thigs about Green
Hsn5e streets. Mayor Wanser has mott
Hed Messrs. Lembeck and Schultz
enat ne Will sign the contract for the
Improvement as soon as he receives it,
Real Estate Transfers.
James Brand and wife to permelia A
d Bahks' Nos, 55la and S5 Oak street, for 49,
David Ross and wife OF Emelia Frank for
500, lot g, Block l, West Hoboken.
Peter McCloskey and wife to Henry Mavar
Tor S4,20O, house and lot on Gregory street
aesisnated on the maps of the David Hender-
son ana dudley $. Gregory property.
Amella I. Macomber ct ais. to Thomas @
hlnkead for $3.50, lots Nos. s, 9, 10, ii ~
Ii, "A. 10, 16 II, Is, 10, 20, 81. "a. S. 81 Is
ana 81, being a part of the estate of Ahran1
Gollerd, deceased, and known as the Old
Charles Clinton and wife to George w
Wright for $500, lots Nos. Is and IA, Block Ga
jackson street, Hoboken.
WIZARD ~ FISK and wife to Henry De LIE
Vega for $500, lot No. 3, Block Seventeenth
street, designated on map of property of d
D. Waterman, Third ward, Jersey CITY.
Central New Jersey Improvement Companv
TO Charles M. Colville for $472 so, one lot ON
100 feet, on East Thirty-fourth street. Ray-
onne. D"s
Cyrus E.. Jones and wife to William
Sealy Tor $1,000, a lot 70x125 feet on Avenue G.