The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-15
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER
COMMISSIONERS.
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS.

Present-All the members of the Board
IS in number.
Reading of the minutes of regular meet
ing held on Tuesday, January 2. 1894, was
dispensed with, and on motion were APP
proved as %engrossed.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS N COM
M~UNICAT1ONS.
From P. J. Condor:
In matter of delay of construction of main
sewer in Dwight street, etc.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Streets and Sewers with conjunction of
the Chief Engineer.
Three (3) petitions for signs, etc.
Received and referred to the Caasmittee
on Streets and Sewers.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
From His Honor the Mayor:
Jersey CRY, Jan. 4. 1894.
10 the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners:
Gentlemen,-I herewith return without ap-
proval the resolution passed by your Board
on December 26, 1898, granting permission
to the Morris & Essex Railroad Company
and the Delaware, Lackawanna Il Western
Railroad Company, its lessee, to lay down,
maintain and use additional tracks across
Jersey avenue, between Nineteenth street
and Hoboken avenue, at grade. lind upon
an inspection of the vicinity that said COM
panies now have two tracks across said ave-
nue. at that point. | have been unable from
inquiry made of property owners in the
neighborheod and from the companies to as
certain the history or authority of the rail-
road to use the street at this point. Origin
ally the main line of the old Morris & Essex
Railroad ran across Jersey avenue near this
point with two tracks, and thence to the
Erie tunnel. The use of this line, however,
except for terminal purposes was practically
abandoned upon the opening some twenty
years ago of the new tunnel through Bergen
Hill, which is reached by a system of tracks
crossing over streets overhead. Since that
time the railroad company has shifted its
tracks across Jersey avenue on the old line
a number of times for various purposes. At
the present time there are two tracks crossing
the avenue near Nineteenth street. A little
to the north there are ~ tracks which
are laid up to the street on either side, but do
not cross, while still further north the tracks
through the Chicken Freight House run to
the westerly side of the street but do not
cross. Your resolution covers the middle set
of tracks.
Jersey avenue is an important ~thoroughfare
between this city and Hoboken. as the
bridges of this company cross Henderson
and Grove streets with only about ten foot
and six inches of headroom, all vehicles with
extra high loads are compelled to use Jersey
avenue. where the bridge is much higher.
We have grade crossings enough in Jersey
City, and while others may be forced upon
US the city would never voluntarily add to
their number. We cannot. in fairness, ask
one railroad in this section of the city to raise
IT'S tracks and permit another to add a grade
crossing. The city should be consistent IN
such matters. Moreover, if | can judge from
the surroundings. it is the intention of the
company to SO arrange its tracks as to make
our street a part of its terminal yard. 10
that | cannot consent, while | am willing to
grant every facility to the great corporations
which are conferred in our city. | cannot
consent to give up such al important street
unless the necessity is more clearly shown
than in this case.
Very respectfully yours,
PETER F. WANsER,
Mayor.
Received and laid over under the rules.
From the Board of Finance:
Transmitting resolution passed by said
Board at its meeting November 81, 1893,
and was approved by the Mayor January 2,
1894.
Resolved. That the Board of Finance
hereby concur in the following resolution
adopted by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners, November Is, 1893, TO wit:
Awarding the contract to Lyons & Lynch
for the construction of a brick oval sewer in
Congress street, from about $50 feet west of
Central avenue to and connecting with sewer
in Pearce avenue.
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
hereby concurs in the following resolution
adopted by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners November 30, 1893, to wit:
To paw awards for real estate taken and
damages sustained in the opening of Prior
street, between Railroad avenue and Wayne
street.
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
hereby concurs in the following resolution,
adopted by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners November 90. 1898, to wit:
To pay awards for real estate taken and
damages sustained in the opening of FIRE.
mont street, between Railroad avenue and
Wayne street.
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
hereby concurs in the following resolution
adopted by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners December II, 1898, to wit:
Authorizing the construction of a branch
main sewer in West Side avenue from the
centre line of Broadway and West Side ave-
nue. to the centre line of West Side avenue
and Paramount avenue with the lateral sewers
in the following streets. between West Side
avenue and the westerly line of the new
Public Road of Hudson County, Stuyvesant
avenue, De Kalb avenue, Glenwood avenue.
Montgomery street and Paramount avenue,
said branch main sewer to connect with the
trunk line sewer in Sip avenue and faterals to
connect with said branch main W.
The following was adopted by the Board
Of Finance at its meeting December IA, 1898,
and was approved by the Mayor January 2,
1894:
Resolved. That the City Comptroller be,
and he is hereby instructed to transfer the
sum of $94.2 7 from the account of Public
Grounds and Buildings, 1929, to the ac-
tount of reconstruction of sewers, 1892-93,
Board of Street and Water Commissioners.
The following resolution was adopted by
the Board of Finance at its meeting Deem
Der 81, 1898. and was approved by the
Mayor January 2, 1894:
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
hereby directs the City Comptroller TO trans
fer the sum of 81, 1885, 10 from the appropri-
alton for the erection of station houses to
the account of Fifth Precinct Station House,
Board of Street and Water Commissioners,
fiscal year 1S92-93, upon the request of said
Board.
Resolved, That the Board of Finance
non-concurs in the following resolution