The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-27
WATER PROMISED
Street and Water Board Tells
Kearny Citizens That a New
Supply Is Coming.

NEWARK, Nov. p. 1S94.-The Even
ing News of this city is responsible for
the following remarkable story
The members of the Kearny Township
Committee appeared in a body before the
Jersey City Street and Water
Board last Friday. All five of
the members of the board were present
and President Macarthur was in the
chair. President Warrington of the
Township Committee. again went over
the complaint in regard to the Passaic
River water furnished Kearny by the
board and he said hat the use of the
water was detrimental to the health of
the inhabitants of Kearny, also that
the pressure was inadequate for extin-
gushing fires quickly. President Woth-
ington then said
I'VE have appeared before you to ask
you what you are going to do in regard
to giving us a better supply of water.
The people of the township are clamor-
ing for it, and are constantly Emporium
ing the Township Committee to have
a change made"
President Macarthur inquired of Mr..
Worthington whether the committee had
taken any legal proceedings toward an
annulment of the water contract. Mr..
Worthington said that it had not done
so; that the committee was awaiting
the action OF the Board of Works, by
which the committee would be guided in
the matter. There was some little spar
ring between the two presidents, and
Mr.. Warrington then said
WHAT WILL o DO FOR s."
w have come here for the express
purpose of asking yot what you are
going to do for us in order to know
how to shape our actions"
President Macarthur said that by Mon
day next the ammended specifications
that have been prepared by the board
would be ready, when proposals for a
supply of pure water would be advertis-
ed for. He said that in the very near
future a better supply would be secured
the benefit of it.
point we lave been DESTROYS of arriving
at, for the committee has been delaying
action in taking legal proceedings to
annul the present contract, We have
had proposals from seven different par
ties to furnish the township with water,
and one of those parties proposed to
furnish us with water inside OF three
months"
Fir. Congalton, Chairman of the Water
Committee Of Kearny, then addressed
been given by the board to the request
of the committee to rebate $1,000 on the
yearly water bill, The President of the
DOdIu Sdlu tH3t Tie 1udLlCG SOLitIltllSG
of the board had the matter before it
and in reporting progress had said that
in its opinion the demand of $1,000 was
too high.
On behalf of the Kearny people it was
urged by President W~orthingten that
the claim was only a part Of the loss
that was being caused by blowing off
dead ends for the purpose of trying to
purify the water. The waste amounted
to many thousand gallons, he said, and
the board, and aCptain Hooker, a men,
town pumps and repaired old pumps that
had been abandoned. He hoped that the
board, in its further consideration of the
request for a rebate, would render JUS
tice to Kearny.
Mr.: Engelstadter and other members
of the Township Committee addressed
the board, and Captain Hooked, a mem
Der of the Board of Works and who
supsrvises the water works at Belle
vile, stated that he, was experimenting
at the aqueduct with a view to lettering
the quality of the water until such time
when a better supply could be secured.
All the members Of the board assured
the visiting committee before leaving
that they would do all in their power
to give the inhabitants of Kearny a sup
ply of pure water, and Mr.. Cohen, a
member of the board, added that if a
certain ompan should get the contract
a supply would be furnished in three
months.