The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-16
JACK AND JILL
Went Up a Hill to Get a
Pail of Water,
JACK FELL DOWN
And Broke His Crown, and Jill
Came TumbIing After.

at their meeting last night. The first
intimation that the filthy Passaic was
again to be disturbed was when Clerk
Bcuton read 2 resolution resembling two
resolutions passed by the 8asrd IN Sep
tsrnoer Il, one 3sNipa conenrr=ncs ia me
original specifications undsr which .
new supply was to be advertised Tor,
and the second to concur in the adver-
Using for bids to be received on October
22.
Many people present thought at once
that the Commissioners were taking
a back track and making concessions
TO the Board of finance. This idea was
dispelled a few minutes later when Clerk
Bouton read a preamble and resolution,
which clearly demonstrated that the
Board proposes sticking to its original
specifications, and incidentally that it
doesn't care what the Finance Board
thinks about them. The preamble and
resolution also prove the truth of THE
News statement that there is a hitch
between Mayor Wanser and the Street
and Water Board and the Board of FL
nance.
The following is a copy of the pream-
BILE and resolution in question:
Whereas, This Board did, by resolu-
ton, at its meeting held September II,
request the concurrence of the Board of
Finance in the advertisement of the full
specifications adopted by this Board on
said date, for a new water supply for
Jersey City, and,
Whereas, The said Board of Finance
did not act upon said request, by reason
Of whinh tho nuhlio has mot had nrODpT
opportunity to examine said specifca-
lions, and,
Whereas, 1t is the desire of this Board
to receive and consider all suggestions
concerning the same specifications,
Resolved, That the Committee of the
Whole of this Board be empowered to
employ, at a cost not to exceed the sum
of $1,000, ~payableout OF the Water Ac-
count, an expert hydraulic engineer or
engineers, water chemist or chemists, to
examine the specifications heretofore
adopted by his Board, as aforesaid, and
now on hle in the once OF the clerk,
and to report to this Board any changes
which may De desirable in said speclft-
cations, in order that the best and
cheapest supply of pure water may be
obtained, or hat will more securely pro-
tect the interests of the city, and to fur
Their report any commemorate plan for
the improvement of the present supply,
and,
ACoO1fCd, Adi a OOPy v ~
and resolution be forwarded to the
Board of Finance for its concurrence,
with the request that the Board submit
TO this Board for. its consideration, the
names OF any and all experts OF high re-
pute of which it may have knowledge,
and also such other in its
possession as may be appropriate 10 the
consideration of the SUBJECT matter.
To begin, the Board of Finance, at q
private meeting held last Thursday af-
~ternoon, adopted a resolution authoriz-
ing the employment of expert
and engineers to assist it in examining
into the original specifications, with a
view to finding out, exclusive OF any as
sistance from the Street and Water
not possible to amend the specifications
in such a manner that the city's inter
ests will be better protected.
FOLLOW Nj MASTER"
Now the Street and Water Board
steps in, pursues a similar course, and
there is a likelihood of there being two
sets of experts examining the water
specifications, unless Mayor Wanser We
to employ experts. 1t is understood
that the Mayor proposes pursuing that
course. If he does, the Board of FL
nance will refuse to concur in the Street
and Water Boards resolution to employ
experts, and the water question will be
as hopelessly tied up as it ever was.
Finance Commissioers Jones, Bailey,
Hardenbergh and Detwiller will not con-
cur III llC OAo SPCSlASAlhOAo oAGNA eA'
consideration. They are of the opinion
that calling for a gravity supply alone
will destroy competition. They are OPP
posed to the standard of purity pro
vided for, and they object to a check
for S100, 900 accompanying each bid, on
the ground that it would shut out a
number of bidders who would not care
to tie up such an amount OF ready cash
pending a decision of the city officials as
to which proposal was most advantage
Gus to the city. They also oppose the
specifications because it has been re-
ported that they appear TO be IN the
the East Jersey Water Company, who
has been seen about City Hall hobnob-
bling with all the city officials who nave
to act upon the contract before it can
be delivered.
The water problem is in a sorry plight,
and until new specifications are prepar-
ed, meeting with the approval of the
Finance Commissioners, nothing definite
is on top in the fight and is likely to
remain so, with President Jones, Mr..
Hardenbergh and Mr.. Bailey arrayed
against the Street and Water Board and
the Mayor.
At the last meeting of the Street and
Water Board the Township Committee
of Kearny verbally demanded the dis
solution of its ten-year contract with
ply of water. President Macarthur in
formed the members of the committee
that a verbal request could not be no
ticed, and that a written one was neces-
sary. Last night the Kearny representa-
tives showeds their earnestness in desir-
ing to cut away from the filthy Pas
sale by PRESENTING the following pream-
Bile and resolution n bue
Whereas, THE Board of Township
Committee of the Township of Kearny
did heretofore enter into a Contract with
the Board Of Public Works or Street
and Water Commissioners of Jersey
CITY. under the terms of which contract
the Board of Works was to supply the
inhabitants of this township with water
Tor atterm of ten years, which, said con-
tract. has not yet expired; and
Whereas, The water supply is drawn
from the Passaic River and is contain
mated with sewage, and has been for a
long time, and is now very impure and
unWholesome, and a menace to the pub
lie health; and
Whereas, This township does not own
the complete system of distribution
but the main pipe through Kear-
nv avenue, when fully paid for, will be-
come the property of Jersey City; and
Whereas, This board is DESTROYS of
procuring an adequate supply of pure
and wholesome water for Inhabitants of
this township from other sources, and
not owning the complete system of dis
tributiens pipes therefore,, be it ~
petitions the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of Jersey City to relieve
it from the terms and conditions of said
contract, and to take such immediate
action in the premises in conjunction
with this board as will enable this
title and interest of the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners of Jersey
CITY in and to the, main conduit or
twenty-inch water main, extending from