The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-30
REAL ESTATE NEWS.
Lack of Pure and Wholesome
Water Depreeiating Prop
perty Values.

Property owners OF the Heights are
not only complaining bitterly about the
filthy condition of the water, but for
some unaccountable reason they cannot
secure a sufficient supply to meet their
wants. Mr.. Henry Neid, a barber of
Gregory street, resides on the Heights
near the reservoir. He declares that at
times it is impossible to get enough
water to do anything with. He and his
neighbors cannot understand the reason
for the scarcity. They have inspected the
reservoirs and found them as full as
usual. There is a suspicion that the force
is not so great as it was early in the sum-
mer.
The drain upon the reservoir during the
past month has been great and it is
highly probable that the engineers have
have reduced the pressure.
PIPES TOO SMALL.
One thing that the residents of the
Heights nave to contend with is small
water pipes. The greater number of
pipes on the Hill are only six and eight
inche in diamster. They ave been
growing sections that the pressure has
been reduced to almost nothing. Mayor
Wanser has adopted the very commend
able course of having only twelve and
IOuiI ~ PAPCo idl0- IA NhiA SifS
a good pressure and assure a bountiful
supply for a number of years to come.
Auctioneer Fred Wolbert on Septem-
Der 10 will sell to the highest bidder the
residence of the late Mr.. Joseph Eager.
situated on Summit avenue, between
Belmont avenue and Aston place. The
property is desirable and should bring
a good price.
All of those streets and avenues lying
between Montgomery street and Com
munipaW avenue on the Hill, from two
b1@a1y- " ar4h21f Onrnnya nTTAV M fn- West
avenue, need repairing badly. 1t is
a noticeable fact and one which a few
improvements would probably remedy,
that there is entirely too much difference
in the value of lane on the avenues in
question, after Bergen venue is left.
Near Bergen avenue lots are high and
scarce. One has to go but two blocks
crease in number and that they are of
a cheaper grade. AS West Side avenue
is neared no houses are seen. That ends
of the avenues are unimproyed and In
many instances woul be impossible
were it not for the fact hat the resi-
tents have gone down into their pockets
and paid for board walks, so as to be
able to reach the trolley cars on West
WEST SIDE TABooED.
Just why there should exist such a
surprising depreciation after a certain
distance from Bergen avenue is reached
has occasioned much comment among
real estate dealers.
BONE say tlIpdl II Is OWluS To lNe I'LL
proved condition lof the streets, and
others that the members of the Four
Hundred have tabooed all property which
is on the West Side e slope. Per-
'haps no better Illustration of the mean
ing of the assertion that the -Four Hun
dred has tabooed the west slope is to
be had than by reference to a condition
of affairs existing on Glenwood avenue.
Glenwood avenue is to some extent ex-
elusive. President E. #. C. Young of
the First National Bank has his home
whose purses would allow it. have with
one accord surrounded him on every
side. There are pretty houses there and
fine lawns. The owners seem to vie with
one another in keeping their homes in
splendid condition. For a space of a
half a block below Mr.. Young's house
there are pretty houses. Then the west
slope is struck, and as if to mark the
where social people should live, one own
er has erected a high board fence be-
tween his house and his neighbours. His
neighbor cannot see Bergen avenue in
all it's glory, but West Side with its mud
heaps and dirty oil lamps looms up in
fine form. Real estate dealers have no.
and have arrived at the same conclusion
as others, that Jersey City's social set
has thrown a damp cloth on property on
the west slope of the Hill.
One dealer remarked that he thought
it was because the owners would not sell
on the installment plan, but this is not
belleVed. Whatever the cause may De
the fact remains, that property on the
west slope does not possess the market
able value it should when compared with
land so near it.
Transfers.
Mary j. Burns to Charles H. Won Dehsen for
81. 400, lots II and 20, Block 275.
Hudson Clark to William and James Clark
for 5000, lot 80, Block 46, Newark avenue.
James F. Minturn to William D. DAILY for
81, 900, land and premises on the southeast
ken.
John Horan to Jasper T. Cronk for $4,000,
lot SO, Block 497, southeast side of Halliday
street.
Thomas White ct TX. to Irene Otto for 50, 100,
land and premises on the southeast corner
of Avenue H and East Twenty-second street,
Bayonne.
Peter Kendall and William s. Anderson to
Flora Carmichael for s., 500. lot IS, Block 4,
north side of Irving street.
Mortgages.
William and James Clark to The Provident
Institution for Savings, on lot so. Block 46,
avenue for sc, 00s.
Flora Carmichael to reter B. Kendall and
William S. Anderson, on lot Is, Block A. nortl,
side of Irving street for $500.
She gives a second mortgage to the same
on the same property for 81, 800.
William w. Douglass to the Provident In
for Savings, on lot 81, Block G, south
west side of Belmont avenue for 81, 500.