The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
HOBOKEN TROLLEYS
Concessions Mayor Pagan
Asks From the North
Hudson Company.
NOT LIKELY TO GET THEM
Col. Stevens Withdraws Consents
Given the JerseyCity and Ruth
erford Company.
NOT LIKELY TO GET THEM

session. Mayor Pagan sent a communica-
ton to the Council, appended to which was a
resolution respecting the granting of trolley
franchise to the North Hudson County Rail
wal Company. The Mayor treated in detail
every point concerning the grant, particu-
larly making it plain that the Mayor and
Common Council should have the governing
power over the road. The Mayor advised
that a public meeting be called SO that pro-
perty owners might discuss the matter. Fol-
lowing is a ummary of the resolution sent
the council
MAYOR FAGAN's IDEAS.
The placing of poles shall be under the
supervision of the Mayor and Common
Council.
The poles shall be iron or steel, no less than
20 feet high, and can be used by the city for
fire alarm purpose or any other purpose they
may deem best for the interest of the city.
They must be at least 12O feet apart.
The tracks shall be kept graded and
sprinkled, and all snow and Ice must be re-
moved on notice of the Mayor and Common
Counsel.
The cars shall have head lights and be
heated in cold weather.
The speed shall not be greater thar five
miles per hour within the city limits.
Fares shall be placed at five cents per
passenger WIN transfer lOr dQuiU. anu no
fare shall be charged n child under five
years of age.
Before permission is granted a contract
shall be drawn and a bond of 5000 given
by the company.
When any other method of propelling the
cars shall nave been determined a success
the Mayor and Common Council shall have
the right to recover the poles and wires
forthwith at the expense of the railroad.
A commission of three electrical engineers,
one selected by the Mayor and Common
Council shall determine the preferred
method.
The cars shall be run in each direction
every five minutes between the hours of
FIVE O'Clock A. M. and ten o'clock P. NJ. of
each day and during the remainder of the
day at such intervals as may be required by
the Common Council by resolution.
The company shall pay to the city for
every mile of track now laid and intended to
be operated, whatever three commissioners
shall determine, to be appointed by the
Mayor and Council.
The company shall be at all expense in
keeping the roadway in good repair, the
amount to be annually paid to the city.
No rights granted under this ordinance
shall pass to or be exercised by any other
company to whom the railway may sell, as
sign ortransfer their rights without consent
of the Mayor and Common Council.
The cars to run over these roads must be
first class in every particular, and be APP
proved by the Mayor and Common Council,
an inspector being appointed to see that the
cars are kept in this condition.
For any failure of company to perform
any provisions of the ordinance or any con-
tract that may be executed pursuant thereto,
and after sixty days notice of intention so
to do, the Mayor and Common Council shall
have the right to repeal the ordinance.
The resolution provoked no discussion, and
ON motion was received and referred to the
Committee on Assessments, Councilmen Tim
ken, Weinthal and Kelly.
WITHDRAWN.
The Hoboken and and Improvement
Company, through its President, Colonel E..
A. Stevens, submitted the following COM
munication:
ssThe Hoboken Land and Improvement
Company hereby withdraws and declares
void the consent dated April Is, 1898, to the
location and construction of the Jersey City,
Hoboken and Rutherford Railway Company
or its assigns of the tracks of said com
pany Ia single track, or where prac-
ticable a double track and the necessary
poles and wires therefor, on the portion of
the street or highway known as the Pater-
son Plank Road, in front of the property of
said company, and to the use of said portion
Of said road or highway for the purposes of
its railroad and the operation thereon of a
horse, electric or cable grip railway as said
company may determine"
One was also received from the Hoboken
Land and Improvement, and the Hoboken
Ferry Company, signed by their President,
Colonel E. A. Stevens. The communication
read
1.-THE Hoboken Land and Improvement
Company and the Hoboken Ferry Com
pany hereby withdraw and declare null and
void the contract dated October 16, 1893, to
the location and construction of the Jersey
C;+r Honolon ond Pnfborfovd Elaotr.io
Railway Company of its track in said City
of Hoboken as follows
GA single track in and along First and
Second streets, a double track in River
street between First and Newark streets,
n a single track in and along
a parcel of land claimed to belong to said
companies lying between River street and a
line $50 feet east of the easterly line of
River street and used as an exit from the
Hoboken ferries, and to the use thereon by
said company las well as horses electrical
or chemical motors, or grip cables as the
propelling power of its cars instead of
horses, and to. erect and maintain where
required the poles, wires and other necessary
a~ppurtenances for the purpose of operating
said railway"
Both communications were ordered placed
on file.
A LOST LAI
Among the claims read was one of A. G.
SUelu0Tb, udUeu 1dSU Juu6, WHICH, was ldlu
over on June 2 by the council. The claim
was for lumber furnished in the construction
of q sewer, and amounted to $29. Is. Through
some inexplicable reason the claim was never
brought up after being laid over. Council
men Timken said If the claim were legal he
thought Steinert would nave been around to
see about it. Some of the members wanted
to know how it came to be lost. 1t was
finally ordered to be laid over again. and
will be attended to.
Senator w. D. DAILY sent in q bill of 500,
as counsel to Richard r. Let's in his suit
against the city to recover salary claimed
due as veterinary surgeon of the Fire Depart
ment. 1t was ordered paid.
Several residents along Second street sent
a communications to the council agreeing to
allow the Jersey City, Hoboken and Ruther-
ford Railway Company right of way on
that street. Referred.
A protest was entered by several inhabi-
tants near No. 6 School against the granting
of a liquor licence to a man who wants to
operate a saloon there. Referred.
Col. E. A. Stevens, as president of the
Hoboken Land and Improvement Company,
requested in a letter that tax be eliminated
from a parcel of ground now used as part of
Fifteenth street by the city, which formerly
belonged to the company. He stated that
the company allowed the city the ground at
no cost, and he thought it unfair to tax the
company for it. Referred.
A petition of Columbia Lodge, I.O.O.F.,
proprietors of Odd Fellows Hall, to build a
brick extension to the building, was re-
ferred.
The Board of Education asked that a reso-
lution be passed kin the rate of speed at