The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-10
WORK WELL DONE.
Freeholders Inspect Sections
1 and 2 of the New
Boulevard.
CONTRACT COMPLIED WITH.
TheGrading Excellent and in Every
Way Up to the Expectations of
the Committee.

Bad weather and much mud did not pre-
vent the Committee ON New Public Road
from inspecting Sections Nos. l and 2 in
Bayonne yesterday. The committee assem-
bled at the office of the Board of Freeholders
| at two o'clock and left there in coaches to as
| certain whether the Hudson Contracting
Company had done its work sufficiently well
to warrant the Board in ordering passed the
final payment to the company. This last
payment for the two sections amounts only
to the sum of s 2 $500, which is the percentage
retained by the F~reeholders under the terms
of the contract as a guarantee that the two
sections of the Boulevard were properly
graded and all the requirements in the CON
tract complied with.
A DAY FOR OBSERVATION.
A better day for a~scertaining all that was
bad regarding these two sections of the
Boulevard could not nave been selected.
The heavy rainfall had transformed the
road bed into a sea Of mud, and the water
rushing Town the grades indicated, with a
greater certainty than q survey by a civil
engineer would do, whatever faults in the
grading there were. When the committee,
which consists of Freeholders Ellis, Hennes-
sey, Cronin, Hanna, Mentally, Heller and
Director Bruggemann, observed the manner
in which this surface water flowed along the
outer edges of the uncurbed road until
it entered receiving basins and flowed
through sewers to the Newark Bay, each
member experienced satisfaction and said the
grading had been wen done. Engineer Har-
rison said also that he was agreeably sur
prised to find the urfpayed road IN such an
excellent condition. He said that any work
of this nature that would successfully with
stand the storms of six months without de-
xroInpinU woShnutc ma adQd no other QllaraD-
tee of its excellence.
THE TWO SECTIONS INSPECTED.
The two sections inspected begin at the
Kill Won Kull and emil at Fifty-eighth street,
Bayonne. The COZ nmittee drove down
Ocean avenue to Baiyonne and then turned
the road was dlscoulaging, for the mud was
four and five inches, deep. But when a sec
ond and thoughtful look was made it was
seen that beneath. the mud was a smooth
and hard surface, and that the grading had
been done so well that the surface water
every where souglt.the cutters III front of
the curbing.
The Boulevard. when completed, will
nave a dirt road thirty feet wide in the mid
die, for fast driving and on either side there
will be a macadam road for heavy truck
ing. The cutters will be built of Belgian
block, and a large quantity Of these have
been distributed along the road for use.
VALUE OF THE IMPROVEMENT.
That the Boulevard will be a popular inn
provenlent is best illustrated by the ca
gerness displayed by people to purchase prop
erty, and their desire to hold it when once in
their possession. { was shown yesterday a
plot on the Boulevard containing nineteen
city lots. This land was bought
soon after the Boulevard route was
established, for s4Q1 a lot. The owner told
me Yesterday that The had refused al offer of
l 1000 lot for the plot. A large number of
new houses. some completed and some in
course of construction, was also noticed, and
it ives gratifying to. observe that each house
was a credit to the owner n the neigh
borhood.
At T~hirty-third street. where Cronin's
historic pump was formerly located, the mud
on the sidewalk was unusually bad, and some
enterprising man had laid a walk of shingles.
1t was the first ~saingied walk ever saw and
it looked about as artistic as a shingled
head.
THE STEEL BRIDGE.
The object which created the greatest adj
miration while passing through the two sec
lions was the steel bridge over the New Jer-
sey Central Road. 1t was built for the
| Boulevard by Post & McCord at a cost of
$4,000, and it certainly is a grand piece of
work. Having examined this structure, the
committee drove to McDonalds and had din
ner, and then returned home.
At the next meeting of the Board OF Free
holders, the Hudson Contracting Company
| will receive the amount due for the grading
of the Boulevard at Bayonne.