The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-18
REAL ESTATE News
Needed improvements Going
on in Various Parts of
the City.

O OtSy
The Street and Water Commissioners
acting under instructions from Mayor
Wanser, have for the past three or foui
months been making a most determined
effort to rid the city of the old cobblt
stone payements. Up to the present TIME
a half dozen or more streets which fol
years have had only a cobble payemen
nave been repaved with Belgian blocks
Mayor Wanser declared that cobble'
were hazardous to trucking, dangerous
to drivers of light wagons and a dis
grace to the city, inasmuch as theil
city vas managed by slow-coach offic
ials, He ordered that they be gotter
rid of, and in a short time cobble-pavec
streets viii be a thing Of the past
Mayor. residents Of the Street com,
planned bitterly, and the result was tina
His Honor succeeded in having lit paveC
with asphalt, and today it is a credi
York STREETS NEEDS.
York street, between Jersey avenue
and Barrow street, was. also paved will
cobbles. The fact seemed to have beer
lost sight of by old officials that som'
of the best families of the city livet
On the street, and 1T was not unit
Mayor Wanser cast his eye about th'
city to see where improvements were
needed. most that it was decided tx
pave with asphalt between the points
mentioned.
The lower section of the city. wher,
heavy trucking goes on, was next visit
ed, and thousands of cobbles wert
quickly replaced by Belgian blocks.
The latest Improvement in this lin,
Pavonia avenues. How that street hai
been allowed to remain paved with cob
bles so many years is a mystery. Con
ing it with Belgian blocks. There ar
only a few more streets in which Their
are cobbles. Noticeable among then
are:-Second, Third. Warren, between
block on Henderson street, between Yorl
n Grand Streets directly in from
of the Tabernacle.
ASPHALT FOR DIR. SCUDDER.
John L. scudder by paving the blocl
with asphalt. But the presence of ca
tracks there now renders that plan i'm
Praeticable. and Belgian blocks W
able progress has been made in this line
and the city officials deserve credit TO
every good thing they accomplish.
1t has been charged that the down
share of Improvements. The Street an
Water Commissioners merely ask prop
erty owners to have a little patience
and their wants will not be over
looked. If lit Is possible to CONVEX tn
city into a little paradise the presen
city officials will do it.
orient Avenue Sale.
A SIS, 300 sale of property on Orient ave
nue. took place yesterday afternoon. 1
was conducted by a down town auction
| hammer was No. rs Orient avenue 1
was. a two-story and brick PASSENGER
i frame OF the north side of the avenue
about GA feet west Of Jackson avenue
finally going to F. c. Barnes, of No. Is
, Forest street.
No. rs Orient Avenue, of similar con
| went to John Boyd, Of No. / Mortol
place, for 2 ,250. Nos. Is, II, 70 and 791
were next put up. The bidding wa
spirited, but F. c.. Barnes got away wit
A Cheap House.
The two-story frame house at No. 5
Hoadley avenue, the property of Mrs
| Perrin, was sold by Patrick Kenny yes
terday to Michael Scanlon for 81. 200.
Transfers.
Joseph Fiacre and wife to Purdy J. Tuttl
for 1000, lot No. 81 on Pine street.
Harriet stephens to Joseph F'iacre for So, 400
lot No, 81 on Pine street.
Julia L.. Hageman ct. ais, heirs of Mag
dalena T. Perlee, deceased, to Florence ]
Mahoney and Catharine Mahoney for $500
lot No. s, in Block c.
Russell w. Mckee to Alva A. Bedell an
Samuel Tumnier for ST. lot No. 6 on Morri
street.
mer to Augustus c. Bedell for 81, 900. lc
No. 6, in Block No. 35.
Marie C. Salesman to William H. Carve
for 1912. lot No 4, in Block H, Bayonne.
Executors of and trustees under the las
will and testament of William B. Ogden, de
ceased, to Helen Lutjen for 81, 100, lot No. g.
in Block No. 1917.
J Theophge Ohmann and Josephine Gilman
to Louis Meyer, $40, for plot beginning at
| point 100 feet easterly from Palisade avenu
| and 175 feet southerly from Fulton street, eS
tending easterly both distances measure q
| right angles to the line of said avenue an
street, and thence running first southerly an
parallel with Palisade avenue 81 IL feet
thence easterly at right angles to Palisad
avenue 40 feet to the westerly edge OF tn
| railroad excavation; thence northerly alon
| the edge of the said railroad excavation abou
80 feet; thence westerly parallel to Fulto
street extended easterly and distant IT'S fee
\ southerly therefrom 90 feet TO point OF DE
| ginning,
Henry Rohlfs and wife to Charles H. Welle
for 81, lot No. "a. in Block No. 2.
Charles H. Weller to Anna NJ. A. Rohlt
for 81, lot No. "A, in Block No. 2.
Joseph Weiss and wife to Magdalena Weis
for $500, lot No. IA, in Block No. 4, Tow
of Unions
Joseph Weiss and wife to Michael an
| Susannah Pilger for IS, $50. lots Nos. "a and
of Gardner estate, West Hoboken.
George f. Woodley to Thomas MeAuslan
| for $125, for plot beginning at a point on tn
1 easterly side of the new County Road, whel
| the same is intersected by the southerly sid
of Tipson lane, and running thence southern
along the easterly side of County Road 40
| feet to the rear line of lots fronting o
| Vaudeville avenue, in Block No. 525; theno
eaSterly along the rear line of said sots l5.'
feet to the westerly line of land OF Ihoma
| McAusland; thence northerly along said lin
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