The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-08-21
REAL ESTATE NEWS.

If property owners do not learn to ask
for Improvements and then follow up
their applications by hammering away at
the commissioners until they receive q
definite answer they will never gel any
thing. A. c. Bidwell has been trying LOT
some time past to get the city 10 tay a
city, so that he would be enabled 10
build houses on now vacant lots' tenant
them and improve the locality. de mas
tired of waiting, and as he has money 10
invest, has taken. the bull by the horns
and secured from the Street ana water
Board permission to lay private sewers
at his onw expense, IN ocean aVSnIe'
Dwight street, Bidwell avenue and Jack
son avenue.
The Real Estate Trusts Company has
emulated Mr.. Bidwell's shrewd example
and last night secured from the poard
permission to lay private sewers IN
Cedar avenue from 100 feet east of the
County Road to Ocean avenue, also in
Rose avenue and jackson avenue. II the
city won't pay for what you want, pay
for it yourself. 1t will pay in the end.
Idle capital is regarded by active specu-
lators as worse than none at all;
W. A. Smith. a city employe. is taking
a lively interest in the condition of the
city's streets. He complained TO the
Street and Water Board last night that
Carteret and Garfield avenues were in
Bile.
John Mitchell believes hat rents will
go up if Morton place is made passable.
L ASAoSo1S0 RAN $4,000
Board to change its grade. 1t is to be
done.
]. B.. Merseles was among the property
owners who complained to the Street
and Water Board last night. He says
that the north side of Cottage street is a
disgrace. and that the street generally
is in a dilipated condition.
John A. Lane and other residents Of
Randolph avenue want that thorough
fare improved between the W and
New York Railroad and Carteret avenue.
The Street and Water Commissioners
have promised to aid them.
w. A. Smith has filed with the Street
and Water Board a complaint as to the
dangerous condition. of the Third street
sewer. between Erie and Grove streets.
A section of it caved in a few days ago,
and no effort has been made to repair 1t.
If lone now he says, it will cost but ut
tie. if delayed. a great deaI.
The West Side Republican League is
made up of property owners. The mems
bers are not paying for anything, that
is not done well. They now have a
grievance against Henry K McGibney,
They say that these contractors have left
sections of the County Road etwee
the Newark and New York Railroad,
an unsafe and i~mpassable condition.
They also say that Patrick ]. Condons
work on Tonelle avenue is not accord,
ing to specification. The street ana
Water Board has promised TO look INTO
the complaints.
The Street and Water commissioners
last night designated Fourth street ee>
tween Grove and Henderson streets TO
he payed with asphalt next. The same
hoard last night adopted a resolution
requesting the Board of Freeholders TO
connnel their contractors to make tn5
street intersections on the B~ouleVard
from .Jewett avenue to the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad cut passable.
Transfers.
r 1obn n K1omburg to Albert Klomburg for
Fl lots "A As. 46, AZ and As, Block l, southwest
side of Culver avenue. Albert kiompurg Trans
Ears same roperty to Anna Klemburg Tor 81
Jam1s H. Symes to Sarah Williamson ior
ss00. lot 272,. Block u, north SIDE OF MAINE
street, North Bergen. ~ I'd
oxford Copper to Robert II. Sayre' lana au-
,oining Osgood estate, Bayonne.
Columbia Oil Company to the Bayonhe Green
Railroad Company for $4,4T5. land ADJOINING
Constable Hook Railroad. ,ooo -.
M. ]. Cramer to Letitia c. Fell Tor SS'"' ioe
% Block So, north side of Logan avenue
Mortgages.
Francis NJ. Bostwick to Elizabeth Oberhauser
on lots 8, 10. Is, IA, II and -, BLOCK l. oftHe'
side of Bostwick avenue, for s5oo-
Jacob Danielson to POST NO. IS
q a R.. on lot 9, Block j, adjoining Reser-
voir, foros700. u on
Eenienmann Heilbrum to Louis Heilorum' on
lots So and 81, Cottage street. Bacot map ii
81, 900. IN LOT
Frederick Brinkman to August Hesse' on lou
, plot A.. Block 9, Zabriskie street, tor $sVV'
Ida n. Rabe to Frederick H. Grote, on lot TO-
Fsiock 12s. east side of Grove street, for $l,0Oo.