The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-01

Water Company's bid did not contem-
plate raising the level of Denmark Lake.
Returning to the witness, Mr.. Edwards
Now, since you have admitted your
error in the figures of Split Rock, what
error you have made in Denmark
Mr.. Corbin came to the witnesses re-
lief with an objection.
What did you calculate is the drain
age of Hoagland Lake?" asked Mr.. Ed
sTwenty-four hundredths of a square
mile"
Ibid you calculate a raise there?'
Yes, sir; fifteen feet" -.
"Who told you to raise that level?"
INF. Herscheli and Mr.. Corbin.'
Counsel turned the expert inside out by
asking him
Mr.. Herscheli, engineer of the East Jer-
sey Company, you lave never referred
to the bid of the Jersey, City Water
Company?"' asked Mr.. Edwards.
THAT'S ALL" said Mr.. Edwards, and
the witness left the stand with evident
The proceedings were adjourned Until
his morning.
DELAY CHARGED.
The counsel for the prosecution at this,
the sixth day of the hearing, spent up
wards of an hour this morning holding
a conference while the opposing counsel
Jersey City twiddled their thumbs and
grumbled at the delay.
1t is said that the prosecutors are de-
aging the taking of the testimony so
that the evidence cannot be furnished
in time for this term of court, n almost
daily the opposing counsel have protested
The city's lawyers have ~endeavored to
push the case along so that it may be
Settled either one way or another at
the November term; but the prosecutors
dawdled along, thus giving rise to a
rumor that their object in SO hindering
over a term, and by that time the Leg
islature viii be in session, and a water
bill may be pushed through, knocking
son is the city's oun n the lawyers
for the Jersey City Water Company are
s~trenuously opposing any little game of
When half-past eleven O'Clock was
reached the prosecution put W. Roome,
to identify certain maps used yesterday;
Then Mr.. James G Payne was recalled
to give additional figures as to the rela-
tive cost of water between all the bids.
chair this afternoon.
Cross examined by Mr.. Edwards Mr..
of increase OF consumption of water, of
fered in evidence, Were based on certain
assumptions, but he had no knowledge
ditions that the city would use a certain
MIR. CROES' TESTIMONY.
Mr.. Croes, please take the stand"
and the Board of Trade paid expert
handed his card to Commissioners Nu-
gent. The card simply reads; -; James
F., Civil Engineer, Morris Building, 60
Broad street, New York. Notwithstand-
ing the length of his name and titles, he
is a little stout mar with gray hair,
gray moustache and goatee.
Steered by ex-Judge Stevens. he en-
gineer and named a long string of corpo-
rations and enterprises with Which he
had been connected.
He had, he said, examined the Rocka-
way watershed and had examined
the specifications for Jersey City's water
supply and said they Were vague and in
work to be done
He had, of course, nothing satisfac-
tory to say about the plans and bid of
which his former employers, the Board
of Trade, inveighed. About twenty feet
of profile of the Jersey City Water Com
to Jersey City, was shown to the witness,
and he said he had carefully inspected it.
rs Hoagland Lake delineated on the
map?' asked Mr.. Edwards, producing
No, it is not" said Mr.. Croes.
s'The place where it ought to be is de-
CAPTioUs CRITICISM.
More reams of paper maps showing
identified by Mr.. Croes as maps" Since
they belonged to the Jersey City Water
Company and had been drawn by emf
nent surveyors and ultimately approved
Of by the Boards of Street and Water
Commissioners and Finance n the
Mayer, they We're of course faulty, in
TOO general and Indefinite" he said,
with a wave of his hand.
There wasn't a. thing right in those
maps. One hadn't enough figures: an
other had too many; this was vague and
that too specific, and a casual spectator
would a imagined that h had
been drawn By the combined efforts Of
Mr.. Croes then talked about dams and
reservoirs, and the latter, he declared,
supply to any city; a piece of informa-
ton which caused other engineers in
the room to open their eyes in astonish-
ment.
AS for the Jersey City Water Com
pany's bid, it was as vague and indefinite
as their plans. he said, and went at
length into the construction of dams,
which. he said. had never been proDer-