The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-26
STREET CLEANING BIDS
Street and Water Board Will
Decide Next Week I'M
provement Suggested.

The first of the afternoon sessions Of
the Street anG Water Board was held
yesterday. The fact that the new fiscal
year begins on December / is causing
the Board to get rid of as much of. its
Old business as possible. Claims which
have been delayed for one cause or an
other are being passed upon and the OUT
look is that the new year will be begun
with all OF last years business salts
factorily disposed of.
The most important contract consider
ed yesterday was the sweeping and
cleaning OF the streets and the removal
OF ashes n garbage. It was thought
by the commissioners hat a lively COM
petition would be created if the city
were divided into four districts. District
No. | was made all that portion of the
city north of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
this side of the Hill. For a year it re-
quires q sweeping OF 400 miles of streets.
District No. 2 has $40 miles to be swept.
1t embraces all streets south of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, including Lafay-
cite. south of Cornelison avenue. Dis
trict No. 8 was the Hudson City sec
ton. and the sweeping of $50 miles of
streets was required. District No. 4 Is
the G~reenville and Bergen sections, n
2O miles of sweeping is provided for.
John McSpirit and Henry Byrne were
the bidders for District No 1. McSpfrit's
bid was SIS for sweeping, A,S75 for re-
moving ashes. and s. 62 for the removal
ct Ct g garp mF{e Henry ByI,% gs BID was
garbage.
The same contractors bid for the Seq
ond district. Mcspirit bid SIS per mile
for sweeping. $4.S7S for ashes and $1.622
for garbage. Byrne charges s25 for
sweeping and 1855 each for the removal
BYRNE THE LOWEST BIDDER.
Three contractors bid for District No.
g. John Tully was the new bidder; He
for the ashes n $500 for the garbage.
Byrne's bid was SO per mile for sweep
lmng gssS SI;9Go d feF ags sfs a and S siie% Sd for sg garpalge.
So. It's for ashes, n $1,222 for garbage.
For District No. A. McSpirit bid SIS for
sw ar6ag w sslias B 5Vr sshf BID a Was s Is for for
sweeping. $1,000 for ashes and $500 for
garbage.
ye ayrn was ssti 60 T fSE y yas T L Is s st.
900. The contract will be awarded to
Byrne at the next meeting Of the Board
Oliver c. birmingham, a clerk in the En-
cheering Bureau. was dismissed. He
is one of the last Democrats in the en-
paid 81, 200, is to he abolished. His duties
will be performed by Charlie Van Keu-
rem
Unlicensed plumbers are not to be al
lowed to make connections with the
water mains of the city in the future. 1t
has been a custom in past years for boss
plumbers to secure license for employees,
in some, instances unskilled ones. Every
man must secure his own license now
Ind to get 1t must be vouched for by his
employer or some one who is positive
he is capable of tapping mains properly.
The failure of plumbers to report taps Is
punishable by a revocation of their IL
censes. Plumbers nave been making
taps promiscuously and failing to report
them. Considerable trouble has been
caused in the Water Department by the
Martin Adam complained about the
change of grade of West Side avenue
and the Jersey City Club called atten-
tion to the deplorable condition of the
street at Harrison and Crescent ave-
nueS.
Thomas Weldon asked that Erie street
between Ninth street and Pavonia ave
nue. be paved the same as the rest OF the
Application was made to the estate of
William Currie for the Improvement OF
Old Bergen Road.
Brayer & Brother asked that a sewer
be constructed in Ogden place.
The Board reported. ~favorably upon
previous applications for the construc-
ton of a sewer in Booraem avenue.
sewer In Sherman place, sewer in Ogden
place and the Improvement of Ogden
avenue Charles Warkman was appointed
Inspector for the Improvement OF Lake
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