The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-07
OUR ONLY DOCK
Old Morgan Street Wharf
heightened Eighty Feet
and Greatly I'm
proved.
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WORK COMPLETED TODAY
Lots of Queer Things to Be Seen
at the Dock--A D~istrustful
Widow.

Jersey City's only wharf, that at the
s,.d of Morgan street, is at last length
ened and improved. and, though small,
is a very respectable specimen Of a city
wharf or dock. as it is commonly but
enormously termed. The work was
completed today
From the Hoboken Line to the Central
Railroad piers, a distance of more tnan
two miles, Jersey City, Of all that magnl-
fcent frontage on the Hudson RIVER
only owns a strip of fifty feet, and 1t is
a marvel to many that the omnivorous
railroad corporations haven't grabbei
that up. 1t certainly wasn't the fault
of the politicians that the little strip
was not bought up; these accommodating
gentlemen would only have been TOO
willing to give up that, but they were
afraid that the city would object. since
the bulk of the shore front has been
generously handed up to any company
which happened to covet a strip, this
Difference to the city IN the case OF Nor
gan street is as surprising as it Is re-
freshing.
The approach to the Morgan street
wharf is anything but impressive. A
stranger within the city's gates would
need a guide to pilot him between i'm
nlGQS6 plies VI luI1DCI, dCIOSS AhSC ONA~AS
of timber, around. empty boilers, over
broken-down tracks and piles of scrap
iron. and. last of all, through the mud
diest, dirtiest lane dignified by the name
OF street to be met with on the Con-
tinent.
When he at last passes the last pile of
pine boards, with the ships name stamp
ed ON the end of each, there confronts
ls-o - Io,~ cf~irL of wharf np8 rIV Gun
feet in length and so feet in breadth.
At the south side of the approach 70 Inc
wharf is the office of Wharflnger VIII
Jams. 1t is a ding Ky i u e IS str1 Here for or
the annual compensation OF I,ZVv, ne
collects the wharfage dues, which,; IN
the busiest of years. creeps up to ABOUT
~ A DisTRUsTFUL WILDLY.
Directly opposite is a cable tower for
C SHg nam and in front Of that is Widow
Zachoria's hotel. The hotel, CONSISTS OF
a frame building about. fifteen feet long
lied by gentlemen of the longshoremen,s
profession. The widow evidently hasn't
much confidence in her customers pc
cause over the bar the scrawly letters IS
this piece of advice IN elegant poetic
rh gsInca man 70 man is unjust.
Yet not knowing what man to trust.
/ have trusted to my sorrow;
So pay today and trust tomorrow
1n6dD DfllIS o. DlClOIldl
the walls; half a dozen tall glasses
known as "~schooners' occupy the bar
sideboard in company with three bottles
containing suspiciously looking cordials;
a box of soft stuff, an ice box as big as
an ordinary dog kennel, an empty
beer key for a seat, completes the N
her palatial home, and looks upon the
dock" as if it were a part OF her do
mains, ss con
tractor Stillman's men have been tearing
out the old piles, driving new ones, cut
ting them off one foot above mean nigh
watermark and building on them a solid
and substantial structure capable OF sup
porting an ironclad. The dock has
been heightened 81 feet and
ing. It stands now about four feet above
mean high watermarks
ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS.
On the north side of the wharf the
Hudson River Ice Company has built
out, ct a great expense, a platform for
Tecef.ing its ice eaTrgoess: The gh Giompa any
enable it to handle its ~consignments. rap
idly and efficiently. One huge ice boat,
containing about FIVE hundred to- tons, was
ing under the lynx eyes of ex-Commis.
sioner j. Smith, who, in the absence of
the wharfnger, eo~urteously dig the non,
representative.
TO the north of the dock, between the
Jersey. City wharf and the adjoining prop,
Mr.. Allison. where the steam tug As
s~istance is undergoing a mysterious ex-
prevent fouling. Adjoining owners are
initiating the city and fixing up their
property, so that in a few weeks that
p aIs OF ann sne my we So p Far as a the res0 Nor
gan Street Dock is concerned, the
city is filing up the street at its ap-
the muddy lane from the wharf proper
to the junction of Greene and Morgan