The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-06
EAST JERSEYS CHANCES.

EAST JERSEYS CHANCES.
The letter was referred to the Com
mittee of the Whole. 1t is said that any
chance the East Jersey Water Com
pany had of getting the contract has
been killed by this letter. 1t is a well
known fact that the formal proposition
of the East Jersey Water Company was
not seriously considered any length of
time. The reason of this, it is said,
was that it proposed furnishing the same
questionable water for $11 100000 that the
Rockaway and Hudson people want
S55oO,000 for
The flyer which Counsellor Corbin
submitted in the interests of the com
pany, embracing Lake Hopatcong in its
plan, caught one or two of the officials
interested in the making of a contract.
Corporation Counsel Blair was con-
suited and without any delay he ad-
vised that the flyer" could not be con-
sidered, because it was an illegally-pre-
sented proposition.
ROCKAWAY PLAN OBSCURE.
The Rockaway and Hudson plan is no
nearer IN the race than it was on the
day of its presentation The Street and
Water Commissioners are trying their
level best to figure out how any dis
interested. sane man can say that it
should be considered It's features are
SO obscure that even acknowledged ex-
perts cannot find them.
The communication to the Journal
purporting to be a report on the water
bids pending by an alleged expert, is
causing considerable criticism, certainly
not complimentary to the Journal"
NIGGER IN THE PENCE.
A report has reached City Hall to the
effect that the report has the appear
ance of those old stand-by's, Libbeus
B. Ward and Julius Pratt. 1t has been
asserted also that the whole snap is one
to prevent the city officials from doing
their duty honestly and to make the
acquisition of a new supply of water
as near an impossibility as practicable.
Again it is limited that is is more in the
direction of intimidation which will be
followed by newspaper persecution if the
present scheme fails. 1t is argued that
it is a scheme of an. unlucky bidder
who has drawn certain people into his
game urder the pretense of carrying the
Board of Trade water scheme to a
successful termination.
Mr.. Joseph A. Dear was until recently
up to his neck in Board of Trade plans,
one of which was to buy land and water
from Louis Booraem.
A city official in speaking of the So
called experts letter this morning, said:
OBJECTIONS TO THE PLAN.
t'I do not like the thing at ali. We
cannot consider the proposition of the
Roclkaway and Hudson Company. Ev-
eryone who has studied this question
knows that. We all know it is the
cheapest plan, and for what is offered
it certainly should be cheaper than it is.
We are in this position: We cannot vote
for that plan, and should We vote any
other way one can imagine what will
happen. I do not want to be prosecuted
by a newspaper until the Gay I die. To
me this whole affair looks queer"
COOL PROPOSITION. VERY.
1t has been noticed that the Journal
has not had much to say about having
paid the alleged expert and at the same
time it is known that overtures have
been made to certain members of the
Street and Water Board to have the ex-
pense of an expert shouldered on the
city. The gentlemen who were ap
preached would not countenance such a
scheme at all.