The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-31


cution, replied that there was no desire
to retard the case and had his opjectlon
to MIR. V~redenbur2h's complaint s2feau
on the record.
the engineers who appeared before tne
Street and Water Board gave minimum
estimates Of supply to be derives from 70
chell, of the East Jersey Company, bag
given 800, 600 daily as the minimum ylelu
per square mile. The engineer, ne salaf
based those figures on the daily ,yleiu OF
so, 600, 600 from the ~Pequannock shed. On
the other hand, said Mr.. Cone, Mr..
Inman had claimed l; hat n s,ouo so,,ar gai nile
in the water shed of Warren and sussex
counties.
Mr.. Van Dyne Of the Jersey City
Water Company, has estimated 1,S00,0oG
gallons as the daily yield. per square
l.. Corbin, what offer did the jersey
City Water Company make to
1.-THE President. Secretary Swenson and
Mr.. Belden of the company assured our
board that they would offer, in addition
to the area specified in their bid of
wood Valley. and when asked if they
would also arrange to tap the RockaWay
River and draw its waters into their
intake or great storage reservoir, at
Beach Glen. they signiGed their willing
ness to do it." was the reply.
Was this officially given at a private
conference.
1T was not official but a verbal assur-
ance conveyed to us at our executive
chambers and reiterated in the private
office of the Mayor"
WAS the Mayor present."
H was in the building, but not in
the room"
after having made an adverse report
on their offer, was because of the as
surances of adding increased drainage
area" asked Mr.. Corbin.
in making the award to the Jersey City
Water Company" replied Mr. Cone.
did not the citizens object to the
cessive?"
Il have no official knowledge of it,
and I do know that at the hearing not
but you had unofficial knowledge that
some one criticized the award price as
excessive?'
Yes. saw something to that effect
'Did you know that the Board of
Trades expert, Mr.. Croes, had said that
Mr.. Cone. did not know. who employed
Mr.. Croes. but had noticed his criticisms.
The Board had not, he said, employed
n engineer to advise them after the
At this point Supreme Court Commits
sioner Knight relieved Mr.. Nugent, Who
AVERAGE DAILY USE.
Ex-Judge Stevens cross-examined on
the redirect examination of Mr.. Spencer
Weart, who happened to ask some ques-
ton about theoretic use of water. Mr..
Gene stated that the accepted estimate
is thirty gallons daily. Tramps. and
anarchists are not, of course, included in
left the rack and gave. place to Second
Assistant Engineer Andrew Bardner, of
the East Jersey Water Company.
Mr.. Corbin put the expert on the stand
for the purpose of closing the prosecu-
ton. The defendants side will be re-
sumed tomorrow.
mate of the daily consumption for the
past year. The figures were made up
from the official records. of the Board Of
ark, the Newark Acqueduct Board and
East Jersey Water Company. They
stance Mshe Of Mr.. 6. L. corbbin. @s0 q .p'
1--WE object to them" said Mr.. vreden-
burgh.
his figures the city of Newark uses 3d.
''"' fbbAMAGfNG ADMISSION.
The object of pla ring Engineer Rardner
on the stand was to show that the area
of the Jersey City Water Company was
insufficient, but at the outset hurt the
pany's area was So miles and a fraction,
and that is as large as the Newark area
of the East Jersey Company.
watershed, but as it was a copy of the
a-companying the bid of the Jer-
sey City Water Company on a reduced
scale Messrs. Vredenburgn and Edwards
said it was not exact. A wrangle ensled
and objections were noted, but after
wards stricken off the record. Mr.. Cor
however, offered the map in evil
dence.
Under Mr.. v~redenburgh's searching
the engineers admitted that
this map of the Jersey City Wafer Com
pany's watershed nave simply been
scaled by him from another map. He
had not taken into account the shrinkage
of the map, neither had he made a care
full survey. He merely copied the State
appeared from printing or s%hrinkage
wasn't his fault. 1t was the fault
of the map. 1