The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-06
ely to arrange for a temporary

Frank Eveland, property owner and
4 bicycle dealer:-tMy experience, selling
/ water as have for the past five years,
is that people will buy water, and after
they get thoroughly tired and disgusted
with paying for it they will move away.
! We have lost number of valuable citi-
zens from this cause. My candid opinion
Z is that unless the authorities prove i'm
mediately to the non-property owners
! who rent the better class of houses that
/ they will give them better supply dur
| ing the coming summer, there will be a
| tremendous leaving of the citizens be-
| fore fall. know this from experience" :"
| D. Van Winkle, real estate dealer of
No. 5S5 Communipaw avenue:-''Fhe con-
| dition of the water mas injured real
estate greatly. 1t has been the means
of driving many people out of the city.
Something must be done Immediately
Hartman Van Wagenen, property owner
and coal dealer:-"The water is impure
(why that is what I was looking at as
you came in). The water is coed for
nothing. 1t is not fit to drink and at
times is not fit to wash with. Some re-
| lief should be afforded the people inn
| mediately. l supply over 100 people a
day with drinking water from my well.
| The only use the water can be advan.
tageously put to is watering the grass.
1t makes an excellent manure"
Frank e. Henderson. Manager of the
Academy of Music:-''There seems to be
so little prospect of our obtaining a
better supply of water owing to the dila-
tory maner in which our city officials
are acting in regard to the question, that
I have become thoroughly disgusted with
the whole matter. 1t is only question
of time when we will have to have a new
supply or turn our houses into hospitals.
Matters in this town are at a, very low
ebb in a general business way. Real
estate is going begging and rents are
away down. Business is not good. We
have a very fair opportunity to judge
of the condition of things. When the
general public have money to spend for
pleasure and luxuries, they usually go
to the theatre. When they are hard up
and business is bad, that is the first thing
they cut off. The furnishing of pure
water supply is a matter of great i'm
portance to the city and the sooner the
question is settled the better it will be
for all concerned.
f. R. Vessels, hatter:-'There is no
doubt about the water being bad. I think
however, that the Passaic water can be
desirable to get new supply, though,
then believe that the city should operate
a plant of it's own and not pay large
sum of money to any private corporation.
In Paris they have good system. They
have two sorts of water, one for drink
ing and cooking purposes and the other
for general use. The former supply is
metered, and each tenant pays the city
for what he uses. The other supply is
not charged for.''
P. Fl. Hanley, furniture dealer:-sI have
been in business right here on Newark
avenue for over quarter of century
and have never seen so many empty
stores as there are at present. Places
that people used to make superhuman
efforts to rent are now going a-begging.
Then look at property on the Hill l own
a number of houses up there. and every
one of the upper floors is vacant because
they cannot get water up there. Even
if the water is bad they might fill up the
reservoir at High Service and thus get
water up to the top floors. Something
should be done at once"
Alexander Simpson, lawyer:-s'The water
we are getting at present is exceedingly
! bad 1t is very unpalatable and hardly
even fit to battle in. We should have a
new supply of some kind, and as rapid
ly as possible"
Ex-Finance Commissioner Geo. R. Hill
lier:-"We want water, and very speed
lily. have four fiat houses on Pacific
avenue and two stores vacant, and owing
entirely to the filthy condition of the
water, which tenants will not drink
James G. Hasking, Cashier of the Sec
ond National Bank:-'T think that the
cry is universal for new water supply
The water is awful and detrimental to
the growth and prosperity of this city,
William Robertson builder and prop
erty owner:-'Ii can only say that the
most important thing at present is a
pure water supply. We should have one
as soon as possible. Dallying and trifiing
with this great question is in my mind a
crime"
S. B. Hemingway, property owner
pure water is needed Immediately, and
our. officials should see to it that we have
it at once"
Jacob Ringle:-'sThere is no question
that a new water supply is needed for this
city 1t is a matter of the first impor-
tance"
Michael Schultz, Jr., Greenville, prop
erty owner:-"I certainly believe in new
water supply I find it impossible to
rent my houses in Greenville because of
the foul Passaic water. The demand for
houses has fallen off to such an extent
that property owners are compelled to
offer houses which brought s35 a month
rent for $25 and yet they are empty. I
favor no specific plan. / want good pure
water, plenty of it. and at a fair price
I care not whether the city or a syndi-