The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-27

MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS
The Committee on Streets and Sewers
presented the following
Resolved. That permission be and is
hereby granted to the following named
persons to erect signs, ETC., over the
sidewalk in front of the premises desig-
mated in accordance with the rules and
regulations of this Board governing such
matters
M. Canton, sign, 432 Central avenue.
H. Yungling, sign, 215 Pacific avenue.
E. J. Dodd, barber pole, % Bright
street.
Fred Klamath, barber pole, 1884 Pail
sade avenue.
Lewis Fischer, awning, 10Y Newark av-
enue.
Resolved, That the plans, specifications
and preliminary estimate presented by
the Chief Engineer I'M Commissioners
of Assessment on May 18th instant, for
the following purposes
For the filling, without curbing, flag
ging or paving of Mercer street, from
Merseles street to end of proposed VIA
duct at Factory street and in Mercer
street, under said viaduct, from the
easterly curb line of Factory street to
the easterly curb line of Cornelison ave-
nue., styled Specification No. 1, and spe-
cifications for the building of a steel
viaduct ON Mercer street from or about
the easterly curb line of Factory street
west to about the easterly line of Mill
Road The part from Cornelison west
to the ~easterly line of Mill Road to be
built over land to be acquired by the
city, and the paving of the roadway of
such viaduct with vitrified brick pave
ment and the laying of sidewalks there
on either of blue stone or the cement
style known as granolithic, and the con-
structicm of a 20-inch iron pipe sewer in
Mercer street, under aid viaduct from
Cornelison avenue and running easterly
to the point where the present 2O-inch
iron pipe sewer as uilt by the National
Docks Railway Company ends in Mer-
Ger street, the same being necessary
to drain the land in said street to
enable viaduct to be built and support
street filling, which specification is
styled No. 2, and specification for the
grading. curbing, tagging u paving of
Church street from the easterly side of
Mill road to Summit avenue, so much of
the paving thereof being necessary for
an approach to the proposed viaduct
where grading is required, which specif-
cation is styled No. 8, and all three
specifications relate to the one matter,
that is the making of a continuous and
suitable public highway from Merseles
street in lower Jersey City, through
Mercer street and Church street, wester-
ly to Summit avenue on Jersey City
Heights, the same being proceeded with
under the provisions of Chapter 2S9 of
the Laws of 1895, approved March %, 1895,
and as petitioned for by Henry Byrne
and others in writing, and presented to
this Board On April 10, 1895, and re-
ported by the Committee on Streets and
Sewers on the same day, be and are
hereby confirmed and adopted.
Resolved, That an extension of time
of sixty days be granted to the Commits
sioners of Assessment in which to report
on the following matter heretofore re-
ferred to them, viz
On the opening and extension of Mer-
Ger street from Merseles street to Mill
road.
For establishing a new grade on
Church street. between Mill road and
Baldwin avenue.
For opening and widening of West Side
avenue, between Pollard avenue and
.Danforth avenue. and
For extension n improvement of
Thirteenth street. between Coles street
= Hoboken avenue.
ReaolYsd That the work uneS con-