The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-20
GUILLOTINE FALLS,
Street and Water Board
Dismisses Register
Hea1eN
KAISER'S FIRST APPOINTMENT
Citizens Petition for Improve
ments in All Parts of the
City.
KAISER'S FIRST APPOINTMENT

After eleven long years of faithful SER
vice as Water Registrar, Cornelius
Healy. better known as 'sCon," was this
morning dismissed by the Republican
Street and Water Commissioners. His
| dismissal takes effect June L AS exc1u-
sively foreshadowed in 1.-THE Jersey City
News" several weeks ago, Lawrence
Broderick of Lafayette was appointed
his successor. He is Commissioner
Kaiser's first appointment The salary
of the office is $500. When the heads
of the remaining Democratic officials
and clerks will fall is not known. There
are about ten candidates for every off,
| ce. and the Commissioners are having
monkey and parrot of time trying
| to please every one. Another important
| appointment was made, but it is not a
political creation 1t is the Office of
draughtsman, and Trusdell Y. Brown, an
| efficient attache of the Tax Adjustment
Commissioners Office is the lucky man.
The Office pays $500 year. a draughts-
| man is absolutely necessary, as the ap-
| plications for public improvements ara
piling up in such a manner that the as
| sessment Commissioners are getting
| swamped.
| MERCER STREET IMPROVEMENT.
| The opening grading and paving of Mer-
Ger street is on it's way at last. Chief
Engineer Ruggles this morning filed the
necessary plans and specifications for
the work. and they were adopted upon
| the recommendation of Commissioner
Kaiser as Chairman of the COMMITTEES
on Streets. Mercer street now practi-
cally ends at Merseles street. To open
and grade and pave it, it is necessary
| to acquire several tracts of unimproved
| land, do an enormous amount of filling
| in, and finally build a viaduct The
| petitioners are E. F. c. Young and
| Henry Byrne, and other largely inter-
ested holders of property in the neigh
| borhood. The viaduct is the most ex-
pensive part of the work, but the bene-
| fits that will soon accrue from the i'm
provement will in short time repay the
1 persons assessed handsomely. When
| completed there will be complete as
| phalt roadway from Henderson street
direct to the Boulevard. cut off is to
| be made under the viaduct to connect
! with Cornelison avenue, which is to be
/ made dirt roadway.
The United Gas and Improvement Com
pany put in a modest request for permis-
/ sion to string electric light wires -fEsEal-
/ the Newark and New York Railroad,
south. Garfield avenue to Carteret,
| westerly to Ocean avenue, thence to its
| end. and on Forrest street to Pacific
avenue to Caven Point Road to Clare
mont avenue, westerly to Ocean avenue.
| The petition was referred. The company
is preparing for the substitution of cleo
| trio lights for gas in the streets Tho
Jersey City, Harrison and Kearny Rail-
| road asked permission to use a small
piece of the eity's land on the Hacken-
| sack meadows to build an overhead
| structure. which will permit the company
| to run it's trolley cars over the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western tracks,
and thus avoid a grade crossing. The PEI
| tition was referred.
| WANT WEST NEWARK AVE. FIXED.
| A long petition was received from the
Hudson City Savings Bank and other
holders of property for the repaving OF
l'West Newark avenue from the Five Cor
ners to West Side avenue.
Hermann Kohlbuch communicated
with the Board, asking that the proposed
improvement of Sherman avenue. be-
tween South and North streets, be pushed
to a speedy completion. The Barber AS
phalt Company complained that Contract-
or Bradigan was using steam engins
! on Bowers street. The Company an-
nounces that it will not be held responds
BILE for any damage the contractor does.
The heat is likely to burn the asphalt
and destroy it. The contractor is also
blasting near the street, and the company
fears the asphalt will be torn up.Com-
missioner Kaiser, as Chairman of the
Committee on Streets. was directed to
make an investigation at once and pre-
vent the destruction of the newly paved
street.
The Township Kearny informed the
Board that inasmuch as the city has
| fail lad f0 q contract for a
new supply of water, Kearny wishes to
be relieved of it's contract with this city.
Kearny is desirous of leasing the Jersey
City main laid in Kearny avenue for a.
term of at least five years. The townhsip
proposes going ahead at once and secur-
ing temporary supply for this summeF
and fall.
| ROBERTS AGAINST VAN TASSEL.
The South Bergen Republican Club ap-
Piled to the Board to repair the side-
| walks approaching school No. Is, par
ticularly near jackson avenue. The peti-
ton was referred.
Residents of Lafayette street protested
against the appointment of Henry Van
Tassel as inspector of the Improvements
| of Lafayette street. They demanded
that Rudolph Schmalz be appointed. The
Board considered the protest against Van
| Tassel a fair one and accordingly dis
missed him and appointed Schmalz.
The contract for the paving of Lafay-
ette street with asphalt, between Monitor
and Van Horne streets, was awarded to
the Barber Asphalt Company. few
residents of Virginia avenue complained
to the Board that Thomas McCabe, the
! contractor to whom was awarded the
contract for the improvement of that
street, was not doing his work properly.
Commissioner Kaiser Investigated the
complaint but could find nothing wrong.
However the residents who are finding
/ fault were advised that they would be
given a hearing before the contractor on
May %.
E. b. Requna was appointed inspector
of the improvement of Wayne street. be-
| tween Brunswick and Merseles streets.
The work is to be done by the National
Docks Railway Company This VIII
make Wayne street fair driveway to
the Hill
Bids for the construction of 24-inch
sewer in, Prospect street were invited.
Thirteen contractors responded. Edward
! O'Neill was the lowest bidder. The sewer
| recently built sn Central avenue by
Dennis Burns was accepted complete
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