The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-07
s ATISFIED! !!
Citizens Generally Approve
of the Financiers Action
on the Water
Question.
WHY JERSEY CITY COMPANY WON
It's Plan Provides for a New
Pipe Line Across the Mea-
dows at Once.
SAVES THE CITY s1,OoO,OOo
Best Watershed in the State
Where Pollution Is an
Impossibility.
SAVES THE CITY s1,Ooo,ooo

Impossibility.
The concurrence of the Board of FL
nance in the resolutions of the Board OF
| Street and Water Commissioners award
| ing a contract for permanent supply OF
water to the Jersey City Water Com
pany and for a temporary supply to the
East Jersey Water Company has caused
/ general rejoicing among property owners
and residents who have the city's interests
at heart. A few people who were deeply
| interested in a scheme that they wanted
foisted on the city are keenly disappo1nt-
ed. A great victory has been won and
the people now want the new water as
soon as it is practicable to get it,
| Real estate men declare that it is the
turning point in the history of the city.
/ With its new Boulevard and hundreds
| of streets being paved. asphalted and
opened and new water. real estate men
! publicly announce that valuations Will. IN
| all probability. take a jump of at least
on third by next spring. The outlook
| for the city's future prosperity is bright
er than ever before. these gentlemen
! maintain.
The remark of one of the gentlemen of
4 y -.
| Trade committee to the effect that he
would like to know how far the Finance
Commissioners We're justified in concurr-
| ing in the awards has given rise to a
little investigation. BY disinterested per-
| sons it is claimed that the proposition of
| the Jersey City Company won on its
merits To begin with the company made
| an offer to the city. the like of which
had never been anticipated. 1t was. in
the event of it's being awarded the con-
tract for a permanent supply to begin
the construction of it's magnificent plan
| at this end
A GENEROUS OFFER.
This is against the general rules of
engineering. but the company agreed to
| do it for the purpose of relieving Jersey
| Citv's wants while the reservoirs. dams
and pipe lines were being constructed
| for the big permanent supply plants.
1t consented to lay out for the city near
| ly $100O.000 build the additional pipe
| line across the Hackensack meadows from
Belleville to High Service and place it
at the disposal of the city until such
time as the remainder of the plant was
finished. The advantage of accepting
such a proposition impressed itself upon
the city officials Had not such an offer
for the city to have continued the use of
the Passaic water for at least three
| years longer and also to have laid out
81 GOO. coo in building the new pipe line
across the meadows.
The truth of this statement was vouch-
ed for by everyone who has studied the
situation The present mains have in
sufficient carrying capacity to insure a
bountiful supply and new pipe line is an
absolute necessity.
Again the East Jersey Water Company
absolutely refused to accept a contract
to give Jersey City temporary supply,
| unless an additional main was built
1 across the Hackensack meadows and
that company would not build the needed
/ main to get the temporary supply con-
tract That was the dilemma the city
officials found themselves in and 1t was
only the generous offer of the Jersey
City Water Company that allowed them
finally to take the action that will in
sure the city pure water and plenty of
it.
The proposition which has been ac-
cepted was presented to the Street and
| Water Board on July 1. Since that time
people have lost track of the general plan
of the company and probably forgotten
gathered and stored.
SCOPE OF THE PLAN.
The main intake of the company is
to be located at Beach Glen This is
beautifully situated in mountainous
region and the engineers of the various
companies that have filed propositions
with the city for the past five years
4 have to a man pronounced Beach Glen a
perfect intake reservoir AS good res
ervoir and intake could not be construct
ed Nature has supplied many features
that man could not.
For instance. 1t receives the drainage
of several miles of mountainous dis
trict free from contamination or pollu-
tion Beach Glen is so situated that
| with its mountains on either side, dam
of sufficient height could be built at the
mouth to store enough water to supply
this city for eighty-five days. even at
the increased consumption of 10000 900
to 35.000.000 gallons daily. The Jersey
City Company was the first company to
discover Beach Glen and bring it into
use. Other bidders who offered no such
comprehensive plan wanted to utilize
Beach Glen, but they all gathered their
water SO far below it. that it could not,
of a necessity be used or made part
| of their plans.
The Street and Water Commissioners
were more convinced than ever that the
| Jersey City Company had by far the
best plant. When the East Jersey Water
Company week before an award was
made, submitted an informal supplement
al proposition which embraced the fur
nishing of water from Lake Hopatcong
and the location of a reservoir for dis
tribution purposes at Beach Glen. The
merits of the Jersey City Company S
plan. therefore. impressed themselves on
tile engineers of the East Jersey Com
pany or Beach Glen would not have been
brought into its scheme.
ADVANTAGES OF BEACH GLEN.
The intake of the jersey City Conn
pany being at Beach Glen, naturally
shows that the water win come from
1 there direct to Jersey City. being deliv-
y