New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-01-14
,TpSEyS FINE SPEED~A I.
,soN COUNTY HAS AN OBJECT LESSON
IN GOOD ROADS.

AZ EIGHTY FOOT BOULEVARD
v,rJ. To wEEuAwKEN -RIDEHs DRiN-
ems AND wuEELMEN ENJOYING THE
PORTIONS ALREADY FINISHED
TO COST ABOUT sc.Ooo.ooo.
rs.rs will be no place In New-'ersey 'hat VIII
Inv" h,,or road than Hudson County when the
have -, o,,sbed Work on 1t has been going
poui. 80 years and by May 1t Is expected
on ' contractors will be prepared to turn the
' orar 10 the county as complete. FOR many
i'a ,sople in Jersey City and Hoooken COM
yea ~ the bad roads IN the county. There was
pam" ,rgle driveway that would attract lovers OF
nv .rses or bicycle-riders. The demand FOR such
soo' 10 Became almost unanimous. and when eX-
Io"" cs.ries Seidler. Colonel John McEnnerney
May 80 monument citizens moved 70 New-York
anu '.bere because of good roads. the Board Of
anu . of Hudson County began 10 realize
f'e's,s,hpg must be done TO prevent the migra-
80 q, other wealthy men.
ton '. uuhllc meetings were held at the request
~ Freeholders for the purpose OF receiving the
.".or.ement OF the people for the expense they
'n's ha MT TO- and receiving assurances that the
,.,.ars were willing 10 pay for hrs-ciass drive
w., and the Board of Freehoiders instructed Judge
Yohn McGrath. its counsel TO Introduce Dill
,ha Legislature providing for the Issuing OF
honds 10 the amount OF slooooVV 10 pe useu !" ''e
construction of the road
Tha act became a law in 1891. and power to con-
-, lands was embodied in it. About one year
.as consumed in the condemnation proceedings
,5 ,hen the actual work OF construction began.
nh route that had been surveyed by Enlow W.
Harrison the civil engineer emp0yefl lo by the Eree
reasons. and at the same time Is the most pleas
NT 70 road besns at the shore of the Kill Won Kul
nasses through Bergen Point and the westerly
f fIoppoton Tnon i'm and Guttenburg. where 1t
tipikes Bergen County. From this point the route
10 e is reached and then it branches to the
south exposing to yew the x Hudson viii, hye fT
ver moving panorama is one of the finest scenes
in this country. The road VIII end at NV, he
length. win be eighty-feet wide. with sidewalk ak
on each side ten feet wide The centre OF the
structed Of Shark River gravel The rest of IT
will be macadam The gravei VIII De e o,Sers ieE,
Suilding the boulevard it has been necessary to
erect three bridges S 'pe ama Dn'' Raroad
That the boulevard will be popular win me peOpe
mas already been proved for on the nn,on be
tween the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Newark
and Newr0TS KaT n5sbcd and every fair day there
Is crowd OF speedy troiters out. such as few peo
pie imagined was in the n With bcvc,e rid
eiS, a' When the boulevard is entirely built 1t will
e. a haven IN the wheelers and will he an induce
1nent for them appeal for good roads all over the
When the construction Of the boulevard was first
suggested. il was intended that ii should extend
only across the county. but the people or WeehaW-
ken and Hoboken who owned wheels and horses oD
jected when they saw how beneficial the pouieenar1
would be- and insisted that IL should be continued
10 Weehawken. The Legisa ure gave the necessary
permit to issue bonds and therefore instead Of cost
Ing the county 81 OAlGN originally designed, me
boulevard will cost 3 100000. but the people Will
have something for their money which they may
exhibit with pride , =.
Judge McGrath said recently that valuations or
real estate in the county had been increasea Sy
the boulevard 10 greater than the COST OF sne
road. and that the county Is to-day much rlcher
because Of the investment.