The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-29
CLOSED AT LAST.
Hearing on the Water Certio-
rari Terminates Ready for
the Supreme Court.

The hearing in the matter of the Certlor-
ari of the contract for a new water supply
for Jersey City to the Jersey City Water
Company closed on Wednesday evening and
when the testimony is all printed and coun-
sells briefs are ready the case will be argued
before the Supreme Court on December .
next.
These hearings for the purpose OF taking
testimony, were begun in October last, and
have YEARLY dragged along at several days
intervals until finally counsel themselves be-
gansto lose interest in them. When they
first opened what an array of prosecutors
and eminent counsel there were. The Board
of Trade was represented by President John
j. Voorhees,, and their special counsel, Mr..
Allan L. McDermott; ex-Judge Stevens aid
Mr.. John Griffin, represented the ll-fated
citizens committee, which has appointed DR..
L. J. Gordon as special beggar to rake IN
funds to pay for their share Of the expenses.
Mr.. Charles l.. Corbin represented the East
Jersey Water Company and Morris Canal
Company. Mr.. Charles D.. Thompson looked
after the interests of another prosecutor.
Ex-Judge John A. Blair and Mr.. spencer
Weart appeared for the Mayor and Alder
men of the city and Messrs. James b.. Vre-
denburgh, ex-senator w. u. Edwards and
ex-Judge A. Q. Garretson represented the
defendant Jersey City Water Company.
DISAPPEARED ONE BY ONE.
Mr.. Allan L. McDermott put in one day
cr-oss-examining Mayor Wanser and then re-
tired from the combat. A few days later
the prosecutors themselves ceased their visits
to chaneery chambers. Mr.. John Grifhn
next disappeared, leaving Messrs. Corbin,
Thompson, Stevens, Blair, Weart, Edwards,
Vredenburg and Garretson to commune Ihe
fight. A few days before the close OF the
case ex-Judge Stevens ceased to appear; Out
the remainder hung on to the end.
A large number of witnesses were caueo
to testify before Supreme Court Commits.
sioner John A. Nugent, and these included
the Mayor. city officials n water experts.
What with their testimony, their reports
and their table of figures the>published ties
timony will be a very voluminous but highly
interesting book or guide for the officials OF
Jersey CITY in the year 2001, when III all
probability the Rockaway Valley Will be
density populated and a new water supply
for Greater Jersey City will be needed.
CHARACTER OF TESTIMONY.
The bulk of the evidence adduced was That
from distinguished hydraulic engineers like
Messrs. j. j. X. Croes, G. G. Vermeule, Col.
Church, J. Van Dyhe and others who CON
tributed a bewildering amount OF data
relative to rainfall, ~groundtlow run on ana
Ground storage carefully tabulated for the
edifcauion of the Justices of the Supreme
Court, who in all probability will not look at
one OF them.
Although the fight against the defendants
contract was a strong one yet the utmost
harmony prevailed and the hearing resem-
bled more a love feast with the water tap
on than a battle between powerIul
counsel.
Disinterested parties who have ATTENDED
the hearings assent that notwithstanding the
efforts OF opposing counsel not a poinI was
made against the defendant company. In
deed as one of the lawyers remarked.
IF it be a deal it is the cleanest deal ever
| ntered into by the City"
It now remains for the Supreme Court &c
decide and it is expected that a decision Will
be reached sometime in December.