The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-19

Notice is hereby given that on the eighth day
of April, 1895, application was made to the
Board of Street and Water Commissioners py
Frank j. Matthews and others eontorTlaply ot
the provisions of Chapter 29 of the Laws OF
1895, to cause
THIRTEENTH STREET.
between Coles street and Hoboken avenue,
to be improved in the following manner
such grades as may be fixed by your Board
in the carriageway between the curb lines, q
yiaduct to lead from Coles street to the easter
" side of Hoboken avenue as now improved
said viaduct to be twenty feet wide and con
structed of masonry s and so otraef ming nnS tb betm sssfa
erly line of Monmouth street. This part oil
the viaduct to be used for vehicles and car
steel from the easterly line of Monmout street
to the easterly side of Hoboken avenue, upon
such plan as may, may be be a Mopmont 9y s y9se G 10 BE-
constructed so as to leave a clearance of all
points of at least Is feet above the said estab-
lished grade of Thirteenth street. Such viaduct
west Of the easterly line of street
to be 30 feet in width and to be divided into
walk 6 feet wide on either side. Said
sidewalks at Monmouth street to be connected
with the sidewalks on the grade of Thirteenth
street by iron or stone steps; Across the lines
of the New Jersey Junction Railroad Compan
said viaduct is to be constructed at the grades
and in accordance with the dedicatory agree
ment between the city and the said company,
dated December fourth, eighteen hundred and
ninety-three.
LII aQQlllOu u III dhONC We dSh y
have all other work done that may be nee
essary for the flow of surface water upon
said y,iaduct, and to complete said improve
We also ask that the sidewalks on Thir-
teenth street. between Coles Street and Mon
mouth street, be narrowed from 10 feet in
width to s feet in width on either side, thus
leaving a carriageway nearly 20 feet in width
on either side of said stone viaduct, leav-
ing the details OF said work to the discretion
of the Board.
Notice is also given that on the eighth day
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sessment and Chief Engineer filed in the office
of the Board of Street and Water Commits
said Improvement, showing the probable total
cost of the contemplated Improvement and
the probable amount to be assessed on prop
erty specially benefited thereby, and the
same is now open to public inspection in the
office of the Clerk of said Board.
And notice is also given that the following
streets or avenues or particular sections there
of are included in said assessment, namely
Eleventh street. from Provost street to
Coles street.
Twelfth street, from a point about 400 feet
east of Provost street to Coles street.
Thirteenth street. from exterior line of solid
filing to Coles street.
Fourteenth street, from a point about 236
feet east of Provost street to Coles street.
Fifteenth street. from a point about rs
feet east of Provost street TO Coles street.
Coles street, Jersey avenue, Erie street.
street. each from a point about 100 feet south
of Eleventh street to a point about 100 feet
north of Fifteenth street.
And that in accordance with the provisions
Of the act heretofore ctteG, the twenty-ninth
day of October, 1895, at 10 Jalock A. NJ, and the
meeting room of the Boefd of Street and
Water Commissioners are hereby fixed as the
time and place when and where the Board OF
Street and Water Commissioners will meet to
hear parties interested in said application and
all remonstrances against the said proposed
Improvement that may be. presented in writ
ing.
By order of the Board of Street and Water
GEO.. T. BoUToN,
Dated Jersey City. October IS. 1895.