The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-03
VETOED BY HELLER
Simon Ke1ly's Explanation
Did Not Satisfy the
Director.
LOOKS LIKE A TRACTION WAR
Somebody Is Still Following Up
the Hoboktn and Ruther-
ford Company.
LOOKS LIKE A TRACTION WAL

property owners was READ
Whereas, The Jersey City, Hoboken
and Rutherford Railway Company mas
practically confiscated the Paterson
Plank Road within the county of Hudson
by reason of it's construction of a double
track trolley road on said Plank Road,
which said double tracked trolley road
practically occupies the entire width OF
said street, thereby rendering it almost
impossible and extremely dangerous Tor
the passage of any vehicles thereon; and
whereas, Said road is the only COM
munication between Hudson county and
the southern portion Of Bergen county
and the county of Passaic; and
"Whereas, Said Paterson Plank Road
is a public road:
Therefore, We the undersigned prop
erty owners in the counties of Hudson
and Bergen do hereby protest against
the SAID road. and eques your honor
able body that steps be k ITO abate
the same and secure to US the right to
the uninterrupted, proper and legiti-
mate use of said road, for the purposes
to which it was originally intended when
laid out"
CONTRACTS AWARDED.
The petition was ordered fled
Contracts were awarded as follows
Excavating at the Lunatic Asylum, P. L.
Refill and H. B. Mcknight for IS cents
a cubic yard: for supplying combination
gas and electric light fixtures for he
asylum, to Cassidy and Sons for S740; for
supplying 720 window shades for the asy-
lum, to Frank Cordts Furniture Company
for $475.
A resolution was adopted requesting
Engineer Harrison to submit immediate
ly the estimated expense to keep the
Boulevard in proper condition during the
next fiscal year. n also the estimated
cost for fuel. labor and supplies for the
electric light plant.
A complaint was received by the Board
that should be attended to at once. 1t APP
peared from the complaint that at each
corner of Linden avenue n the Boule-
ward a catch basin has been put in
to drain the road. There is no outlet for
these basins and during a rain they over
flow and fill the cellars of the houses In
the neighbornood. Director Heller re-
ferred the complaint to the Boulevard
Committee. AT the last meeting of the
Freeholders a resolution was adopted to
permit the Erie Railroad Company to
connect a 2h inch water pipe with the l.
inch pipe that is to be laid from Tonnele
avenue to Snake Hill to supply the insti-
tutions there. The present supply is en-
tirely inadequate with a 6 inch pipe. The
Erie Company now gets water from the
Tonnele avenue main and pays Jersey City
for it. Director Heller yesterday vetoed
the resolution and in doing so said
Mr.. HELLER'S VETO. s
CAT the. meeting of your Board held
June 20. 1895. the following resolution
was passed and in due course has come
to me for consideration and action,
Resolved, That permission be granted
to the New York, Lake Erie and Western
Railroad Company to make a 3 inch con-
nection with the water main leading to
the Snake Hill institutions of Hudson
county when the Pinch water main is
laid on Tonnele avenue. Connection to
be made at the expense OF the railroad
company and to the satisfaction of the
Board of Freeholders, and the connec-
ton to be removed by the railroad COM
pan at any time on receiving thirty
days notice to do so.
The railroad company to put in a
meter and pay Jersey City for water
used through that connection"
Z CONFIRMING this matter the following
seem to require to be consid-
ered-7ss9g
= The present supply of water to the in
stitutions at Snake Hill is entirely in
adequate.
The Jersey City main supplying the
Snake Hill pipe is not large enough to
allow, Of the pressure necessary to COM
pletely answer the needs Of the institu-
tons above the first story.
1t becomes necessary to raise the wa
ter by pumping in order to reach the
The New York, Lake Erie & Western
cents per LOCO cubic feet. while Hudson
the city for water.
The water tor the county is metered
at Tonnele avenue, and the County road
and the county's private main.
1t would be impossible TO determine
the quantity taken by the railroad COM
ter wis used Fer them.
az appears to me TO be unwise and in
expedient to bin ourselves at present
to allow the railroad company to make
connection with the ls-inch main yet
to be laid until actual experience for a
sufiessatly extended sd period has shown
The resolution omits to provide as to
the method of payment by the company.
For. these reasons. and after regard
ing the case in its various lights, I feel
compelled to return the resolution to
Honorable body without APPROX
al
TROUBLE OVER A TRANSFER.
DR.. George w. King, Superintendent of
the Asylum, reported that he had col
lected and paid over to Collector Dugan
SIP for board for patients at the Asy-
1um. He also asked the board for TWEEN
ty-six quarts of ice cream and three
barrels of cakes for Independence Day.
County Superintendent C. P. Smith In
FORMED the board that, for a second time,
tt. tnghoat Mary Loughlin had crashed
$50 the draw Of the Hackersack Plank
Road bridge, and had injured it serious
iy. Smslh was directed 10 look for the
captain Of the tug.
From the earliest time in the history
of the Board of Freeholders of this
county, it has been a custom to rams
fer assHzsself smqaey from one commit
in such committee. 1t Is generally ssarp-
posed that the law permits such trans
fers, because 1t does not increase the
gross amount appropriated for the ex-
penditurc Of the board. Yesterday in
the ordinary course Of business A resolu-
tion from the Finance Committee asked
for the transfe of $1,000 from the sal
aries account to the account Of the store
house to pay salaries there. Freebooter
Green protested that he had never heard
OF the proposed transfers before, and
he was 2 member Of he Finance Com-
n1tftea, too.
THAT, perhaps, Is my fault explain
ID Clerk Boyd FOR II was not known