The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-05-03
AN ASPHALT SYSTEM
Mr.. Wanser's Plan for
Smooth Roads in Various
Parts of the State.
ESTIMATE OF THE COST PREPARED
"
Street and Water Commissioners
Look With Favor Upon the;
Proposition.

Mayor emboQleS ms VIEWS anu piaisf
the following interesting letter. waich
he forwarded to the Street and Water
Board this morning
MAYORS OFFICE, May ], 1885.
TO, the Honorable the Board OF Street
and Water COMMISSIONERS
Geptlemen-Many Of our citizens, me
good government clubs, the wheeimsn
and the have. urged the
making of a continuous drive over q
roadway OF some smoorh s unaralnacw o,, ia
have the advantages that other cities
have, and which. by being neglected
to move to other places Offering them
proper drives. Two years ago this mat
ter was considered by the city officials
been delayed because Of insufficient laws
to put them into operation; such forma-
tive plans can now be made seffectiye.
asphalt system in lower Jersey Guy,
as foilows:-From Mercer street, at the
s sfTeet, to to S Merse lssy street stree aH Barrow nreWa Street
Varick street from Mercer north toEoles
fsssedh to ooe Grove. East St an misR West HAM Ham,
ilton places from Eighth street north
te Ninth. ,Pavonia avenue from East
street from Coles street to Henderson
street. making an asphalt system of
about two miles.
throughout lower Jersey City from Grand
street to Payonia avenue, the two widest
streets running in the direction of the
eventually to Mercer, at the corner OF
Merseles on the west.
and o wsa R R,anaea street re use to e cons eys WIN :
Church street ON the Hill, which passes
the New Armory and the Carteret Club.
with Glenwood avenue leading westward
TO boulevard. Plans were prepared for
The new highway. which consisted Of
street past the wooden railway ~trestie,
and from there to build a viaduct to
s 8 eb easS s of Grade of NH tbr R = c AND then sprs By
to Baldwin avenue at its present grade.
Openings in the trestle work, for this
agreement with the National Docks Rail-
way when Railroad avenue was closed.
AT or near the commencement of the
yiaduct it is proposed to make a turn
Y so that any person not desiring to
60 on the Hill can pass under the Via
duet, using Mercer street to Cornelison
proposed to create a drive to be known
as The Southeast Drive" as follows
Mercer street at about Factory street
welt street. same to Grand, across same
to Garfield avenue to Harmon street,
view avenue. same to Garfield avenue,
same to Fffty-third street, same to Old
Rergen Road, same to Pamrapo avenue,
north to Glenwood avenue. and Glen.
wood avenue, Church street and Mer-
Ger street to place Of beginning. making
WHAT H PAVEMENT WILL BE.
dne pavement ~throughout from Cornell
,son a venue and Mercer street to. Pam
after stated. will be six inches of Stone
passing through a two-inch ring for a
clay and On which a surface Of two
inches of stone and screenings, none
larger than will pass through q oneTinch
feet in width of Belgian blocks. The ex-
eegtions to the above will be that the
5elgian pavements On Westervelt street.
GARFIELD avenue and Harmon streets
will remain. and the unpaved part Of
Harmon street. east of Arlington ave-
blocks because p Of the g GRADE spaGSiI aanswso5oosG
avenue and Church street can be paved
with the materials preferred by property
therefor. In order to get this matter IN.
der way I would suggest that your board
establish such grades as meet with the
approval of your board and the Chief
Engineer. and under the authority now
vested in you, advertise for proposals to
Sing rne work a1ann from N Harmon street sto AT.
TO q point in Garfield avenue. where the
northerly line Of Pamrapo, avenue would
point, as it is indicated to Pamrapo
avenue. can remain as 1t is for the pres
inasmnch as a majority of those. liable
TO assessment. can stop the improve
ment. it is entirely in the property own
srs, hands. This route is all in dirt road
ana the city, rather than the property
owners, should direct this improvement
II 1t is to be sensibly uniform; otherwise
II viii be of all sorts and kinds. 1t will
be noticed that there are no sidewalk I'M
groyements to be made in this conpec-
Arlington avenue is now 60 feet wide
with a 36-foot carriage way. Bay View
ana Garfield avenues south of Danforth
bsenne, are the same; Garfield avenue,
way 'Eg Tho ro..r
ra2o avenue I would suggest the circu-
lation of a petition for the Improvement
among the property owners. The street
which is wider than the others, and, as
the street needs some grading, and the
class of houses would indicate that they
could not stand a heavy assessment, +
do not think it wise on this street for
the city to put this Improvement In opera-
eapn It M'1 YOU'D f be- weIl e p aIiGpw fhs nWn n
Assessment Commissioners indicate The
probably rave to pay, and Then then, Il x0 the
majority do not want the street i'm
proved sssy f aTE STOP i.
have had prepared for the
payemen and &, as proposed and
dng. guttering and curbing is estimaafesd
at $2.A per running foot for the full width
OF the street; the 36-foot roadway at
34.63 per running foot for the full width
OF the street. and the 42-foot roadway at
SS.30 per running foot for full width Of
the street. These prices include grading
at grade. "A lot Is feet front will be la
bic for one-half the running foot amount
according to width of street. The curb
Ing Is at As cents per foot,
which a property owner in his calcula-.
tions can expect to be deducted from his
assessment If good curb is now In front
OF his property. The assessments carry
under the new law of 1896 six per cent.
Interest, are payable in five equal an
nual .nstallments, and any OF. all bal
paid at any time. of course, these are
estimates: bids may vary them, and the
eidentals.
This. is the cheapest pavement avail
able for q city street, and while + am OBJ
posed generally to a Te]ford-macadain
pavement because of it's cost of nainten-
ance. business and muddiness n In
ability to repair street openings thereon.
because I think the. city can .dnafntain
this as a special drive, by providing a
small force equipped with a road roller.
repair and watering carts. so that IT can,
pc kept in perfect order; in fact. the bot
tom stone OF twO-inch size was especi-
ally planned to enable repairs to he made
more readily than can he done with tbs
having q Telford bottom and a maeAdam
top.
Some suitable ordinance controlling the
width of ago tires can he passed To
protect It. The Garfield avenue portion
OF this drive was always POPULAR y the