The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-01-25

Nj. Jones Wants the Bergen Section
Placed on Equal Terms
With That Fed by High
Service.
Finance Commissioner Detwiller was
the only member of the Board who was
not present at last nights meeting.
Commissioner Bailey has been suffering
from the grip for the past two weeks,
| but when he learned action was to be
taken on the new water supply, he
bundled himself up and was on hand
promptly at eight O'Clock.
When the resolution of the Street and
Water board directing the advertise
ment of the new specifications for 1--WE
days was taken up. Commissioner Simp-
son was a trihe uneasy about the way
President Jones, and COMMISSIONS Har-
denbergh would vote. Mr.. Simpson ana
Mr.. Bailey, as members of the Com
mittee on Concurrent Resolutions had
signed a report concurring In the reso-
luton, and they were anxious to find
how their colleagues would vote on it.
They were not aware that President
Jones a had a pleasant chat with
Mayor Wanser, on the water question
earlier in the day. or they would per-
haps have felt more at ease. President
Jones was the first member called Upon
to vote. u
II will vote to concur in the resolution
authorizing the advertisement of the new
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purpose of allowing the public to read
and understand Them"
Commissioners Simpson and Bailey felt
relieved when they heard hat.
81 nave only today succeeded in secur-
ing a copy of the specifications" con-
tinued Mr.. Jones. and I have not had
time to look them over sufficiently to
be able to pass an opinion on them. I
assume that there are property owners
who want to read them also, consequent
ly I will vote to have them advertised"
Mr.. Hardenbergh voted with President
Jones, stating he too, had just obtained
copies of the documents. He said he
would read them over carefully and be
prepared to discuss them later. Com
missioner Simpson and Bailey voted to
advertise the specifications. The spect.
locations nave been officially sent to
Mayor sWanser and he will either ap-
prove or reject them before next Thurs
day, on which day his time for acting
will expire.
PASSED OFF SMOOTHLY.
So far everything has passed off
smoothly, and there probably will be no
more delay until the Street and Water
Commissioners order bids advertised
for. There may be some delay when the
resolution to that effect reaches the
Board of Finance for concurrence, but
Simpson, Bailey and Detwiller are pre-
pared to vote for the advertisement for
bids ct any time.
ply President Jones proposes, If pos
sible. to improve the quantity and quail
~ Of the, water for people on the Hill.
we ere preaenGed 81 him last sH4 nig efao.u''0"
Mr.. JONES RESOLVES.
Whereas, Official analysis of the city
water supply made at the time Of the
greatest pollution of the Passaic River
during the past summer, demonstrates
that by exposure to the sun air in
of putreseible organic matter (Albuminoid
Ammonia) originally present in one mil
lion parts of the river water was re-
duced from 64-1N parts to 21,100 parts, or
nearly to the amount allowed by the best
standards; and
Whereas, The residents of Bayonne
and the Bergen and Greenpoint sections
of Jersey City, including Lafayette, 10
receive their water supply through the
36-inch cement main directly from the
Beheville reservoir, practically in the
condition in which it leaves the Passaic
River and without having had sufficient
opportunity fofr s~edimentation and oxi-
dalton, and are at certain times sub
jected to great hardship by reason of Its
impurity. and are at all times at a dis
advantage when compared with those
parts of Jersey City which are supplied
with water drawn from the High Ser
vice reservoir on Bergen Hill; n
trict described constantly suffer incon-
venience from an insufficient head or pres
sure in the distribution service. due to
the source Of supply, notwithstanding the
9S-ineh cement MAN,, through which 1t
is supplied from Belleville reservoir, is
connected with an overflow standpipe
in High Service reservoir No. 8, in order
TO secure a few feet of additional pres
sure; and
whereas, BY the removal of such over
flow ~standpipe the delivery Of the 36-inch
cement main would be materially increas-
ed; and
Whereas, Necessity exists that the full
capacity of oil the mains leading from
B~elleville to the city should be made
avaIlables therefore,
Resolved, That this Board respectfully
recommends and urges upon the Board OF
Street and Water Commissioners that
DtktllS dIiQ cStIllioICS NC pitpdlSd " ldh-
ing such changes in the mode of serving
water to the district now supplied from
Belleville reservoir through the 36-inch
cement main as shall, by including the
same in the High Service system or
otherwise, afford it immediate relief and
place it upong equal terms with the city
at large AS regards water service and
PRESSURE, and that authority be obtained
at the present session of the Legislature
for raising and expending the moneys
needed for executing such plans as may
be adopted therefor.
BAD WATER ON THE HILL.
'Neighbors and friends of mine have
complained to me of the inadeuuacy of
the supply in the Bergen section" ex-
planned Mr., Jones. II have suffered in
my own house. Only once during the
day co we find it possible to get water
on the second floor. and that IS early
in the morning. The fact that we are
supplied by a direct pipe from Belle
Vile causes US to be bothered with a
nasty sediment even at this period of
the year,
mo complaint Is made by the people
of the lower section of the city because
the water they get is purer in my esti-
nation than what is served us, because
it is given an opportunity to settle. With
us, the water we get is stirred up con-
tinually, and undesirable because of its
roilv state. We want more water on