The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-16

Hobolten To the Bayonlie lines, TO Wit
Webster avenue to Prospect street, Bon
her and baldwin avenues from Prospect
tfeet to Summit avenue, the latter ave-
nue. to -Aster place., Astor place 10 Park
street, Park street 10 Communipaw ave-
nue., to Arlington avenue. to Bay View
avenue, TO Garfield avenue. to Bayonne.
Ille* popularity Of the southwest Drive
Way is rapidly becoming manifest as Il
approaches completion, and II Is vitality
necessary. that Steps sbe k to save 7
s. = rod fsr driving and WheslI 81 e nas
should be prohibited by ordinance Of your
EoaTa Ocean avenue has bean payed1ald
sAag, 50 that II will work no hardship upon
anyone TO limit the travel on The SOUTH
east Driveway TO light wagons and wheel
men This regulation is necesssry@feg the.
preservation OF the roadway Of this drive.
ma nadsTal n ssauaase Y re esns layI5s 81 3
exeept on those streets that tend to
form q driveway like Arlington and Car
Meeting links WITH the Boulevard. The
reason for my opposition has been %
tha It Is the most expensive pavement
to maintain now laid, () because it re-
or ftsbecomeS a create. eyesore and more
dangerous to travel than the Objectionable
cookies, and f) because IL Is the cheapest
kind of a pavement, and on that account
II - nniair to The public at large that 1t
pc afloWed to be laid indiscriminately, as
Its maintenance and care becomes a gen
eral charge when once laid. just the same
as a more durable and lasting and conse-
Quent}y more expensive pavement. The
past year has, however, demonstrated
Ihat houses follow macadam pavements,
ard for this reason / have consented to
ments Of this nature during the coming
year. The people of this city must remem-
ger that where streets are unpaved. the
fault Is with the property owners and nor
with the officials, and that when a Street
Is once severed and paved its mainten-
ance becomes a charge upon the city for
streets mas been accomplished by the di-
version OF one-half of the annual license
receipts to a fund known as Special
and without the imposition of a general
tax upon property in the annual levies.
The custom in other cities is of a con-
lfary nature and assessments are levied
Tor the repaving and resurfacing of streets
as OFTEN as such work is done, or the cost
betrayed by general tax. The more ex-
tensiyely the Improvement of streets is
progressed and the greater number of
niles or paved streets that are added an
nearer becomes the time when the license
funds will be insufficient to maintain our
paved streets, and a new solution of the
problem of their maintenance will have
to be found; While that day is as yet
some time distant it seems to my mind
that when 1t comes the solution will be
a capital fund for the purpose and a pro-
of the cost assessed upon the pro-
perty owners benefited. For that reason.
~ liz tAC PIOPOEoiliOit IlldQGr DN
the property owners on Danforth avenue
to pay one-third of the cost of resurfacinc
their street for the paving of which they
disposed of by your Board. It will estab-
1ish a precedent and accustom the people
gradaadly to what will sooner or later be
RBPAvTNG OF STREETS.
The city is to be generally congratulated
streets, This is especially true of that
part Of the city formerly known as old
Jersey City. I do not recall a street. ex-
cept!ng the ones already mentioned, with
the additional exceptance of Fifth and
Morgan streets. that are not in a more
the past. Fifth street, from Newark ave
nue. to Coles street, and Morgan street,
from Provost street to the entrance to
least repaving. The bocEs on Monegomer ~
street. between Barrow street and Jersey
avenue, also shows considerable wear.
cations adopted by your Board for repay
Ing. - that they may be made more strin-
gent; While the work that has been done
it has not afforded as successful results
as we have hoped for. The heaviest traffic
upon any Of our streets is upon Montgcm
ton street. The problem as to what Is
the proper action to be taken for the
IS a difficult one and it would appear
hat it is not one that can be settled this
year for the reason that the license
monies will not be sufficient to carry
out the completion of the good roads sys-
TENS and the Tepavrg of these streets
together. / am convinced, however, that
much re.ief can be gwen on the line of
Grand street by having it swept every
night during the su1nmer and the sue
ceeding fall. Communipaw avenue be-
tween the Boulevard and West Side ave-
nue., has been worn into poor condition
4 m aanrTnf n Tho a@1- -
vision for sewerage and surface water
disposal. The compulsory Improvement
of that portion of the street by the con-
struction of a sewer lateral to the West
Sid avenue sewer, at the expense OF the
AUDITING property, or by the construction
of a bin ditch or drain at the general
expense should receive attention. The
Grand street. which has grown to such
an enormous volume since the establish
ment of the trolley system, and es-
pecially. of the Newark Plank Road line
IS sufficient reason for giving this matter
considerable attention, as these thorough
fares have become approaches to the
city of a nature similar to that already
to IT as were used in regard TO the i'm
p~rovement Of the section adjacent to
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
NEW ROAD SYSTEMS.
the Morris Canal on Pacific avenue win
bring more prominently forward the
question of providing a smooth road
way from lower Jersey City into the
Lafayette section and thence to connect
with the southeast driveway. When the
latter drive was laid cut originally it
was thought that Bramhall avenue would
form the connecting linkA between the
driveway and the Boulevard, but the
property owners a solved the con-
Meeting problem at tina point for the
officials, by improving at their own ex-
pense Union and adjoining streets to
Bergen avenue. So that 1T may seem
eypedient next year, if not SO during
this, to conneet the asphalt in Varick
street with Grand. thence to Pacific, to
Communipaw, to Garfield avenue, thence
by way of Harmon street to Arlington
| avenue. Much depends upon what your
Board elects to do during the open sea-
| son now with us. The solution of the
Lafayette driveway link may develop in
the opening and extension Of Carteret
or some other parallel avenue to Pacific
avenue, or in the extension OF Bramhall
avenue. / am sure that every one will
admit that the record of the present adj
sninistration has been made, in so far.
that 1t can claim to lave developed and
improved the city to a greater extent
than can be said of any of its predeces- |
sors and even beyond what was deemed
possible in the beginning of its career. |
That being so, the use of the discretion
airy power allowed the city officials In
the matter of progressing petitions for