The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-22
Members OF the Board Of
Trade Discuss the Tenn
porary Supply
Fizzle.
TAXATION BILL ENDORSED
MI. Furst Suggests a City Expert
For the Permanent Supply
Grade Crossings.

IN administration OF President A.
=, corcoran, took place last night. bul
there was only a scanty attendance OF
members.
secretary W. J. TAFT waded through the
customary amount of routine business,
among which was a letter from Mayor
Wanser saying that he would be present
at the annual dinner tomorrow, and the
apphcatlon OF John F. Klumpp for mem
bership
Ihsn the committee made their report,
anu MI. joseph A. Dear, of the committee
70 make the Consolidated Traction Com
pany ana North Hudson County Railroad
Compan come to terms on the question
OF transfers, reported that the Presiden,
OF the Traction Company had urged tbs
committee to drop the matter. This wa
not done, and President Young had prom
ised to arrange a meeting between the
committee and the Vice-President to dis
cuss the project.
7 suppose interjected Mr.. Myron j,
Furst. amid laughter. "Mr. Young of
fered to arrange the meeting with the
Vice-President because he did not feel
like suggesting that the should
discuss the matter with the office boy.v
Mr.. Furst further explained that the
Good Government Committee with the same
laudable object in view. namely, of ar
ranging transfers between the companies,
had met with similar encouragement
Mr.. Henry V. Condict, Of the Dinner
Committee. told the meeting that every
thing was ready for the annual feast.
The speakers would be Messrs. T. Nc
Evan, Major Q. K. P~angborn, Rev. l.. w.
Hathaway. w. R.. Wilder and Allan L.
McDermott,
The water .~'fiasco'' of the East Jersey
Water Company's alleged temporary sup
ply. was referred to by Mr.. Joseph A.
Dear. who said after reviewing the facts
of the flzzle. that Mayor wanser was in
favor of inserting the minimum amount
in the contract. but the Street and Water
Commissioners and law officers were op-
posed to it. If the city were metred
probably it could get along with the
minimum amount of Is, 000, 900. Since the
Board was one of the advocates of the
temporary supply and Mr.. Dear foremost
in its advocacy. he dealt very d%iplomatioal-
~ With the awkward subject. He be-
lieved there was plenty of water in the Pc
quannock shed. Mr.. Henry ". Condict
also trod very lightly on the dangerous
ice. He thought that the reservoirs of
the East Jersey Water Company were
not large enough and their shed made
quate to collect the water required.
Along the same line of discussion Mr..
Myron Furst endorsed the action of the
Board of Works in appointing an expert
on the temporary supply, but he hoped
the. Commissioners would go further and
appoint Mr.. Vermeule on the permanent
water contract supply.
Mr.. Condict thought it was too late to
appoint an expert on the permanent wa
ter supply. Let the city wait until the
legal question Of the validity of the award
had been determined. He thought that
in the appointment of Mr.. Vermeule the
Board of Trade ought to congratulate it.
self, for did not the suggestion of such
an appointment come from the Board?
Mr.. oseph A.. Dear demurred to the APP
pointment OF Mr.. Vermeule. He ooked
on that engineer as a professional expert,
had become discredited, and as he. Mr..
Dear. firmly believed that the Jersey City
s water Somppany's contract would be set
take steps for future action. That ac-
ton, Mr.. Dear said, should be filtration.
and ne proceeded to enumerate the bene-
fits to be derived from cleaning the
filthy Passaic. He advocated inviting Mr..
Hazen and engineers from Massachusetts
to convince the. people of this city that
which uses cleansed water. was good
enough for Jersey. City.
Dear as to hltration. The Passalc River
was a and the sse,ich which arose
from it proved that filtration was out of
the question He drew the attention Of
the Board to Governor Griggs' speech
and said. that he, Mr.. Griggs, had the
peoples interest at heart.
II don't believe IT." added President
Continuing, Mr.. Condict said that the
Legislature should prevent the pollution
Mr.. Griggs will find out. said Mr..
Dear, that the people of South Jersey
will tell him that Paterson does not run
the State and you will only get sewer
ing the banks of the Passaic when the
politicians are in heaven" Uaughter.)
"Then we won't want water" said Mr..
James z. Hall. amid renewed merriment.
and then went back to the expert ques-
ton which he had raised. and he strenu-
ously argued for an expert for. a perma-
Haven't the State Board of Health
taken some action about sewering the
Passaic?" inquired President Corcoran,
but none of the members could give any
Mr.. James E. Banks added his support
to Mr.. Bears filtration suggestion and
moved that the MASSACHUSETTS, engineers
public meeting in this city upon the fill
tration scheme.
Mr., J. A. MackinnOn was also an advO-
cate of filtration. He filters all his drink
Ing water and wondered how the people
of Jersey City could tolerate the stuff
from the Passaic. To bring pure water
from a distance was all rubbish, he said.
The supply in time would become com
taminated n it was much cheaper to
filter than to spend millions on a new
Mr.. Furst, to clinch the filtration
scheme, asked Mr.. Secretary TAFT to pro-
cure she, mortality figures Of the cities
of Hamburg and Altoona, in Germany,
use water from the Elbe, but one filters
it, and the figures would guide the Board
in its action.
President Corcoran informed the Board
that in reference to building a sewer to
provide for big towns on the PASSAGES
I'M sewer built in. Brooklyn. Sewers
down the Passaic could be built, he said,
If only the will was exhibited.
Mr.. James p. Hall agreeably turned off
the water talk and spoke of the City Hall
monstrosity. He urged the Board to Sc
Of the condition of that architectural
freak. With commendable taste Mr.. Hall
asked that he be removed from the COM
mittee whose duty 1t was to report on
some envious and ii~l-natured person
would ascribe improper motives to his
Mr.. Dear thought it inadvisable, be-
cause the jury had acquitted the Com
m~issioners, and excepting for a few de-
Before the meeting adjourned Mr.. Furst
moved for a committee Of five to look out
for equal taxation in the LEGISLATURE and
Mr.. Deer added that Assemblyman
Queens Bill be endorsed. This was agreed
Mr. Tamos p Hall u,bo Lno,,s nu