The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-13

EAST JERSEYS ALLY
Ed1oW Harrison Denies the
Journals" Statement
About His Water Bid.
THE ENGINEERS SARCASM
Shows How Wrong and Misleading
Are the Statements Of Mr..
Phelps Newspaper.
H ENGINEERS SARCASM

One of the dozen or more editors
of the Evening Journal" acting under
instructions from one of the stockhold-
ers of the institution, a few evenings
ago, attacked editorially the proposition
of the Rockaway and Hudson Water
Company now pending. AS usual the
statements made were false. say per-
sons we'll informed on the water sub
ject.
Engineer Elbow Harrison of the
Rockaway and Hudson Company takes
exception TO the statements of the
sheet. He e~ndeavored to reply to the
attack through the columns of he
paper, but with the Interpretation of
Justice that prevails in that Office he
was denied thai right. Mr.. Harrison
had this to say this morning.
THE proposal Of the Rockaway end
Hudson Company now before the city
is not the one that was rejected last
year, as stated by the Journal" The
proposal is not at all similar to the old
one and the man who had the statement
published knew he was disappearing
things. It is a plain case OF deception.
The Street and Water Board Is not con-
sider.ng the Boonton intake plan at all
and everyone knows that it was the
Boonton plan that was rejected last year.
THE .Journa's' informant says that our
plan provides 81 miles of pipe at an aver
age cost CT s50,0N a mile. I presume this
gentleman, IS the same one who est
mated on the carrying capacity of the
Newark pipe, which was to have beer
30 lrfi-ion gallons a day, bur which
IS capable-o of delivering only IS millions.
1T is an actual TACT that our pipe line
will be thirty-four and a fraction miles
in length ana the cost per nniie, delivered.
laid and riyetted. viii be about s9a, gro.
This estimate VIII not include excava-
ticn Or back filing. The journal T,3es
the cost of this part OF our work at
s., COO, coo, while we. who are interested
and know what we are talking about.
say the cost VIII be in the neishborhood
Of s1.0ao. GOO.
IF the East Jersey Water Company is
buying pipes at the figures its repre-
sentative gives the Journal we vii.
be glad to take IT'S order. I consider the
East Jersey Company's estimate, as
given in the Journal 40 per cent. too
high. The second Item in the terrible
example is the dams. The Journal says
there are eight and that they will cost
Again, we disagree with the paper.
We storing about 10000 million
gallons New York city built works be-
tween 1900 ana 1873 10 store III ,2n, DN0, CD
gallons. and they cost on an average of
STA for each million stored. That in
cluded land, clearing and dams and APP
p~urtenances. Those works were built
under the Tweed ring and the figures
given, it may be said with safety, are
up to the top notch. Prices are about
50 per cent. lower han they were under
the reign of that ring. Boston's works
cost about $50 for storing each million
gallons Of water and that city built the
largest dams in the world, wip3ng out
village property and making the reIoca-
ton of important railroads necessary.
On the two items given by the Jour
nal which shows a cost of $4,000. 900,
there are errors, Intentional or other
wise, of about 5000, 900. The figures given
by the Journal seem to fit the esti-
mate of costs given by the East Jersey
Company, n I do mot hesitate to say
that in the estimate of that company
mere rs some item concealed which ac-
counts for the SWOLLEN condition of
such estimate. The concealed item is
one probably tackled on by the company
which its hackers van Jersey City to
pay, so as to let them out without loss
m paying for eight or ten years of ex-
pensive legislation, and for securing op-
tons on water property and the Hud-
son river tunnel and expenses incurred
IN striving for contracts which it has
Deen unable to getD