The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-09
POINTS ON LOCAL ALTRURIAs

Inc annual report of the Street and
water Board to the Board of Finance has
been prepared by Clerk George T. Bouton
and approved by the Commissioners. 1t
is Yoluminous document covering all
the operations of the year in the line of
public works. 1t INDUCES, also. in more
or less prophetic comment on the move
ment of the property owning public in
the direction of municipal Improvement.
Most of the remarks made will meet
with general endorsement. Near its OPEN
ing the report says
The record OF municipal progress made
IN 1910 IS such one that the city's we'll
WlsherS have material cause for congra-
tulation. To indicate that particular ac-
comphshment which will Of itself effect
lae greatest good to our city is something
OF which We are incapable for the list
hereinafter enumerated is such a lengthy
one. and the betterments in many in
stances so radical, that doubtless each
eould produce Its quota of claimants for
In a document heretofore prepared by
the Clerk of the Board, notice was given
of the passage OF certain laws which
Invested the petitioning for and securing
OF improvements OF much of that COM
plexlty which had acted in the past as
deterrent. We had anticipated that the
new and improved conditions would APP
peal so faverably to the owners of prop
critics that considerable increase in
applications would be made, but were
wholly unprepared for the bombardment
that followed. From all sections came
ments, openings, widenings, extensions,
pavements and sewers. The large ma
jority comprehended improvements of a
nature calculated to be of lasting bene-
fit, several were of a character that q
proper discrimination would not permit of
our proceeding with. and not a few en-
braced changes, which past administra-
tions had in vain fondly hoped for.
What old. resident OF. this city has not
Ion1F ar r. fhA q Fart frIrd or fhn ny-
tension of Mercer street, for the extern
sion of Thirteenth street, for the build
way, or for the reclaiming of that offen-
sive Mill Creek waste land. Who that
has painted a word picture of the future
of this great metropolis has not included
one or more of the foregoing matters?
To have included them all would have
seemed too wild claim for the con-
already at hand, and before another sea-
son has passed. will, we trust not only
have been completed, but will also have
initiated theN good results so long and
confidently predicgs. In other branches
of the service, equally great strides have
been n maze and IN their & enumeration 3i1
be found to merit the commendation of
the public
Assessable Improvements being made
only on petition of those property owners
liable to assessment therefor it is a,
natural presumption that they more di-
rectly reflect the desires of those commu-
does that class of improvements in which
the initiative is taken by this Board.
That some understanding may be had
/ of the great increase in the demand made
upon US for them, we would note that in
past years the average number OF pc
titionS presented was about Twenty-Five,
while in the eight months last past there
have been presented for our considera-
ton no less than one hundred and nifty
five. 1t was and is our purpose to pro-
ceed with these matters as rapidly as
possible, and the record which follows
bears out the assertion that the history
of the year in this respect is without
It being impossible to have performed
in one season all the work called for. we
chose to exercise our judgment by dis
eliminating IN favor of those matters
where necessity for relief seemed great.
over the various sections. Petitions re-
naming in hand will, if their feasibility
permit, be forwardsed q, SO that actual work
The following is the record of the year
for this work =
OAK STREET. from Ocean avenue to
Bergen avenue. 6,255 square, yards. dis
dance of 1.e5O feet. Paved with asphalt
ATLANTIC STREET. from Ocean ave-
nue. to Bergen Avenue -e M o's12 square, yards.
a. distance Of 1,eSo feet Paved with as
LAFAYETTE STREET, from Monitor
street to Van Horne street, $500 square
ysfS fS ssans dstanee cots 9t t90s II 81 Iss @ PaVeo
OGDEN AVENUE. from Bowers street
to Congress street. 3S29 square yards,
distance of 1,4oo feet fss t., Paved with as
CARTERET AVENUE. from Ocean av-
enue to Arlington, Avenue, 2,1c square
yards. a distance of $50 feet Paved with
asphalt at a cost of Sc $50.
CLAREMoNST AVENUE, from Ocean
to Aglngt0n o "a nSt 2lss SQUARE
asphalt at a cost of $3.50.
oGPEN p srAy AvENuE sfF fFom FT1nklin an XII
: distance dist Of 500 feet. Paved with as as
phalt at cost of $3.50.
PARAMOUNT AVENUE, from West
Side, avenue TO Boulevard, 500 square
With hi Belgian block at cost ss Of $500 -
FOURTEENTH STREET, from Hem
dsrson street to Jersey avenue. 4,000
square yards. a distance of 1920 feet.
Paved with Belgian block at cost Of
JERSEY AVENUE. from Fifteenth
street to Hoboken avenue. $500 square
yards, distance of 1,200 feet. Paved
with Belgian block at q cost of 1896.
nue. to Boulevard, $500 square yards, a
distance of 200 feet. Paved with Bel
gian block at a cost of $500.
sSaet FENAm q North sres $500 saSar Gran yarda sapn
gian block at cost of s.. 800.
VIRGINIA AVENUE. from Ocean ave-
nue. to jackson avenue. ,SA square yards.
gian block at a cost of $500.
CLERK STREET. from Bramhall ave-
nue. to the right of way of the Newark &
N. Y Railroad. 2.5s4 square yards a dis
tance of $50 feet Paved with Belgian block
at a cost of 6,0e0.
SEA VIEW AVENUE. from Ocean ave-
nue. to Garfield avenue i,5oo square yards,
distance of $50 feet. Paved with Bel
Sian block at a cost of n yN1