The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-08
HOW TO Do CITY WORK
Hoboken Sewer Ihvestiga-
ton Brings Out Some
Interesting Testi-
mony.
MAYOR FAGAN ASKS QUESTIONS
One Hundred Yards More or Less
Means Over a Thousand
Not Over Yet.
MAYOR FAGAN ASKS QUESTIONS


anu piihg OF the new lateral sewer
through Ferry street, Hoboken. which IS
oeing conducted by the Hoboken Common
Council as a Committee of the Whole,
was resumed yesterday afternoon in the
council Chamber.
yesterdays meeting was attended by
Mayor Pagan. Manager Starr. of the
North Hudson County Railroad Company;
engineers Mccain and Smith. Contractor
SsVanagh. mis- superintendent, Patrick
Fianerty: ex-Judg Abel /. Smith. coun-
sei Tor Cavanagh: Corporation Attorney
Miialurh. ana every member OF the Coun-
cn
o~ins 70 the absence OF inspector Hag-
ssFty anotner meeting was ordered held.
Inc whole trouble in a nutshell is
ina tne original specifications and plans
eaiiru iof aoout lW square yards or re-
paving, more or less. and Cavanagh did
1e o'Vov SQUARE yaros. n mayor
wants 10 kno" what became OF all the OLD
eooose stones Wnlcn were taken up Re-
l~een ane car tracks OF the North HUDSON
Soun'y Runway company on Ferry street,
.ne sewer was iaia' ana where
os ine ne" paving WHICH IS causing
p-sseiA. inseslisat'on was aohe.
Al Wednesday afternoons meeting En-
eniee Mccain explained 10 the commit
zee now the extra repaving game 10 De
uohe. put 1or the peneft or the Mayor
~ 81. over tne "hoie expianation again
ses'eioay "ee.ihg-
Mayor fasan asked MI. McCann II
previous to drawing up the plans and
SPECIFICATIONS he bod oona o,,ar nc sro,,nd
ioo soAe oHeA lHc Siouiiu'
He replied that he had.
How is il them continued the Mavor
..that nearly nm SQUARE wards of ra-
~ sauae III u
paving was lone when you only figured
upon 100 square vards?"
..whv IN aro u-;ng IN al ,ons and
~ uia"ihs up an pidhs ahu
specifications engineers always put the
figures at 100. more or less tn OCT a nrice
for that nart,c,,,ar wort nhon = ,s i'm
Ia poitleuiar woih' wren II Is I'M
possible to tell exactly how much of the
work there really is" replied Mr. Mccain.
The Mayor next asked if Mr.. Mccain
did not receive a tletter from him last
April saving that nep9extra work would he
aio"eo unless on a written order from
the committee countersigned by the Mayor.
Mr.. Mccain said he did, and the Mayor
ieniarAeu 1nat ne wrote lhat letteF Pc
cause he saw several men a few days be-
fore putting the old paving blocks in a
oitcn. rms leu 10 a genera discussion
as to how the extra paving came to be
done.
Mr.. Mccain said that he was Informed
that the North Hudson County Railway
Company and the Delaware. Lackawanna
ndrfuasama po,,Do- Gas.a~ .aa,-
ahe9uW eslern railway companies look
ihese1d stones away. claiming that they
belonged to them. a quantity Of them
were now at Ferry and Jackson streets.
and claimed by the North Hudson Rail
way. he said.
Manager Starr then said that the stones
Paterson street when the FreehoIders Or
pany never took a stone away outside of
a few in front of the stable when they
took them up to lay the new track. after
being ordered to vacate the old ones
where the sewer was laid.
Contractor C~avanagh Strengthened out
that matter by saying that Mr.. Mccain
and Western Road that took the stones
Mr.. cavanagh said they We're old useless
culls and could never be used again. Be
sides they belonged TO him as refuse and
Ex-Judge Smith asked Mr.. Cavanagh
If it was not necessary to repave with the
big. blocks to make a decent job Of il,
when Mayor Pagan imferrnDted WITH
Are you going to ask him questions,
Judge, or is the counsel? You need not
question him for me- / can do that my
self. The Councilmen also are all in
telligent men and fully able to ask Mr..
Judge Smith begged the Councils par1
don II he had gone too far, but the Coun-
ell assured him that he had not and was
perfectly at liberty to question Mr.. Cav
anagh if he SO desired.
Mr.. Cavanagh then answered that il
was really necessary to use the Belgian
blocks. The whole trouble he said really
lay with the North Hudson County Rail.
way people in not replacing the blocks
they took up, as they should.
The Mayor then asked him if the rail-
way people did not assist him a great
deal. and Cavanagh replied that the only
United States Express Company assisted
him was when thew assisted themselves
more.
Cayanaeh was then asked where all the
old blocks were and why he Condemned
them as rubbish and not let the commit.
down on the DUMPS and that as for The
committee he never saw them together
once during the whole eonsfrlIcf5on ri
the sewer Chairman SNYDER was the
onlv one he saw around and he was there
every day. He took his orders from MI
Snyder. and did not aes upon his own re-
Mayor Fagan asked him if in case The
civ did NOT nav him for the new nav.
ing wor1ld the railroad mr. exnress com.
panv do If.
mo. sir. 7 don't think SOL ~laughingly
replied the sadlooking Contractor
Judge Smith asked him if in case hf
the street you'd not have remained un.
paved. to which Mr.. Cavanagh RENTED
Thai It certainly would.
mo, it wouldn't. either" interruptea
the Mayor. ssThe railway comnany we,IlS
have repaved it,
mittee. said that he authorized no payine
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