The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-29
FOR GOOD WATER.
Finance Board Concurs IN
the New Specifications
for a Supply.
DICKERING WITH EAST JERSEY
If the City Can Get 1s,0OO,OOO
Gallons Day This Sum-
mer the Mayor
Will Buy 1t.

The Street and Water and Finance
Commissioners held a consultations with
Mayor Warser in his private Office yes
terday afternoon. The question of
temporary supply Of water was under dis
cussion.
Previous to the conference, the Finance
Commissioners, without the vote OF COM
missioner Detwiller, he being sick, con-
CURED in the resolutions authorizing the
Street and Water Commissioners to ad-
yertise for bids for a permanent supply
Of water These bids are to be received
May 49,
Mayor Wanser will today approve the
specifications, and will probably also sign
the resolution authorizing their adver-
tisement
The action of the Jersey city Water
Company in signing away its right to
appeal from the decision of the Supreme
Court setting aside the last contract
awarded TO it. has left the field open. and
the officials anticipate greater competi-
ton than ever before for the contract.
In all parts Of the city property owners
and residents are watching the move
ments of the officials with keen interest.
The Street and Water Commissioners
Ate- y fACSSAkOO MANY lSllCIS dShIuS INSIu
to make as favorable a contract as pos
sible. but to acquire new and pure water
at any cost.
Matters being thus arranged so far as
the permanent supply is concerned, the
officials are now paying their attention
to finding some relief for the coming
summer months. The East Jersey Water
Company holds that it can furnish at
least thirteen million gallons daily. and
the Mayor, while opposed to mourning
any great expense, is willing to buy the
thirteen million gallons and mix it with
Passaic if it is believed that such mix
ture will have beneficial result. The
Mayor wants to be convinced, however.
before he makes any new contract with
the company, that it will be able to fur
nish more than half the city's consumpv
ton from Newarlzs Pequannock plant.
Anything less than one-half the supply
required would, he thinks. be useless, and
therefore would entail an unnecessary
expenditure of public money.
The Mayor is also looking out for the
city's interests in another direction While
it is admitted that so per million gal
Ions is cheap for Pequannock water, he
intends leaving no stone unturned to get
it cheaper if possible. The city is not in
a position where it is absolutely neces-
sary to buy, while the company is prac-
tically at the city's mercy, as almost
any sum would be preferable to having
the water go to waste over the intake
dam, when any reasonable .propos-.-cn for
it's purchase was pending.
All these matters were talked over yes
terday afternoon, but no definite conclu-
sion was arrived at Mayor Wanser an
nounced that as soon as the pending ar
rangements are consummated he would
make them public
Today at noon the Street and Water
Commissioners met and ordered the City
Treasurer to return to the Jersey City
Water Company the certified check for
100000 which 1T deposited as an evidence
of good faith when it was awarded the
contract for permanent supply Of wa
ter, which was subsequently set aside
by the Supreme Court.