The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-30

Ayes-AH tho members of the Board.
five 90 in lumber.
The Committee on Public Buildings.
Docks and Parks presented the following:
Resolved, That the sums hereinafter
mentioned be paid to the persons named
respectively for services rendered as la
borers on parks for half month ending
October Is. 1896, amounting in the aggre-
gQte to $3.50.
Adopted by the following vote on the
call for the ayes and nays
Ayes-AH the members OF the Board.
five 10 in In number.
The Committee on Engineering and Sur
vey presented the following
Resolved, That the sums hereinafter
mentioned be paid to the persons named
respectively for services rendered as Chief
Engineer, ETC., for month ending October
sl,,2s6.6s.
Adopted by the following vote on the
call for the ayes and nays
Ayes-All the members of the Board,
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
COMMISSIONS Kaiser moved ITO take
from the table an ordinance entitled An
ordinance for the relief of William Long
staff to construct and maintain bay win
dows on building at No. So Bright street. >,
Carried.
The ordinance was taken up. read and
passed by the following vote on the call
for the ayes and Nays
Ayes-All the members of the Board.
five 60 in number.
StIfllt,Sl3Icf hdiSEf IltQfG1 10 take
from the table an ordinance for the relief
of William e. Budlong to construct and
maintain bay windows on building at No.
50 Bright street.
The ordinance was taken up, read and
passed by the following vote on the call
for the ayes and nays
Ayes-An the members of the Board,
Commissioner BoItw0od moved that
when this Board adjourns 1t be TO meet
Thursday. October q, 1895, at 10 A. M
on motion the Board adjourned.
GEO I. BOUToN,
Clerk.
Adjourned meeting of the Board Of
Street and Water Commissioners held
Thursday, October 2, 1886, at ten O'CLOCK
A M.
i've t9l IN NUMBER
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMIT
TEES.
The Committee on Municipal Lighting
submitted the following
Jersey City. Oct. q, 1896.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
9entlemen-Your Committee on Munich
pal Lighting, in accordance with the
meeting held October 6. 1896, have pre-
pared and submit herewith specifications
for lighting the city with electric arc.
I 6ao Ol aAA0 410Et S19 dA&AttI-
It has been the purpose of your commit
tee to prepare such specifications for
lighting as it appeared would be most
productive of beneficial results in i'm
proving that department of the city.
During the past year a portion CT the
city was lighted by electricity that por-
ton being sub-diyided into electric arc
light districts; another portion was light
ed by gas and the remainder by oil lamps.
| The reasons for so arranging the sys-
TENS of lighting were. first, that the ap-
1 rtranr5offnr uyacs f1Sl1f -o*c0f ii EoHf <ha
city with electric arc lights alone, and,
secondly, that there We're sections In the
city in which it was found that gas and
ell lamps would be more beneficial from
the standpoint of economy and good
lighting.
While it is true that the Board of FL
nance have increased the appropriation
for lighting for the year 1867 to the ex-
tent of some thirteen thousand dollars
fs13,0e9}, it is also true that in many of
the sections of the city now lighted b.
to properly complete the lighting of those
ct5on Of course your committee ex-
poets to increase the scope of the electric
Eight system. AT the present time the
city is paying for 1872 electric arc lights,
1000 oil and $50 gas lamps. Your commit
tee in the specifications presented here
with ask for proposals upon the basis of
800 electric lights, 700 oil. 300 gas and 100
Welsbach gas lamps. As there has been
much dissatisfaction with those elect3ng
arc lamps placed upon the top Of poles,
| electric arc lamps shall swing at lease
two CD feet clear of the pole
/ wherever necessary shall be swung
Tom two ~ to fourteen ga feet clear of
the pole. In this way 1t is hoped that
more beneficial results will be obtained
in those sections of the city where the
shade trees now diminish the efficiency
l.of the electric light system. The destruo-
tion of glass in lamp posts is a constant
" increasing source of expense to the
| city, as the cost of reglazing is met by
the city. There are sufficient ordinances
E~governing this matter, which, if enforced,
Kwould reduce this expense to q minimum
Your committee, therefore, in the spec
cfications submitted have thought it
wise to invite proposals for gas and oil
lighting in two ways: First. the price
per lamp monthly and yearly, the city
to pay the cost of regiazing; second, the
price per lamp, monthly and yearly, the
to pay the cost of reglaZing, the city to
I agree to enforce the ordinances prohibit
Ing the breaking of glass in street lamps
also Investigated the Welsbach gas street
lamp now in use in the upper part of
New York City, and have invited pro-
posals Nor these lamps.
Respectfully submitted,
FERDINAND HEINTZE,
JOHN G. KAISER,
RICHARD BROWN.
GEO. w. HARDING,
Committee on Municipal Lighting.
Received and ordered filed.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
The Committee on Streets and Sewers
presented the following
Whereas. The city has acquired title to
a strip of land between Norris Canal
and Newark Bay, located and described
as follows
A strip of land 50 feet in width, being
Is feet wide on either side of the centre
line of a sewer heretofore constructed
on behalf of the city, and known and
/ designated as the Girard avenue main
I sewer. which centre is thus described
Beginning at a point in the centre line
sf Danforth avenue, distant Is feet north
e5sterly from the easterly line of the
lands in possession of the Morris Canal
and Banking Company; thence Gd)
westerly at right angles to the
easterly line of the Morris Canal
and Banking Company about two hum
bred and sixty feet f260 ft.l to Newark
Bay, excepting out Of said strip the ease
ments or right of way of the Morris
Canal.
Resolved, That said strip Of land as
\ ~hereinbefore described be and is hereby
dedicated and set aside for the uses and
purposes of a public street, said strip
forming a continuation of Danfofth ave-
1 rsses
Resolved, That Ezekiel Thorpe be ana
is hereby appointed as inspector of Pavo-
MIA avenue, from Summit avenue to Bau-
levard. at a salary of So per day when en-
gagged.
The foregoing were Zach separatelv
adopted by the following vote on the call
| for the ayes and nays
Ayes-AIl the members of the Board.