The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-10
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East Jersey Cannot Begin
to Carry Out Its Con-
tract With Jer-
sey City.
ONLY 100000 GALLONS
Engineer Hersehel With Tears
in His Eyes Makes
the Formal An
nouneement.
OUR OFFICIALS AsToUNDED
Talk Now Of Annulment of the
Contract and Suit for
Damages.
THE NEW WATER TURNED ON
Commissioners solemnIy Go to Belle
VILE and Get lhe Coolest Kind
of a Doucbe.
OUR OFFICIALS ASToUNDED
Talk Now of Annulment of the
Contract and Suit for
Damages.
THE NEW WATER TURNED ON
Commissioners SolemnIy Go to Belle
VILE and Get ihe CoIdest Kind
of Doucbe.

Precisely at LA P M. the Pequannock
water was turned on at the junction of the
Snain at Belleville and Kearny avenues.
1.-THE Passaic wat y was cut off from the
cement main which supplies Bayonne.
! Greenville the section south of the
Pennsylvania cut. Harrison and Kearny
with water. and the Peouannock water
rushed into that main. The officials
present were unable to determine how
much water the East Jersey Water Com
pany is furnishing but the general opin-
Jon is mat unless more is turned on than
is at present. very little will be supplied
: SLOWER Jersey city,
There were present Messrs. Simpson,
Patterson. Hooker. Harding. Horace Far
rier. Chief Engineer Ruggles, Water Pur-
veyor Robert Coar, A. B. Dusenbery and
other clerks in the water department.
The East Jerseys representative was Mr..
Nan Dyne.
A few minutes after the water was
turned on Engineer Hershell of the East
Jersey Company stepped up to the Street
and Water Commissioners of Jersey City
and said, with tears in his eyes and with
a tremor in his voice.
Gentlemen, I am sorry, utterly sorry,
to have to tell you that the East Jersey
Company has made painful discovery.
1t at the last moment finds that it cannot
fulfill its contract with Jersey City and
all it can do is supply you with 100000
gallons a day.
The Jersey City men were astounded
and they looked at each other in blank
amazement.
e-The fact Isl said Mrs. Hershell, very
much affected, 1--WE find our carrying ca
pacity is NOT what we thought it was
Our pipes cannot carry the water we
agreed to deliver to you. We are very
sorry and am panied to have to tell
you this. If you could wait, say for one
year. by that time we could lay pipe
for you and bring water from the Pc
guannock she'd
The announcement simply paralyzed
the Jersey City officials. who could
scarcely believe their ears, and one of
them asked Immediately if Mr. Herschell
was joking. but that gentleman shook
his head and walked away
Now the question confronts the off
Gals. What is to be done?"
The contract may be annulled and the
water. company may be compelled to
reimburse the city for their failure to
carry out their contract
When this extraordinary information
reached this city, a reporter of "The
News" at once interviewed Mr. Charles
L. Corbin, counsel for the company,
who said
Il have not heard from Engineer
Herscnel with regard to this matter
do not believe he is in a position to
know, as, yet, what he can supply The
pipes are not connected, so how can he
tell what their capacity will be? I don't
know where you have got this story,
bur I am certain it is not true"
1t is, all the same.
The new water supply has been turned
on at last. The ceremony was performed
this afternoon, and by the time readers
Of "The News have learned that the
water has been admitted TO the Jersey
City mains some Of them win be able
to open faucets in their homes and taste
the ice cold, pure and sparkling. Pc
auannock.
Engineer Herschel, Of the East jersey
water Company, notified the Street and
water Commissioners early this morn
ing that. everything was in readiness for
the turning on of the new supply. Com
missioner Hooker who has charge Of the
) scity's water works went to Belleville yes