The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-16
FOR GOOD ROADS,
Mayor Wanser's Progress
sivc Letter to the Street
and Water Board.
ASPHALT PATH FOR CYCLERs
Ferry and Boulevard to Be
Connected = Serious
Street Problems.
SCOPE OF THE LICENSE MONEYS.
Montgomery and Washington Streets
and Communipaw Avenue
Present Serious Problems.

Mayor Wanser has taken up the ques-
ton of good roads in the city for drivers
and wheelmen. He has sent a long let
ter to the Street and Water Commission
ers recommending that certain things be
done at once. If the suggestions are
carried out, and it is understood they are
TO be. this city will doubtless become a
great centre for lovers Of smooth-surf-
aced roadways.
The Mayors letter follows:-
Juns Is, 1896.
To the Honorable Board of Street and
Water Commissioners
Gentlemen-On May l 1885. 7
Gated to your Honorable Board certain
plans for continuous driveway systems
over a roadway of some smooth surface
for the travel Of carriage users and Wheel
men, by which Il wa hoped 20 offer 10
ior advantages in the shape of good roads
TO those existing or in contemplation in
nlulated as far back as 1888. and had been
delayed by insufficient laws TO put them
in operation, bur by virtue Of the i'm
provement" Legislation enacted in 1888.
nave since been made not only possible
but partially complete. Since my conf
munication in May. 1895, your Board aided
line of the systems then indicated, have
proceeded to make these plans success
ful Ipasmuch as the making Of many
of the improvements indicated at that time
has been within the control CT the prop
erty owners referred to- because of the
fact that a majority of directors on the
the hearings held by YOU Board have
developed a remarkable unanimtty of
purpose on the part of these properly
the accomplishment of the, Good Roads
systems. It seems to me that the present
year should witness the completion OF the
m~encement OF others which have now
been rendered feasible by what has been
already accomplished and is IN conteH1-
pIation. For that reason and for Others
to be mentioned hereafter I venture to
address your Board on this suoiset.
The city authogtaes a faeAt WITH the
policy defined early IN my admlnjstrar
ton as Mayor have waged a persistent
Although the past year did not see the
completion of the process of their removal,
your Board has already indicated its
sasaaaaiga Of contrasts for q. the resurfacing
with asphalt of three streets now paved
with cobble stone TO wit
Jersey avenue.
Henderson street. between York and
Grand StreetS.
Third street, between Grove and Coles
streets.
OF course this will not complete the
work, but 7 appreciate the fact that IN
of your Board to order other work in this
line as the license monies will not be
available until that date and the balance
of a more extensive expenditure in, addi-
zion to those obligations that will ma
fure and have to be paid out Of thisAac-
a0l1nf Tn lnuuA- 1ArelV Effu fk arr 0rnI S6n-
eral streets from which the cobble stone
pavement have not yet been removed,
notably
Fourth street. from Coles street to
Newark avenue.
Third street, from Coles to Monmouth
Second street. from Henderson street
TO we avenue.
FIRST street, from Newark avenue to
just east Of Merseles street.
Second street, from Newark avenue to
Brunswick street.
Third street. from Newark avenue to
Bssex street, from Warren street TO
Washington street.
Bright street. from Barrow street to
10 my mind it seems h it would be
wise to continue the asphalt on these
streets on part Of which it o is or is
Fourth street, from Coles street to
Newark avenue.
Third street from Coles street to
Third street, from Erie street to Grove
street
Also to order it laid on Second street.
Board may deem proper. I know that the
sewer in that street. at least below Hen
derson street, Is in bad condition ana IN
to the point east of Newark avenue. where
that work should terminate. The follow
ing streets should be paved with Belgian
FIRST street, from Newark avenue to the