The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-17
IT'S A DELUGE.
Street and Water Commits.
Sioners Pass on Another
Batch Of Improve.
ments.
ABOUT THIRTY NEW SEWERS
Assessments on the Work Will Be
Paid By I~nstallments-
City's Profit.

h meeting of the Street and Water
Commissioners yesterday afternoon wa:
remarkable for the number of public I'm,
provements, in the form of sewers. which
the Board decided TO have constructed
Last Monday about thirty street inn
provements were started. and these
couple with the unusual number OF
sewers reported yesterday. are keeping
the employees of the Engineering Bureau
busy day and night. Every application
for any kim of an Improvement is
being acted upon in a manner which it
IS hoped will be satisfactory to property
owners.
The laws of last winter, which permit
the payment of assessments in five
yearly instruments. is being taken adj
vantage Of. The city will be bonded for
the work, but the Investment is a good
one. The city pays from 4 to S per cent.
for the money. while property owners in
turn pay the city 6 per cent. so that in
addition to improving the city generally
as a place OF residence on an easy plan
of payment. the city makes a little money
for advancing the cost of the various
pieces of work to the property owners.
h is gratifying to the officials is the
fact that the applications for improve
ments cover localities now practically
undeveloped. In streets where there are
only q few houses sewers are to be built,
and this to the officials is regarded as
the first step in the building up of those
streets. The Hill section particularly is
getting a great many drainage sewers.
Those reported favorably yesterday were;
Vftriaed pipe in Hutton street, 100 feet
east of Sanford place to Summit avenue.
Jackson avenue from Woodlawn ave-
nue. to Fulton
Irving street, from 80 feet east of Sum
init avenue to Central avenue.
Troy street, from its westerly terminus
to Summit avenue.
Clark avenue. from 80 feet west of
through Mallory avenue to Yale avenue:
Bergen avenue, from IS feet north OF
Atlantic street to Bramhah avenue
Railroad to West Side ven
Halliday street, from Ash street to
West Side avenue, from the Newark
and New York Railroad to Pollock ave-
Y to Mallory and Hatch avenues.
Virginia avenue. from West Side avenue
Walker avenue. from 30 feet east Of
Bergen avenue to Van Cleef street, to
Sixteenth street. from SO feet east of
Erie street to Grove.
Church street. from 50 feet east of
IN ~ Nif1i i.
tirteentn street, from 10 feet west OF
Erie street 70 Jersey avenue.
seventeenth street, from the west sue
Sea View avenue. from 500 feet west. of
Old Bergen Road to Old. Bergen Road.
Fifth street, from Newark avenue to
Brunswick street to Fourth street.
Railroad avenue, r18 feet west of Mon
mouth to that street.
The Board also reported favorably on
the Improvement OF Fleet street from
Central avenue. to Oakland avenue, and
Jewett avenue from Bergen avenue to the
boulevard.
Petitions for improvements were numer-
GUS. The udsOn City Improvement
wants to assume full charge
Of Webster avenue from North street TO
Paterson street. The company owns all
the property IN both sides of the ave-
nue. between the points mentioned n
1t o making a-30 feet driveway
and having sidewalks Is feet wide on
either side The sole object is to beautify
the street. The petition was referred for
consideration.
Ex-Judge. Marcus. Beach and other
residents of Hoboken avenue want thai
avenu sewerah from Oakland avenue to
Thirteenth street produced. and then car
ried down to Division street.
James F.. Blackshaw and a few others
are interested in the opening and extern
sion of Monticello avenue from Fair
noun avenue to Orchard street.
Jones street from Sip avenue to
kirk street.
Emma J. Houten and others want a
sewer in VIRGINIA ovop.1o frano Woer