The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-10
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MORE PUBLIC WORK
Street and Water Board to
Begin Tearing Up
the Streets.
LONG DELAYED IMPROVEMENTS
Several Hundred Thousand DOL
lars Of Work for Sewers and
Paving to be Per-
formed.
IG DELAYED IMPROVEMENTS

Within a month many of the city's
streets will be torn up. 1t will not be
done by corporations which leave the
streets is practically impossible condi-.
ton. but by contractors. who viii be
working under the supervision of The
city officials.
The News one week ago told of the
gseat number of applications for public
improvements which have been shoulder
ing in the desks of the Street and Water
Commissioners. Those officials were only
waiting for favorable weather in which
work could be done well and With des-
patch That time. they a~elieve, has ar
rived. and for the next five or six weeks
bids for more public work will ,De adver-
tised for than in any period of the city's
history. The demand for street end W.
improvements is NOT confined to any par
ticpiar locality. It IS general, and the
Street and Water Commissioner propose
placing no obstruction in the path Of APP
plicants. They will do all in their power
10 encourage the good work. AS a rule
the applications are made under the lib
eral laws of last winter, which permit the
payment of assessments on the installment
plan.
Some idea of the quantity of work that
will soon be under way may be gained
from the number of applications that We're
reported upon favorably at yesterdays
meeting of the Street and Water Board.
In addition to these given below, there are
nearly a hundred applications pending,
and all will be acted upon and work start
ed by the middle of April if practicable.
Chief Engineer Ruggies, acting under a
resolution of the Street and Wafer Board
passed yesterday. is today preparing esti-
mates of the probable cost and
OF quantities of the following improve
menls:@
Garfield avenue, from the Newark and
New York Railroad to Myrtle avenue
Cambridge avenue. from Congress street
Zabriskie street. from Summit avenue
to the Boulevard.
Pavonla avenue, from Monmouth street
10 Brunswick.
Manhattan avenue, from Central ave-
nue. to the Boulevard.
Coles street, from Eleventh street to
Seventeenth.
Carlton avenue. from Montrose avenue
to the Boulevard.
Stuyvesant avenue, from Van Reipen
place to West Side avenue.
North street. from the Old Bergen road
to the Boulevard.
Second street. from Merseles street to
Brunswick.
Magnolia avenue, from Tonnele avenue
to the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Bay View avenue. from Ocean avenue to
Old Bergen Road. from Gates avenue to
Fifty-third street.
Bowers street. from Summit avenue o the
Boulevard.
yroome street. from Summit avenue to
Bergen.
Rose avenue, opening and Improvement
from Warner street to Danforth ave-
nue..
These applications for sewers we're re-
ported, and Engineer Ruggles directed to
proceed in the same manner as with the
improvements.
Jackson place. from Old Bergen Road
IN the R0flfavar d
Central avenue, from Booraem street to
and connect with sewer in Central ave-
nue..
Oxford avenue. from West Side avenue
to Marcy avenue thence to Clendenny
avenue.
North street, under east sidewalk of
Boulevard to and connect with sewer at
Nelson avenue and Bleecker street.
Clerk street. from Wilkinson avenue to
Myrtle venue.
Beach street, from 125 feet east of Mont
rose avenue to Sanford place.
For one days work this is a record. 1t
involves the expenditure of several hun
.dred thousand dollars and will all be paid
by assessments upon property benefited.
BY reason of the five years payment aw
i is expected that there will be no OBJ
lection to any of the work.
The Commissioners also awarded sew
eral contracts: The first was TO Dennis
in Booraem avenue through to Webster
avenue to the Ravine Road sewer. The
same contractor will construct a sewer in
Ogden avenue.
To John Hopkins was awarded a con-
tract for the construction OF a sewer IN
Hanqolpa av sawer in william sbasmao or nlses p Snf
to NJ. T. Connolly falls one of the largest
pieces of work of the year. It is the con-
struetion of a main sewer in Clendenny
avenue with laterals in Lexington and
Comnnunipaw venues Union and several
other streets in that locality. A fifteen
inch sewer in Van Wrinkle and Clendenny
avenues, will be built nv William Ormsbv.
The Improvement Of Tonnele avenue will
DE made by Edward ONeill. In addi-
contracts awarded last fall which has not
fas yet been completed by the contractors.
Work is to be begun at once on all of
them.
Some of the new applications fer i'm
provements filed yesterday are for the inn
provement of Magnolia and Stevens ave-
nues. HOPKINS avenue and a sewer in
Livingston street.
All the bids received for the co%nstruc-
tion of a sewer in Virginia avenue were
rejected. This was done because a modi-
fieation Of the specifications is necessary
to comply with the application. New
sp sI nroneedin msre in uasnuasin With s1bp' the
Improvement of Clerk street, between
Carteret avenue and the Newark and New
York Railroad. were reconsidered. A
new petition is in circulation for the
work.
Specifications for the improvement of
SIP avenue, between Wiley street and the
Boulevard. were adopted.
Objections to the proposed, improve
and Stevens avenue were filed. but will
probably he withdrawn as soon as the
benefits of the improvements are made
known
Chief Rugples filed a report of the prob
able cost of reconstrneting the Garfield
avenue sewer. It will cost 400. Speei-
Anal map for the improverent Of Brown
place was confirernd. there being no objec-
tions.
TO the confirmation of the assessment
map for the construction Of a sewer in
Summit avenue. between Eaidlaw avenue
and Sanford place.. obiections were mode.
AImedia and Charles Ntoll ard ]. Van
Wagenen are the directors. They say
the sewer is not extended across the
boulevard as specified: hat the route
has been altered since the contracts were
awarded: that in places it is only a 10
inch sewer while a 30-fnch sewer Is called
for* that it is intercepted by a water
main which lessons its carrying capacity:
that the receiving basins are too small
and too low. and, finally. that the street
has been left in 4 horrible condition by
the contractor. The complaint is to be
thoroughly investigated at once.
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