The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-11-30
MORE LIGHT COMING
Street and Water Commits
sioners Make Changes
in the Lighting
Specifications.
IMPROVEMENTS TO BE STOPPED
No Public Work Will Be Done
After December Is Until
March-Yeslerday's
Meeting.
TO BE STOPPED

At Yesterday afternoons meeting of the
Street and Water Board COMMISSIONS
Nolan of the Committee on Municipal
Lighting. submitted specifications for next
years street lighting. They deal only
with gas and oil lamps, because the con-
tract for electric lighting was made iast
year for five years. There are now SoV
gas and 700 oil lamps. Under the specin-
cations adopted yesterday the Board VIII
be able to increase the number OF gas
lamps by providing for one hundred OF
two hundred Welsbach lights.
The specifications fix the minimum num-
Der of gas and oil lamps at 800 each. The
maximum is to be limited by the appro-
priations at the Boards disposal.
The quality of the Illuminating gas TO
be furnished must be of not less than 70
candle power. Each bidder must state
the number of candle power of the illu-
minating gas he proposes to furnish, IL II
exceeds the minimum stipulated, and he
will be requested to maintain 1t to the
standard he ~designates during the term OF
the contract. The quality of the gas
offered will be taken into consideration
in awarding the contract.
Each lamp must be fitted with burners
consuming not less than three CUBIC Iee.
of gas per hour, The CITY, through iis
Committee on Municipal Lighting OF TINS
Board, reserves the right to designate
such devices for improving the gas as
have demonstrated their efficiency in this
regard; provided, however, that the e4-
pense of such burners or devices be borne
b. the bidder and the city equaily, aho
such designation shall not be vana OF
binding upon either party unless ratileo
by the party making the contract, theiI
successors or assigns. -
All lamps and glass must be cleaned,
both inside and out, at least once a week,
to the satisfaction OF the Oh
other clauses in the specifications COM
pei the contractor to keep the lamps IN
good repair.
ways: For each lamp, monthly and year
~, the city to pay the cost OF reglazing'
and for. each lamp, monthly and yearly,
the contractor to reglaze without cost to
The Board shall have the right to in
crease the number of lighting, per month
or per annum., for each lamp; PROVIDED,
the said Board shall pay a pro rata snare
in addition to the contract price for the
lumber OF hours gas is consumed IN ex-
cess of that called for by the contract.
AsS"The News stated yesterday, the
Board passed a resolution to drop all pub
lie work on streets and sewers AFTER Pc
eember Is. The resolution was as fol-
lows:-s.
Resolved. That all work on the con-
tracts hereinafter named be suspended
between the fifteenth day of December
and the first day of March prox1mo, a cor
responding extension of time in which to
complete the severalUworks being hereby
granted, and the Clerk of this Board be
directed to cause to be served on each OF
the interested contractors a copy OF the
noIice:-
Pacific avenue. from Johnston to Com
munipaw.
Beacon avenue, paving cutters, tagging
Pine street, paving and tagging.
Bowers street. Summit avenue to Boule-
ward, paving.
Fourth street, Newark avenue to Mer-
seles street, tagging and curbing.
Montgomery street, Greene to Warren
street, paving.
Pavonia avenue, Grove to Kelso street.
Hutton street, Summit avenue to Boule-
ward. ssecg
Summit avenue, Laidlaw to Sherman
venue
Communipaw avenue, reconstruction.
Dwight street, Ocean to Garfield ave
nues, relaying curb, tagging and paving
cutters. rzsa-r
Pavonia avenue, Newark to Chestnut
avenue, paving.
Cambridge avenue, Griffith to South
streets, paving; po,,,a
ward, paving.
Poplar street, Central avenue to Boule-
ward, paving, and on same street from
Nelson avenue to Boulevard
Orient avenue, Ocean to Jackson ave-
nues, grade, Tagging, curbing.
Crescent avenue, Aston place to Belmont
avenue, paving.
Forrest street, ~asphalting.
On a petition of j. Sherry the Board or
dered the Improvement of Garfield ave-
nue.. from Bay View avenue to the New
ark and New York Railroad cut. A pc
tition was received for the Improvement
of St. Paul avenue, from Tonnele avenue
to Newark avenue; also one from 7. Har-
rington, who asked for permission to pave
at his own expense, a strip of land at
Monticello avenue and Orchard street.
The communication from Mr.. w. d.
Edwards on behalf of the American Rein
ing Company, asking for the return of the
SIS, 900 paid to the city on the understand
ing that their water taxes would be re-
duced to $50 per 81 LOCO, 900 cubic foot, was
received and filed. The concurrent resolu-
ton of the Board of Finance approving OF
the appointment of the clerks In the As
sessment Commissioners Office was also
received. w. P. Stevens, a dismissed
official at Belleyille, gave the Board no.
tice that his suit for reinstatement had
been entered in the Supreme Court.
The Board passed a resolution request
ing permission from the Boar of Educa-
ton to store the park benches in the an
mex school on Mercer street.