The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-07
Street and Water Commits
sioners Adopt the Plans
of Chief Engineer
Fowler.
THE JACKSON AVENUE BELT LINE
Property Owners Ask for the I'm
proyement Of That Thorough
fare for Better Trolley
Facilities.

The Street and Water Board met at
three o'clock yesterday afternoon. Though
the meeting was principally Of q routine
character several items of the business
transacted were of interest to property
owners and citizens generally.
The recommendations of Chief Engineer
Fowler concerning the proposed Jackson
avenue sewer and the Pine street i'm
provement, as set forth in yesterdays
Jersey City News were adopted by
resolutions as follows:-
Resolved, That the recommendation OF
the Chief Engineer in regard to the I'M
proVement OF Pin street, betWeen Com
munipaw avenue and the right OF way
of the Newark and New York Railroad,
as embodied in his communlcatlon 70
this Board under the date OF December
6, 1897, be adopted, and that the clerk or
this Board be directed TO notify Ihomas
T. McCabe, the person prosecuting the
said improvement under CONTRACT with the
city, executed on October IL, 1897, that he
must Immediately discontinue that part
of his work under the contract and
specifications forming a part thereon, re-
lating to the furnishing OF proper paving
blocks for the paving of the carriageway
frem curb to curb, through the entire
length of the said improvement.
Resolved, That the recommendations OF
the tnlGI Engineer III IeSdlQ L n plO-
posed reconstruction of the trunk line
sewer in the jackson Avenue District,
from Bramhall avenue 10 Commun!paW
avenue, thence. through C~ommunipaW
avenue to Monticello avenue, as embodied
in his Communication to this Board under
date of December 6, 1897, he approved and
adopted, and that the map and prohies
to the said communication annexed be
adopted and considered as the map and
profiles mentioned in the specifications
for said Improvement as on file in the
office Of the Chief Engineer; and be 1T
further
directed to draw up plans and specifica-
tions for the construction of a relief
sewer and connections in Harrison ave
nuc, from Monticello avenue to a point
relief sewer to be built under Chapter
217 of the Laws of 1895, all as embodied IN
the said recommendations.
A petition, numerously signed by prop
erty owners on the line of the proposed
extension of jackson avenue n vicinity,
was received and filed. The proposed ex-
tension is for the purpose of making way
for the much talked of trolley. belt line
of h Consolidated Traction Company.
The petition was as follows
.sGentlemen-We, the property owners
on the line of the proposed extension Of
Jackson venue, and in the immediate VI
entity thereof, hereby respectfully peti-
ton you honorable body to open said
Jackson avenue from DanfOrth avenue
on the north to Gates avenue on The
south, or to the city line, if, in your judg-
ment, it shall be beneficial to the city;
Furthermore, we respectfully request your
honorable body to facilitate. as far as 1t
lies within your power to do SO, the con-
summation Of the plan of the Consolidat-
ed Traction Company. whereby a new
trolley line will be provided for the West
Side section of G~reenVille.
I'VE have the assurance of the Trac-
ton Company officials that the work will
begin as soon as the aforementioned jack
son avenue is opened, as a new trolley line
there will prove of inestimable value to
the section, we pray that your honorable
body will take early steps in the matter
The following signatures follow the pc
tition: Henry and William Gotthardt,
Adam Darmstatter, Charles Schroll, Mrs.
Michael Knoegy, Otto Schiller, Mrs. M. NJ.
L4auby, John M~oessner, Charles A. Rode,
Frederick Bose, Frederick Seibel, S.
Haase. Anton Lauer, Andrew Miller, Mr..
Hentrickson, John Becker. Joseph Bioye,
Philip Nuss, Amanda Mcneil, Joseph God
frey, j. S. Jaccard, William Armbruster,
Eugene Homan, Jackson Homan, ]. A.
Roman, John Ernst, Theresa Metzger,
David Sehirr, J.. and E. Holman, s. D.
Homan, Phillip Fischer, Joseph A. Abel,
Jacob Bender, William Cummings, Chas.
A~rmbruster John Dorm, c. j. Dorm and
Julia Mexican.
The Hudson Telephone Company re-
quested the Board to designate Montgom-
cry street as one of the thoroughfareS in
which it might be allowed to put a sub
way for its wires. An old ordinance des-
ignates York street for such a purpose,
but that t~horoughfare is now ~asphalted,
and it is said that the Telephone Com
pany is simply aiming at a reduction in
the expense of laying its subways.
The Board was served with a Supreme
Cour mandamus compelling the rein
statement of William p. StMers as an
engineer at High Service and ordering
payment Of his back salary from May
IL to date, amounting to s511.6s, n pay
ment of Judgment for costs amounting to
$46.S7. Stivers was one of the city en-
ployes dropped by the present administra-
ton, but sued the city under the Veteran
act.
The Board of Finance was requested to
apportion to the various city boards the
81. 500 it had allowed under the old law
for insuring buildings of the various
municipal departments. A law passed ~
the Legislature last winter took away
from the Street and Water Board such
care of the buildings and put them under
the charge of the respective departments.
The President and Clerk of the Board
were authorized to sign a new lease with
the Thomas E. Bray estate for the rooms
Court at No. 5SS Newark avenue. ON
tracts for various improvements were
awarded as follows:-Crescent avenue inn
proyement, to Henry Cunningham; ORR
snf avenue. TO Thomas F.. McCabe; Pop
lar street, from Nelson avenue to Boule-
ward, to James Mannix; Poplar street,
from Central avenue to Boulevard, to p.
II. Flaherty, Jr., & CO.; Cambridge ave-
nue., to p. H. Flaherty, Jr., & Co.; sewer
in Graham and North streets, ETC., to
Edward W. Conlon, and in Nunda