The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-24

square yaru. ., O % Ok nor
sq ASPHALT paving, s1.5O to $3.50 per square
Curb stone, 40 to so per lineal foot.
Bridge stone, .35 to As per square. TOOL
Tagging. IA to u per square Ious.
Resetting curb, .03 to "a per llneal TOOL
Relaying bridge, .03 to % per SQUARE
foot. - foot
Cribbing. .02 to rs per lineal 1901.
Resetting basinheads, $500 to $9:OU-
Resetting manholes, s2;W e ssO s % to $500.
New manholes, $500 to $4o.V0
15-inch vitritied pipes, 80 to a.
1S-inch yitrified pipes, .50 TO ~. .~
Lis of prices for sewer WORK, lhciuoins
connections and manholesE
1 1s-ineh y yjtrised pips. SIS e. T. to si $40.
i iS-irlca vitriied pipe. sI55 70 a.S6.
24-inch brick oval. $1.85 to SID.
3O-inch brick oval, $3.50 to S5-06.
36-inch brick oval, $40 to s3.s2.
42-inch brick oval $5.00 to 500.
4S-inch brick oval, $3.50 to 500.
54-inch brick oval, $3.50 to $3.50:
Receiving basins, 5000 to $500, includ-
Rock, $500 to $500.
Piles. IA to 80 per foot, driven.
Lumber, 5000 to $4,000, to place.
Lumber. $40. 90 to $4,000, in place.
Brick masonry, $500 to $500 per CUBIC
Stone masonry, $500 to $500 per cubic
Concrete, $500 to $500.
Mayor Hoos sent in a communication IN
relation to the form of resolutions sent 70
him for approval. It was as follows
August %, 1897.
To the Honorable the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners.
GentlemenI would respectfully Suggest
when copies of resolutions passed by your
honorable Board for sewers or street I'M
provements are presented to me ZOE my n
matter clearer the kind of improvement
be stated more specifically. For instance,
the IMPROVEMENT Of Eighteenth street
simply called for grading" Whlie the ap-
plication and the Improvement was Tor
stone" If the resolution submitted to me
also showed the feet frontage Liable 10
the assessment and the feet frontage rep
resented by the petitioner it would save
the city many bills for advertising, mas
much as both our honorable Board and
l ooaId then Sa ae ea IIad FOR w bv 4 Fair rn repre- lre-
sentation of the property owners VINO
would have to pay for the work AS the
applications are now made under the law
of 1895, the owner of one lot who has
nothing to lose, no deposit being required,
can apply for an improvement extending
over several blocks and the other property
owners learn nothing of it, as a rule, I'M
less they see the advertisement for re-
monstrances, which is the last stage of
the proceedings. Before the remonstrance
stage has been reached however, a large
bill of costs has been incurred by the
city for surveys, estimates for quantities.,
maps, advertisements for bids and making
conditional awards. / think this is a mat
ter worthy of your care and attention,
and | trust you will take some action
which will remedy what seems to me to be
a prominent defect in our method of
granting improvements.
Respectfully submitted,
Mayor.
The property owners of Tuers avenue
sent in a vigorous communication about
the work done on hat street by Con-
tractor Henry Byrne. The letter has some
things to say about that individual and
is as follows
We, the undersigned, owners of prop
erty on Tuers avenue, between Vroom
and Newkirk streets, protest against the
so-called paving of Tuers avenue and OBJ
ject thereto and to the levying of and
confirmation of any assessment made or
to be made therefor, for the following
No part of the work in connection with
the paving of said street has been prop
erly or thoroughly DONE, or done In a
The sub-pavement or filling, consisting
partly of stone and earth and partly of
an unsuitable and unfit substance of
of decay and tending to cause a subse-
quent depression in the surface of the
street and hasten its breaking up, was
not sufficiently or properly rolled before
the top dressing was put on, and the
top dressing is not sufficiently thick to
Withstand storms and frost or the natural
The roadbed, for a distance of two feet
from the curb lines. has been but slight
ly rolled, if rolled at. all.
The work done n the material used
in making the roadbed Dis deficient in
both quality and quantity, and not in ac-
cordance with the plans n specifica-
The roadbed showed indications OF
breaking up within a week after the
contractor left the work, and there are
top dressing has entirely disappeared and
subsequent attempts to remedy defects
caused by inferior work and the use of
improper and insufficient material have
failed to improve it or render it salts
(SignedD
Isaac Romano, Albert Romaine, JohnS S.
Romaine, q. L. Van Wrinkle, ID. Van
William George Nelson, j S. NewkIrk,
5 ams aaf E. Mecs HsWs cafbia Em@I :. M Harey,
Maria L. Furey, John Y~armusk1ewicz
Danforth avenue Improvement. paving
with asphalt. was accepted as complete
and the Board approved Of paying $1,000
to the Barber Asphalt Company on their
contract. The delay in this matter was
due to the fact tina the Boar of FL
nance had not appropriated money.
The improvement of Fourth street will
now be begun, the Board having pro-
visionally warded the contract to p.
McCabe The Board also Professionally
awarded the contract on the Henry street
sewer to e. O'Neiil.
The lateral sewer system on Virginia
avenue was reported completed and it
will connect with the main sewer on West