The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-15
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER
com MHSSI0NEES
tOmcial ProceedIngs.l

HO1RO OF STREET AND
COM MlSSI0NEES.
tohicial Prcceedings.3
Adjourned regular meeting of the
held on Wednesday. April Is, 1897, at ten
O'Clock A. NJ.
Present Commissioners Boitwood,
Heitze, Weasteil and President Brown.
Observation-Disclosures Harding.
PREsENTaAcT,IoN OF PETITJoNs AND
From Frank J. Matthew'S
provement Of Brunswick Street, from
Eleventh to Fourteenth streets.
Six go petitions for signs, etc.
Received and referred to the COMMITTEES
on Streets and Sewers.
REPORTS OF STANDING COMMIT
TEES
The Committee ON Streets and Sewers
reported on six 90 petitions for signs ia
The report was accepted.
MOTIONS AND RESOLUTIONS.
presented the following
Whereas, There has been filed with this
Board a renonstrance against the con-
templated Improvement of Brunswick
street. between Eleventh street and Four
teenth street. which said Improvement
mad been previously petitioned for on
o0iidci To- 1870, Dy IACmdS LAWYER, d10
Whereas, Said remonstrance is signed
by the owners of property liable to more
than one-half the assessment for said
Improvement,
Resolved, That all further proceedings
on the basis of said petition cease.
Resolved, That the grade maps as sub
mltted by the Chief Engineer on April rs,
1897, for Seventeenth street, between Jer-
sey avenue and Hoboken avenue, be and
the same is hereby adopted and ordered
f1Iod ond fhof fhA- ralo a@ I@-vxn A.-A
on be and is hereby adopted as the grade
fed.
Resolved. That H. c. Nichols be and is
hereby appointed as inspector on the i'm
provement of Arlington avenue. from
a salary of 50 per day when engaged.
term of service to begin when work shall
have been commenced.
Resolved, That permission be and is
hereby granted to the following named
persons to erect signs, ETC., at the places
designated
Emil Weelhager, sign, 12S Monticello
avenue.
7. II. spengeman, agent, sign, s55 Hen
derson street.
Il. Seekamp, sign, Y Griffith street.
n. ~. Nugent, agent, soda water foun-
tain, 25S Newark avenue.
street.
A. Tushy, barber pole, s55 Summit ave-
nue..
M. Reardon, sign, 17s Third street.
The foregoing were each separately
p by the following vote on the call
LOT the ayes and nays:-
Ayes-Commissioners BoItwood, Heintze,
Weasteil and President Brown.
Apsent-Commissioner Harding.
The Committee on Assessments and FIX
tensions presented the following
RESOLVED. That the schedule of rates
lot Jne use OF water, heretofore adopted
as fO1lows:-
First-That the charges therein au-
thorized to be made for hot air furnaces
ana not water heating apparatus be
second-That h charge for barber
shops pc made as follows:-For first
mar 80; for each additional chair, 81.
saloons be made on the basis of old rates
as f~oilows:-
% per annum where there is no tap be.
hind the bar.
For bar with single tan. SIC.
For each additional tap. SIS.
ADOPTED by the following vote on thu
eau Tor the ayes and nays:-
Ayes-CommisSionerS BoltWood Hefntze
Weastell and President Brown.
Observation-Disclosures Harding.
Commissions Heintze moved that a re.
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Carried.
On reassembling after recess. at s P
NJ, all the members of the Board wert
present.
After roll call an adjournment wa:
taken to the rooms of. the Commissioner
OF Appeal, for the purpose of hearina
parties interested in the proposed eleva,
ton of the Erie Railroad tracks.
Inc Clerk read a communication favor.
ing track elevation, and the Board was
addressed in that connection by Messrs
Jacob Weart, 3. B. Gumaer, c. E. anc
w. A. Lewis, VIM. H. Speer, Jr.. M. T
Connolly, James McGrath, R. d. Wood
L. N. Qulmby and A. S. Graham.
The Board, OF motion, returned to the
Assembly Chamber.
The regular order of business was ther
proceeded with as follows
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AMI
COMMUNICATIONS.
From Frank J.. Mathews
demonstrating against the proposed
Improvement of Eighteenth street, from
Henderson to Coles streets.
From Frank J. Mathews
demonstrating against the proposes
Improvement of Coles street. from
Eleventh to Eighteenth streets.
From Thomas Mcmahon and others
~Petitioning to nave wagons removed
from Second street, between Monmouth
and Brunswick streets.
| Received and referred to the Commit
tee on Streets n Sewers.
OFFICIAL COMMUNICATIONS.
| From the Board of Finance