The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-27

ana Water commissioners held on Mon
day, March Is, 1897, at two o'clock F. M.
Present Commissioners Boltwood
Heintze, Harding and President Brown.
The reading of the minutes of previous
meeting was dispensed with and they
were on motion approved as engrossed.
PRESENTATION OF PETITIONS AND
COMMUNICATIONS.
From John Casey
Petitioning fer the opening and extern
Jersey avenue and Division street.
From John Casey
etc. of Fifteenth street, between Jersey
avenue and Division street.
From John Casey
Petitioning for the Improvement of Pa
vonia avenue, between Brunswick street
and n. 7. Junction R. r.
From W. F. Kern
Hutton street. between Hudson Boulevard
and a point $50 feet west of Summit ave-
nue..
From John O'Brien and Others
~Petitioning for the construction of a
" in G~errnan.a avenue, from a point
thirty feet south Of st. Palll's avenue, to
Van Wrinkle street.
Petitioaning for the Improvement of
nit avenue and Bergen avenue.
From Frederick Dietz and others
Petitioning for the Improvement of Van
nue. and Long Dock Co.'S property.
From Frank I. Clark and others
IstlIonlng lot the appointment of Ber-
Of Garfield avenue.
Eight 80 petitions for signs, etc.
~ R steaed an referred to the Committee
From Peter H. Gilhooly and others.-
petlt1onlng the Board to place two gas
and Tonnele avenue.
Received and referred to the Committee
on Municipal Lighting.
From John H. Scott
Requesting the Board to extend water
main on Nelson avenue. from North
street north to 600 Nelson avenue.
From A. A. Campbell
P~etitioning the Board for adi,1stment
of water rents.
Received and referred to the mmit
on Assessments and Extensions.
IRON Gtarke q Company, by Otto
Filing lien against the Wrought Iron
Bridge Company.
cl From WiIliam T. Middlege, attorney for
Ter, attorney for Thomas Henry, with
drawing liens filed against Frank c.. Nee
han.
Received and ordered filed.
From D. G.. Hawkes., secretary:=
inviting the Board to review the parade
OF the Ancient Order Of Hfbernians on
March II.
Received and accepted.
From the East Jersey Water Company.
by w. II. Corbin, attorney
NEW YORK, March s, 1897.
To the Board Of Street and Water Com
missioners Of Jersey City
Gentlemen-In our communication of
June s, 1886, we notified you that we had
succeeded in bringing the flow of water
IN the Pequannock works up to 1915 mill
ions of gallons per day, which enabled
Jersey City to draw therefrom more than
was originally contemplated it could
draw Under the contract of October 70,
1888. The city during the month of June
drew on an average 21.0 million gallons,
per day.
We also notified you that we were com
pletlng a second main and that when it
was completed we could draw from the
Pequannock watershed so millions of gall
Ions per day. The second main was COM
pleted and put in use August 80, 1896, and
the company has had from that time to
the present a supply averaging more
than So millions of gallons per day for the
use of Newark, Jersey City and the other
towns supplied from said works.
W. warned you at that time that. with
the increasing demands of Jersey City
and Newark. our works built to supply
90 millions of gallons per day would soon
prove to be insufficient.
We call FOUR attention to the fac. that
as Newark and the other towns had the
nrst right to draw, any deficiency there
might be would necessarily fall upon Jer-
AS a matter of fact since the new water
supply was put in, Jersey City's average
dany draft has greatly increased. sur
passing an previous estimates. For the
past three months It has been as follows:
december, 2S.4 million gallons per Hay.
and - 0s'
February, 29.1 million gallons ner aav
10 supply that vast quantity Of waller
IN ADDITION to the demands Of the other
towns we have drawn during the winter
more than b0 millions of gallons per day
from the Pequannock watersbed A. orr
right to draw therefrom is limited 70 an
average of So MILLIONS of gallons per day
the year, and as the Pequan-
mock water works are calculated to fur
nish but SO millions of gallons per dav
It is obvious that we will soon have
reached an average draft Of 50 million
and thenceforth cannot draw more than
So million gallons per day.
II IS therefore certain that the Pequan-
to furnish to Jersey City ali The wafer
the city will require. Probably nv fhe
first Of May or the first of June we shall
be compelled to limit Jersey City's draft
of water from the P~equannocE works
We will draw from the works during the
year the full average OF 80 millions Of
have all that this amount will AFFORD
obligations; but that IS all that can he
supplied from these works by us to Jersey
When Ink time arrives for limiting the
supply YOU city will Of course Be corn
PEELED to supplement it by pumping at
Months ago. we made several suggestions.
either OF which, II accepted, would have
glysn Jersey Sly an entire supply BY
partial supply, water Of unexceptionabie
purity. These suggestions the citv has
never replied to Ind they are not now
0pen for acceptance.
We aaaye been supplying water to the
city fpE fn51rteen months the CONTRACT
price 81. winch ls considerably IN excese Of