The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-05
CITY OFFICIAL TO BLAME
Citizens Say That Much Needed
Improvements Are Pur-
posely Delayed.

The meeting of the North Side Improve
ment Association last evening at st.
Lucy's Hall was largely attended. The
taxpayers of that section are very much
in earnest about getting the badly needed
improvements that they have been fight
ing for so long.
When President Connolly called the
meeting to order last evening he said he
was very glad to see such a large at
tendance. and hoped that the gentlemen
on the different committees had made
good progress since the last meeting. Mr.
Peter Kane acted as Secretary pro tenn
last evening, as the permanent Secretary,
Mr.. John ]. Keane, is very i'll at his
home.
After the regular routine business had
been disposed of Mr.. Andrew J. Corcoran
of the Emergency Committee, read let
ter which he had received from one of the
Board of Assessors. 1t stated that the
members of the Board would like to
know what improvements were wanted,
as there were three now in progress. Mr..
Corcoran notified the member of the
Board that the improvements they men
toned were not in progress, but that the
contracts were withheld by some one in
the City Hail. and that he had been
trying to find out who that person is
that's causing all the. delay. Mr.. Cor
coran said that he would make it his
business to see that the contracts are
fulfilled.
Mr.. Corcoran then spoke about the
cracking of the stone work on the Thir-
teenth street viaduct, and said that the
firm that built it would send men occa-
sionally to plaster UP the cracks, but
they would open again in a short time
from the heavy trucking that crosses it
daily. Mr.. Corcoran then produced a
typewriter copy which he intended to
send to the Street and Water Board,
which read as follows
Glass A-Improvements, petitions for
which are filed with the Board of Street
and Water Commissioners
Asphalt pavement to be laid from Elev-
enth street to the Hoboken city line on
Grove street.. grading and curbing of
Coles street from Eleventh street to Sew
enteenth street; opening Seventeenth
street from Jersey avenue to Hoboken
avenue
The Board has also been asked to clean
sewers on Twelfth, Thirteenth and Four
teenth streets. These improvements are
OF the most vital Importance to the Sec
tion of the city north of the Erie Rail-
iOdd, dIu tli0 property GOlu6TS are IuOSl
earnest in demanding them, and which
the Board, after hearing argument on the
part of the Erie Railroad Company, have
sanctioned and awarded contracts for the
work, and yet, withhold the contracts
Class B-Improvements applied for ac-
cOrding to law in the northern part of
the city, which the Street and Water
Board have not acted upon:-Grading and
curbing Eighteenth street, from Hender-
son street to Monmouth street, sewer in
Fifteenth street, and paving said street
from Erie street to Jersey avenue; grad
ing and curbing Fifteenth street, from
Jersey avenue to Division street; grading
and curbing Fourteenth street, from Jer-
sey avenue to Division street; grading and
curbing Eleventh street, from Coles street
to Division street; grading and curbing
Brunswick street. from Eleventh street
to Fourteenth street.
After the secretary had finished read
ing the copy President Connolly spoke
about the improvement of Eleventh street
and said that the West Shore Railroad
had attempted to build trestle over the
20-inch water main which comes from the
reservoir to supply that section of the
city with yater, and would certainly have
done it, but for himself and number of
other gentlemen.
Speeches were made by Messrs. Nc
Aulliffe, Sullivan, Scott and Nutley. The
meeting then adjourned to meet in the
first week of September at the call of the
Cl,oir