The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-29
NORTH SIDE KICKBRS.
They Oppose the Ravine Road
Sewer and Even Their
Own Lawyers Bill.

A special meeting Of the North Side I'M
provement Association was called last ev-
ening for the purpose of raising funds
enough to settle the bill of Mr. w. H.
Speer the counsel of the association, for
arguing before the Street and Water
Board in favor of the improvement of
Eighteenth street, from Jersey avenue to
Coles street. and also for his services In
the hearing before the Vice Chancellor
last week on the application Tor an m
junction against the cutting OF the sewer
pipe at the corner of Grove and F1fteenth
street by the contractor for the Ravine
road sewer.
Mr.. A. J. Corcoran was elected temporary
chairman. After the reading of the min
utes of the previous meeting, Mr.. Nc
sented the counsellor's bill. He said that
as there was not enough money in the
treasury to meet it he had prepared four
circulars. stating what what the 4 money wa was
tee be appointed by the association to
take the circulars and go among all the
property owners north of the Erie tracks
committee was appointed. consisting of
Messrs. P. j. Connolly, ]. ]. Keane,
Thomas Burns, Kelleher, McAuliffe,
Hayes Cavanagh,s Core1ran and Casey y,.t
Counsellor Speer had told him there
would not be a hearing on the sewer
matter until Dec. 13. He thought some
action should be taken before that date,
as the work on the Ravine road sewer
would then be almost completed, and all
the sewers in that section that crossed 1t
would be cut
A number of the members protested
against the payment of the bill of Coun-
sellor Speer, which amounted to $100.
They thought that if every little thing
like getting out an injunction cost such
large amount of money they would need
have a tremendous sum always on hand,
as there are number of other sewers
still to be cut and the contractor will go
right on doing as he pleases. Anyhow,
some of them said the bill was made out
in very poor shape, and it would be much
They claim that in day. or two the
Ravine road contractors will start to cut
the Fourteenth street pipe, and then there
will be another nuisance to. deal with. 4
Police Commissioner John p. Feeney
told the members that the only thing they
could do now would be to go before Chief
Murphy and ask him to station some of
his men at the intersection of the new
sewer with these pipes and stop the men
from working. Then the contractor
would have to get out the injunction. Mr..
Feeney, offered to head any committee
that the association named, and he would
meet them at Police Headquarters this
morning at 10:30 O'Clock. The Emergency
Committee was requested to meet Mr..
Feeney this morning.
The meeting then adjourned
Commissioner Feeney, with a half dozen
or more of the interested property own
ers, called on Chief Murphy this morn
ing to request him to prevent the pro-
posed tapping of the sewer at. Provost
and Fourteenth street Engineer Earl was
also present.
He explained that the plan adopted for
the tapping of the sewer would not create
the nuisance the property owners fear.
The force of water through the main
sewer will. he says, sphon the sewerage
properly and make choking OF the sew
er ont ofthe question. At the point of
connection a cesspool of sufficient size is
to be created to carry off all the water
from the main sewer
Commissioner Feeney, as member of
the Board Of Health insisted that the
tap should not be made until after proper
permission had been o6tained from the
Board of Health. II Will probably be two
or three days before the tap will be
made. In the meantime the Street and
Water Commissioners are to be notified
of the proposed connection, and Corpora
ton Counsel Blair is to be asked for an
opinion as to the rights Of the police to
stop the work il it is decided that a nui-
sance is likely to be created.
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