The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-12
CITY IMPROVEMENTS.
Board Of Works Receives APP
plieations for and Listens
to Protests Against
Street Changes.

The Street and Water Commissioner
met yesterday afternoon. Application
was made for the Improvement of Ger
mania avenue, and also for the change
of grade of Dwight street. A communal.
Protective Association endorsing Mayor
| Hoos' stand relative to the immediate
repair of the Newark avenue sidewalks
The association asked the Board te
adopt the Mayors suggestion.
Miller, Peckham & Dixon, attorneys for
Charles G. Clark, protested against the
| proposed improvement of Coles street.
from Eleventh to Eighteenth street. The
attorneys claim that the making of i'm
provements of localities that are not
| growing results practically in the confis-
cation of ones property, the assessments
for benefits being SO high. The attorneys
cite the fact that Mr.. Clark has been pay
ing taxes on his property for twenty
years, and is unable nov to get anything
like what the land has cost him The
Improvement of the street they hold will
not make the land more salable. When
the demand for property in that locality
increases Mr.. Clark will gladly, his at
torneys say, favor any Improvement that
may be suggested. A major part of the
Coles street lots between the points men
toned. are under water. The protest
may result in the abandonment of the
Improvement.
Chief Engineer Ruggles submitted
specifications for the cleaning of reser-
voir No.. 8 at Belleyille, and also for the
Improvement Of Poplar street, Fifth street
Crescent, Cambridge and Orient avenues,
the construction OF a sewer in Bergen
avenue, for the asphalting of Magnolia
avenue, and the construction of sewers
in Graham street and Lundy avenue.
The Chief also reported Charles Wagner
the lowest bidder on the contract for hay
and feed; Vile & Son, hay and straw,
Horace Mcbride, coke; James Coyle, coal
and wood, and James T. Stewart, lumber.
Contracts were awarded TO the low bid
ders.
The Board ordered the following i'm
Observation-Disclosures avenue, sewer
Lundy avenue, sewer in Forrest street,
improvement of North street, Poplar
street, Graham and Grifiths, Cambridge,
Crescent n Orient avenues, and the
construction of a pipe sewer in Bergen
avenue.
The following inspectors were appointed
for improvements: Hutton street, Theo-
dore Schenberbach; Fourth street, John
H. McGrath; sewer in Eye avenue, John
Lynch; Improvement Union street, Henry
Finek; IL street, George Young;
Church street, Peter Bader; Montgomery
street, J.. s. Reehill.
Patrick Flaherty was appointed a park
laborer to succeed Patrick Inglis, re-
signed.
The property owners of Magnolia ave-
nue. dedicated a sewer to the city which
runs between Tonnele avenue and the
Pennsylvania Railroad cut. In return
the city is to asphalt the avenue
Contracts were awarded to William
Williams for the improvement of the low
er end of Magnolia avenue; Edward
O'Neill, Beacon avenue, and the Sheridan
& Shea Company, Clerk street.
At the request of the property owners
of Church street an ordinance was intro
duced changing the name of the street to
NJ Greer street.
The final maps for the improvement of
Clerk street, Beacon avenue, Thirteenth
street, and sewers in Virginia avenue,
Bentley. Harrison and Tonnele avenues
and James avenue were confirmed.