The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-07
NORTH side IMPR0VERS
Mr.. Speer Tells the Association
How to Abate Evils MI.
Coreoran Scores City
Officials.

The property owners north of the Erie
tracks have at last banded themselves to-
gether for the purpose of getting the inn
provements that are SO badly needed in
this section, and also to protest against
the cutting of the sewer pipes by the
contractor of the Ravine road sewer.
A meeting was held last evening of the
North Side Improvement Association in
st. Luey's Hall, and the attendance was
very large. The minutes of the previous
meeting were adopted and reports from
the Emergency Committee were then in
order.
Mr.. A. J. Corcoran, of this committee,
told the members that he was very sorry
that he had no report to make, for since
the death of the superintendent of his
factory he had more business than he
could possibly attend to and that in the
future he would have to decline being OF
any committee of any association, and
that he would ave to give up the Presi-
deney of the Board of Trade. Mr.. Cor
coran also said that all the people of this
section wanted was their rights, and a
pro rata ofsthe liquor license monies.
You failed to elect the right man for
your interest. n consequently Mr..
Heintze pulls the string in the Street and
Water Board, and what he says goes. 1
went to see the Mayor about the state of
affairs in this section, and l told him that
It We had the right Board of Health in
this city there would be somebody arrest
ed. You see, gentlemen, this is the state
OF affairs, and every time I spoke to Mr..
Hemtze he was all promises,and of course
! bi g1I !; nothing II ! but a Jolly from Inn. !
the sewers in this section, and to think
We can't get any relief"
MT; Gorcoran.s side partner in this work
members that he had heard for the first
time last Sunday that the contractor lay
ing the Rayine Road sewer would cut
away small portions of the sewers that
crossed the one leading from the hill.
Il went to the Commissioner and asked
them II that was so and | was notified
went to the Mayors office and notified the
Mayor. He at once rang up Mr.. Edlow
Harrison, but he was not at his office and
the Mayor said he would nave the matter
investigated.
Il told His Honor that it was a shame
to lilo this to be done, whether it was
water collecting would breed disease.
While | was in the Mayors office I spoke
to him about the dirty condition of the
streets, especially Jersey avenue on this
side of the tracks, where the dirt is inches
thick, and he said that he would certainly
attend to it,
Il 49, $1,000 was SoiAN4 aRO1A ~ y LtIS L iCS-
ident and said he could say no more than
Mr.. Casey had just said. only that he
heard Mr.. Casey. ask the contractor if it
was true that he intended cutting the
pipes and he said 1t was.
President Connolly said:-eNhat we
ers or Chief Engineer not q to interfere
with the sewers, whether public or pri-
vate, and as for a cesspool forming it
ting a syphon in. No matter if the water
is eight feet deep it could be cleared by
it. This is for the advantage of
the people of West Hoboken and for our
disadvantage"
Mr.. McAuliffe arose and said that he
thought the purpose of this meeting was
to hear what Counsellor William H. Speer
had to say in regard to advising the
members how to act, but he desired before
Mr.. Speer spoke to inform the members
day in the presence of Mr.. Speer. He said
he opened two manholeS at the corner
of Grove and Fifteenth streets and threw
a small piece of paper down one of them
and it remained perfectly still. One of
his present, he said, then secured a shovel
and dug it into the mud and found that
the water instead Of flowing through the
pipe was going through the foundation of
the bottom. which is composed of wood,
and the stencil coming from it was fear
full.
Counsellor Speer told the members that
he would report to them about the i'm
provement of Coles street, and why it is
being held up. He said that he had
found that a remonstrance had been filed
against it and he had secured the copy
of that remonstrance. He then read two
of the names signed on it, which were
Frank J.. Matthews, a real estate dealer.
and Charles G. Clark. Neither one of
these gentlemen owns and property in this
section of the city, and Counsellor Speer
said that this is the case in ten out of
eleven of these remonstrances. The peo-
/ pie are not property owners, and fur
i thernore, nearly all the names on the
4 paper seemed to be signed in the same
handwriting.
The Commissioners told Nj, Speer that
matter would be taken up, and if it
is not he should find out why not.
Mr.. Speer then told those present that
in regard to the Rayine Road sewer If
the nuisance was as bad as it is claimed,
an injury is being done and it is a pub
i lie nuisance and is indictable, and the
thing to do is to go before the Grand
Jury and report it and 1t will be stop
ped. Mr.. Speer advised the members
hat the best thing for them to do would
be TO get a bill of injunction taken out
from the Court of Chancery and the as
ISOLATION would lose nothing by it.
Mr.. McAulliffe then made a motion to
instruct the counselor to make out a
bill against the cutting of the pipes. 1t
was carried. and the counsellor was in
structed to act at once
The Rev. Fathe Boylan thought that
would be the best thing to do. for ii ii
would rot be long before the children in
the school would be taken sick from the
odors coming from the sewers.
The meeting then adjourned to meet on
November or subject to the call Of
III the chair.
pro tenn.