The Jersey City news., 1898-12-13
STORY Of
PROGRESS.
Report Of Chief Clerk George
7. Bouton ofthe Street
and Water Board.
STREET AND SEWER WORK
Fine highways Reaching Out
Into All Sections Of
the City.
HIGHER STANDARDS SET
Improved Quality Of Work and
More Stringent Enforce
ment Of Com
tracts.
LAYING OUT THE NEW PARKS
Competition in Asphalt--Mont-
gomery Street Up to Date
--street Cleaning.
LAYING OUT THE NEW PARKS
Competition In Asphalt--Mont-
gomery Street Up to Date
--Street Cleaning.


Board this afternoon Clerk George T..
Bouton filed a report Of the work Of the
Board for the fiscal years ending Novem-
ber 81, 1887. and November 81 1898, The
report is an interesting one and shows
that more has been accomplished by the
present Board than by any Of its prede-
cessors The following is part of the
report
We would seem to be fast attaining
that degree of municipal prosperity so
long, and until recent years, vainly
hoped for.
The very general desire for street i'm
provement which actuates our citizens
has so long continued without appreeiable
abatement that we must now consider
and provide for it. not as responsive TO a
spasmodic public sentiment, but rather
as fixed annual charge upon our ex-
ecutive resources.
Analyze the work recorded and it VIII
has been allowed to occupy a secondary
position. The order to forward, march,
has been general one, and for proof
to the record New streets, and streets
reconstructed in lasting way; new sew
ers and old sewers rebuilt and paralIeled
in accordance with advanced methods;
new breathing places secured and Ina
proved; old lighting systems being rapid
ly supplanted by modern ones of the best
character, and, finally, practical settle
ment of the water question in a manner
which we have no doubt will inure to the
immediate benefit of our city and insure
to our citizens an ample supply of pure
and wholesome water.
We have earnestly endeavored to inn
prove everything everywhere under our
control, and care with due regard to the
well emphasized lessons of the past, and
trust that our efforts have been success
md that they will meet with general
val We believe that our citizens
s4-5ald be congratulated ON what we feel
to be a fact, viz: That this municipality
is moving towards material Improvement
and advancement at a pace unparallel in
its previous history.
STREETS AND SEWERS.
The new work along this line for the
period embraced in this report is of such
volume, and for the year ending Novenl-
Der 80, 1885, of such improved character,
that every well wisher would seem to
have cause for rejoicing. We are al
ways pleased to receive applications for
the initial Improvement of streets. IT in
dicates the prosperity of property own
ers and their willingness to aid than
selves and at the same time add to the
permanent betterment of the city. we
hail the rapid decay of provincialism.
The work hereinafter recorded is all of
the better grade; it appears better, wears
better and is better than the average of
new work performed by our predecessors,
and it is with us a cause for self-con-
graduation that the great majority of
those liable to assessment concurred in
our desire for work of better character
and thus made it quite easy of accom-
plishment. ute a few of the improve
ments petitioned for will be noted as
comprehending matters which had long
since suggested themselves as worthy CT
attention, but which we were heretofore
precluded from proceeding with owing to
the absence of petition. In this class Will
be found the opening and improvement
Of Baldwin avenue and the widening and
Improvement of Palisade avenue. We pre-
dict for the former not only special but
far reaching and general benefit, while
the value Of the latter must appeal to the
least observant.
A summary of the assessable sewer