The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-03
IRON WORKS SPUR
Street and Water Board
Grants the Pagan Com
pany Permission to
Lay Tracks.
MONMOUTH STREET GRADE CROSSING
Oil COMMITTEES Also Allowed to
Cross the Aqueduct strip at
the Head of Seventeenth
Street.
MONMOUTH STREET GRADE CROSSING

The Street n Water commissioner
held a meeting this morning and passed
ordinance granting permission to the
Iron Works to connect with thu
foundry on Monmouth street by switch
with the tracks of the Erie Railroad, ne
c~essitating the crossing of Monmouth
street at Fifteenth street. and Fourteenth
street just east Of Monmouth. The ordi-
nance as passed differs from the one orig
inally presented principally in that the
tracks, except the crossings, are to be laid
on HI Iron Works property instead OF
along Monmouth street. where it was
at first desired to load and unload cars
The full text of the ordinance as passed is
as follows:-
An ordinance to permit the Pagan
Iron Works to connect with It's 1oun-
dry on Monmouth street by switch
with the tracks of the Erie Railroad
and regulate the use thereof.
Whereas, Tine Pagan Iron Works
has maintained a switch connecting
with the tracks of ,the~Erie Railroad
in Monmouth street, which railway
tracks have been necessitatlng a re-
location of the present switch, the
Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey CITY,
by the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners, acting for and on pc
half of the. municipality of said city,
do ordain as follows:@
Section /. That permission and au-
thority be granted to the Pagan Iron
Works to construct. maintain ana
operate a switch across Monmouth
street, at Fifteenth street. n across
Fourteenth street just east Of Mon,
street, as they exist, on the ground
connecting the foundry of said tsasan
Iron Works with the tracks OF SAD
Erie Railroad, west q Monmou 1a
with the Clerk Of this Board. entitled
Map showing proposed switch across
Monmouth street, Jersey City, from
Pagan Iron Works to Erie Railroad.
keuren. Chief Engineer, pro tenn,
Sec. 2. That said switch shall be
laid in accordance with said plan un-
der the direction and superylsion oI
the Chief Engineer in a substantial
manner, so as not to interfere with
any city improvements now or here
after placed In said streets, or n
of them
to stand or be loaded or ~unloaded upon
such switch within the lines OF any
of the public streets aforesaid
Monmouth. Fourteenth Or Fifteenth
streets. where crossed by said sWitcn.
shall be changed. the said switch
shall be graded in conformity there
with by said Pagan Iron Works.
Sec. ). That upon the construction
hereby authorized, the present switch
shall be removed.
Sec. 6. That the city reserves o
right to grant permission to other
property owners In the vicinity TO
connect with and use that portion OF
said switch flying north Of the south
erly line Of Fifteenth street. IN
ner aforesaid, upon payment of the
cost of such connection and pro rata
contribution to keep the said switch
north Of the southerly line in Fifteenth
street in repair.
incident to the Introduction, passage
and publication Of this ordinance shah
be paid by the applicant for the same;
mated by the Clerk of this Board to be
necessary shall be deposited with tnat
officer on demand.
The Board also passed the following
resolution granting permission to the
Crew Levfck Co, known generally as the
Oil Company, to lay a track across Sew
enteenth street, near Heboken avenue
Whereas, Grew. Levick Co.. a
IT'S petition to this Board asking per-
mission to cross, by filling and rail-
road tracks, a strip OF land Twelve
feet wide, located at the head OF sew
enteenth street. between that point
and Hoboken avenue Ga map of which
is attached to said petitipn), for the
purpose of transporting goods and
merchandise to property lying to the
north of said strip, and which sad
strip is now used by the Mayor ana
Aldermen Of Jersey City for aqueduct
purposes;
Resolved, That upon the execution
and delivery in duplicate Of a contract
with the city, a draft of which, pre-
pared by the Corporation Attorney,
has this day been presented to this
Board, the permission asked for in SAID
petition is hereby granted by this
Board; provided. however, that no
work shall be done by said Crew
rection or control until such contract
shall have been fully executed by It,
and the proper officers of the city and
the form thereof and the mode of ex-
ecution approved by the Corporation
Counsel. and provided, further. thai
any and all work done by said Crew
Leviek Co., under such contract. shall
be subject to the inspection and con-
troll of the Chief Engineer of the city,
injury be done to the water pipe now
on said STRIP. and that the work Of
filing in and laying said tracks be
lone in accordance with his directions,
and he is hereby authorized and en-
powered to stop said work for any
violation of such contract or of his or
ders; and provided. further, that said
tracks shall be laid at a grade to pc
approved by the Chief Engineer, and
that the city may require said COM
pany to place said track at the grade
of Seventeenth street, whenever the
same shall be extended and the grade
thereof established. These provisions
to be in addition to those contained in
said petition and agreement.