The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-12
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End Improvement AS
ISOLATION Explains About
Seventeenth Street.

The members of the Emergency Conn
mittee of the North End Improvement
Association feel that an effort on the
part of some residents in the northern
section to make it appear that they are
obstructionists and oppose contemplated
improvements for the mere sake of OBJ
jecting, is very unjust. They declare
that no one can possibly be more anxious
than they to see the meadow lands in
the northern section of lower Jersey City
filed up with factories, and that they
believe in granting factory owners de-
string to locate in that section every
facility and throwing out to them every
inducement, so long as the city is prop
erly protected.
With reference to the proposed Seven
teenth street grade crossing, one OF the
members of the Emergency Committee.
speaking for the committee, said last
night
The Emergency Committee is pleased to
learn that the oil company and the copper
age company "a seen the justice OF tne
that the oil and the coopefage
company have see nthe justice OF Ine
stand taken by the association IN TINS
matter. The oil company SUI to fill
in our city property without a permit,
which it has asked for repeatedly, put
which could not produce. It proposed TO
run its oil cars over a twenty-1nch water
main on Seventeenth street, which was
on city property. without any protection
whatever to main. Old residents, as
well wen as 81 the fbe ~hn aitq fally pe Enow
that this main is laid through the
swamp on piling of scarcely -sufnclenJ
strength to carry the, pipe safely, n
they realize that should this main by ac-
cident break, the whole northern section
would be flooded before the water could
be shut off. The objection to clear water
did not worry citizens so much; but 1t was
the meadow lots and stirring up Vile mat
ter deposited therefor years and carrying
it into the cellars of residents of the en-
tire vicinity that worried them.
THE grounds taken by the North Enc
Improvement Association before the
Street and Water Board Were, first, that
second, that for any damage coming
from the proposed crossing, the Oil Com
pany should be held responsible; third,
that as both the cooperage and OIL COM
panies are of one interest they hould
give a right of way through their prop
erty, so that Seventeenth street could be
carried through to Hoboken avenue.
THE city already owns through the
property a strip eight feet wide. All the
association contended for was the balance
Of width necessary TO carry the street
thought that where the companies asked
so much the city was entitled to some
thing in return. Their request was abso-
lutely refused.
Nov it appears the companies are go
ing before the Street and Water Board as
sensible business men offering to comply
with the demand of the North End Assoc
citation and the Street and Water Board,
so that the street can be completed to H&S
boken
The street is already filled in and grad
ed up to within a hundred feet of Hobo
ken avenue. Henry Byrne has the con-
tract. This improvement will afford an
other outlet to the Hill from lower Jersey
City parallel with the Thirteenth street
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