The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-07
TRIRTEEN SITES
Financiers and High School
Committee Consider
Offers Of Lots.
JOINT MEETING YESTERDAY
Central Location Accessible
to All Pupils Considered
Desirable.

Thirteen offers of sites for a new High
School building We're received yesterday
afternoon at a joint meeting of the
Finance Board and members of the
New High School Committee of the
Board of Education. One of the
sites offered was from Greenville and the
remainder were from the Bergea a4ld
Hudson City sections of the city.
Representing the Finance Board there
were present president Lembeck and
Commissioners Midlige. Ringle and
Oarnes. Chairman James E. Hulshizer,
Jr, of the High School Committee, Presl-
dent ]. ]. Mulvaney, Directors Egbert,
Cullen, Birdsall. Kennedy. Reed, Berger
and Ward and Superintendent Snyder.
Among the real estate fraternity were:-
James C. Young, ]. E. Van Wrinkle and
W. Smith, Lawyers J. w. Heck, w. II.
Lewis and G. Beach,
President Lembeck briefly stated the OBJ
ject of the meeting, the bids were handed
in and Clerk Kalaher proceeded to an
nounce the following Offers
Mrs Elizabeth T. Kiersted, guardian
for her daughter Florence Adelaide Will
son-Twenty-three city lots on Palisade
avenue. IN the neighborhood of Hoboken
ana newark avenues, dt piiSC VI %-f,Vo0.
Continental Investment Co., James G..
Young, President-Plots 562, lots l to 80,
Oakland avenue baseball grounds, % city
lots, $4,000. Houses on grounds removed
within sixty days notice.
H. D. venner-Property bounded by Ho-
boken avenue and Fleet street, block 561,
thirty-seven lots. price $4,000
G. R. Beach-Property bounded by Ho
boken and Baldwin avenues and Fleet
and Concord streets, Block 557, fifty-seven
lots. price $50, 500.
Estate of T. E. Bray-Old Oakland av
enue Rink property, price s3s,Ooo.
Mrs. F. H. Quimby, Administrative
Plot 1925. Crescent avenue and Harrison
avenue, twenty EIGHT city lots, price
$50 900.
S. Morgan, executor for j. R. Halliday
estate-Property at No. 96 Summit avenue,
twenty lots, price $4,000.
c. K Donahue-I o. Winner estate,
Montgomery street to Glenwood avenu.,
forty-seven lots, price 100000. With this
offer was handed in a petition from the
Ninth Ward Democratic Society endors-
ing the site
Mrs Clarinda A. Smfth-Block 1914 on
Claremont avenue to Summit avenue,
price Sa7,
F. H Spengeman submitted offer of Mrs.
Quimby's property at same price quoted
above
J. w. Smith-Property known as the
Pope estate northwest corner of Summit
and Fairmount avenue price S25. 900.
Mrs. Sarah E. Tice-Property in Green
vile west of Boulevard and north of Ced-
ar street, Block 1921, 10 lots for $4,000.
J. E. Van Winkle-Property known as
Dickinson and Speer property, comprising
20 lots; price for Pot 2. s21.oo0; Plot 8,
$4,000, and for the whole, $4,000. The
property has frontage on Harrison ave-
nue. and Park street.
These being all the bids received the
joint committee withdrew for a confer
ence behind closed doors. Some an
nouncement may be made at the next
meeting of the Board of Education,
which takes place on Thursday night
next.
The general idea in the minds of the
Financiers and members of the Board
of Education are:-That the site selected
must be accessible for all sections of the
city by trolley without extra carfares
and tranfers that the site would be best
located near unimproved property, be-
cause High School building erected the
adjacent property will rapidly be i'm
proved and thus placed on the ratables;
placing the property near improved
property may depreciate that property
Many of the committee think that the
site should be located somewhere in the
vicinity of the Court House, because it
is practically the dividing line between
the Bergen and Hudson section and ''the
gateway of Jersey City" as one express
ed it, ito the northern section" In sup
port of that idea. it is urged that the
northern section has made and is making
more substantial improvements than any
other section of Jersey City and to put
the High School accessible to 1T would
be a wise and far seeing policy, because
the additional retables would pay the
interest ON the Indebtedness.
Again it is urged that the High School
should be built in the vicinity named
because 1t would make the city more
compact and enhance the values of
property in that neighborhood many hun
dreds and thousands of dollars and thus
add largely to the tax income of the en-
tire city.
All of these ideas will be sifted and
discussed carefully before an award is
made because the High School Com