The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-09-13
TO STOP
The NOISE
Mr.. MulVaney Asks Street
and Water Board to Lay
Asphalt in Front Of
Schools.
CHURCHES DISTURBED As WELL
Present Pavement Greatly In
terferes With the Work
of Teachers and {
Pupils.
CHURCHES DISTURBED As WELL

President Mulvaney of the Board OF Ed
ucation appeared before the Street and
Water Board, at the meeting yesterday
afternoon. and made an earnest appeal to
have asphaIted Brunswick street, from
wayne to Mercer streets, in front of No.
Q Public School. He called attention to
the fact that a petition to nave that block
paved with asphalt over a year ago upon
which no action has yet been taken, ana
while attending the opening exercises IN
that school on Monday last he was more
thar ever impressed with the necessity for
such pavement in front of that building,
as the noise made by horses and vehicles
passing over the present stone pavement
renders it impossible. for teacher and
scholars to hear each other and greatly
interferes in the recitations-in fact, when
a vehicle is passing the recitations have
to be stopped. involving a loss of two or
three minutes every time, which in a
whole day amount to considerable-there
being eight class rooms on that sid OF
the building which are thus affected. On
account of Brunswick street being the
first street on the westerly side of the
city running north and south under the
Pennsylvania Railroad there is more
travel upon it a on n other thor
oughfare in that neighborhood, and con-
sequently greater noise, the lighter
vehicles making more than heavily load
ed trucks, which rumble and jar, While
the clatter of the former over the stones
is a great 1t is a fact not
generally known thai there are two
schools in that building-a school for chill
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and to the latter the noise of he vehicles
is particularly annoying.
Mr.. Mulvaney said he hoped that the
Board would take this matter into con-
sideration without delay and he hoped
they would be able to secure sufficient
money to have the block asphalted at an
early day. He further said he a been
requested to ask the Board to also put an
asphalt pavement on the adjoining block
on Brunswick street, between Mercer and
Montgomery streets, at the westerly side
of st. Bridget's Church, the noise made
by vehicles on the present pavement even
on Sundays interrupting the church SER
vices and drowning the music.
Commissioner Sullivan asked if 1t would
not be advisable to ave the street in
front of every public school building
asphalted. President Mulvaney replied
that 1t undoubtedly would, the pavement
extending from 50 to rs feet on each side.
but he had refrained from suggesting this
as he did not wan to ask for too much.
He had made this request for No. 9
School because he is more particularly in
terested in that, being It's committeeman
of the Board of Education.
President Smith. in reply to the petit
ton of Mr.. Mulvaney, on behalf of the
Street and Water Board. said the matter
would be given prompt and full consid-
Grafton. and, if possible, the relief asked
for will be provided.
A resolution offered by Commissioner
Hauck was then adopted, directing the
Chief Engineer to furnish the Board with
an estimate of the cost of paving for a
requisite distance the street in front Of
each public school building in the city
with asphalt. Said report to be presented
at the next meeting.