The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-05-17
PALISADE AVENUE
Delegation Asks the Street
and Water Board to
Asphalt It.
c0BBLEs OUT OF DATE
The Stones, They Said, Were
Laid Twenty-Five Years
Ago-Re1ief Promised.
COBBLES OUT OF DATE

LNG1lCl ICllllOCQ.
A large delegation of property owners
in the Hudson City section interested in
the proposed asphalting of Palisade ave-
nue. were given a hearing before the
Street and Water Board yesterday after
poon. The hearing took place in the
Commissioners committee room. There
were about twenty-five members of the
delegation, including the joint committee
of the Hudson City Business Mems Assoc
citation, the Hudson City Improvement
Association and the Twelfth Ward I'M
provement Association. Among the mem
bers were Albert Wenzel, chairman of
the joint committee; DR.. u. Allen, a
member of the committee; President VIM.
-Kastenhuber, of the Hudson City Bust
ness Mems Association; ex-President
Julius Berger, of the same association;
John Staeb, H. C. Reese, 7. f. Murphy,
John Kelly. Henry ROLLS. Charles Leh-
mann, Thomas Gaynor, c. Crempien, Otto
Kuphal, Edward Savoye, Thomas Kane,
Carl Lanpe, ex-Alderman Dohrmann, A.
Meinecke.
DR.. q. Allen was the first speaker. He
presented a number of strong arguments
why Palisade avenue should be asphalted
as soon as possible and given precedence
over other tho~roughfares in the matter
of disposing of the amount of liquor
license money allotted to street improve
merts.
Albert Wenzel, chairman of the joint
| committee of the three associations, fol-
lowed. He said the thoroughfare certainly
needed Improvement and that the dele
cation had called principally for the pur-
| pose of giving the matter a shaking up.
School Director Julius Berger was one
of the principal speakers in favor of the
proposed Improvement of Palisade ave-
nue.. He %eloquently pleaded for the inn
| provement. He called attention to the
fact that one-third of the entire liquor
license moneys paid into the city treasury
was furnished by the Eleventh and
Twelfth Wards, which seek the improve
ment. Mr.. Berger added that notwith-
standing so much money was thus paid
for liquor licenses by his section, it was
composed of peace OWNS law abiding
citizens. Despite the fact that they were
| paying SO much in the treasury, that went
to street improvement, that section, dur
ing the eight years since it was declared
that a certain amount of such moneys
should be devoted to street improvements,
had received only the New York avenue
sewer, the improvement of Ravine road
and the fixing up of the Ravine road re-
tanning walls, which were in a dangerous
condition. He declared that section had
not received it's just share of improve
ments, but added that the delegation did
| not come down to make any charges
against anybody.
President William Kastenhuber of the
| Hudson City Improvement Association,
followed up Mr.. Berger's arguments, go
| ing ever more infinitely into details. Out
of S7S5, 600 of liquor license moneys de-
voted to street improvements since the
| present law went into effect, he declared
that Notwithstanding the excessive
| amount contributed by that section, only
about $50, 0G0 of the total amount had
been expended on the streets in that sec
ton.
He said the people of that section are
7 not grasping. They were told when the
law first went into effect that lower Jer-
sey City needed most of the available
funds as itsastreets were mainly paved
with old cobblestones. The people of the
Hudson City section, he said, had been
| patient. They had made no complaint in
four or five years. Some of the sewers,
he said, way up above the sea level were
sewers in name only, and high up as
the streets were he had seen them flooded
with water as a result Of a defective
| sewerage system.
The people of that section. he said, had
watched lower Jersey City gaining pretty
much all of the benefits of the monies
devoted to street improvements, and
they now thought they shout receive
| some attention. Palisade avenue, he said,
was not only a main artery of the
| Heights, but of the city and of the coun-
| ty. The North Hudson towns had lone
their share in improving their end of it,
and it was now time that this city should
dc its share.
He understood that a movement was On
foot to asphalt Newark avenue from the
| Pennsylvania Ferry to the top of the
| Newark avenue Hill. Then, if the block
between Newark avenue and Hoboken
| avenue was paved with something, there
would be a continuous splendid route
from the Pennsylvania ferry to Fort Lee.
Mr.. Kastenhuber said he did not feel
that he was speaking for the Hudson
City section alone. The proper improve
ment of Palisade avenue would benefit
the community at large in the advances
ment of the values of real estate. The
speaker alluded to the proposed widening
of Ferry street and said this would re-
lieve traffic somewhat on Palisade ave-
nue..
Commissioner Nolan, who halls from
the Twelfth ward, said that so far as he