The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-02-23

our city Of Elizabeth and yours OF Jersey
City" added Mr.. McMaster, and that Is.
will be- up by the railroads for stor-
age yards and other purposes. Lewis
Nixon, the well known s~hipbuilder, told
me recently that unless VIZ utilized them
for faciories the railroad companies
would surely gobble them up, and indeed
were already after them; Look at what
has been done on the Clyde n Scotiand.
The dug IL out to the Broomidaw bridge.
This could be done on the Hackensack,
and with our meadows reclaimed factories
would spring up and every city would pc
Mr.. Solomon, in a second speech, said
that IL the meadows were reclaimed they
would become a great beehive. The peo-
pie of Newark, Jersey City and Eiizapeth,
he said, must act In unity and secure the
passage of the Ketcham bill.
Mr.. c.. c.. Vermeule said that even In
San Francisco attention was being direct
ed to the meadows lying between Newark
said, covered an area of $1,000 acres, sur
rounded by 100000 of people. 1t was no
place for waste land and they should be
reclaimed as rapidly as possible, MT.
yermeule said that it was not practicable
to fill in the meadows, they must be
dyked and pumped. The first cost would
probably be $3.50 an acre and the main
tenance $40 yearly. He would build dykes
along the water front and put the bank
500 feet behind the bulkhead and then
pump. His plan would be to put the in
side of the meadows in a sanitary CON
dition and people would be surprised to
find how manufacturers would u the
water 'front.', but they want large tracts.
After you nave got a barrier against
the tide" Mr.. Vermeule continued, the
occupants of that land ten years hence
won't know whether they are above or
below the sea level. Go to Harrison, on
the Pike estate, and you'll find the turn
pike road there 3 to 4 feet below hlgh
tide. 1t is necessary to MI up the mead,
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Mr.. vermeule explained the objects OF
the Ketcham bill and said that the act
practically authorized cities to do WORK
on the meadows as they do now on the
uplands. He suggested that a drainage
commission should be appointed which
would nave power to assess half the cost
on the marsh, half on the %uplands, and
the maintenance on the marsh land.
Mr.. Edlow w. Harrison said that the
Ketcham bill was not applicable to Jersey
City. 1t was, however, he said, a good
hing to drain the meadows. Messrs. H.
w. Carr and ]. A. Dear having spoken,
the following resolution was passed.
Resolved. That this Board of Trade,
as the leading public body of Hudson
county recognize IN senate Dill NO. ~
and accord it our earnest endorse
ment. Further, that we respectfully
petition the Legislature for its enact
ment and request the member from
this county to use their best efforts to
have the same become a law.
Mr.. G. ". Russell moved and Mr.. d. e.
Cleary seconded a motion that a COM
mittee of five be appointed to cooperate
with the Newark Board of Trade in the
matter, and President Furst appointed on
such committee G. w. Russell, j. A. Dear,
D. E. Cleary, A. j. Corcoran and H. w.
Carr. These gentlemen will attend the
Newark Board of Trade meeting on
Friday night.