The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-07
BOARD or STREET AND WATER
C0Ns W ESSE0NERS

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seemed to be a substantial cause for COM
plant, we were not inclined to. assume u
possible obligation for the entire assess7
ment, nor a responsibility TO the eon,raeii
tor for stoppage of the work. CounSei
for the company admitted that our op-
j~ections were well founded, but they ae-
sired a remedy Ivan ana m II bech ha made I eu e the
courts for an injunction which would re-
tard the work indefinitely or endeavor 70
Legislatures. We naturally preferred the
latter course, but in order that the cause
of the city might not be preludiceo, ae,
clined to notify the contractor TO stop
work, but granted him an extension OF
one hundred days in which, TO compiet
his contract. The enforced deiay VII
izing the suggested remedy, and the pur-
pose is to have such act prepared. SUD-
mitted and passed at the earnest mo- mo-
ment. No extra expense will De caused
by the extension of time granted 70 COLI
tractor, as our inspector IS, paid only
for such days as he is actually engaged
PRIVATE SEWERS.
We have in the past granted many ap-
plications for permission TO e9ns sawsr pe =
lists in a street, and there IS but a renlose
probability that a public sewer VIII PC
cants shall be afforded relief. But our
liberality appears in not a few cases 70
have been taken advantage or. A Pc
permitted to thus drain and make ell
gible property for which he is taxed, and
which has heretofore produces ntt sen OF
fion a private sewer, and then proceeds
TO hold up his neighbor by charging pro-
hibitiye rates for connections. he makes
his private sewer a source of income and
his victims, having acceoed 70 ms nS
mands and paid dearly for the pIlvilesS,
are naturally adverse TO the CONSCIOUSNESS
Of a public sewer when the time arrives
While we will, if the. facts are MADE
known to us. fully protect any cltizen
who is thus being mulcted, It IS usuaiiy
the case that our first knowledge comes
too late. +ba+ a
hardship was being inflicted upon some
innocent parties, We have ABOUT eohe I M
conditions noted would warrant us IN
declaring that a necessity exists h We
construction of a pubic sewer, nasa 70
construct the sewer. ana tnen pioscsu
assess both the just and unjust for the
cost WI RECONSTRUCTION.
,ua bave elsewhere referred to the many
doors which have been opened to alioWs
of the expenditure of license monies anu -
the diversion OF ca sncn mntnsI A wide
pnen door has been that of. sewer
reconstruction; and while we deploTe ssmasF
anart TO our use for the necessary re-
building of sewers, we have not cnosem n
to cavil when the necessity exlsLeu ~ IN
action, and the wholesale reconsaluh ave
herein recorded will indicate that we nave
dona in a liberal spirit and performed IN
a thorough and complete manner, an slla
our means would permit or All wofA
done has been in accordance W1th speeii-
cations UNNECESSARILY superior 10 any
which existed here previously. anu an a.
earnest effort has been made TO soive III
each instance the problem OF reconstruc-
ton in such manner as to remove II Irena
the consideration OF our suocs VII, IN
dictate that it has been a cosby procesS'
but the records do not indicate in a gen
eral way what the sum totai IS; a "a -
here there and elsewhere rebuilt, ana II
the sentence is repeated a hundred liilies
il would not fully represent what we nave
done. Manholes can be e,b Glas she m IL tia
of the work is constantly gong on, itS
Sggregate magnitude does not appeal 70
the casual observer. It appeals 70 oufnIt
and that moneys must be used tnereior
which. while they might not be uSed 70
better advantage, could be utilized IN a
mannerm much more satisfactory to US and
more identifying to the city. -
SYSTEM.
One of the greater works OF the year
was the beginning of the reconstruction
of the New York avenue sewer system,
which system drains an area OF ABOUT
three hundred and fifty $500 acres OF the
Hudson City section.
While for some years past many com
fyfaints had been filed with US Indicating
an absence of proper sewage facilities, we
were unable to afford substantial reneI'
because of the magnitude OF the unuer-
taking, and for the further reason tnaI
the fund applicable to the purpose Was
being expended elsewhere in localities
whose inhabitants had been Ions elaInor-
ing for relief, and where conditions
seemed worse. That we had In. mind our
Hudson City residents is evidenced by
the fact that their want are now BENG
Our plans comprehend the building of
a sixty (60) inch brick oval sewer from
a point in New York avenue south Oh
D.xf-a x-anf1n To 0H11ff0n street. a
ffty-four 5) inch brick oval sewer IN
New York avenue from Hutton street 70
Bowers street; a fortyztwo l4go men 9 ern1a
Bowers street to South street; a thirty
six $3.50 inch brick oval sewer IN HUT
ton street, from Neg YORK avenue rag "a
inch brick IVA sewer in South street
from New York avenue to a point near
Sherman avenue.
Provision is also made to include the
drainage of about twenty-five (25) acres
of property lying in West Hoboken i'm
m naeidateG a area ! our ilay anaii been
made with the authorities OF t1at
township; Our Our cs speeiffeatlo of work adz
and although in difference to the law we
call it reconstruction, it will consist al
mos wholly of entirely new work. ana
when completed, will, we have no DOUBT
fully meet for many years to come, The re-
quirements of the locality sought 10 pc
benefited. 1t is estimated that the cost
IL lut COIuplClSu oyotCAA ~"
~twenty-eight thousand dollars tS2s.OoW
which sum will be necessarily drawn from
ns THifRTEENTH STREET SEWER.
An annual report without some refer
ence in it to the sewer in Thirteenth
street would seem almost like ar. incom-
plete document. This underground artery
has had for years past the unhappy rae
ulty of ~fntruding itself On the city au-
thorities at the most inopportune times,
and generally when the fiscal. year was
almost ended, and close calculation was
already required to provide paymenI Ior
obligations incurred, some portion OF the
anatomy of this sewer would cease per-
forming its proper functions. nor would
1t. nor could it be cured by the appl-
cation of simple and n~on-expenslve reme-
dies. This has been so often tine expert
ence of our predecessors that but little
now remains of the original sewer II
has been reconstructed in portions for al
most its entire length, and that Wn1cn
has fallen to our share and Whlcn we
now record extends from Provost street
to the .,
Our plans comprehend the substantial
rebuilding of the portion referred to and
comprises a steel cylinder one-nait men
in thickness and five feet in diameter,
constructed of rolled steel plates Win
three inch laps at joints, and rivelea
with seven-eighths inch riyets four lncneS
apart. In the construction 1t was Iouho
necessary to drive piling for a new founaa-
ton. the old piling and Gaping naVlng
been so ravaged BY time ana the eae-
ments. as to require to pc enllIeay r. r
niaced. The cost of this reconstructlon
fconstruction) will probably aggregate