The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-18

$3.50 nneal feet Of sewers were recon
structed at cost of $50, ,645.1S.
On the subject of street openings and
widenings the report says
The increase in the number of petitions
for street openings, extensions and widen
ings. clearly indicates the city's growth,
and with it the desire for increased and
better facilities for public travel OF the
petition presented ana acted upon during
the year the widening and partial in-
provement of Ferry street in the Hudson
City section has been completed and has
converted what was heretofore but mar
row passageway into a trafficable thor
oughfare.
In the Greenville section McAdoo avenue
has been opened and extended from Rose
to Rutgers avenues and will also be par
TALLY improved. 1t is reasonable to ex-
pect that this street will be eventually
opened to Ocean avenue.
Improvements of much greater value,
and the far reaching results of which can
not now be fully realized, are the respec-
tive opening and accompanying improve
ment of Fowler and Roman avenues,
which cut through section on the west
side of Greenville not heretofore traversed
by any street. These improvements have
now progressed so far that the various
houses along the line have been con-
oemned. sold and removed and the actual
work of grading, curbing and tagging
will be proceeded with as soon as weather
conditions will permit. 1t is anticipated
that when the improvements are COM
pleted the streets will be trolleyed, thus
aHording convenient access to the section
and opening up for home and business
purposes a desirable and new field which
must speedily increase in value
AS to street cleaning Mr.. Bouton said
We believe that our efforts at street
cleaning have been more successful during
the year just passed that ever before BY
this we mean that we have accomplished
more with the resources at our disposal
1t would be folly to claim that our streets
are satisfactorily clean, but we do claim
that their condition has averaged better
than could be reasonably expected.
For the coming year Ihe Board of
Finance has increased thA available fund
to $65,000 Ga net increaIe of S. oe0), and
while this is not as much as is required
and as we asked for, it will yet aid us
little. With desire to secure as much
of a betterment as possible we have had
our specifications prepared on some
what different basis than heretofore, in
creasing the quantity of hand sweeping
which has been satisfactorily proven to
produce the best results
Night removals of ashes and garbage in
certain business sections has been also
inaugurated, while many minor details
have been either added or eliminated with
desire to correct faults that have been
found to exist or help to a better char
acter of service. We give to street clean
ing rather more than its share of atten-
ton, for aside from the fact that in COM
mon with the average citizen we pride
ourselves on a clean city, the extra at
tention must be given to make the fund
attain semblance of it's purpose Ex-
anime into our mileage of paved streets.
Make inquiry as to cost elsewhere. Draw
comparisons of conditions and we welcome
judgment.
AS to street sprinkling Mr.. Bouton
thinks that there is no question but what
in the not distant future a separate and
distinct provision must be made for this
branch of service.
OF asphalt maintenance the report says:
With the incoming year our asphalt
guarantee will begin to expire, and once
begun there will be forced upon us an
increasing and never ending source of ex-
pense which must be met methodicaliy
either by establishing an asphalt plant
to be controlled by the city or by max
ing annual contracts for the doing of such
repairing as may from time to time be
found necessary. Experience would seem
to dictate the contracting for the work,
but the question has not as yet been
finally decided.
Dipping into the future Mr.. Bouton
says
For upwards of ten years the city has
been reaping the benefit of that law
which requires the setting aside of one
half the amount derived from liquor IL
censes and it's subsequent application to
the repair and maintenance of paved
streets By reason of this law the cobble-
stone has been made to disappear from
our streets and much asphalt, surfacing
has been done. Thoroughfares have been
repaved and the general conditions of that
portion of the city which appeal to the
eye HdS pccA vastly 4IlpIOFSu, OlQ SeWcio
which for years previous had demanded
attention have been reconstructed and
paralleled and placed in condition to per-
form a better service than when they
were originally built. This Board was
pleased to be able to remedy these various
eyesores and pestilence breeders The ap-
propriating Board was pleased because
demands were not made upon it for the
necessary funds and the general public
was pleased because the remedies were
applied without assessment on properties
and without penny Of additional tax
alton therefor.
Except for sporadic complaints from
various districts based on the idea that
Incense monies should be evenly dis
tributed and that they were not receiving
their share, quiet general contentment
prevailed. But observance of the great
work which was being annually accom-
plished and of the great Improvement
which had been and was being made in
our city would seem to have finally Great
ed in the minds of the citizens desire for
greater work and greater improvements
without regard for or without inquiring
into the limit of the available fund.
We have recently been called upon to
do work of costly character, work which
a proper regard for the health of our
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