The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-06
TO DRAIN
MEADOWS.
Engineer Vermeule's Plan,
Which Won the First
Prize.
DYKIHG AND PUMPING SYSTEM
The Cost Is $500 and
Maintenance $40. an Acre
Per Annum.
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Especial to The Jersey City News."l
NEWARK, Oct. g. 19OO.-Only two of the
three prize winners in the competition for
plans for meadow reclamation within the
limits of the city of Newark, were an
nounced at the meeting Of the Board of
Works Thursday. The sealed envelope
containing the name of the author of the.
third prize plan. entitled to 800, was not
opened, because the judges had declared
in favor of 13 x, and there was no such
envelope. There were, however two en-
velopes, marked No. IS A and No. 13. re-
spectively. Because of Inquiries made bv
Harrison R. Van Duyne, a son Of Har-
| rison Van Duyne, fosmer president of the
Board of Works. it is now known that the
envelope marked 13 A bears within it his
name
The Board decided not to open the third
prize plan sealed envelope until the judges
had an opportunity to straighten out the
matter
Z. C. Vermeule, whose plans were known
to the judges as No. 9s9, carried off the
first pribe-s500. Mr. Vermeule is chief
engineer of the New Jersey Land Recla-
nation and Improvement Company. He
has made several interesting addresses
before the Board of Trade on the subject
of meadow reclamation
The United Company. engineers and
contractors, of No. 1S Park Row. New
York City, won the second prize, $780, The
| plan was numbered 1921. The letter iden-
tifying the author bore the signature of
| the company's president After the sig
nature had been carefully scrutinized by
at least dozen pairs of eyes, the consen-
sus of opinion was that TT looked like
D. Hough.''
AT any rate it was the president of the
company who had prepared plan No.
1874. The letter setting forth this fact.
credited him with the DEVELOPMENT of the
proposal made by the National Contract
| Company to the Drainage Commission
OF New Orleans, which secured the work
in that city. Re is also represented as
the designer of the electrical power plant
for the Brooklyn navy yard
Mr. Van Duyne, author of plan No lsA,
today said that the plans were received
py the Board of Works when his father
was president of that body.
MY father" he explained "noticed
| that two of them and two sealed en-
velopes We're marked No 10. He there
fore added an A to my plan and envelope
for anv r. ,a ~ -,
fer tbaf baca,sa +bara -
the numbar IN tbo otl,a, ,,o,, o,.5 SasS,
panying envelope"
The judges were R. G. Salomon, repre-
senting the Board of Trade, which Of
fered the prizes, and w. H. Luster. Jr..
epresenting the Board of Works. Mr..
Solomon is the chairman of the former
Boards Canmittea on Nraodo,x, rool,,,.,
ton. His ASSOCIATES an +ha+ o,.s,..s,..e
are:lC G. yermeule vinrey s ~ 60.
prize. George w Ketcbar, D.
Halsey T. Tichenor Wilbur Doram,ls
George ID Devora n Nta1,5;lI. 1,a.,o ss,,,
P. Sandford Ross.
At the Board of Works nee+ine q mo-
tion was adopted providina. .stbaf.all 70
ports ACCOMPANYING mans relatino 10 the
Newark meadow reclamation ba nlaced ~,
file in the office of tba enoipaa, of 49,
STREET and sewr r,,,art,,ents a.
hav become the nronertv ~ ~. 49,. =,
aceordance with tbe co,,,7;+iors .o,,tat,,o.,
in the advertisement fo,. ,,ro,,osal, 80.
said meadow rac1a a+io, ,,
Not onlv tbe railroad linas os t,,a,, .,,.+
at present but also tb ,,Tf,1
condition a1ong ~, la ,s,. -
due to overf,oUe3 sevaoa az 5o+,,sr.
cumulations are talxa, in+o aooo1s.. ~.
the first nriza n,sp Tn ar,,,a,sss,-.
this pIan the winner
"At the soutberpost I,,,i+ 80 a., ~,
namely - tha ,.,o,,4s - sne ei'y'
tha vater fro,t i ouA-e1 -
nav,o,a1,la ,,,arra1 80 o-.e i'lile rom
noint bas ,,anyhara ,au. 49, up - INA.
ara-a,e - 80 nan eisheeen anu
ard o,,ar 4ruo,,4-. 80 -" .toe
oonsao,,a,,+,s. - 80 a. hisn elee,
la as,to,as5 - noo 'iAiies'u me snould
1;ro - 80 - tioln Tue shors
sho,,,a -, p.s.s i'UOO 1eee N iehgtn
,sas,. soa.s', ~ ~ Beyond tnat nmlt'
-, - aaAoune oA oreoglhg
aaoass .'.os - il''s,'euielels possible Tor
~ osS'..- sse''s ~ uisehalse thelr cargoes.
- oi'i TINS point up the
80. '.,.o W. sou nave at present ten
80 -. Si'aii'lel q. mean low uoe along your
s..s.. 49, fonts ana the inn
ploVsiileist -. ol an that part lying below
sne 1sewark ana New YORK Railroad to
uepsn ol 'wehty-one feet at mean law
wafer is ehelreiy feasible, and if the inn
pioVenehe ol the meadows is carried out
!. may De considered highly probable that
'nis Us, WORK WIN De done