The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-26
PATERSON ROAD.
Secaucus Committee Asks
Freeholders to Extend
the Improvement.
PRESENT CONDITION DANGEROUS
Complaints of Various Kinds
Made Yesterday to the
Board.
PRESENT CONDITION DANGEROUS

The Board Of Freeholders held meet
ing yesterday afternoon and made a re-
4 cord by convenirg very near to the time
fixed. Just a bare quorum answered te
their names when Clerk Egan called the
roll
Clerk Egan read petition signed by
Mayor Jacob f. Huber and Councilmen
George Lausacker, Charles Born, Adam
Zengel, Andrew Bremmer, Sebastian
Meisch, August Becker and Borough Clerk
Adrian Post of Secaucus asking that the
widening and improving of the Hacken-
sack plank road, instead of terminating
at point in Secaueus. be continued to the
/ Hackensack River. The reason assigned
for the request that the road between the
] points named was very narrow and with
the several sharp incIines and close prox-
was dangerous to man, beast and prop
unity of the trolley tracks, travel there
was dangerous to man, beast and prop
/ erty.
The communication was referred to the
special committee in charge of the i'm
provement with power, was one from
Mr. Ernst G. Asmus, requesting that the
| county build a retaining wall at the point
where his property abutted the Paterson
| Plank Road, TO prevent his real estate be-
| ing washed over the road to the detriment
| of the latter and to his financial loss.
Freeholder Higginss vote was the only
! one recorded in the negative on Mr.. AS
mus's request.
| The Board seemed in doubt what to do
| with a complaint signed by William Ar
mold of East New Durham, that a water
course in Pierce avenue, about one hun
dred feet from the Boulevard had been
filed up. Mr. Arnolds communication
stated that large number of residents in
that neighborhood had complained about
the matter to the Township Council, who
said they had referred the same to the
Freeholders but had received no. reply.
Freeholder Rippe thought the Boulevard
Commissioners were the proper persons TO
attend to the matter and the complaint
was accordingly referred to tnat pooy-
Later Freeholoer Dietz suggested that as
the Freeholders still had charge OF ihe
maintenance of all natural water courses
the complaint should be placed IN the
hands Of the North Bridge Committee tor
consideration.
Freeholder Rfordan thought that as the
matter had ben referred to the Boulevard
Commissioners it might as we'll be alloW-
ed to remain there and if the members
of that body found they had no jur1sdic-
tion they could return the complaint.
Freeholder Dietz acquiesced in this view
and the subject was dropped
The North Bridge Committee reported
that they had met with the Bridge Com
mittee of the Bergen County Board OF
Freeho1ders on the afternoon of June Il,
and after the joint body had agreed that
new bridge over the Hackensack at the
Paterson Plank Road was an absolute
necessity they adopted resolutions author
izing the preparations of proper plans for
A new structure. The report also stated
that Director McNally and Freeholder
Scott had expressed themselves at this
meeting as opposed to spending any more
money in an attempt to repair the
present bridge and that the Bergen Free
holders by a vote of 13 to had sanctioned
a new bridge and instructed the COM
mittee to see how much of the cost of the
same the trolley company using the.
bridge would bear. The report was con-
Cured in. This practically assures new
bridge.
The official notification from the Wee
hawken Council that Thomas Carroll had
been appointed Freeholder for the unex-
pired term of the late Simon Kelly, was,
on motion of Freeholder Riordan, received
and ordered spread in full on the min
utes
In a communication Samuel McGibney,
representing the Palisade Construction
Company, notified the Board that if the
c,-- fss
for work done on the Weehawken coop
of the Boulevard, was not paid at once
legal proceedings would be commenced
The communication was referred to the
Finance Committee.
A resolution offered by Freeholder Rior-
dan stated that the report of Engineer
Harrison, dated June I, 1897, fixed the
limit of expenditure for laying sidewalks
this amount 5000 had already been ex-
pended. Justice Lippincott had appointed
James S. Morgan, David w. Lawrence
and Charles Birdsall commission to as
sess abutting property owners for special
benefits and had approved of their claim
for s., .35 in connection with this work.
The concluding paragraph authorized the
Board to borrow this amount on tempor-
cent. interest, to run for one year.
This was adopted, as was another reso-
luton setting forth that the Board was in
doubt as to the sufficiency of the bonds
given by the collecting officers for the
weehawken loop sidewalks in the sew
eral municipalities through which that
road runs, and directing the County Clerk
not to file any maps and reports until
such collectors filed with him bonds in
the following amounts: + m Weehawken,
81, 900; West New York, S1,5O0; Gutenberg,
$500; North Bergen, $780,
Engineer Earle reported that Contractor
Charles Wagner had finished the work of
laying sidewalks on the Hoboken extern
sion of the Weehawken loop and the
same were now ready for inspection.
The Almshouse Committee reported re-
commencing the award of the contract
for machinery for the new laundry at
Snake Hill to the Troy Laundry Machinery
Company. and the recommendation was
concurred in.
complain from Warden Ryan of the
Almshouse about the failure of the dry
goods contractor to supply certain speci-
fed goods. was on motion of Freeholder
Heating referred to the Storehouse Com
mittee with power to purchase the same
and charge the difference in price to the
derelict contractor.
The Board will meet again on July 5.