The Jersey City news., 1901-04-04


=.
the cost of the proposed Improvement?
| asked Commissioners Midlige of the dele
CATION.
No one could answer the question, but
| one of the members of the delegation said
that the depth of the swamp from the
race track TIC the river was but twelve
| feet.
Chairman Ringle asked the gentlemen
| if they did not think that the improve
| ment of Duncan avenue, to say nothing
| of the construction of bulkhead, would
cost great deal of money. lie SAID the
city owned property on the water 'front.'
near Newark avenue, also near COM
munipaw avenue, and lntlmated tnat II
the properly owners Oh that seetioh au-
Vocated ehe Improvement ol 'iiese proper
ties they would De more iikely 70 set It.
He added that the Commissioners We're
not opposed to such improvements
f,o,,,,,,is,;o,,a, nri5,;aa saia he ,naar-
stood that the movement was for the I'M
proyement of the entire water front
Mr. Lewis exnlainad that the nronosed
.,4 - .,,S-
an entering wedge. He said that move
ment was endorsed nv every imnrovement
- -,
association IN the county Inc opening
up of all the streets leading to the river
was contemnlated in the fut1lre
,C,o-s..,Ss.iay,s. Sr.5,.e- 80 -.
commissioner niuiise saiu tue oniy
| thing to do was to refer the matter to the
Chief Engineer and secure an estimate of
A., cos,+
~
street and Water Commissioner Iieintze
said he thought that the first thing to
do was to make annlication TO the Ri
w was ~ ilaAe appiicaeion " ing NJ
parian Commissioners for riparian rights.
CITY Attorney Queen said the CITY had
already made annlica tion for rights at tbe
-ieuy uaoe appiiea'foii ioi 1l5hes a. liie
foot of Danforth, claremont, Duncan. St.
PauPs and several other avenues and that
tha rirbt 1uo,ld no ora,,+od fo, a nominal
oeS,-..s9., - M, -. - ~ -
consideration. Inc CITY, ne sald' also ap-
piled for a strip 120 feet in width at the
foot of Howell street north of Nawarl,
~
avenue put that the sum Tor ITS purchase
had not been decided.
John P. Landrine said the city now had
a golden opportunity which should be
used. The riparian rights for the whole
river front should be acquired now while
the land was cheap. Later it would be
far more expensive.
Assemblyman Tenant called attention
to the fact that the law passed by the
last Legislature gave the city the priyi-
lege of acquiring the lots Immediately
adjoining the foot of streets by condem-
nation proceedings. He asked the Com
missioners not TO allow the yastness of
the scheme to interfere with the grant
ing of the petition to construct a dock
at the foot of Duncan avenue Give
us a dock there, then let the law DEPART
ment make application for rights at the
foot of other Streets
But only Duncan avenue instead of
Newark avenue?' asked Chairman Ringle
I'VE have thirty feet of water at the
foot of duncan avenue, and at the foot
of Newark avenue there are only a few
feet of water
Commissioner Ringle stated that the
city owned considerable property on the
river front acquired by the Martin tax
act.
Mr.. Condict called attention to the fact
that the channel of the river ran in near
the shore between the Pennsylvania and
the Central Railroads and said if the CITY
did not soon acquire riparian rights and
improve the water front there the rail-
roads would soon have it.
Commissioner Mullins declared it was a
good thing for the city to acquire the
land from the Riparian Commissioners,
but said he was opposed to issuing bonds
to build piers, etc 1t would be better to
lease the grounds acquired to some cor
poration and let it build He asked what
the city got out of the Morgan street
dock. 1t was practical loss to the city
And now,'' he said, you propose to
saddle. several more on the city. Well,
not while I'm member of fhis Board