The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-14
WATER HEARING.
Flynn Company Explains
the Proposed Contract
Notifications.
ONLY TECHNICAL CHANGE
No Desire to Give Any Less
Water-Mayor Hoos
Calls Names.
SAYS OFFICIALS HAYE BRAINS
Also That EdIow Harrison
"Tells Stories" and Talks
of Niggers and
Wood Piles.
SAYS OFFICIALS HAYE BRAINS

Members of the Street and Water Board
and the Finance Board, the Mayor and
representatives of P. H. Flynn held an
olner conference this morning over the
requested modification of the Flynn water
contract The matter was discussed pro
and con for over two hours and at the
close of the conference the matter stood
almost where it did before. Mr. Michael
Kennedy, Mr.. Fqynn's righthand man;
Garwood Ferris, engineer in charge of the
construction of the works, and Engineer
Edlow w. Harrison, Corporation Counsel
McDermott and City Attorney Queen at
tended the conference. The conference re-
suited in the appointment of a committee
composed of two member eof the Finance
Board, two members of the Street and
Water Board and the Mayor, under ad-
wee of the Law Department, to draw up
some kind of agreement to be submitted
TO the conference for future action.
The discussion grew quite warm at
times. Mayor Hoos and Commissioner
Ringle accused the Flynn people of hav-
ing made assertions and promises that
they were not willing to live up to, and
Mayor Hoos at one point in the contro-
versy. discussing the relation of Engineer
Harrison to the Rockaway and Hudson
Water Company, whose se.OOO00O bid for
50,0Oo,o0O gallon supply was rejected, said:
He is another story teller, like the
rest"
Ex-senator William D. Edwards stated
the facts of Mr.. Flynn's case, as told at
the conference held a week ago last
Friday night He declared Mr.. Flynn did
not desire to change anything in the
specifications adopted by the city.-He
said Mr.. Flynn was unfortunate when he
allowed TIE phrase: there will be tribu-
tary to this intake the whole flow of the
Rockaway River He had agreements
at the time with the companies that
claimed rights to the flow of the river
that led him to believe that he could
afford to allow that phrase in the con-
tract He purchased from the various
concerns below the location for the reser-
voirs their rights for s., 10000. The Nor
ris Canal Company was willing to vacate
its rights for 100000, but the Legislature
would not allow it. Mr.. Flynn offered
to the city the privilege of retaining
100000 at the conclusion of the contract,
or double the amount the canal company
wanted for their rights, until he could
secure them. He submitted statements
of engineers to show that even allowing
the canal company its claims to rights
1t would not impair ability of the con-
tractor to furnish a supply of 50,000,0O0
gallons daily or 70,00OOOO gallons by en-
larging the dam. So long as the words
sswhoIe flow remains in the contract Mr.
Flynn could not raise 81, 900, 900 which he
finds necessary to borrow in order to
prosecute the work.
Mr.. Edwards. after showing why the
Canal Company was willing to vacate the
canal, declared that Mr.. Flynn did not
wish the city to let up on him for one
gallon of water, nor one particle or io5a
as to the quality of the water or cnarac-
ter of the work of construction of the
reservoirs He wished merely to ret rid
of a technicality agreed to in spirit of
over exuberance, a mere technicality that
interfered with financiering the work. Mr..
Edwards said Mr. Flynn merely wanted
a cloud removed.
''Why do you want the city to remove
that cloud?" asked Mayor Hoos. you
said three months ago the works would be
completed at the proper time"
Mr.. Edwards said he still thought that
with the technicality in the contract re-
moved the water could be turned on for
Jersey City's new supply about the first
of March OF next year. out that 1t would
probably pe near me middle Oh summer
before the Top OF the dam was completed.
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