The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-02-08
up TO The CITY
Capitalists to : Advance
Money to Mr.. Flynn
to Complete Contract.
JERSEY CITY MUST EXTEND LIMIT
Mr.. E. w. Harrison Makes q
Clear Statement of a New
Deal to Settle Trouble.


Certain capitalists In New York today
completed an arrangement with Mr.. Pat
rick H. flynn by which they will adj
vance ss,5Oo.ooo to furnish the new water
works at Boonton. but there are two
strings to this. Jersey City must grant
an extension of the time limit for the
expiration of the contract and MI
F7ynns company must furnish the pipe
through which the temporary supply OF
the East Jersey Water Company is to
be delivered to the CITY, This arrange
ment will be sent to the Mayor, Board OF
Finance and Street and Water Board on
Wednesday, and then 1t is up to the
city, to remove all the existing troubles
on the water matter by al once agreeing
to the extension
1t has been said in certain local paper
that the East Jersey Water Company IS
undertaking to mortgage the Jersey City
Water Supply Company and carry out
the contract. This is not true The eapi-
4alists alluded to are interested in the
East Jersey Co, and all thas they Will do
is to advance the money needed to car
~ Oh The W 81 ok et@ Lit t1o7N tA.'sJ ,
Co. is concerned it has as much TO do
with Mr.. Flynns company as it has to
do with the continuation Of the Nicaragua
Canal.
Mr.. Edlow W. Harrison, who represents
Mr.. Flynn, made the situation clear to-
day in statement to a News" repre-
sentative.
I'VE viii get our money out of the
same pot he said. aas the East jersey
Water Company did These people have
come to the front and viii bring about a
urnion sof int erests affecting only the tenn
porary supply contract. These arrange
ments have nothing whatever to do with
the final contract. All the East Jersey
Water Company agrees to do is to deliver
their water through out pipe.
t'It is this way continued Mr.. Harri-
con- Mr.. Flynn has been able 10 make
an agreement with capitalists who make
him the loan These parties, however,
have agreed to make the loan provided,
first, that all the trouble tho city might
experience by lack of water pending the
time of the finish of the contract is
sattied. we will furnish the pipe and
have it through by October, 1892. We
1Etll&i fQL EAaiEc 1OLl Int ttfttfGIJ III LAC
East Jersey Water Conpany's temporary
supply through our pipe and we agree to
deliver 1t ataslo feet head in the Jersey
City reservoir at High Service. Jersey
city must have 4 copfous supply and sse
will get it, The trouble that has been with
the pipes across the meadows Is that
they won't stand the requisite pressure,
but our new pipe line will
"On the other hand, said Mr.. Harrison,
'.tl1e city must extend the time of the
expiration of the contract in considera-
tion Of obtaining big supply Of water
at fun head, and the city must waive its
rights until the fan of 1903, when we will
have the Boonton works finished
Where will the temporary supply be
turned into your pipes ?"
.sThe East Jersey Company will turn it
into our pipes this side Of the tunnel, or
one mile east OF the Watching tunnel in
Upper Montclair That is about eight to
nine miles from Jersey City and the same
distance as Belleville is
@WilI this new arrangement mean any
additional cost TO Jersey gity2z'
Not one cent, said Mr. Harrison "On
the other hand, she win save materially
by this arrangement because we will de-
liver this supply at such a head that
pumping will not be necessary
Any temporary Inconvenience when
the connection is being made with your
pipe line and the East Jersey?p
Not q bit. So far as the average house
holder is concerned, he or she went know
thing about IT. A water gate win be
shit and another opened, and that is ALL
and even in 1903 when the new supply is
ready from the Rockaway River. you
won't know when we turn 1t on. 1t, will
come into the new pipe and flow into the
houses just as the other supply did, with
out any interruption. We could, If abso-
Iutely necessary. draw water from the
Rockaway River with the dam unfinished
but we dsem 1t advisable not to do that
It has been pointed that the only danger
to be feared in the negotiations pending
to finish the contract is that certain Off
ciais viii mix politics in the thing and
that VIII instantly complicate matters
and mean that the capitalists Will pull
OFT"
A representa- tive of one of these informed
q News representative that unless tho
matter WAS handled In business like
way the negotiations woulS be broken
off.
You know said he, there are some
people like the two flies on big revoi-
wing wheel. Each says to the other, I'm
Going this. Jersey City, we trust, will
not allow politics to be mixed up with
this matter; II she does you can be ce.-
tam of one thing and that IS our people
WON haye anything to do with it, and
you can get out Of the muddle the bes.
yo3 cam
Ey waving certain things Jersey City
is not TO press the primitive part
or the contract in case of non completion
ty certain time. Eighteen months ex-
tension is ali that is asked. 1t has been
pointed out that If Jersey City were to
insist on the payment Of the money for
default the Jersey City Water Supply
wouldn't settle It until they found out by
litigation whether or not under the ex
istirg conditions the courts would enforce
The penalty
II there is no holding back and snags
put in the way. the question can be easily
adjusted to the benefit Of all parties It
Is up to Jersey City to act