The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-12-16

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On all this the city receives about
S350,0OO, and the Mayors administra-
tion suggests an additional increase of
valuation to the extent of 10 per cent
For the past fifteen years the value of
the combined railroad property has been
increased 100000.
MEETING IN. THE DEPOT.
Ten o'clock this morning and the p r.
| r. depot waiting room were the time and
place for the gathering and very punctual
We're Assessors. John G. Rankin, Jr., of
Elizabeth; David Baird, of Camden;
! Robert Stockton Green, of Elizabeth, and
/ Stephen Meeker, of Newark Secretary
laIrKine e. Magaire, e,-Assistant Secretary
| G. w. Barnard, Mayor Pagan. Corpora
tion Counsel George L. Record, CorDora-
ton Attorney j. Wall Queen and Assist
ant Attorney Robert Carey, J. L.. Con-
over and B. w. Carskaddon for the P.
r. r.; Real Estate Agent Hume, of the
Lehigh Valley: Real Estate Agent Will
! iams, of the Erie; Real Estate Agent
! Lukens. Chief Engineer w. K. McFar-
| lin, and Lawyer w. D. Edwards, for
the D. L. & W. R. r., and Civil Engineer
Frank H. Earl, who prepared the maps
Of the properties. 1t was such raw,
stormy morning that Mayor Fagan was
| inclined to postpone the trip, but it was
finally resolved to go and the party
boarded the new 2. r. r. tug Lancas
ter, which lay near the~Adams Express
pier, and it was about eleven o'clock
when the tug backed into the stream.
AWAY DOWN SOUTH.
The Commissioner with the Mayor and
| law officers, Mr.. Earl and Mr.. Edwards
| climbed into the pilot house leaving the
other fellows to enjoy themselves in the
cabin. A big map was produced and
Mr. Earl Mr.. Record and Mr.. Edwards
We're the cicerones. The raw wind blew
through the window of the pilet house
where most of the men had shed their
overcoats.
Put ON your overcoat, Mr. Mayor
said someone to Mr. Pagan and he re-
piled with smile:-
1T would be serious if / died before
January l."
BLACK TOM VISITED.
| The course was south past the new
pier of the p. r. r. at the front of Grand
street. Mr.. Earl pointing out that the
new structure comes, Up to the new exter-
ior line and 100 feet beyond the old pier
| Mr.. Record as a Riparian sharp, ex-
planned the new pier running from the
| c.. r. r. depot to Hoboken. Then past
the gap almost choked with barges laden
with coal causing the Mayor to remark:
| ''No ascrcity of coal here Away
| past Ellis Island and rounding the Statue
| of Liberty to the National Docks ware
houses on Black Tom sped the tug. In
running through the 300 foot channel be-
tween the warehouses Mr.. Edwards
! talked of the improvement of Black Tom
all of which he said was assessed in
| 1901 by Jersey City at $4,000 an acre
1t was he said only ledge of rock in
1864 when the filling was commenced
"Ah,D said Mr.. Record, "do YOU re-
member what you said about it SOME
years ago? If I had only your faculty
for mental somersaults, Billy" Gaugh-
| ter.)
"All | would like you have" retorted
Mr.. Edwards, SIS the mental faculty of
remembering figures" (Roars of laugh
te in which the Commissioners ioined.)
NICE JOB FOR COPS.
From Black Tom the Lancaster
secuted over the Central Railroads
tract which pays the city $1,000, and
Mr.. Earl pointed out to the south of it
the pieces owned by Judge Blair and the
Morris \ Cummings Dredging Company
and the Currie estate, also another tract
at the back of the Liberty Statue ON
which the Central Railroad pays $4,000
an acre to the city and has never vet
done anything with it. Skimming over
this tract Mr.. Record facetiously asked:
Billy, don't sou keep police here in
| boats to protect the fish I"
| No. to keep Holsters from gaping" !"