The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-28
WATER SETTLED.
Full Understanding Reached
Between P. H. Flynn
and the City
MR.. VRBDEEBURGH's BUSY DAY
Taking the Negotiation Out OF
George L. Records Hands
He Completes It at Once
, WELL SAFEGUARDED
Contractor and His East Jersey
Associate Also Well Pleased
With the Conditions.

The water question is settled The city
accents the propositions of the East Jer-
sew Water Company and Of Contractor
P. H. Flynn. and they in turn accept the
propositions of the city The work OF
completing the s7,595,OO0 plant at Boonton
will now be pushed to the utmost and
Rockaway water will be turned on py
March 1, l9O4-it is promised and believed,
The city will continue 10 receive its tenn
porary supply of water as now until the
Rockaway water is turned on; it, Will nave
the 5O4 acres in Longwood Valley owned
by P. H Flynn at once; it will own the
plant in 1905, and it will rest easy nights
in the knowledge that a quarter OF CEN
turv of worry is over. The East Jersey
Water Company will back Flynn for the
completion of the work to the amount OF
So. .25O, 900; will guarantee the completion OF
the work on December 25, 1903; will ad-
vance s500,00O more If the $3.250,oOO Is not
enough. and will make a new contract
with the city for a temporary supply OF
water next October. 1t will place new
mains to convey the water here, and II
the Rockaway water is not turned on by
March. / 1904, will give the city a. tenn
porary supply for a sum equal to the IN
terest on 81, ,5s5, 600 at per cent. plus SoO,OOO
for three years at the outside or until the
works are completed. The city will have
twenty-one months in which to test the
works after March /, 1904. If they find
the plant has been constructed according
to plans and specifications in the original
contract they must purchase the WORKS
for S. .595, 600 at the end fthat period or
pay s40o, 600 more than the price agred on.
Should the works be found to be con-
structed in any way in violation of the
specifications. the contract is to be taken
from Flvnn by the East Jersey Water
Company and reconstructed by them
AS told in .aThe News last night the
Board of Street and Water Commission
ers will pass resolutions on Tuesday at
the regular meeting These viii be con-
CURED in by the Board of Finance and
then sent to the Mayor for approval. The
Mayor will approve when Flynn deeds
his Longwood Valley interests to the city
The matter has developed into COM
p,ete victory for the Street and Water
Commissioners in the political game
which the Republican officials have been
attempting to play against the Demo-
cratic Board. While Mayor Pagan and
the Board of Finance first took the po-
sItion that they would do nothing until
the Street and Water Commissioners act
ed and then they would review their ac-
tion, they have since been forced to take
equal responsibility for the initiative.
The resolution that will be passed on
Tuesday will have been first gone over
informally by all the city authorities and
they will embody all the views brought
out at the conferences. When they are
finally drafted there will be nothing there
hut what will have been approved before
hand by the concurring body and by the
Mayor, the last resort of all official ac-
tion on the question. After this informal
adoption by all concerned the official
career of the resolutions will begin.
This is the state Of affairs today as
decided on at a lengthy conference last
night at that conference Special Counsel
James B. Vredenbergh, who has been
given the entire control Of the water ques-
ton by Corporation Counsel Record, re-
ported the result of a conference which he
had yesterday with the East Jersey Wa
ter people and P. H. Flynn's representa-
tives He set forth the above PROPOSE
TOMS and when some little talk was gone
through, the conference adjourned and all
hands were very much pleased iwth the
situation.
Commissioner Heintze this morning was
asked:-"How is the water question this
morning."
Settled, thank God.'
There vii Ibe another conference to-
night