The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-15
New York and Suburban
Co. Writes to the S. &
W. Board Urging
an Old Claim.
DECLARES 1T HAS A CONTRACT
Jersey City Will Garry the
Case Into Court Should
It's Right to Supply Be
Disputed.

At yesterdays meeting of the Street
ind Water Board communication re-
ceoved from the New York and Suburban
Company was read, declaring that it
would push an old contract assigned to
it By the East Jersey Water Company
to furnish water to Kearny, Harrison
and East Newark. Such a contract
was made between the said towns and
the East Jersey Water Company, but
when Jersey City contracted with the
East Jersey Water Company for tenn
porary supply, the company, it is
claimed, waived its rights to supply the
towns above mentioned, as an extra in
ducement to Jersey City to contract for
Company offers to buy the Jersey City
mains in Kearny at terms to be agreed
upon or to submit the price to be paid
to arbitration.
The communication was ordered filed.
Jersey City last week closed a contract
for supplying water to the town of Har-
rison and has been supplying Kearny
since 1887. In that year Jersey City
made ten years contract with Kearny.
In 1895 Kearny made contract with
the East Jersey Water Company for a
contract to run fer fifteen years, the
contract to take effect January i, 1896
By an agreement dater June IA, 1898,
between Kearny and the water company
an extension of time for the commence
ment of the delivery Of water was made
to June 90, 19e0
Should the Suburban Company at
tempt to enforce its demand Jersey City
will take the matter into the courts.
The letter from the Suburban Company
reads as follows
The New Jersey Suburban Water
Company and the New York and New
Jersey Water Company respectfully in
form you that they have acquired by as
signment, the contract made between the
municipality of the Town of Kearny
and the East Jersey Water Company,
dated June 20, 1895. for supply of
water for fifteen years to that town at
the corner of Kearny avenue and Belle
vile turnpike road, in the Town of
= Kearny, and they are now supplying at
that point the water that is being used
by the Town of Kearny, the Town of
Harrison and the Borough of East New
lark.
1T is the duty of the Town of Kearny
TO provide main, but to save any ques-
tion about the matter, we offer to buy
the main which Jersey City owns in
Kearny avenue in the Town of Kearny.
and rsy for it fair price, to be agreed
on, fr in case of failure to agree, then
at = price to be fixed by arbitration.
SIN the meantime we netify you that
| al water which is being delivered by
the East Jersey Water Company at the
point above mentioned, is being deliv-
cred to and purchased by us, and we
have duly notified the Town of Kearny
and the Town of Harrison and the Bor-
ough of East Newark that the water
now being furnished to them and which
they are now using is our water, and
that we will look to them for payment
of the same, whether they receive it
through youS said main or any other
main.
1--WE also notify you that if you take
any water at that point through our
meter we will charge you therefor the
same price that is charged to said muni-
cipalities, to. wit. $50 per million gallons.
Yours respectfully,
"New Jersey Suburban Water Co.,
"T. A. BEALL,
president