The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-11-22
ERIE R. R. MADE
NO CASH OFFER
Counsel for the Company
Contradicts the Mayor
Regarding Barnum
Street Vacation.
BOARD REscINDs THE GRANT
Public Service Gets the Gas
and the American Com
pany the Oil Contract
for Street Lighting
BOARD REsclNDs THE GRANT

The Street and Water Board yester-
day afternoon rescinded its resolution
granting the Erie Railroad Company, at
last weeks meeting, temporary permis-
sion to lay tracks across Barnum street,
because the Erie Railroad Company
failed to file promised agreement to re
move the tracks at the expiration of
three months.
The Board received the veto message
of Mayor Pagan relative to the resolu-
ton. A copy of the veto was published
in "The News" In the message Mayor
Fagan stated
Some months ago representatives of
the Erie Railroad Company called upon
me as Mayor and asked for the vacation
Of this Barnum) street, and offered to
pay the city proper compensation. nam
ing $4,000 as their first Offer
During a recess at yesterday after
Moons meeting of the Board. the menu
bers granted a private hearing to
William H. Corbin. counsel, of the COM
pany, General Manager Stewart and
Division Superintendent Pedde. At
that hearing the members of the Board
We're informed through counsel that the
Erie Railroad Company had made no
such offer whatever to the city for the
vacation of Barnum street.
When the Board reconvened several
Of the members had something to say in
public. Commissioner Hauck said he
thought it a queer proceeding on the part
of the Mayor. if he had been made such
an offer that he said nothing about it to
the Board of Street and Water Commits
sioners and Commissioner Heintze sup
plemented Mr. Hauck's remarks with
especially as he knew that hearings for
objections We're being advertised for. He
should not only have notified this Board
but should have published the fact and
let the people know Of it,
Commissioner Nolan reiterated the
opinions expressed by Messrs. Hauck
and Heintze.
Colonel Smith, president of the Board.
said that, with due regard for His Honor
the Mayor, lie doubted the legality of the
city accepting S15, 600 or any other cash
sum for the vacation of Barnum street.
and it was he who said that the Erie
Railway officials had. through counsel.
made no cash offer to the city for the
vacation of the street in question; that
to look at the matter in any way His
Honor had been placed in an "embar-
RAISING" position.
The veto WAS laid over under the rules.
The Board yesterday received bids
and awarded contracts for gas and oil
street lighting. The Public Service Cor
poration was the only bid for gas light
ing and was awarded the contract there
for at the following iigures:-S26.14 per
lamp, yearly. the city to do the reglaz-
ing. or $3.50. the contractors TO do the
reglazing. The same concern offered to
do the street gas lighting for $25.14 per
lamp yearly, the company to do its own
reglazing, or $3.50 per lamp yearly, and
the contractor TO do the reglaz-
ing, provided it was given both con-
tracts for gas and oil Lighting
The American Lighting Company of
Baltimore captured the contract for the
oil street lighting at the following fig
ures:-$1 ,94 per lamp monthly, or S23 %
per lamp yearly. the city to do the re-
glazing, or S1.96 per lamp monthly. or
$23.52 per lamp yearly, the contractor to
do the reglazing. The offer was made on
the basis of 405 lamps. A conditional
offer was made that if the basis was
800 lamps the concern would charge the
city S1.SS monthly per lamp or S22.56
yearly, the city to do the reglazing, or
$1.90 per lamp per month. or $3.50
yearly per lamp the contractor to do
the reglazing. There We're two other
bids. The figures of the Public Service
Corporation were $2.17 $40 per lamp
monthly or $26.14 per lamp yearly. the
city to do the reglazing, or 1920 $40
per lamp per month. or S26.50 yearly.
the contractor to do the reglazing. The
same concern made a conditional offer
as follows:--$2. .0915 per lamp per month
or S25.14 yearly. the city to do the re-
glazing. or S212h per lamp per month,
or $3.50. the contractor to do the re-
glazing.
The New York and New Jersey Globe
Gas Light Company's bid for oil street
lighting was S2.45 per lamp per month
or S2440 yearly. the city to do the re-
glazing. or $3.50 per lamp per month
or $50 yearly.
Extension of time was granted the
tract for the paving of Grand street