The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-19
Street and Water Board Di-
rects Chief Engineer Van
Keuren to Draw Up Plans
for School No. 9's Campus
RESERVOIR SITE PLANS READY
CENTRAL AVENUE TO BE RE-
PAVED - IMPROVEMENT CON
TRACTS AWARDED - CENTRAL
r. R. TO ERECT A COAL TRES
TLE--ROUTINE BUSINESS.

At Yesterdays meeting of the Street
and Water Board Mayor Pagan appear
ed and asked about the delay of the
Board in responding to the request of
the Finance Board that CHIEF Engineer
Van keuren prepare specification and
plans for the Improvement of the play
ground site IN the rear of No. 8 School
presented to the city by Banker Corne-
bas zabrisk;e.
President Heintze answered the ques-
tion He said the Board was not aware
that the control of the property was vest
ed in the Street aud Water Board. He
said his Board considered that the acsion
of the Board OF Finance in asking for
plans and specifications was merely one
of courtesy. as the Street and Water
Board controls the engineering bureau
and the Board of Finance intended to
improve the playground site.
The Mayor informed the members of
the Street and Water Board that they
were the proper custodians of the prop
erty in question, and he asked them to
take immediate steps. towards putting the
! playground site in proper shape. Clerk
Bouton was Instructed to draw up a res
oiution directing Chief Engineer Van
Eeuren to prepare the necessary plans
ard specifications with an estimate of
the cost, and authorizing the Clerk to
advertise for proposals as soon as the
Board provided the money that the inn
proveIaens viii call for.
The plans and specifications prepared
ny the Chief Engineer for the improve
ment of the playground site of the aban-
doned reservoir at Central. Manhattan
ana Summit avenues, at the request of
the Finance Board. were submitted and
ADOPTED, The Board also adopted plans
for the repaving of Central avenue, from
Ferry street to Congress street.
Chief Engineer Van Keuren suggest
ed that 81 200 could be saved the city
filing in the reservoir playground with
dirt removed from Central avenue to
make room for the concrete base that
will support the pavipg blocks in the up
per Central avenue improvement.
President Heintze was opposed to the
repaving of upper Central avenue unless
the lower section was also repaved. He
said he would oppose the improvement
as long as he was a member of the
Board unless the whole avenue was to
be repaved. Commissioner Nolan, who
halls from the upper section of Hudson
City, declared that the business men of
that section wanted Central avenue inn
proved and backed up by Commissioner
Rooney finally persuaded President
Heintze to give in. Chief Engineer Van
Keuren figured that the bids for the i'm
provement would be many dollars below
the estimated cost when the contractors
were assured that the dirt to be removed
would not have to be carted off to a dis
tant dumping place, but only to the
abandoned reservoir.
The Board adopted specifications for
the following improvements to be paid
for out of liquor license monies: Repay
ing of Montgomery street, from Warren
street to Henderson street; repaving of
Central avenue. from Ferry street to
Congress street: asphalting of Bergen
Square; repaving of Hudson street. from
Grand street to Montgomery street; as
phalting of Bergen avenue. from Com
munipaw avenue to Fairmount avenue;
repaying of Monmouth street, from
Grand street to Golden street.
The final contract for the improvement
of Lexington avenue. between West Side
and Mallory avenues. was awarded to
the Uyalde Asphalt Company. Charles
0'Neill got the final contract for the con-
struction of a sewer under the westerly
side of the Boulevard, from a point if
teen feet south Of Spruce street to Floyd
street. to Tonnele avenue thence to con-
meet with the Manhattan avenue sewer
Joseph P. Ryan was given permission
to swing a banner in front Of No. 1861
PayxNia avenue until November II.
The Ransome Concrete Machinery
Company was given permission TO erect
platform scale over the sidewalk in
front of No. 301 Tenth street. to be re-
moved in the days time if declared a
nuisance.
Chief Engineer Van Keuren's recon-
naendation Of a modification Of grade for
the sewer under the western sidewalk of
the Bouleyard abeve mentioned; also
mod dihcation of slsS grade Of the Pam
1ap6 avenue sewer, were referred to the
.A Assessn1en Commissioners. Tie propo-
sitisn III chafge the grade Of the M
pss sewer drai image area adopt
ed, on the report of the Assessaien d.
missioners.
Specifications for the improvement of
Third street. from brunswick street to
its westerly terminus were adopted.
The Rev. james Parker. of the Second
United Presbyterian Church, Hancock
avenue was given permission to hold an
open air gospel meeting in Riyerview
Park on Friday September 20. under the
auspices of the Prohibition League.
An ordinance was introduced in the
interest of the Central Railroad Com
pany, giving the company permission to
erect a coal trestle twenty-five feet wide
over the south side Of Woodward street.
from the Newark and New York Rail-
road. with two abntments on the street.
to the coal pocketsfof the Lafayette Coal
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