The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-01-19
S. & w. BOARDS
ANNUAL REPORT
Improvements Show a Fair
Average and the Past
Year Has Been One
Of Advance.
STREET CLEANING EXCELLENT
Municipal Lighting On A Sat
isfactory and Economical
Basis Our Future
Prosperity.
STREET CLEANING EXCELLENT

i y
The Board Of stret and Water Com
missioners has sent its annual report to
the Mayor and the Boards Of Aldermen
aud Finance. The report says in part
In assessable street and sewer work
newl the records vii indicate that a very
fair average has been maintained for the
year, although nothing of very striking
character is shown.
As a whole it has been year Of adj
vance rather than Of retrogression and
with the possible elimination of the water
account we could refer to it as a year of
very satisfactory municipal prosperity.
We trust that we may, and believe that
we will, without temporization in the
story of the year to come, be able to res
cord the elimination from every branch
Of tile service of every unsatisfactory
condition and the firm establishment on
sound foundation and for all time Of
those. things which unhampered and I'M
! retarded, make for both physical and
financial progress.
On the subject of street cleaning the
report says:
Our reference to this subject must be
practically a repetition Of what we have
said each year for a number of years
past. The mileage Of our paved streets
is increasing annually but the amount of
enr available funds remains stationary
We buy as many miles of cleaned streets
as our funds permit Of. A street swept
once reduces our annual allowance just
so much, and in order to keep it clean we
could continue the sweeping process until
the fund was exhausted
sWe do profess to clean streets. We do
not profess TO keep them clean. In the
branch of this service devoted to removal
of ashes and garbage, absence of COM
plant would seem to evidence that the
service is satisfactory"
This is the report on sewer construc-
tom:
During the year there was forced
upon our attention the Inadequate
drainage facilities afforded in the Jack
son avenue section, and in a part of that
section in the lower city north Of the
Erie Railroad. The conritions were not
new to us, as the records will indicate
that we had time and time again made
official mention of the matter and have
several times endeavored with limited
means to correct the evils complained Of,
not with a belief that such correction
would produce permanent results, but
rather with d desire to postpone for a
period of less financial distress the enor-
NOUS outlay actually demanded
Our co-officiaIs having now joined with
us in appreciation of the fact that the
limit of temporary relief has been reach
ed and that a radical and costly con-
struction must be at once proceeded
with, have promised the necessary funds
and the actual work will now be has
tened.
The estimated cost Of these two
pieces of work is:
Jackson Avenue System. .$161, ,607 so
Division st. Outlet System 100000
In addition to this the annual charge
remains with US for the repair of all other
city sewers, an obligation the extent of
which Is not comprehended By the aver
age citizen
OF municipal lighting the report
says
As the results of advertising for the
necessary gas and oil lighting FOR the year
there was preepitated upon us a very
welcome competition resulting in our bs
ing able to award contracts for this ser
vice at appreeiably lower prices than had
been previously paid; thus As against an
average Of $50 per gas lamp per year
paid in 1903 and Of $50 per oil lamp per
year paid ii 1908. our new contracts