The Jersey City news., 1906-07-07
WHAT WILL he
DO WITH IT
Turner A. Beall for the Hud-
son Water Company Asks
Lease From Newark
WANTS BELLEvlLLE WELLS
HE OFFERS A RENTAL OF $4,000,
BUT WON'T SAY WHAT He
PROPOSES TO DO WITH THE
ACQUIRED WATER

A proposition has been submitted to
the Board of Works. of Newark, by Tur-
ner A. Beall, president of the Hudson
County Water Company. to lease the
city's driven wells at Belleville and the
pumping machinery in the old station
there for period of ten years at an am
nual rental of $4,000 The matter was
submitted to the law department, and 1t
is probable an agreement with the COM
pany will be made. Such an agreements
it is stated, will be so drawn as not to
interfere with the use of sufficient room
in the pumping station to permit of the
city carrying out its proposed experiment
with municipal electric light
just what the Hudson County Water
Company wants with the water cannot
be learned. Mr.. Beall, in his letter to
the Board, say sthat the company asks
the city of Newark to lease its we'll plant
at Blleville, including the wells, receiving
basisns, pipes, connections, pumping sta
tons, buildings, land and all water APP
purtenances for ten years at the rate of
$4,000 year, payable in equal quarter
ly installments ON the first day of Janu-
airy, April, July and October of each
year, subject to the right of the city to
erect an electric light station upon por-
ton of the land, and to have joint use of
the chimney stacks during the lease.
Mr.. Beall further says his letter that
he understands the wells have been test
available supply of about seven and one
half million gallons of water per day
and that the water is pure and whole
some and is sterile as to bacteria. A
condition of the agreement, he stipulates,
shall be that rental shall begin on the
first taking and transporting of water
from the plant, which shall be withia
one year from date, unless delayed by
litigation. and shall continue ten years
thereafter, subject to the right of the
company to cease taking water and pay
ing the rental, and to cancel the unex-
pired portion of the lease when the wa
ter becomes unavailable for its purposes
bs reason of deterioration in quality or
from any cause; and if the supply from
the wells falls below the minimum Of
seven and one-haH millions gallons per
day. with the use of air lift, the COM
pany shall be entitled to a proportionate
reduction in the rental paid for the plant.
1t is also to be understood, according
to Mr.. Beall's proposition, that the COM
pany shall enter upon the possession of
the premises upon the payment Of $1,000
improvements and alterations as it may
require, subject to the approval of the
city engineer, and to be entitled to re-
move from the premises, at the termina-
ton of the lease, any machinery on the
property installed by it during the pc
Rod thereof, and to restore the premises
to the city in as good condition as when
delivered to it, ordinary wear ana tear
excepted. In case of damage by fire,
flood or any act of God, the premises are
to be restored by the city to as good
condition as when delivered to the COM
pany, but the latter shall repair and re-
store the machinery or plant installed by
it which may be injured as the result of
such disaster.
1t was intimated that the company
purposes to divert the waters ou of the
State. The Hudson County Water Com
pany is part of the East Jersey Water
| Company, it is said, and has an agree
ment to furnish Staten Island with
water. Although the Legislature has
passed an act prohibiting the diversion
of the potable waters out of the State the
constitutionality of the law has been
questioned, and is still in the courts
Mr.. Beall said to a reporter that the
company was not prepared as yet to
make any statement