New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-10
NEW-JERSEY.
ORANGE.

WARM ARGUMENTS AT THE MEETING OF THE
TOWNSHIP IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY
The most exciting meeting ever held by the East
Orange Township improvement Society was heiu
on Saturday night. First came the report % "''
Public Welfare Committee, which was presented Il,
suh-sectons II. II. Hall charged that the ahhuai
renorts of the township were misleading ana that
socts that the citizens were entitled 10 know were
rot stated and further that as presented IL was
impossible to analyze the expenditures properly. re
had the annual reports of large NUMBER Vi auJo'
ing townships. and none OF them was as o''''u do
-hose Of Fast Orange. Philemon Woodruff look up
the legal aspects Of the outlet sewer that the to"
h, a. building 10 connect with Newark He showed
that there was no binding contract In force ana
that instead of the rights of way having Dee" oo-
taped and filed before the work began there was
number of them-and for vital sections OF the "o'n
that had not yet been obtained This despite 'he
fact that the work was being prosecuted on poth
sides NJ This gap and hence that the township
,nipht he al the mercy Of these property-owhefS.
" : Bacot reported grave defects In the con-
cre,e Jacket tina; being placed around Una.
mart of the pipe line adjacent to the properly VI
the Orange Water Company. Instead OF PSlIs
good concrete. vel rammed, II was Ia,se ~, po~
Thrown in, with coating OF cement over it'll
resolution was passed stating mat the "Vi "OuiN
be stopped until all the rights 81 way un lad
cured that the cement snouid ne proierS ,"
The township books and devise plan OF annual re-
mort that would be capable OF ANALYSIS u Tho ,,l
PTb en came the fight OF the evening, over the p
that was adopted the public meeting OF cltlzens
q vear ago providing for change OF government
An Fast Orange which bill. 1t was sali' nad mys-
teriously disappeared. George l.. OlcOtt the mem
bsr of Assembly TO question OF prlVlebe
IL had clippings from the local press giving tle
account OF the action of the society month ago,
"a when MIR Olcott and Joseph L. Mum were
acored by two members of the society ior ehei5
course in relation 10 the missing bi. re hr,ed
tbenn nv name. The remarks TO when ne opJec.eIi
r those by Henry NJ. Oddie, in which he asserted
that Mr. Olcott should have run aiter ,he III, III, an
not the bill after him. and by Hamilton VAN ~,
when he said that If the bill had been one 70 IN
Will nene The nav OF the Township Committee q a
dsv Mr. Olcott would have found II quickly; Sli
E1SSo,t deded any man to go to Trenton ana ma
where he had voted for the Increase OF any man AN
Isrv ON the contrary, he had helped 10 save
500 go for the State from the wastefui ana enne
500 salaries that had been voted by the FORMER
Democratic Legislature II any man shousn. en- n
was going to hunt for any bill ne was =. 6efv
He had not there to apologize; nu, 10 va Las
fhem 10 find his vote ag!inst any Dill '"a' va"
for The interests Of East Grange ,,/ oor,,orad
Mr. Oddle replied that Slr Ocott nau Conpa' ~
the biz with the drawn by the Comtttee % :,
~, and then excused himself for not presehuns IL
because it had not been sent to him oinc,a Stnr
Tton Wallis then asked a few questions a. a. VIZ
which he said that the conclusion was oae,
that the citizens OF East Orange at pubic M.
ing had directed their representative 70 no denied
thing and he had not done IT, MT. oico,. ush'e1 ~
This emphaticaly. and said that nuiho "d hin, ~,
people came to him after the meeting ana asAed HI"
not TO present the bill