Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-14
BILLS PAIp.

D. L. Pine, setting curb and laying cutters l34 80
Warren G. Jones, Is 70
Levi P.yne, .-.-........-.--...-...--..... ~ 90
JOS Reynolds. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 20
J Forrest Sweeten, sand.................... SO rs
VIM. McDevitt 10 50
Edw @. CossahoOn, labor. III 5b
W. G. Williams, NJ D poor order.......--..-., 90
VIM. English moving City Hall yard...... ] 90
Vim. Herd rick, labor water department. %
FIRE BILL.
John Hunter, fire collar p 90
Mr.. Leeds, of the Vice and immortality
committee, turned in So as amount of
license fee Of the dog and pony show.
Water Supt Brown reported coll ctions
for August $14050
City Sol'r Watkins reported the balance
of the cost of the Shields property paving
turned into the treasury.
Mr. Best moved that an improvement
certificate to the amount of $l34 80 be
drawn in fivor Of D L. Pine for work on
Broad street. Carried
MI Best moved that the water depart
ment be authorized to take the improve
ment certificate. Carried.
Mr.. Leeds stated that the sidewalks on
Walnut street were 10 bad condition This
street, he said, leads from Broad street to
the school house and is traversed four times
a day by two hundred children. There is
no ordinance requiring the paving of same
and he moved the Ordinance committee be
instructed to draw an ordinance prov ding
for the curbing, guttering and paving of
Walnut street. Carried
Mr.. Glading presented petition from
John R. Wick tor privilege of erecting an
awning in front of his place of business,
which was referred to the Street committee
with power TO act
On Mr. Batten's motion, the Street COM
mittee was authorized to complete the i'm
provement Of curb and gutter to carry the
water down Centre street from in front of
Green's Block.
The report presented by Mr.. Best, of the
Special committee Oh widening Cooper St.
was then read, as follows:-
Woodbury., N. ] SEPT. ~, '99.
To the President and Members Of Council.
Gentlemen: Your committee, to whom
was referred the proposition of Mr.. G. G.
Green, for the improvement of Cooper
street, would report as follows:
First. As to the advisability of max
ing the improvement by widening the
street We deem it both advisable and
desirable to increase the width of the
street to 50 feet from curb to curb, east
wardly from the railroad to the city line.
At the present time the street from
curb to curb is 80 feet A trolley car on
the street takes up about feet, and the
gutter on each side takes about 3 feet,
leaving only l6 feet for roadway, or s feet
on either side of trolley car, which all
of you know, is not sufficient space to
drive with safety. And in addition, the
street for nearly half of the distance from
the railroad to the city line Is only pass
able on one side of the track.
Second As to the probable cost To
widen the street under the proposition of
Mr.. Green would cost the city about
$4,000, but your committee thinks that
if the street should be widened, it would
be desirable to raise the curb and side
walk, beginning with nothing at Maple
street and raising gradually to / foot at
the bridge over Hester's branch, and from
there to nothing at Poplar Ave, the
cost of which would be about $4,000,
making the whole cost about $4,000,
divided as follows:
Re-setting 1854 feet of curb...$335 40
Recurring gutter....................... 279 SO
Cost of survey. .......................... Is 90
Raising sidewalk. ....................... 100 90
Incidental enses.................... 81 90
IotaL.....--.-........-..... SUI w
The cost of frightening the bridge to
be paid by the county, and the changing
of the trolley poles and other necessary
changes in connection with the same,
Mr.. Morgan, president of the G. G. q W.
r. R. Co., has assured your committee
that the company will gladly do this.
But, Mr.. President and members,
your committee have gone further in
their investigation than the instructions
directed and would report or suggest the
following:
1t is a we'll known fact that most all of
the towns and cities in N J. are con-
|tinually expanding money to beautify
and make more attractive their streets,
parks and other municipal property
more attractive, 30 that the stranger,
when he enters, may feel that he has
at last found the place he is looking for
to make his home.
Woodbury. has many of the advantages
and few of the disadvantages calculated
to bring strangers to our midst with train
service such as is the lot of but few
cities of our size with trolley connection
between Phila. every 10 minutes over a
route the most part of which is beneficial
as well as interesting, especially TO the
summer pleasure seeker; with a park
within 10 minutes ride, that for attraction
and amusements, cannot be surpassed by
any within a radius of 100 miles; with
water works, electric light and gas, the
quality and price of which are not sur
passed by any town, be it far or near !;
with churches of almost every denomi-
nation, whose pulpits are filled with
gentlemen of reputation and renown !;
with schools that compare with any in
the State; with physicians of both
schools, whose ability is unquestionable;
with fire department, whose efficiency
makes it possible for owners to secure
insurance at rate of from sixty to seven
five cents on the hundred; with banks,
whose foundations are as sound as the
hills, and with death rate that is far
below the average
Yet with all these advantages Wood.
bury has one blot on her fair escutcheon,
which we hope to soon see erased-her
muddy and unimproved streets. And it
| is on the subject of streets that your COM
mittee wishes to offer suggestion.
Of the several highways to the city
tuECc HCCAl VI C5pCNAdi EiIeJ,
Broad street, which we have just seen
improved by the construction of telford
road which We trust will prove tenn
porary If not a lasting benefit. Second,
Delaware street. This street has for come
years been the best of those named, and
we trust will, in the near future, be fur
ther improved by the construction of a
stone or telford road, the papers for which
are almost completed. Third, Cooper
street. This street is one of the most inn
portant in the city, extending as it does
from Broad street east over the w. j. &
S. r. r. and past that famous boarding
house conducted by one of our associates,
and which ia visited annually by hum
dreds of Philadelphia people, some of
whom have in years past built homes and
others who have rented and are still re-
siding with US. It ia also the only de-
sirable communication between the rail-
road and that portion of the city toward
which we must in the future look for the
largest increase in our taxable property.
This street, which is one of our princi-
pal thoroughfares and which should be
in the best possible condition, lie, we are
compelled to admit, usually in as bad a
condition as it can be in spite of the fact
that we annually spend sum for its bet
terment that would almost pay the inter.
est on the cost of improving the street to
the amount of $4,000.
Your committee would therefore re-