The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-05-17


statement each side of the street il
counted by itself.
During the past year there was pu
upon the streets of the town the following
amount of labor 1,S9515 days work o.
ordinary laborers at $3.50; 14S of paw
iors, at SO. 90; 74515 of teams, at "a; 81
Of carts at $3.50. On Pine, Boyken, Pros
pect and Early streets there was laic
about mile in length of macadam pave
ment, that is, 1927 square yards at ar
average cost of so cents yard, a tota
of So, 1862. Cobblestone cutters were or
Plum, Miller, Pine, Boyken, Cutler,
Morris avenue, Chestnut, Clinton, Mills
and Centre streets, and were relaid or
Bank. Prospect, Maple avenue, Mac.
culloch avenue and Franklin streets.
The total laid or relaid is 9,180 square
feet, equivalent to little upwards of q
mile in length with width of three and
half feet, at cost of seven cents q
square foot, total of 81, 342.6 so. Cutler
street was graded and graveled for a
distance of 1 500 feet and a pipe drain
laid 800 feet in length. Work was done
on Plum street, Chestnut street and
Cherry street, also on the drains at Mt
Kemble and Macculloch avenues. Street
crossings were laid in several places,
cutters were bridged and catch basins
were put in.
The street committee of the coming
year will meet many and pressing de-
mands. Among improvements to
which my attention has been called as
urgently needed are the following Atno,
Phoenix and Sussex avenues should be
macadamized; Washington street be-
between Mills and the town line should
be widened; work should be done on
Willow street, Albeit avenue and the
south end of Hill street The work at
the junction of Macculloch and Mt.
Kemble avenues should be finished.
Certain improvements should be made
on Water street which is not only the
mainroad to the cemetery but is travel
ed more than ever now that SO
pleasant suburb has grown up on
Evergreen Heights. There are still
other matters which demand attention
just as urgently as these. So small is
the amount which we can put at the
disposal of the street committee that
some of these important matters will
have to be deferred but each citizen
can feel that his case will be attended
to just as soon as possible.
During the past year 255 street signs
have been put up, an Improvement
which seems to have given much
qualification.
The work begun during Mayor
Quayle's administration of the i'm
provement of the Screen" has been
carried forward and a cement walk
has been laid along the west side. The
cost of this walk was betrayed in
part by private subscription and q
committee of public spirited citizens
is raising fund for the completer
improvement of the historical Green.
The town is also indebted to the So
eiety or the Prevention of Cruelty tC
Animals for the erection of drink
ing fountain for animals on the east
side of the Green.
1t is pleasure to recognize these
gifts of public spirited citizens for
they reveal growing feeling that
the citizen owes debt to the mum
icipality over and above the payment
of assessed taxes. In the town as in tue
church the wealthy man should be
willing to do more than what can be
demanded of his poorer neighbor.
The Fire Department of the town
consists of the following companies
Washington Engine Co. No. 1, with
43 members; Humane Engine Co. No.
2 with 80 members; Resolute Hook
and Ladder Co. with 55 members; In
dependent Hose 90. No l, Chemical
engine) with Al members; First Ward
Hose Co with % members and the
Board of Fire Wardens numbering 80
making a total in the Department OF
246 members with Chief and two AS
sistant Engineers, They are a we'll
organized, we'll drilled and efficient
body of men.
been remarkably free from fires.
There have been put ten general
alarms and in not more than one half
of these cases was there destruction
of property amounting to a hundred
dollars though in one case there was
loss of life. The aggregate loss
for the year was not more than 81, 500.
This is remarkable record. Nor can
this exemption from disastrous confia-
grations be attributed entirely to
good luck; it is in greater part to
be ascribed to the energy of the
Fire Department in taking things
at the start.
Besides these ten general alarms
there have been twenty eight still
alarms answered by different COM
panies. AS each general alarm costs
about forty dollars the answering OF
these twenty eight still alarms may
be said to have saved the town over
eleven hundred dollars saying nothing
of the fact that when the whole force
is called out there is almost always
some accident with breakage of equip
ment.
The police force of the town consists
of seven patrolmen, one roundsman, a
sergeant and a chief, ten in all. Their
tours of duty are so arranged that six
are on duty at night and three in the
daytime, besides the Chief who divides
his time between the two seasons. ]
take pleasure in bearing my earnest tes-