The Morris County chronicle., 1902-05-23
ALDERMEN
ORGANIZE
Mayor Reeds AddreSS-..Budee
for Year S69,9l5,OO.

| lUl ICdI 4UJsJIJ,VUs
rlayor Fox Thanks Old Board Who
Respond Through Alderman Burke
COMMITTEES Named Communica-
tions Referred to Board of Health
| Recommend that 10 Inch Mains be
Laid on rIarket Street and s Inch
on Western Avenue.
/ All members were present at the
final meeting of the Board of Alder
men held last evening. City Clerk
Stillwell being i'll, Alderman Burke
moveu that Alderman Hurting be
appointed clerk pro tenn. Following
number of communications includ-
ing one from Health Inspector Van
Dyke and signed by Thomas Martin,
making complaint against an odor ris-
ing from drain near the United
States Hotel, were presented and re-
ferred to the incoming Board
Mayor Fox then feelingly addressed
the members, dwelling particularly
upon the kindness and courtesy shown
to him during his term of office
Alderman Burke responded to the
Mayors address speaking of the in
terest he had shown in the town and
thanking him on behalf of the
Board. Upon motion the Board ad-
journed.
Mayor-elect Reed together with
the newly elected Aldermen then
took the oath of office which was
administered by City Council Muir.
The Mayors address follows
Gentlemen of the Board of Alder
men:
The people of Morristown. relying
on the established custom of an in
coming Board of Aldermen may and
have right to expect from this board
statement of the more urgent needs
of the town as the Board sees them
and of the prospect of supplying
those needs which are within our
means. The statement of what we
see that should be done does not at
all mean that there are not other
things that the town is equally in
need of; nor that this Board has the
temerity to undertake, with the pres
ent limited income at the towns dis
posal, of all those now spoken of.
If I may voice your thought for the
moment I would first express the
hope that in the near future, public
sentiment will imperatively demand
the erection of town hall for the
adequate housing of all town offices,
the police department and some of the
fire Department. where the records of
the proceedings of this Board may be
stored in fire proof vualt with all
the maps of streets and valuable
documents of every kind. Tie pre-
sent dearth of copies of the only COM
pilation of the towns ordinances was
caused by fire in the rooms oc-
cupied at one time by the Common
Council and a similar misfortune
could easily deprive us Of at least a
part of the original records. While
the necessity of hiring storage or en-
trusting the records to the various
persons who are for the time being
the officials most likely to need
them make them almost as insecure
as the Sybelline pages and makes
access to them depend upon the ex-
igencies of the private business of the
custodians.
There is also a demand which is
becoming clamorous, for revision
of the ordinances of the town.
This is greatly needed as there has
been none since 1885, and copies of
this revision cannot be obtained. The
town has none, and there are so few
to be found in the possession of pri-
vate individuals that they are kept
under lock and key, and scarcely
handed to even those especially
trusted.
The equipment of the fire depart
ment must be looked after as care
fully in the coming years as in the
past if the services of that extremely
public-spirited and self-saorificing
body of men, our volunteer fremen,
are to maintain it at it's high grade
of efficiency. The question of in
creasing the water supply by enlarg-
ing the mains has already received
the consideration of the retiring
Board of Aldermen and will be
passed by US to speedy conclusion.
There is also something needed in the
way of protection from fire and quick
relief in some of those parts of town,
remote from the center, where most
of the apparatus is housed Light
apparatus of kind most useful al
the beginning of fire would often
save much property if on hand in the
first few vital minutes, before the
heavier apparatus, which is needed
for our business blocks, can be
brought into action. Another i'm
provement which has demanded at
tention from successive boards ant
which, if made, would soon save it!
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