Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-02-24
Hearing on the Madison Avenue Paw
Ing Question Before the Board of
Aldermen Last Night.
BOTH SIDES WERE REPRESENTED
Committee Which Went TO Newark Yesterday to Investigate Pave
nens Told Of Experiences Bricks Have Come Up TO the Re-
quiement and Most Property Owners Seemed to Favor
That Material Representatives of Firms On Hand

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son avenue, asked if the brick sam
pies had come up to the requirements
of the test.
Alderman-at-Large Pfeiffer said
that they had.
His Mind Was Changed.
Mr.. Christensen declared that he
and other must have been misinform-
ed. He said that when he left his
home yesterday morning he was in
favor of brick, but that he had been
to Newark with eight or ten other
Madison avenue men yesterday in
specting a number of streets, some
of them paved with brick and others
with bitulithic. He declared that the
trip had changed his mind, and he
thought that, if the signers of the pc
tition for brick were to go to New
ark, it would change the minds OF
most of them, too. He admitted that
majority are in favor of brick, but
said that many had signed without
thinking. He said every man should
think for himself. He said, however,
that he did not know whether any
change could be made now.
John Frederickson, of 212 Madison
avenue, said that he had previously
been in favor of brick but that his
mind had also been altered and he
asked that his name be crossed off
the brick petition presented last
night.
Fred Christensen, of 224 Madison
avenue, spoke in favor OF brick and
he said that the brick on the ferry
hill on lower Smith street has stood
a good test.
Had Investigated.
Emanuel Williams, of 179 Madison
avenue, said that he has looked over
pavements in many cities and it has
been his opinion that brick gives the
best satisfaction. He said it is much
better in summer when the top layer
of bitulithic pavement will be lifted
on wagon wheels and horses feet. He
said that that had occurred on Rector
street
Jacob Ludwig, of 119 Madison ave-
nue., asserted that the noise of traf-
tic on brick pavements is deafening
He said that the difference in price
between brick and bitulithic is not
great He had been in favor of wood
block, he said, but since there were
no bids for that material, he now IA
vors bitulithic.
Augustus Farlander, of 1S6 Madi-
son avenue, had been TO Newark yes
terday and his mind had been chang
cd He had previously favored brick
but he now wanted to have the sigma
ture of his wife, which appeared on
last nights petition, crossed off.
Carl Christensen asked if it is le-
gal to make a change now and said,
IL not, they might as well stop talk
ing.
Fred Christensen said the alder
wished.
John C. Donehue said that both his
office and residence are on bricll-pav-
ed streets and that the noise does not
bother him in the least. He said
brick is a cleaner pavement, which
would be better where wagons will
track mud from dirt cross-streets, as
in the case of Madison avenue. He
declared that bitulithic pavement
cannot be swept like brick can. He
said that he does not consider the
seventeen cents difference worthy of
notice and that he does not believe
that bitulithic would have lasted on
New Brunswick avenue brick has. He
said that Madison avenue is the main
thoroughfare for that section of the
city. He did not sign the petition for
brick, he said, simply because his
property at Madison avenue and Mar
ket street faces on Market street.
Alderman-at-L Pfeiffer asked
for a full discussion.
Sidney Riddlestorffer asked what
the tests in other cities require; that
he understood it was 2 per cent abb
sorption and 10 per cent abrasion.
One of the Representatives present
from the Metropolitan Paving Brick
Company, Mr. Coats, said that it is
the effort of his concern and another
firm to raise the STANDARD so that
poor brick may be shut out and that
they hope to get the standard named
by Mr.. Riddlestorffer. He said that
Newark is about to adopt it and that
several cities have it,
Mr.. Turner, of the bitulithic con-
cern, said that their bids for laying
the curbstones would reduce the diff
ference in cost between bitulithic and
brick He said that they told the del
egation in Newark yesterday that the
bitulithic had come nearest to pass
ing the test, as they understood none
had done SO. He said that Rector
street has not been properly swept
and that the statement that wheels