Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-04-17
not LIKE
THEIR METHOD
Mayor of Newark Vetoed ReSOIu-
ton and Notice for BituIithiC
Pavement in that CITY.

Newark's neW mayor is opposed tC
patented pavements which insist up
on having a monopoly, and he does
NOT like the business methods of the
monopoly. The following appeared
in the Newark Evening News last
! night;
Mayor DoremUs today sent to the
board of works two vetoes, n of a
resolution and the other of a notice
of intention, passed recently in rela-
ton to the use of bitulithic pavement.
The resolution provided for the ad-
vertising for sealed proposals for the
paving with bitulithic, of Niagara
street, between Ferry and Berlin
streets.
The notice of intention is for the
paving, with the same kind of mater
ial, of Cottage street. between Mul-
berry street and New Jersey Railroad
avenue. The veto of the notice of in
tention resolution follows the other
act of disapproval in logical sequence.
The message of the mayor contain
ing the veto of the resolution TO adj
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Niagara street contains an eXplana-
lion of the attitude of the city's ex-
ecutive on this matter. The message
is as follows:
"Gentlemen-I return to you here
with, without by approval, "A resolu-
ton passed by your honorable board
on April ), and submitted to me on
April 6, 1906, directing the chief en-
gineer to advertise for sealed propo-
sails for the paving of Niagara street,
from Ferry street to Berlin street,
specifications for which shall provide
for a maintenance guarantee for a
period of five years from the time of
The acceptance of the contract.
II am informed that the provision
for a liye-year guarantee is based up
on the belief that a reduction will be
made i'm the price of the pavement,
but in the absence of positive infor-
nation to this effect | am constrained
to withhold my approval until such
time as doubt as to the price shall
have been removed.
II therefore respectfully request
that the resolution be amended 50 as
to provide for bids under a five-year
and also a ten-year guarantee clause
In referring to his action the mayor
said that since he had approved the
ordinance, passed March 9 last, for
the paving with bitulithic of Niagara
street, which he did because Il great
majority of the property owners de-
sired that kind of pavement, an en-
deaVor had been made, in view of the
proposal to reduce the period of guar
antee for the keeping in repair of the
pavement from ten to five years, to
secure a positive guarantee that the
price per yard would be reduced to
an amount commensurate with the
concession made in the reduction of
the term of the guarantee.
1t had been impossible to secure
any information on this point from
the company controlling the patent
under which bitulithic is used, and
he was unwilling, he said, to ieopar-
die the interests of the city and of
the property owners who would be
called upon to pay for the laying of
The pavement, and had therefore dis
approved the resolution. The veto of
he notice of intention for the paving
of Cottage street, the mayor added.
was in keeping with his attitude in
reference to the whole matter of lay
ing bitulithic pavement, II meant,
he said, that he will take similar ac-
ion on all propositions of the same
nature that lIay come before him uh-
IL ,uch time as the question he has
raised has been satisfactorily settled.