The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-11
TO LIGHT CITY HALL
ALDERMANlC COMMITTEE
O. KS $50. 900 FOR PLANT.
Again Passed Up to Parent Body.
Another Committee Argues About
Bill for City Fireworks.

The member of the finance and Fourth
of July committees of Common Council
last night transacted unfinished business,
SO that 1t would be in readiness for the
action of Common Council tomorrow
night. The tax budget total, So. 47a. 1S5. le,
covered by the tax ordnance, and s415,0 600
from the contingent fund, were left un-
changed by the committee,
Thirty thousand dollars was set aside
from the contingent fund for the work of
installing the City Hall lighting plant.
The question of the transfer of the girls
cottage at Verona to the Board of Health
was discussed, and " was decided to re-
quest the law department to give formal
opinion as to the transfer resolution, to
which the members of the Board of
Health objected because, 1t was said, there
was n string to 1t.
The signing of seven resolutions pro-
viding for the payment of the same num-
Der of clerks in the document room was
signed by a majority of the members of
the committee, but some refused TO vote
for them, and will call the matter to the
attention Of Common Council tonight, as
1t is alleged that David D. Keefe, one of
the clerks, asked for twenty-five days
pay for June, when 1t is said he worked
only twenty-three days. The sum of 5000
was voted to pay for n base for the statue
of Mgr. Doane in Military Park.
The Fourth of July committee, after a
strenuous time, voted to pay the bill for
fireworks. although Aldermen Kunze and
Wohlfarth refused to recognize the bill,
because they said that the omission of
the picture Of Theodore Roosevelt was in
territorial.
The Pain Company, after the disappolnt-
M m that a4tA.AoJ 4ho z-1f-zE~.a - tkt1
feature. wired THE EVENING STAR,
stating that the omission Of the Roosevelt
part Of the pyrotechnical display was due
to an accident In Its factory.
Vlce-Chancellor Howell appeared before
the committee. and asked that the mem
bers petition the Common Council to con-
cur In an agreement the City Hall Com
mission had arrived at with the owner OF
the property adjoining the old City Hall.
1t was decided to give him a small lot
II he would AXE the beams left In the
walls of the old City Hall.
Ten thousand dollars for the immediate
use of the building account was ordered
from the contingent fund. and SIS. 900 fol
streets and highways, and So, 900 was sci
aside for the purpose of dredging the
river at the mouth of the sewer. For
emergency and necessary payments II
was decided to issue 5000 0 In temporary
Donus, penulnB lne acllOn Oh the common
Council. Alderman Mullen, Holzner and
Burnett was appointed a committed to con
slider the ad%visability Of having an assist
ant to the gas meter Inspector. Alder
man Martin thought that the Public Serv-
Ice Corporation should pay the salary OF
such n man II one were needed.
After the resolutions to pay for tbs
services of the document clerks had beer
signed by a majority the Keefe incident
was discovered. Alderman Fischer was
asked after the meeting how he as chair
man of the COMMITTEES certified the resolu-
tion without verifying It. II took Cfy
Clerk Connelly's word for 1T; he said
that they were all right; | can't be there
every day. l asked him about them and
certified Them" said Mr.. Fischer.
While this committee was having it.
own troubles the Fourth of July commit
tee was having a nuo time ovei
its bills.
1t was one continual round OF person
alities between Messrs. Wright and Kunz,
over the printing, and Chairman Bras
with Messrs. Kunze and Wohlfarth ovei
the omission of the likeness of President
Roosevelt in the Fourth of July program
The Democrats voted to pay the bill.
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