The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-26
ON FRANCHISE
BOARD OF WORKS AND
BLOCK LIGHT GRANT.
Bonds for City stables-ordinances Ap-
proved for Many Improvements.
Objection to Others.

No vacation was taken yesterday
afternoon by the Board of Works
when the Newark Block Light
company's application for a fran
chise came up again. City Counsel
Nugent said 1t was a question as to who
had the right to grant a franchise, the
Common Council or the Board of Works.
The Common Council had granted one.
and it had been taken into court by the
Public Service Corporation.
1T was decided by the board not to give
a nublic hearing or take any action until
a decision was rendered on the Public
Service Corporations appeal to the counts.
/. Commissioned Book, when the nance
committee was in session, brought up the
matter of the lack of horses for the board.
He was given authority to go before the
finance committee Of the Common Council
and ask for money with which to buy
horses as The departments of the board
are hnmpered in their work by ack OF
animals.
II deveIoned that a law was pissed by the
list Legislature providing for an issue OF
$3.50. 600 in bonds to defray the cost OF a
stable. An effort will be made to nave
tho common Council issue bonds for such
q building.
Ordinances providing for the following
improvements were passed on first and
second readings: r
To open South Sixteenth street to Nine
teenth avenue, and from Fourteenth ave-
nue to Sixteenth avenue Renner avenue,
from present terminus to Clinton avenue;
for widening the sidewalks on Ashorid2e
street. between Ferry and Darcy streets;
grading, curblng and fagging Shaw ave-
nue.. from Willoughby street to the city
line: grading, curbing and tagging Will
loughby street, from st. James place to
Bragaw avenue; grading, curbing and flag
ging Calumet street. from Pacific to JEFF
ferson street; grading, curbing and flag
ging EkunteTdon street. from Hawthorne
avenue to 100 feet north Of Renner avenue;
grading, CURLING and Tagging Schley
street. from Hawthorne avenue to Lyons
avenue; to open Osborne terrace, from
Hawthorne avenue to Lyons avenue; to
open Seymour avenue, from its northerly
terminus to Hawthorne avenue.
Property owners on Third street, from
Bloomfield avenue to 400 feet south Of
Second avenue and Fourth street, from
Third street to Fifth street, protested
against grading, curbing and tagging Of
these streets, as they consider the work
unnecessary and heavy sewer assessments
have lately been levied there.
Property owners and residents petitioned
the board to stop the moving of a frame
house from Seventh avenue through North
Seventh street, as the trees in front of
properties would be damaged.
The lighting committee will take up the
request of Hahne & Co, for an arc light
at Kinney and Montgomery streets.
Residents of Clifton avenue, south OF
Delavan avenue, protested against the
omission of this section from being paved
with brick, as originally pet1t1oned and
provided for by ordinance. The letter was
referred TO the street committee.
The Adams Express Company complained
thai another of their wagons had been
damage going under the Jackson street
bridge. They asked the board to take
action. The letter was referred to the city
engineer.
A letter was received from Carl Bann.
wart, secretary of the Shade Tree Com
mission, stating that body understood a
small plot in front of the Court House has
recently been ceded to the city. The mat
ter was referred to the city engineer.
On third reading ordinances were passed
for the following work:
Fer the construction of pipe sewers to be
known as Tvlors treet sewers and branches;
for the construction of a sewer in Thir-
teenth street, between Sixth and Park
avenues.
Contracts were awarded as follows:
Grading, curbing and tagging Elizabeth
avenue from Peddie street to Meeker ave-
iii e. Ttilip Jannarone. 10000. 20: construc-
ton of Meadow Brook sewer system, W.
j, McCloud & Co, SAG, 429. 70; dredging Of
per cubic yard, amount of contract not
TO exceed $4,000.
F.. J. Hayden. George w. Lambert. and
other property owners In Woodside avenue,
between Grafton and Montclair avenues.
requested the board TO curb and pave that
street. 1t was ordered that the necessary
ordinance be drawn for introduction at the
next meeting.