The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-06
WORKS BOARD
URGED TO AID
TRADE BODY
10 Passaic Trunk Sewer
Natter Health Of Newark
erS Menaced, COult Says.

Former City Counsel Joseph CouIt
was asked by Commissioner George
H. Lambert at the session Of the
rance committee of the Board of
Works yesterday afternoon il the
board could assist the Board of Trade
in its efforts to get work started IN
the proposed trunk sewer along the
west bank of the Passaic River. Mr..
Lambert said the Board Of Works de-
sired to help in having the pollution
the health of Newark's inhabitants,
abated or abolished.
1.-THE Board of Works can do a good
deal to help the Board of Trade and
also the Passaic Valley Sewerage
Commission said Mr.. Coult. THE
river is in a worse condition now than
ever. l live in the northern section
of our city, and the stencil from the
river has been so bad this summer
that people kept their windows closed
the hottest nights. The commission
Is anxious to begin the preliminary
work on the trunk sewer, for which
$40, 900 is needed to pay surveyors and
engineers. The law provided that the
municipalities to be benefited should
be assessed 5000 each for the work.
Only Newark. Passaic and Bloom
field appropriated So 900 each, and late
ly Harrison, East Newark and Kearny
came in Jointly for $4,000. Though the
commission has appealed to the other
municipalities, they have not offered to
make n appropriation, and the COM
mission cannot force them to d. it."
you did not make the bill the Legis-
lature made a law strong enough" City
Counsel James F.. Nugent remarked.
w feared the bill might not pass
If we made it too strong" Mr.. Coult
remarked.
1T would have been put through the
Legislature" said Mr.. Nugent, and Mr..
Lambert asked if the law could not be
amended so zach municipality shall be
assessed according to its population.
Mr. Coult said that plan met with op-
position.
"Your board can help if the delin-
quent municipalities continue to refuse
to pay the $4,000 each,' he said, "by
using it's influence to get Newark to
appropriate more money to help make
UP the amount the commission must
nave to begin work on the sewer. The
Board of Trade will help to raise
money
City Engineer Sherrerd said the
United Electric Company wanted his
approval of petitions to lay a conduit
in Canal street and Commerce street
and one from Canal street down New
Jersey Railroad avenue to Lafayette
street, but he wanted the committee to
act, as the streets named are paved and
the pavement would have to be opened
to construct the conduits. The petitions
were referred to the chief engineer and
city counsel, after Commissioner LAM
bert said an ordinance should be passed
requiring that a ninety days notice
of laying of any conduits be required
from a company that desires to lay
one in a street or an avenue. Commits
sioner Book said the franchise gave the
electric company certain privileges that
an ordinance could not deprive it of.
but he agreed hat conduits ought to be
laid before a street is paved.
Mr.. Nugent said he had been study
ing the conduit question for two weeks,
but would not be ready with a plan
and an opinion until next week.
Tt was voted to purchase a Maxwell
runabout automobile, to cost not more
than 1915, for the use of Chief Engineer
Sherrerd.
A petition from the Public Service
Corporation for permission to relay its
tracks on Springfield avenue along the
Court House plaza was laid over for a
week, Engineer Sherrerd saying he
wanted to establish a new grade there,
as the street is to b. widened some.