The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-19
MAY STOP COASTING
SOUTH ORANGE TRUSTEE
IS AGAINST IT.
Burke offers Ordinance Providing $40
Fine, but Board Refers It to
Committee.

If the plans of Village Trustee Charles
II. Burke. of South Orange. embodied in
an ordinance introduced at a meeting of
the South Orange Village Board of Trus-
tees last night. are carried out. coasting
will be abolished on the South Orange
avenue mountain this winter. The ordi-
nance provides that a fine of $40 be inn
posed for each violation.
Although Mr.. Burke made every effort
to have the ordinance introduced on first
reading. Villsge President Albert C. Wall
ruled in favor of Village trustee Rowland
d. Perrine. who maintained that under the
rules 1t should first go to the hands OF
the ordinance committee, of which he is
chairman, and 1t was SO referred.
1t is generally understood that Mr..
Burke's object in introducing it is to
abolish the danger which accompanies
coasting on the steep hill. having in mind
Principally the injuries of Tristan Suther
and John Gordon. friends of Mr.. Burke,
received when a bob on which they were
riding crashed into a lamppost at South
Orange avenue and Rynda road last
winter. This was the only accident which
occurred on the hill last year, and was
due fully to an amateur coaster trying TO
turn an Impossible corner with his bob.
The coasters on the mountain have
tried TO avoid accidents IN every way pos
sible, and have been generally successful.
1t is likely that opposition to the passage
of the ordinance viii develop among the
coasters, who have enjoyed the sport tor
years. Just after the Gordon and Soutner
accident last year eoasLlng WIS stopped on
the steep hill. The coasters got busy, ana
a large committee waited upon the Village
with the result Inat they Were
allowed TO finish the season. 1t is likely
tnat the same committees will act against
the ordinance.
On suggestion of Mr.. Burke, Village
President Albert Z. Wall appointed Mr..
Burke, Walter L. Wallace anu randolph
Hodman as a to cooperate WIN
u committee from Orange to get additional
on the parkway scheme. TINS
Is the first action tine board OF Trustees
has taken since the committee of citizens
asked 1t TO build u Sf,o0O drain ON the PARK
way to be laid out along Grove road,
South Orange, and connect Orange PARK
with South orange avenue.
Although the contractor has been settled
with ana the board OF assessments now
has the Improvement before it, former
Village President Robert >. Sinclair, in a
letter to the board, last night sand il was
the boards duty to fine the contractor for
every Jay he delayed completing the Scot
land road Improvement over the contracted
time; II the board did not do this, Mr..
Sinclair claimed that property-owners
could contest the assessments in the event
of the pr~operty-owners being asked to pay
the expense of the delay.
Mr.. Wallace, chairman of the street
committee, said that the decays were un-
avoidable because Noss avenue was being
fepaVed at the same time that Scotland
road was undergoing improvements, and
the former board of trustees, or which
Mr.. Sinclair was president, and the street
committee, of which Alerton d. Hitch
was then a member, at that time deemed
1t advisable to have Dunad Fusco, the
contractor, stop work on Scotland road
for several weeks until Contractor Lud-
wig Bait had competed a part of Vose
avenue. TINS, Mr.. wallace said, was done
in order to give the north section of the
village protection In case of fire.
Tn letter from Mr.. Sinclair last night
was the second which he had written to
the present board of trustees. He wrote
two months ago and claimed that Fusco
should be fined tor not competing the
Scotland road work in the required time.
but Mr.. Wallace recommended 10 the
board that he be not fined, and, on the
contrary, be paid as specified. He said
although he was not IL member of the
board at the time the work was delayed
that he had collected Information from
Mr.. Hitch and as far as he could learn the
contractor was unable to get stone enough
to so on with the work after the delay
caused WIDELY by the village officials.
In order to settle the matter with Mr..
Sinclair 1t was decided to invite the for
mer president to attend the next Informal
meeting OF the board. The board decided
to meet again on November 20.