The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-15
BLACKSMITH BARRED
NOTALLOWED NEAR SCHOOL
IN MONTCLAIR.
Joseph Orr, Who Had Bought Ground
and Started Foundation, Blocked by
Town Council and Threatens Suit.

The application of Joseph Orr. of We
roma. to erect a ~two-family house with a
biacksmith's shop underneath at 27 Or
ange road. Montclair, near the Montclair
High School, was denied last night by the
Montclair Towr Council. Orr purchased
the ground, had his plans drawn and
not being acquainted with the building
laws OF Montclair, started the foundation
Of the building, before he had tried to OBJ
tain a permit from the inspector of build
ings. The block in which 1t was proposed
to erect the building contains a number
of small private houses, and the High
School grounds are on one side of the
street. and the proposed Central Schoo
grounds on the other side.
AS soon as the property-owners heard
that a blacksmith shop was to be located
In their midst, they became furious. and
at the meeting OF the Montclalr Board of
Education last Tuesday hight complained
Of the Intended place, which. it was
claimed. would be injurious to the chill
dren going TO and from school, on ac-
count of the number of horses being led
in and out of the shop. The board passed
a resolution authorizing the president of
the board to petition the Town Council
TO refuse the permit.
AS soon as Jesse II. Lockwood, the build
Ing Inspector learned that work had been
commenced on the building he ordered it
stopped until plans were filed and a per-
init granted. The plans were found faulty,
board floor in the part to be occupied as
q blacksmith shop, which, In order to be
nreproof. should be of concrete. There
was no provision for a ceiling in the shop
to protect the tenants overhead from the
door from the place.
These things the owner offered to rectify
so as to comply with the law. The coun-
Gil. however. took the stand that the
smithy came under the head of stables,
and the ordinance says that no stable
shall he erected within twenty feet of any
dwelling. church or school,. Orr's building
would be within two feet of a dwelling.
When the application was refused, the
ordinance was immediately amended oy
the Council by adding to the latter clause,
smlthy or blacksmith shop.
Mr.. Orr said that he had already invest
60 500 in the venture, and he thought
me council was treating him unfairly,
ines s'it one on f each w side owns NT fbe two oro a%sill
building. was the principal objector to
Its erection. MI. Orr offered to buy Ford's
The Mayor and Town Attorney Boyd said
that such a. building was clearly in viola
ton of the ordinance.
Yes. bur not until you amended 1t to-
night to III this case said Orr, ''and /
tell you somebody will pay me for the
damage l have been put to, whether it be
the Council or someone else. / will con-
suit counsel in the matter"
Had Orr fled his plans and had them
call for a fireprool place before he started
the building, t is the belief of many.
some town ofacia!s included. that he could
have erected his building. The amend
1nent To the ordinance TOW prohibits him,
az i became { law before his plans Were
perfected.
The Bonrd of School Estimate. which met
prior to the opening of the Council meet
ing, commende an appropriation of SIS. GOO
Tor the purchase of four one-room portable
buildings to be erected on the High School
grounds to relieve the crowded condition Of
that building. The buildings are to be ready
for occupancy by December l.
a. petition signed by all members of the
police force being presented to the Council
praying that the police pension act of 1906
he adopted by the town, the Council passed
a resolution that the question be placed
before the voters at the next election and
that IL he placed Oh the ballots.
The proceedings taken by the Council to
lay 4 storm sewer in Van Gieson's Gap
road, TO convey the surface water to a
brook at the foot of the mountain, will
built and the assessment made by the
Board OF Assessors, but those benefited OBJ
Ject to paying the assessment because the
sewer does not accomplish the end for
which II was built, but on the contrary
makes matters worse than they were be-
fore. The reason for this is that a twenty
road aud Braemore road to connect with
another storm eve which had already
heen constructed at Hubbard place. At
that point the twenty-inch pipe connects
With the Hubbard place sewer which is
q twelve-inch pipe, and the latter is unable
TO carry the quantity of water which comes
" II thiOu5u Aht lAASti plpS. DuIlllS hGhNy
storms the water bursts up through the
ground at that point and covers the side
walks with mud and damages the roads.
Under the amended proceedings a larger
pipe will replace the twelve-lnch pipe and
a new assessment will be made.
Town Engineer Kenneth owen was re-
rlested to file d bond with the Council for
$1,000 to guarantee the proper discharge of
his work.
The Mountainside Hospital sent a bill to
the Council for services rendered an italian
laborer who was in the employ of the
town, who had been admitted to the hos
pital with a fractured leg, and was now
discharged as cured. Councilman Schoon-
maker said the man had been a faithful
servant of the town, and while the Council
was not legally bound to pay the bill, he
felt that the Council should consider the
matter. Mayor Crawford said he thought
the town would not lose anything by pay
ing the bill. 1t was ordered paid out of the
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