The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-31
REPAVING PROTEST
MAYOR LISTENS TO SUSSEX
AVENUE PEOPLE.
Property Owners object to New Pave
ment, Saying Repairing Will
Do as Well.

II will give his matter careful con-
sideration,' said Mayor Haussling to a
delegation of property-holders along
Sussex avenue who appeared before
him today to ask him not to sign the
contract providing for the repavement
of Sussex avenue with bituminous con-
crete, as the Board of Works has
planned to 10.
Chandler w. Riker. Clerk of the
Grand Jury Timothy Scales, Joseph H.
Lucking. F. s. Solomon, f. w. Ken
nedy, representing Frederick Freling-
huysen, H. p. Hurd, Thomas Harlan
and a score or more property-holders
representing the private frontage on
the ~thoroughfare were emphatic In their
condemnation of the Board of Works in
their intention of so paving the street.
The petitioners claimed that with
an expenditure of $4,000 or there
abouts this avenue of raflc could be
repaired and the surface be of the best
instead of spending SIS, 900 for repaving
that would not be one bit better than
the present telford pavement which
they advocated should be repaired.
Mr.. Riker said that his opinion was
thai some of the residents of East Or
ange and Orange desired the new pave
ment so that automobile traffic might
be improved there. So far as the resi-
dents were concerned, the lawyer said
that he was certain they would be sat
lished with the repairing. as the work
would last longer and 1t would be
better than the proposed new pave
ment.
City Engineer Morris sherrerd explained
that the Board of Works decided that as
| Sussex avenue was one of the arteries for
city traffic it should be given the best road
possible. That, he said, could be obtained
onlv by a new pavement. The p~rotestants
did not agree with him, maintaining that
the r~epaving decision was a mere subter-
fuge on the part of the Works Board to
saddle the expense of the renovation OF the
thoroughfare on the property holders, whose
street frontage had been neglected for
many years by lack of repairs on the part
of the city.
Mr., Riker opened the proceedings by
stating that his clients thought that Sus-
sex avenue could be repaired just as High
street is being overhauled now by resur-
facing the Telford pavement.
THAT would give the residents OF that
street a pavement of solid stone" he said.
1.-THE foundation for that work Is there
now. Besides 1t would be non-assessable.p
He cited the instance of the same pro-
cess being employed on the Jersey City
Boulevard. In speaking of the Board of
| Works decision to repave the street Mr..
Riker maintained that the determination
had been brought about by a desire to
make 1t n repairing job instead of a
repair
This Is a serious matter" said he,
''and our position is simply this; We
want the same thing done to Sussex ave.
.~,o4 - ;A lntno. dana - Ifoh street -
At this point he took a fling at all pat
ent pavements. saying sarcastically that
all his automobile friends were very fond
of such pavements in Manhattan because
their necks are in constant danger.
"All this street needs is stone resurfac-
ing" he concluded. land my clients do not
feel that they ought to be called upon
to pay for the ~repaving."
Mr.. Scales supported Mr.. Rlker's aeon
tentIon that the epaving scheme was
nothing but a subterfuge. He asserted
that the Board of Works had allowed the
street to go unrepaired for years. and
that so per cent. of the residents were
willing to help the city every way passible
to lessen the cost of repairing by paying
for the curbing and the like. They would
not stand for the repaving. however" he
said.
Thomas Harlan, another property holder,
said that he he'd learned that the repair
work could be done for about $40. 900. Mr..
Lucking said the same. Neither man could
see any reason whatever for an expendi-
ture of $685. 900 for repaving when the re-
paired Telford pavement would be a far
better. road than any patent affair.
Mr.. Kennedy, representing the Freiing-
huysen interests, spoke along the same
ines and so did Mr.. Solomon.
Other members OF the delegation entered
their protests by giving their names to
Secretary Wilson J.. Vance, who totaled
their frontages, with the result that those
present were found to amount TO the
aforementioned figures. Mr.. Scales re-
minded the Mayer that so per cent. of the
residents had signed the formal petition
to the Board Of Works against the repay
ing.