The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-24
EAST ORANGE MAKES NEW CONTRACT.
FOR LIGHTING AT GREATLY REDUCED RATES
PROMISE TO BE GOOD
MONTcLAIR SCAvENGERS
IMPROVE SERVICE.
Put on More Wagons in Effort to Make
Collections Properly-Kinnan's
Complaint. I

Councilman Arthur G. Wilson, chairman
of the committee on roads and sewers,
reported to the Montclair Town Council
last night that the committee had held a
conference with Mayor Henry V. Craw-
ford last Thursday night regarding the
complaints of the failure of the garbage
contractors to make proper collections. At
the conference a plan was worked out, he
said, to remedy the trouble. The con-
tractors, William Alworth & Son, have
since agreed to thfs plan, and will imme-
diately put on more wagons, so as to in
sure satisfactory collections, and have also
promised to see that the garbage is prop
erly buried at the dumping grounds. Mr..
Wilson also stated that during the past
two weeks while the contractors were on
probation, there was a marked improve
ment in the work.
1T is, however, understood" continued
Mr.. Wilson, that IL the contract is not
satisfactorily carried out hereafter that
the Council will impose such fines as it
may deem proper, as provided for In the
contract"
John E. Kinnan, who resides at Forest
and Walnut streets, complained to the
Council of the stencil arising from a bar
rel and box of rotten fish in the rear Of
the store of Caro- & Eastman, in Walnut
street. The nuisance has been there since
a week g last Friday, but was not To-
~ 0A[A4 oAAO WhCn 1IO
started out, determined to locate it. The
stencil was such, Mr.. Kinnan said, that
the people in the neighborhood were COM
PEELED to keep their windows continually
closed.
"As soon as I located the source Of the
nuisance" said Mr.. Kinnan, ct informed
the Board of Health. and also the garbage
inspector, but nothing has been done to-
ward its removal. 1t Is a shame that such
a nuisance should be allowed to remain
to the detriment OF the health of the COM
munity."
! He invited the Mayor and Council to look
at 1t, but the invitation was declined.
Mayor Crawford said that he heard of
the nuisance yesterday morning, but was
unable to get anyone to remove 1t. Coun-
Gilman Wilson said that he had arranged
with the garbage contractor to have the
nuisance removed this morning before 9
o'clock.
The police committee was authorized to
purchase twenty-five new uniforms and
eight overcoats for the police department.
The road committee was authorized to
spend $50 in preparing a football ground in
young people of the town during the fall.
A communication from the superintendent
of the Erie Railroad was read, in which he
stated that the complaint of the Council
shunting cars at night in the Vicinity of
Chestnut street, was referred to the local
agent for adjustment. The clerk stated
that the agent at the Montclair station had
called him up on the phone and asked
what he thought was a reasonable time for
the whistling to cease. The clerk said
that he replied $3.50 p. m; That was salts
factory to the agent, and he promised that
all noise from the engines would cease at
that hour hereafter. T..
An invitation from Hose Company No. l
and Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 to the
Council, to attend a banquet at fire head
quarters tonight, after the inspection of
the department, was accepted. The street
opening committee recommended that TN
derclifE road be opened, widened, laid out
and graded in pursuance to assessments
for benefits and damages as filed by the
and water main extensions were ordered
laid. A quorum only was present at the
meeting. The absentees were Councilmen
Scott, White, MacNaughten and Schoon-
maker.