The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-13
BOARD OF WORKS
IGNORES MAYORS
WATER METER VETO
Commissioner Eggers Is Only
Member TO Support the
City Executive.
HILL RESIDENTS IN ARMS
OVER GARBAGE SYSTEM
Demand Daily Collection on
Ground That Three Times a
Week Is Not Sufficient.

The veto of Mayor Haussling on the
awarding of the furnishing of water
meters by the Neptune Water Com
pany by the Board of Works was over
ridden by that body yesterday by a
vote of fou to one, two Democratic and
two Republican commissioners voting
against the action of the Mayor and
one Republican, Commissioner Eggers,
voting in accord with the veto of the
executive.
Commissioners Denman, Lambert,
Book and Halpin voted to ignore the
Mayors veto on the grounds that the
meter was the one approved by the
United States government and that the
company was practically a local one.
The Mayor in his letter to the board
accompanying his veto stated that
there were three companies who made
the same bid, and hat the citizens
should be allowed to make their own
choice of meters, as the restriction TO
one meter was creating a monopoly.
Republican backed Mayor.
Commissioner Eggers backed the
Mayor at the meeting, declaring that
the Neptune Company was not a local
concern, except that a few OF the stock
holders lived In this city, and that pur-
chasers should have the right to choose
their meters.
Commissioner Lambert, in answering
Mr.. Eggers, stated that there were only
two bids for the same figures, and that
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the two and cost less to keep In repair.
The resolution was finally again
passed over the Mayors veto, and 1t
will be sent back to him. He will IN
doubtedly veto the matter again, and
then the contract will be approved over
his head.
Hill Citizens Protest.
Former School Commissioner Edward
Schoen, representing property-owners
of the Hill section. appeared before the
board to protest against the present
system of collecting garbage used by
the new contractors, Buckley & Co.
The garbage is collected three times
a week. and Mr.. Schoen declared that 1t
should be collected every day, as the
Hill was in frightful shape because of
the lack of. collections. "a
Heafurther protested against the or
der to deposit the garbage pals within
three feet of the building line, and not
at the curb. The commissioners agreed
with him, and will take the matter UP
with the contractor with a view of
Strengthening out the tangle.
March 26 was appointed the day for
final hearing of all objections to as
sessments for the paving of the fol-
lowing eight streets: Wesley, Oliver,
PIONEER, Henry, Silk, Ridgewood, Ninth
and Chadwick
A protest was read from Frederick
w. Egner against the extension of
avenue through to Abingdon
to Second avenue. Petitions
were read from property on
Market street and on Ridge street ask
ing for paving on those streets.
10 Pave Many streets.
Ordinances for the paving Of the fol-
lowing streets were approved by the
street committee of the Board of
Works: Boyd street, from Springfield
TO West Kinney street, granite;
Heller parkway, telford and granite;
South Fourteenth street, from Central
to Orange street, granite; Her
man street, from Chestnut 70 Thomas
street, bitulithic; North Fourteenth
street, from Orange street to Seventh
avenue, granite; Napoleon street, from
Hamburg place to Elm road, with btu
lithic; Hudson street, from Wallace
to Sussex avenue, with brick;
Essex street, with brick; Winans ave-
nue., with brick; Elizabeth avenue, from
Peddie street 10 Hawthorne avenue
with telford; Seymour avenue, from
Clinton avenue to Avon avenue, with
Komorn street, with bitulithic;
street, from Bowery 10 Ferry
street, with granite; Stanley avenue,
from Clinton venue to Avon avenue,
brick; Eighteenth avenue, from
South Tenth street to city line, with
brick: Brill street. from Bonykamper
VENUE to Passaic avenue, with brick:
South Eighth street. from Fourteenth
avenue to sixteenth venue with
brick; and George street, from ST.
Charles to Magazine street, with
Ordinances for opening of the fol-
owing streets were recommended to
he board: Milbrook place, from Sum
ner avenue to Shef1eld street; Fourth
street, from Park avenue to Sixth ave-
Bigelow street. from Chadwick
venue to Seymour avenue; North
and North Sixth streets, from
I62 feet north OF Park avenue to
Bloomfield avenue, and Runyon street,
rom Sherman avenue to Elizabeth