The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-08
NUMBER OF
STREETSARE TO Be
PAVED IN 1909
Half a Million to Be Expended
BY the City for I'M
p%rOyenlents.

The list of streets to be paved in
1903 Under the supplement to section
2l0, known as the Newark paving act,
which allows the expenditure Of $780,
| 900, was tentatively adopted at a con
ference of the Board of Work yester-
day, with Chief Engineer Morris r.
Sherrerd and Street Engineer Howell.
The list is large, and while it has been
definitely settled to pave a large num-
Der, including alleys and courts in
the centre of HI city, some will not
be paved If it is found that the appro-
priation is exhausted.
If the appropriation is exhausted be-
| fore the principal work is finished then
the board can work under section 2l7
of the law of 1895, known as h Jersey
| City paving act, which allows it to
expend any sum without restraint by
the Common Council, subject to a
hearing of property-owners, which If
80 per cent. object the work cannot
be carried on.
Streets to be Paved First.
Following are the streets that will be
attended to first:
Fillmore street, from Ferry to Mar
ket street, with brick; Mt. Prospect
avenue. from Elwood to Verona ave-
nue., with brick; Fourth avenue, from
North Eleventh street to city line, with
asphalt; Malvern street, from Pacific
street to Wheeler Point road, granite on
concrete; Market street, from Ferry to
Clover street, bitulithic on bituminous
oo-o,N.. utnraa efraat from Snrinp-
field avenue to South Fourteenth street
with brick; Maine street, from Ferry
to kossuth street, with granite on con-
crete; Christie street, from Passaic te
Bonykamper avenue, with granite on
concrete; Parker street, from Second
to Bloomfield avenue. with brick; NIL
brook place, from Sheffield street to
Summer avenue, with brick. The alleys
and short streets that will be paved
are: Comes alley, from Bank TO Acad-
envy street; Nicholson street, from
William to Augusta street; Augusta
street, from Plane to Shipman street
Pearl street, from Washington street to
Chapel court; Chapel court, from Will
lam to Pearl street; Arlington street
from Market to Court street; Willow
street, from Washington to Plane
street; Nichols alley, from Plane to
! Arlington street; Camfield street, from
Ealsey to Washington 10 Halsey street
Rector street, from Broad to From
street. -
Later improvements.
The streets that will receive second
consideration are Warwick street, from
Pacific to Adams streets, granite OF
bitulithic; South Eighteenth street
from Clinton to South Orange avenues
with brick; South Twelfth street, from
Eleventh avenue to Twelfth avenue
with brick; Ashland street, from Four
teenth to South Orange avenues, witt
brick; Fourteenth avenue, from Soutf
Tenth street to city line, with brick
Thomas street, from New Jersey Rail
road avenue to Dawson street, witt
granite; Earl, Hunter and Alpine
! streets, from Elizabeth to Frelinghuy'
sen venue with brick; Sherman ave
nue., from Pioneer to Peddie streets
with brick: Cabinet street. from New
ark(to South Sixth streets, with granite
or brick; Lock street, from Warner
street to Central avenue. with brick
Hunterdon street, from Bigelow stree
to Hunter avenue, with brick.
The residents of Prospect street peti
ton that their street be paved will
wood block from Ferry to Marke
streets. This is the first petition fol
wood block in this city.