The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-12-04
j. F STANLEY CO.
AWARDED WOOD
PAVING CONTRACT
To Improve Market Street from
Depot to Court House
for $685..
PROPERTY-OWNERS
TO BE HEARD FIRST
Commissioner Eggers Objects to
WOrk-Says Process
Is Patented.

Despite the repeated declarations of
Mayor Haussling against wood block
pavement, the Board of Works yes
terday awarded the contract to pave
Market street from the Pennsylvania
railroad to the Court House with that
material to the j. F. Stanley Company
at ss9.5s5.'
This action was taken under paving
act 217, which provides that the con-
tracts be awarded Professionally, and to
be revoked If so per cent. of the prop
erty-owners object.
The Board of Works will give the
property-owncrs q chanc to be heard.
Commissioner Augustus Eggers de-
clared against the action in awarding
the contract, contending that it was a
patent pavement and should only be
laid when petitioued by the property
owners as in the case of other patent
pavements. =
Mayor Is Opposed.
Mayor Haussling has been opposed to
wood block and has vetoed every reso-
luton of the Board of Works for this
kind of pavement, and each time his
veto has been overruled by the board.
By placing the contract under 2t7 thu
Board of Works cannot be restrained
by the Common Council.
The matter was brought up by Com
missioner Thomas F. Ealpin, and was
opposed by Commissioner Augustus F.
Eggers, who declared that he would
| ROT annroyn If fho action hoipor ta len
under section 217.
Commissioner Halpin then moved
that the contract be awarded to the
Stanley company under section 217. He
said he moved this because then the
people could actually tell whether they
are opposed to the wood block, and
Commissioner Arthur r. Denman ac-
icepted his view on the matter and de-
clared that it was the only way to OBJ
tain the opinion of the people.
II appreciate the fact said
Mr.. Denman, that by the great
majority of citizens the ques-
ton of wooden blocks is misunder-
this to bring this objection out and
show the faultfinders where they are
wrong. There are citizens equally in
terested in both sides of the question.
Let them come before us, and II 80 per
cent. of them are opposed let them pre-
sent a petition in legal form, and it will
nullify any action of this board"
Lambert In Favor.
Commissioner Lambert then spoke in
favor of the motion and expressed the
belief with the others that it was the
only feasible method of getting the
matter closed.
while the property owners have not
actually petitioned for the wood blocks
he said, 'the storekeepers have petit
toned for q silent pavement, and only
wood blocks will give what they want,
That it is noisy there no one can doubt,
I know, because / had an Office there
for six years.
by awarding the contracts subject to
a hearing it. will cost the city only
some $3.50 for maps and specifications,
ETC., but It will be settled once and fol-
all. 1t is the only way to get the
people to come out one way or the
other"
President Book had very much the
same thing to say. He declared there
was no other way to get at the public
feeling except by a public hearing, and
unless the people knew that everything
depended on that hearing they were apt
to neglect it. He said the proposed
paving would be very much the cheap
est, because 1t would cost only from
s75 to 5000 a Tot, according to location.
He described the present method of
paving Broad and Market streets as
old-fashioned and back -woodsy,' and
said that the elimination of noise was
one of the chief problems of every big
city now.