The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-23
MANY STREETS IN
CENTRE OF CITY TO
Be PAVED SHORTLY
Assistant Engineer Declares as
Much as $40, 900 May Be
Left Over.

A number of contracts for paving and
repaving streets and for the construc-
ton of sewers were awarded by the
Board of Works yesterday afternoon.
and notices of intention were ordered
for h repaving of one block street in
the centre of the city now paved with
cobblestones, and for paving streets in
outer wards. Assistant Engineer
Howell said, in reply to a question,
there would be a balance of $4,000 left
of the $500. 900 street improvement fund
for this year after all the streets to be
paved are completed.
Contract Awarded.
The John F. Stanley Company was
awarded the contract for repaf,ing
Division place. from East Park street
to Centre street, for Sc, 656. so; also for
paving Rector street, from Broad to
Front street, with bituhithic, s7,579.20
and Nichols street, from Van Buren, to
Tyler street, bituhithic. 81, S93.40. DANA
to & ~Steffanelli got the contract for a
sewer in Passaic avenue, at 81, 452. so.
The Newark Paving Company got the
contract for paving Willow street.
Plane to Washington street. SLAP. so:
West Kinney place, 800 feet south from
West Kinney street. 81, 506; Monroe
court, 81. $40. Van Keuren & Son got
the contract for paving Cross and Di-
vision streets, from Spring to Ogden
streets, the first at s3,247.6S, the second
at $2,S23.40. Bid were opened for sew
ers in Division place, Woodside place
7 q nd Nf0ta1I- -+-not -
contracts were laid over until next
week.
Notices of intention were ordered for
repaving Durand, Pine and Boudinot
streets. each one block. Mr.. Denman
said all the short streets in the centre
of the city should be repaved.
Ocean Avenue Sewer.
Ordinances were introdu,. I to sewer
Ocean avenue, to open Devine street 300
feet south to South Orange avenue.
and to vacate Old Bloomfield road
from Highland ven to Lake street.
Ordinances were passed for opening
Cameron street, Johnson avenue, Ridge
wood avenue and Weequahic avenue,
west.
An agreement between the city nud
the Board of Fr%eeholders that the
county shall pay its share of the cost
of repaving Bloomfield avenue-about
$50, 000-was approved.
A request was read from the Insur-
ance Fund Commission for a list of
the properties the board has insured,
the rates, etc.
Two property-owners asked that
North Twelfth street be paved from
Fourth to Fifth avenues. Ten or fifteen
houses are being erected on the block,
with seven more in sight. They were
advised to see the Croker & Wheeler
Company and learn if they want their
block paved, and report next week.
Opening Carlisle Place.
A notice of intention was ordered for
the opening of Carlisle place. from Og-
den to Broad street, opposite the south
end of Belleville avenue, the street to
be sixty-six feet wide. This is a new
phase of the old proposition to widen
Clay street, from Broad street to the
Passaic river. The city will have to
buy the land through the block for
the street. At the prices asked by prop
erty-owners the improvement would
cost Upward of $140. 900, but 1t is esti-
mated that by condemnation proceed
ings it will cost about $4,000.
In the matter of the complaint of
citizens living in the upper part of
Belleville avenue, about the noise made
by trolley cars run On light rails, the
board voted, on motion of Mr.. Halpin,
to ask City Counsel Nugent to take up
that matter and also the failure of the
trolley people to put tracks in East
Ferry and other streets in good condi-
ton, and also to advise the board as to
the method by which 1t a force the
trolley company to put tracks in good
condition, as he had advised that the
city has that power.