The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-20
ACT To ELIMINATE
DEATH CROSSINGS
IN TWELFTH WARD
Many Victims in That and
Neighboring Districts, Alder
man Dolan Says.
PUBLIC SERVICE TO
RUN PAY-WITHIN CARS
Board of Works Awards Many
Contracts for Paving
and Sewers.

City Counsel James r. Nugent wa.
directed by the Board OF Works at it.
meeting yesterday afternoon to SCI
what could be done about eliminating
the grade crossings in the Twelfth ant
neighboring wards. The step was taker
as a result of a resolution introduced
at the last Common Council meeting
by Aldermen Doian. n referred tt
the Board of Works for action.
In the resolution the alderman called
attention to the number of such cross.
ings in his district. He declared thai
many lives had already been lost be.
cause of the lack of iagmen and gates
at some Of them, and said tina as lone
as they remained unprotected they
were unsafe.
In his report to the board yesterday
Trolley Inspector Joseph Crawford
stated that on September / the Public
Service Corporation would begin plac-
ing 225 new "pay within cars on the
trolley lines of the city.
AS a matter of fact the Public Service
Corporation has almost three hundred
cars in the shop, which are being con-
verified into a new type of the pay-as-
y~ou-enter cars. The rear platform OF
these cars is being heightened and they
are being equipped with gates, to be
operated by the conductors. These
gates will make it impossible for any
che to get on or off a car while 1t Is in
motion.
The first twenty of these new cars
will be ready during the first week In
September, and will be installed on the
Union Hill line In Hudson county.
After that they will be turned out of
the shops at the rate of two a day and
will be used in equipping the Bergen
and Clifton lines In Newark, and In
completing the equipment of the Or
ange, Plank Road, Turnpike and Kear-
ny lines. Later the Valley Road line in
Montclair. the Orange cross-town line
and the Paterson line will be supplied
with the new cars. The last of them
will be at work before Christmas.
The Apshawa Company, which owns
about 500 acres of land In the vicinity
of Butler. was represented by former
Senator Thomas j. Hillery at the meet.
ing of the finance committee yesterday
in an offer to dispose OF the property
to the city for watershed purposes for
$50, 900. The maps were left with City
Engineer Morris r. Sherrerd for his In
y~estigation. p
A protest was made by Colonel James
w. Howard against the way in which
the specifications for street paving
were worded. Mr.. Sherrerd told him
that the points he brought up had all
been corrected six weeks age.
Resolutions awarding the following
contracts were passed:
For the construction of the Wood
side place sewer. to Joseph Iandusco.
Sc, 062. so; for grading and curbing Wood
side place from Summer avenue to Ar
lirgto,, avenue. to Philip and Peter
J%annarone, 1862. 20, and for building
the sewer In Ocean avenue, from West
End avenue to Oakdale avenue, to
Joseph Iandusco. $743. so.
Ordinances wera passed for the
widening of Clay street, the paving of
Eigelow street, between Bergen street
and Seymour avenue, and for the paw
ing of Millbrook place, from Sheffield
street to ummer lei