The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-02-18
HALL ANNEX
INADEQUATE, SAYS
FINANCE BODY
Trouble with Building Is Feared
by Committee of Common
Council.
BOND ISUE ASKED
FOR WATERSHED LAND
Want Sl7,5OO Public Comfort
Station Built in Military
Park.

mon Council at its meeting last night
took up nearly all of the problems that
have been confronting it and even went
so Tar as to unearth one or two new
ones. The inadequacy of the City Hall
annex, which was turned over as fin
ished by the City Hall Commission to
The building committee on Monday
night, was one Of the latter.
w are going to nave trouble with
that building before we get through
with it, commented Alderman Congle-
ton, chairman of the committee.
A new bond issue. of $l00,0 600 to ac-
quire more land in the watershed was
also decided upon, while City Engineer
Morris K. Sherrerd requested tina the
committee lend its aid 10 pass tine bill,
now before the Legislature, providing
for the issue of $4,000 worth of bonds
by the city for the purpose of further
investigating the plan for a trunk
eve Another request, by Secretary
Carl Bannwart, of the Shade Tree Com
mission, for ST, 500 TO ia contract sta
ton in Military Park, was placed OH
the top of a pile of similar requests
until the city is financially able to
meet 1t.
Delec.S In annex.
The matter of the effects, of which
there appeared to be many in the City
Hall annex, was brought to the atten-
ton of'the committee by Alderman Nc
Gowan, who said hat the quarters as
signed to the inspector of gas and gas
meters were entirely inadequate and
that no provision had been made for
the testing of the old meters. The
whole building seemed to have been
built expressly for the Board of Works,
Mr.. MCGOWAN declared, as it had Sc
cured all the good quarters. The steam
heating equipment was faulty, too, the
arrangement being such that any diff
Guilty in the valve in the engine room
would put a pressure of 80 pounds per
square inch on the radiators which
might easily result in their bursting.
Chairman Congleton was also dis
satisfied with the place. The City Hall
Commission had no legal right to assign
any rooms to any one, he aid
Engineer Sherrerd's request for the
means wherewith to purchase more
watershed property brought forth the
suggestion from Alderman MCGOWAN
that the city acquire by condemnation
the property of the Standard Oil Com
pany at Newfoundland, which he de-
scribed as the one blot on the whole
water supply property owned by the
city.
The city engineer said thai such a
move would probably cost 81, 600, 900, as
over thirty miles of pipeline would
have to be relaid. Steps were now be-
ing taken, he said, to protect the city
from bursting pipes. Even should one
of them burst, or a tank explode, the
city would be able to subsist on the
contents of the two reservoirs left after
the one at Cedar Grove was shut oft
Comptroller Bachelor was instructed to
have the necessary resolution for the
bonds ready in time for the meeting to-
morrow night.
Bonds for Trunk Sewer.
The city engineer also appeared in be-
half of the bond issued concerning the
trunk sewer. He stated tina the report
of the Passaic Valley Sewerage Com
mission did not show how the Newark
sewer system is to be connected with
the runk sewer.
I'VE need the $50, 000.' he said, "to
help the commission get at these ques-
tons and prepare plans that we can go
ahead and issue contracts on, if neces-
sary. | think VIC have no right to place
ourselves in the hands of the commits
sion and pledge the city to a debt OF
$6, 1000, 900 without knowing what we arc
going to get for our money. If by any
chance the whole plan should fall
through, the $50, 900 would be %returned
to the city with 5 per cent. interest"
In asking for the ST, 500 to construct
the public comfort station in Military
Park, Mr.. Bannwart said that there
were more than 10, 900 people passing
the spot selected, near the Kearny
statue, every day. City Auditor
George Forman, in response to a ques-
ton by Chairman Congleton, said that
the money would not be available untii
July Alderman Whitfield suggested
that, as the public was demanding the
station. the request be placed at the !
head of a list of similar requests.
Three new banking institutions were
added to the list of those designated for
repositories of city money. They are
the Roseville Trust Company, the Amer
lean Commercial Bank and the Newark |
Trust Company.
Judge Simon Hahn's request that Isa-
dore Rosenbluth be appointed an inter-
prefer in his court was laid over anti
Friday, in order that the civil service
certificate might have time to reach the
committee before the appointment was
made 1