The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-22
North Arlington Councilman
Says Suburban Representative
Offered $3.50 for His Vote.
PRESIDENT BEALE
ENTERS A DENIAL.
Dramatic Climax Furnished in
Effort of Rival Concerns
to Secure Contract.

For a full two minutes there was an
almost ~breathless. stiffness IN the North
! Arlington Council meeting last night
after Councilman Edward O'Hara had
thrown his verbal bomb In the an
nouneement that the Suburban Water
Company had tried to buy his vote on
the borough water contract.
After the meeting Mr.. O'Hara was
asked If he would enlarge upon his
statement, but he declined. This is
what he said in the meeting:
1.-THE Suburban Water Company sent
a representative to me and offered me
$3.50 to vote to give them the contract.
They offered me more, and can prove
IT. | am a poor man and have a mort
gage on my house. 1 could use $500 or
$1,000. but | want it honest. Any man
who would vote for that company under
those circumstances is no man.
The incident furnished a climax in
the Jersey C~ity-Suburban Water Com
psny fight for the contract to supply
North Arlington with water.
OHara's statement followed a wran-
gle between superintendent J. w.
Grinen, of the Jersey City Water
Company, and Robert Shane, a citizen
of North Arlington. Shane commended
that the Jersey City water was impure
and said that seven years ago it was
condemned by the borough Board of
Health. He declared he had had the
water analysed by a chemist but re-
fused to divulge the iatter's name.
First Demonstration Unsatisfactory.
The Council was petitioned by the
taxpayers of the borough, twenty-eight
IN number. to make a contract with a
company that could supply pure water
and give a satisfactory pressure. It
appears that a short time ago. Jersey
City made a demonstration and could.
furnish a pressure of only thirty-eight
pounds when $50 pounds were neces-
sary for a perfect test. The Jersey
CITY concern last night received pernis-
sion from the Council to make another
test; this time the company promises a
2~O0-pound pressure. The Jersey CITY
company offers water at the rate Of
$50 per 1.000,0 600 gallons. while the
0NDAA oaA 1OAnpdng dShS Sc-.0U lOT tle
same mount.
superintendent Richard xeale of the
suburban Company was present at the
meeting, and told the council that the
company he represented would be will
ing 70 make q connection with North
Arlington pipes and give a ~demonstya-
ton. He said that the Suburban waf&
was superior in every way to that fur-N
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Veale he was joking.
Councilman O'Hara turned to Veale
n said:
Would yo6 have nerve to represent
that after it sends men to
bride oficials?"
Neale answered that he stood on his
own feet and was not responsible for
anything except what he himself did.
Present at the meeting we're: Street
n Water Board Commissioners G.. J..
Brackner, Louis L. Finke and John E.
Carlock.
Mr.. Beale's Denial.
Turner A. Beale, president of the
Suburban Water Company. at his
home, II East Thirty-third street, New
York. said last night:
Councilman O'Hara's statement fs
untrue, SO far as 1 know. No one in
the employ of u company had author
ity to make any such offer. 1 shall be-
gin an investigation at once. and if Mr..
O'Hara should be correct win sum-
marily dismiss the guilty person or
persons. I wish Mr.. O'Hara would
name the man.
1.-The whole proceeding is news TO me,
and l can only say that so far as Mr..
O'Hara's statement concerns the au-
thorization of this company 10 anyone
to make such an offer it is simply UNI
true"