The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-15
OFFICIALS LAUO
MAYORS MEADOW
RECLAMATION PLAN
Agree at Enthusiastic Meeting
That the Sooner Work Is Start
ed the Better for Newark.

Representatives from nearly all the
branches of the city government, from
the Board of Trade and from the sew
eral Improvement organizations of the
city gathered in the Board of Works
rooms yesterday to voice their approval
of Mayor Haussl;ng's scheme for
meadow reclamation.
With the one exception of elias G..
Heller everyone who spoke was in
favor of the plan. He was not pposeu
to 1t, but counseled more caution than
the others thought necessary.
city Auditor George Forinan pre-
sented figures to prove the advantage
of the mayors proposition.
"It seems to me from a little study
of the mayors message" he said, that
the mayor has outlined the wisest ara
most far-sighted plan that any mayor
has submitted to the city in Fifty years.
The meadows today are agreed to be a.
nuisance. The meadows can be de-
yeloped with an expenditure of S2o,-
900. 900, and In twenty years they will
bring back 500, 900, 900, maybe $15O. ooO.-
900, to the city. I do not know how this
reclamation project can be worked cut,
but do know that 1t can and must
be. Bremen, with the same population
as Newark, spent s25, 900, 900 on her
docks and water front, and the money
ha been we'll spent"
Board of Works Commissioner Arthur
r. Denman presided over the meeting.
With him sat Mayor Haussling and
Pre- sident william Pennington, Of the
Common Council. The Mayor was the
first speaker.
IF we get the meadows said the
mayor, instead of ranking tenth or
eleventh among the manufacturing
cities of the country, we will rank near
the first. This strip of land can be
made to make Newark one of the great
est manufacturing cities in the world"
He said hat he had brought the
matter to the attention of the board on
account of the number of communica-
lions he had received from large manu-
featuring concerns asking for dock
space and factory facilities. lie eaid
that he believed the way to do was for
the city to begin at once acquiring the
Congressman Eugene r. Kinkead, of
Jersey City, said that several years
ago, when he was president of the
Board of Aldermen of Jersey City, he
had advocated the acquiring of the land
along the Hackensack.
"I am glad to see Newark take up
this project, which is stupendous," he
said. II might say that it is one of
the biggest municipal projects ever at
tempted in this country"
Former Board of Works Commits
sioner Frank j. Book was strong in
his praises for the scheme. He said
tina he knew of one concern that
wanted thirty-five acres Of and near
deep water, and that recently 800 acres
of land on Jamaica bay, no better
situated han the meadows, had sold
for $3.50, 900. Even the talk that the
city proposed to take possession of the
would boost prices, he said.
George F. Reeve, president of the
Board of Trade. and Calvin w. Tom
and Peter Campbell, two of the
members, also spoke in favor of the
proposition, the two latter counseling
Richard C. Jenkinson, chair
man of the Board of Trade committee
which has the meadows matter in
hand, said that his committee had not
reported as yet.
Sanford Ross, who has improved a
tract of the meadows near Eliza
beth, said that while he did not think
the city should take up all Of
the meadows, he thought 1t would be
wise for 1t to acquire a part of them.
He did not believe it would be as easy
for the city to get tenants as 1t would
be for a private individual.
President Pennington said:
81 see nothing but inestimable benefit
to Newark in this proposition. Even
the talk of such a proposition will show
our city is enterprising and will
ing to make the most of it's natural
I don't want to discuss
ways and means, but only wish
to commend the Mayor for the splen-
did stand he has taken.
II believe that we ought to take up
this matter at once. Let us get busy
on 1t. Let us make up our mind on
the policy we ought to pursue. I do
not want to be dismayed by ways and
means. The project is a big and splen-
did oneb