The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-08-19
REOPEN FIGHT TO
FORCE PAVING OF
MARKET Street
Vigorous Campaign Planned by
Business Mems improve
ment Association.
DISPUTE OVER THE
MATERIAL TO BE USED
Matter to Be Taken Up at Board
of Governors Meeting :.
Next Week.

After months of quiet, when everyone
thought the whole proposition was dead
and would not be heard of for another
year at least the question of the paw
ing of Market street from the Court
House to the Pennsylvania station is
again to be opened, it was learned to-
day This time it is the Market Street
Business Mems Improvement Associa-
ton that will take the initiative, and
The members are bent on agitating the
subject so vigorously that it will be
attended to with the first money. the
city finds available for the purpose.
The matter is to be taken up at the
meeting OF the board of governors of
the association, which will probably be
held next week. There has already been
some informal talk among those inter-
ested, but as a large majority of the
association members are away for the
summer, the subject will not be brought
up before a full meeting before Sep
tember.
When the paving proposition was
broached before there was some dis
sension concerning it. The result was
that nothing was ever done. That will
not be the case this time, however.
the merchants declare.
There is no doubt but that the mat
ter will be taken up at once" said
President Wakefield, of the association.
"We haven't taken any action as yet
because we do not want to start until
we have everyone here. ! do>not know
what kind of pavement will be laid or
even what the association will prefer,
but we must have pavement of some
kind. Everyone Is agreed on that.
AS say, We'll take it up at the next
meeting of the board of governors.
Then when the members have decided
what they want to do about it we will
put our petitions into circulation. We
won't have any trouble in getting
names enough to carry the thing
through. Everyone that 1 know of along
Market street wants it, 1t Is only a
question of what kind of pavement is
the best
DR.. Charles w. Menk, ofsthe associa-
tion, was equally certain of the out
come of the attempt to revive interest
in the proposition
I'VE were going TO take it UP before" F."
he said, "but we decided to wait until
fall, when we could go into the thing
thoroughly Before we do. anything
Aabout it we want to ha- general
, discussion by the members, and that
will probably be at the next meeting of
the association, which will be held the
second week in September. We must
have a pavement of some kind"
Another plan that Is looked on favor
ably is one advanced to the Board of
Works by Col. Charles w. Howard. II is
to take the present granite blocks with
which Market street is paved, recut
them, and lay them again on a con-
crete bed. Naturally they would have
to be supplemented by the use of some
new material. The work of recutting
and redressing, Colonel Howard said,
would cost less than one cent a block.
This. while it would not make a smooth
service street, would be suitable for
heavy traffic and would be a great i'm
provement on the present pavement,
besides making the cost considerably
less than it would be if the city were
forced to buy all new material.