The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-04-13
SIGNS MUST
COME DOWN
Street Department Notifies Busi.
ness Men to Remove Oh.
Structions in Sixty Days.
CRUSADE AGAINST HAY MARKET


Street Commissioner Howard Cole
served notices on many business men
requiring them to remove within sixty
days all encumbrances and obstruc-
tions they may maintain upon or over
the sidewalks. The notices say that
no more signs extending across the
streets or sidewalks or any framework
for supporting any roof or awning
shall be erected and the present signs
and frameworks are to come down
within the time limit. Signs hung on
brackets or extending over any street
or sidewalk are limited under the new
rules to five feet in width from the
building line and at least seven and
one-half feet above the sidewalk.
The street committee of the board
of aldermen will issue permits for
erection at the curb line Of call bell
posts not exceeding six inches in dia-
meter and eight feet in height and
wire connections must be carried UNI
der the sidewalks, and any sign placed
on these posts must not exceed 144
inches in area. Ordinary adjustable
awnings are permitted upon approval
but must have a clearance Of at least
six and one-half feet above the side
walk. Permits for temporary en-
croachments may be granted by the
committee.
6 Yes sir, If these signs and awning
frames are not taken down by their
owners said Commissioner Cole,
8 sixty days from to-day you will find
men and wagons loaded with tools be-
ing sent out from my office to take
them down." We mean business
and no favor will be shown, said he,
$. no one has a pull with me-
"a gang of laborers were set to clean
ing up Flagler street, the Italian
quarter, Saturday morning. One
bright little urchin said to the COM
missioner who was supervising the
work, Hey, mister, are you cleaning
up for Easter ?" The commissioner re-
piled that such was the case and sug-
| gested that the youngsters of the
neighborhood pick up the tin cans
and rubbish laying about. Returning
an hour late Commissioner Cole found
that an-inpromptu improvement soci-
ETY. had been organized by the children
and cans and rubbish were being piled
up neatly for the street department
wagons to cart away.
A matter that will soon claim the
attention of the street department is
the habit Of farmers driving into town
with loads of hay have in stopping
along Park place and leaving their
teams there while they hunt up a pur-
chaser. The hay is blown from the
wagons and litters the streets, while
often the horses are unhitched and
turned around facing the load and are
allowed to pull the hay down upon the
ground to eat it. 1t is a custom which
to say the least is very untidy.
The park has recently been beauti-
fed and extra efforts are being taken
to keep it clean but which are inef-
fective while the hay wagons are al
lowed nearby.
One morning recently Commissioner
Cole sent force of men into the park
and it was cleaned up as clean as
whistle. During the noon hour sew
eral hay wagons were assembled on
one side Of the green and the wind
soon had hay strewn all over the grass.
Some Of the citizens assert that as.
Morristown is a county seat it must
provide some place for the farmers to
bring there hay and Town Counsel
Edward X. Mills has been requested
to look up the law by the street de-
partment. 1t is possible that the
town may secure some piece of prop
erty for hay market or the farmers
will be compelled to drive their loads
into the hotel stable yards
A crusade against bridges over gut
ters is about to be started. There are
about 450 in the town and possibly
100 are used The town has main
tained a number over the cutters at
street crossings but the street depart
ment has gang Of men at work tear
ing them out and replacing them with
4 the regulation flag and cobble stone
crossing. Just as soon as the town
completes this work the department
will get after the private citizens and
compel them to abolish their bridges.