The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-02
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fF CAPSULE o 49,
a FTER a M agitation to nut the water supply nder municipalc control
n Newark began to get water from tn Pequannock watershed May l. 1ssa
According IL thu contract the city vas to be supplied with 5oNWO 100 gallons OF
tbe chaser fluid daily. The strength and conservatism If Newark'sh naneia IN
stitutonsw va lever more stnkinsly demonstrated. thai during the panic ID
49, While throughout the country other institutions o. the kind were fanins
like dead leaves before a autumn wind there va lot even suspension =
specie payment here. Factories and mills were closed down or put o half time
but thu citizens had learnedb by litter experience just how to meet such atus-
HI suffering nd hardship to which the unemployed were usually SUBJ
s reduced to a minimum by a citizens aid movement underswhich
SAC II vas raised and distributed to unemployed workmen and their familss
In former years of panic rdef measures had been desultory and scattered all
though sincere n earnest enough. With thise element of system introduced
the situation as handled wonderfully well nd the darkw winter o 1sss1ss.
tded over.
A park commission was appointed in 1895. In the Following year began thu
building of he system OF country parks. N thsy yea also as begun work
which, transformers certain squauer lands N thu frontier to Branch Brook
Park, me OF the most beautiful parks of its sizei in the country. In 1896 also
"a appointed a commission 70 investigate the pollution OF tn Passac rive
and suggest remedies As the river was almost as polluted then as it is now.
it is possible to imagine such a thing, his commission had its hands full
After harmonzing varying and conflicting interests the commission is now in
a position to begin the construction of a great trunk sewer. once complete and
in operation it is believed this sewer will do much to restore the Pa@aic to
its pristine purity and glory, a contamination by the a., which is more d-
vouty to be wished for h a n onsummation which happens to come to
min mstn nov A contemplation of this pretty river restoreat to all Of thu pleas
int nd profitable uses to which it as put before it needed purifying SO much
makes a mental picture hichs seems almost toe good to be rue. This eeansed
and purified pamaic is however, promised Tor the very near future.
In 1897 was completed at a cost of $4,000 a new building for the Technical
School a valuable addition to school property of he city In the following
a new building for h High School vas erected. In that year can also
the Spanish -Ameican War. Newark was not more intimately concerned in
this short struggle than was the rest o. the country. The First regiment got
no nearer thu val han Sea Grit n Camp Alser. but tina was no fault of tho
First regiment There were n moree eager to ret to the front than these.
same Newark soldiers. but like thu majority Oft thu volunteers teroushox@SWJXk
country they were doomed to DISAPPOINTMENT. Every provision had beenGPPs =
for them, however, and s1461 was raised m distributed to the families, Il
those h enlisted in he hope of going to the 'front.' s11
In 1899 vas passed a most important act looking toward the reclanauon OF
the meadows. Later the Board of Trade, a body of public spirited merchants,
hnanciers and manufacturers organized in 1885,. which has done an unmeas-
urable amount Of good for Newark. offered pze of $1,000 for the best st
of plans for meadow reclamation. An appropriation Of 100000 for this sim
work vas secure last year., and with preliminary surveys Il has o
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