Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-07-29
TWO COMPANIES
ENCROACH UPON
DISPUTED Street
Helps of Ashes and Old Cans
Also Repose on Third
Avenue.

Third avenue from Passaic street to
the river is supposed to be a public
street. Ii so appears on the city maps,
and. in fact, the city owns a public
dock at the foot of the street, but the
ordinary citizen who goes forth In
search of either the dock or the end
of the street will need a guide to
direct him.
Immediately to the east of tbs Erie
raiifs1ad t tcks, which cross Third ave-
nue.. at Passaic street. there is an eight
foot- fence that effectually closes the
dodk to all but the two concerns whose
pig nts abutt on the street. These
pl'lnts are the Standard Oil Company
OH the north and the Newark Blue
stone Company on the south
shnnty in street.
A little to one side of what would be
h centre of the street is a fiagman's
shanty. while a little beyond 1t and
occupying a point exactly in the centre
of the street is a mile-post erected
by the railroad company, which bears
the information that from that point
1t Is ten miles to Paterson and eight
miles to Jersey City.
To gain access to the dock and to
reach the continuation of the street 1t
Is necessary to squeeze through aIsmall
opening in the fence at one side of the
f1agman's shanty. Once inside the
fence the investigator will find a con-
dition of chaos that well-nigh battles
description. Immense piles of rubbish
litter the street." while the two hun
bred and odd feet between the fence
and the dock are taken up by noun
tains of ashes, old cans, discarded tin
roofing, br~oken-down wagons, stacks of
barrels and a heterogeneous mass or
stuff that would easily cause one to
believe that the street and dock was
the last resting place of all the rubbish
that the ~neighboring firms had no other
place to put.
Additionally a boiler-house belonging
ito the Standard Oil Company infringes
upon the street to the extent of about
ten feet on the north, while on the
south the sheds of the Newark Blue
stone Company overlap to probably
twice that distance. This latter condl-
ton is probably the most interesting
feature of the whole situation.
Back in 1904, and some say even be-
fore that time, the Standard Oil Com
pan entered into a verbal agreement
with the then existing Board of Works
whereby the city was to receive $12.5O
a month for the use of part of the
street, evidently that portion occupied
by the boiler-house 1t is said that
the agreement was Endorsed by Com
missioners Garrison, Munday and Bal,
lard, who appeared at that time tt
have had charge of matters affecting
the city's streets.
YVES Perpetual Grant.
The arrangement was evidently iii
the nature of a perpetual grant, as ynt
written agreement is in existence ant
there is nothing to show exactly wna'
the Standard OIL Company was to re
ceive for it's S12.50 a month. The fac
hat the company has sine been using
a goodly share of the dock aLsC tht
rest of the street would seem
indicate that the Standard people ar,
reasonably sure of the extent to which
they can go in occupying that par
of Third avenue.
The minutes of the Board of Works
for the year 1904 are missing, and il
fact 1t has not been possible to locate
them for some time, so that if the ar
rangement made with the STANDARD
Oil Company was made a matter OF
record in that veal it is impossible
to find out just what was arranged for
Matters continued in pretty much the
same shape until April of the present
year, when an effort was made to have
the Standard people pay something
near what the property was worth tha
they were using. 1t was suggested th;lt
800 a month would be a fair price, hui
the Standard Oil Company laughed al
the idea and offered $25. This offer
vas accepted and since May of this
year the rental Cor the lower part OF
Third avenue has, been $25 a month.
The Newark Bluestone Company
pays nothing for~its share of the street,
but this is now owing to any failure
on the city's part to try to collect
something. When the proposition was
put up to the company, which was then
known as the Woodward Company,
they very promptly said that they had
deeds to show that they wned the lend
nearly up to the centre of the stree;
and could not see where they owed the
city anything. The law department
then got busy and after a while found
that the company had some ground for
their claim. In fact, the status Of the
stone company's claim looked So good