Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-04-14
CLEANER STREETS
DEMAND Of BOARD
OF TRADE MEN
Plan to Eliminate Politics from
Department and Enforce
= Rules Against Litter.
COMMITTEE REPORTS
ON IT'S INVESTIGATION
Chief Engineer Sherrerd Tells OF
the Working of Cleaning
: Department.

In an effort to get leaner streets and
to attain a higher degree of efficiency in
street cleaning, the Board of Trade has
i~naugurated a movement to eliminate
the STRENGTHENING department from
politics and to enforce ordinances
against the littering of streets by the
public. The movement got it's start
last night at the meeting of the Board
of Trade when the street committee
presented a voluminous report.
AS a solution of the dirty street prob
lem a competent single head of the
STRENGTHENING department is advised.
The board decided that q committee,
appointed by the president should con-
fer with the police commissioners, the
Board of Health and the school com-
missioners in the attempt to keep the
city streets clean.
Politics ought to be eliminated in
handling the street cleaning depart
ment, although it is not respon-
sible for the conditions" said chief
engineer Morris r. Sherrerd. "Of course,
we employ a lot of men who keep
themselves out of the poorhouse by
working in the street cleaning depart
ment-
'They are anxious to earn a few dol
lars a week because they have some
pride about them and don't want to be
supported by the city. We have now
3O6 regular men in our employ, and they
get an average of IS a week. All able
bodied men want more. l think we can
do pretty well with those old men, who
are entitled to our consideration, if we
"a find a UNIV m prponizn tlafn - E
The report of the street committee
In part follows:
The appeal that has been made to this
Board of. Trade by the business men of
the city ~justifies an investigation regarding
methods, and j%ustifes also the Offering o.
a report relating to this subject
Ten years ago the total appropriation
for streets and highways amounted to $l23,-
74s: for the year 1903 the total appropriation
amounted to S343. 1880. In 1900 a committee
of this board offered a presentment con
demning In the strongest possible terms
the inefficiency of the street cleaning
of bushes administration. basing the re-
port upon what appears to your COMMITTEES
to have been conditions very much similar
to that existing at the present time:
The intervening years between 1900 and
1910 shows an average increase in the
amount of appropriations made annually
Zee of this board, after a complete research
and study of the problem of street cleanr
ing, submitted a report again condemning
the want of efficiency, want of direction
ard want of a system,
In the report offered in 1905 it was stated
that the question had been thoroughly
canvassed with the members of the Board
OF Works of that year and positive assur-
ences were secured that q district system
would he instituted. that a force of able
bodied men would be employed. that pol
itics would be kent out OF the department.
and that Newark would be given clean
streets and highways on condition that this
Board of Trade would exert it's influence
TO secure an increase in the approximation.
The obligation was Ssuned hv this
hoard and the APPROPRIATION asked for was
secured from the finance committee Of
Common Council. and the following year
another appropriation Of s1o0,00 0 additional