Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-02-09
BIG PARK AVENUE
IMPROVE ENT TO
COST $4,000
Essex County Commission Will
Open Bids for COnstruc-
ton at Once.

County Park Commission, authorizing
an immediate start on the work on the
grading, paving and general renovation
of Park avenue throughout it's entire
length, bids will at once be opened for
the contract. The work will begin, ii
is expected, within two or three weeks.
The plans for the improvements We're
made by Park Commission Engineer A.
NJ. Reynolds, and called for a storm
water drainage system, to cost approx
mately $50, 900; and, where the width of
the venue is fifty feet or more, a
planting strip in the middle, to be ten
feet in width, and surrounded by curb
ing. The cost of the drainage system,
which is to be constructed of concrete,
will be betrayed by the municipalities
through which Park avenue runs, New
ark. Orange, East Orange and West
Orange, by assessments on the property
owners whose property abuts on the
avenue. The paving will be a modern
waterproof bituninous macadam, it is
understood, although 10 definite kind
has yet been specified.
The plans have been approved by all
the municipalities concerned, and reso-
lutions concerning their part in the
cost of the improvements will shortly be
introduced in the governing bodies.
The total cost of the improvement will
approximate $115,000.
The ire of the Park Commission
against the local Board of Works be-
cause of the condition of the streets
surrounding the parks founde expression
in a letter which Secretary Alonzo
Church was directed to write. For
some years the streets about the county
parks have been unpaved, for the rea-
| son, it is understood, that the city is
unable to assess the Park Commission
for any improvements made on streets
surrounding the parks. The letter
reads-as follows:
81 am directed by the Essex County
Park Commission to call your atten-
ton to the very bad condition of the
following streets bordering on the
parks:
South Fourteenth street, between
Sixteenth and Eighteenth avenues;
Duryee street, between Sussex avenue
and Orange street, and Lake street,
between Park avenue and Bloomfield
avenu
"The county of Essex has expended
a large sum of money in the improve
ment of parks abutting on these
streets. and the streets themselves are
in an atrocious condition. SO much so
that it is dangerous to drive through
them at some seasons of the year. In
summer the dust and filth Is blown
from these streets into the parks along
which they run, to the great annoy
ance Of the people in the parks.
1.-The commission earnestly requests
your honorable body to pave these
streets this year, and l am directed
by the commission to ask thai you re-
ply to this communication as soon as
you conveniently can. e
(Signed) '"ALONZO CHURCH,
Secretary"
The desire of Caldwell, Essex FEELS
and other municipalities beyond Sec
ond mountain for a park was expressed
In a letter received yesterday from
Thomas S. Gladding, chairman oil a
Joint committee from those towns, re-
euesting a hearing before the Park
Commission on the matter. The plan
of action proposed by the committee
it is understood. is to ask the Lesls-
lature for authorization for a bond Is
sue. February q was set as the date
when the Park Commission VIII re-
ceive the committee.
In reply to a query from the west
End. Second Ward, Vailsburg and nv
ington Improvement Associations as 10
the attitude of the, park commission
towards receiving the speedway IL tne
freeholders should be WILING TO turn
it over to them, it was said that UNI
der no condition could the park COM
mission receive the speedway. The main
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not connected with any part of the
county park system.
Permission vas granted the Road
Horse Association to hold a meet on
the ice at Weequahic Park lake pro-
viding the ice does not disappear.
James M. Beldon preferred the request
for the Road Horse Association.
Were perfectly willing to have you
hold the race said a member of the
commission, but well have to refer
the matter to the ice, as it's melting
rapidly"
Secretary Church was instructed to
make diligent inquiries into the care Of
sheep, the best kind of shepherd dogs
and the probable number of q flock
that Weequahic Park would support,
will the view OF determining the adj
visibility of maintaining a flock of
sheep on the Weequahic Park turf. The
purchase of a number of gray squirrels
to be installed at Branch Brook and
Weequahic parks was authorized by
the commission The New Jersey Fish
and Game Commission has agreed to
turn loose in the South Mountain
Reservation a large number of grouse,
quail and p~heasants.
A patriotic citizen of the Oranges,
David J.. Pierson, wrote to the Park
Commission recommending hat a flag
pole be erected on Eagle Rock. in order
that "Old Glory might float trium-
phantly out over the breeze, to inspire
the Oranges, Newark-and Hoboken,
possibly-with patriotism. A letter was
written to Mr.. Pierson explaining that
In the plans of the casino to be erected
this wear at Eagle Rock a fagpole will
,,a.% suraIv he included.