The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-04-05
COMMITTEE TO
INVESTIGATE
Question as to Morristown's s
Settlement Viii Be Looked
Into BY Appointees.
MANY MATTERS CONSIDERED

M0ff1SUOWH S6bUltuCuu Uilio idii " oS
handed a hard jolt at the board Of al
lermen meeting Friday evening. Al
cermen r. Rallston Reed, who is the
chairman of a committee Of fifty citi-
zens appointed by Mayor Theodore
Ayers to arrange the celebration, told
the board that as a controversy had
arisen as to whether the date of the
towns settlement was ITO or lTl5
he would suggest that the mayor ap-
point a committee of five to investi-
gate the date, in the meanwhile the
original committee Of fifty to canvass
the lodges and merchants and see
whether an Old Home Week cele-
bration would be advisable if the an
niversary celebration scheme was
found premature.
Alderman Kinsley Twining assertcd
that an Old Home Week. did not
meet with his approval. The town
had many ways to spend money but
little to spend and he thought it could
be spent to more advantage in other
ways than in having celebration
just for the sake OF a good time. II
the committee found that Morrisbown
was settled in ITO he favored cele-
bration but he doubted very much
that it would find it so.
Alderman Reed then amended his
motion, leaving out the section re-
garding the Old Home Week and
the committee Of five was ordered to
report to the aldermen at their next
meeting
Town Counsel Edward K. Mills adj
vised the board that it was up to the
board of health to make regulations
regarding the smoke nuisance and
cited several ordinances, copies Of
which he had received from other
cities including one from Pittsburg.
The smoke, he said, was unhealthy
and clearly came under the jurlsdlc7
tion of the health officials. Alderman
Twining asserted that smoke regula-
tion was needed here before it became
a greater nuisance and upon his mo-
tion it was ordered that the health
board be advised of the facts and be
urged to take some action in the mat
ter
Street Commissioner Howard j. Cole
reported that the streets had received
their spring cleaning but would have
to have the surface gone over again
before they would be ready for the
application of oil for laying the DUST
The purchase of tank wagon for
sprinkling and Of the laying Of sever al
new cross walks was also enumerated.
The department. of sewers report
showed three inspections and seven
teen applications for permits to con-
meet with the sewer, all OF which were
granted.
Through the sewer committee the
board-of sewerage notified the alder
men that S52, 900 was needed for sewer
purposes this month. The mayor and
clerk we're authorized to discount four
notes for $1,000 each to pay current
sewer bills.
John @. Williams and Edward @.
Keasbey, representing property own
ers on Miller road petitioned the
board TO take over as town road that
thuroughfare. They asserted that the
road was 1880 feet in length, was in
good shape now and what poor condi-
tions there were resulted from the
laying of the sewer by the town. They
pointed out that the town now had
the authority to permit the laying Of
gas and water pipes and the string of
electric wires on the street and that
the amount the taxes and assessments
had doubled and that the street was
not receiving the care commensurate
with the amount paid the town in
comparison with other streets. The
street committee took the application
in charge and viii consider it. 1t was
first brought up a year ago but no at
tention was paid the application at
that time.
On motion of Alderman Revere a
judgement against Melancton Tiger
and others was ordered cancelled. The
transfer of 5000 to the town from L.
a. Vogt was also reported.
Alderman Twining reported that
there were no street lamp outages re-
ported by the police last month.
A bill Of Henry Ryan amounting to
1880 for disconnecting a private pipe
from Eney Grupelli's building on Flag
Ter street with the public sewer was
held up pending an attempt to get Mr..
Grupelli to pay it. Counsel Mills
thought the bill was proper and sng-
gested that the proper procedure
would be to pay and then sue Grupelli
for the amount but Aldermen Revere
thought it should be sent first to Grup-
ELI accompanied with letter from
Clerk Toms that the bill must be paid
without delay.
A bill from the vestry Of St. Peters
church Of $40 for fixing water ser
vice pipe broken by cave-in Of the
sewer was held up pending an inyeSti-
gatlOn by the sewer committee.
The town. on motion OF Alderman
Revere, was authorized TO subscribe
for two copies OF map now being
prepared by man named Robertson
OF this section. They are to cost $50
each AND one will be for the use of the