Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-13
BOARD OF TRADE
PRESIDENT RAPS
BOARD OF WORK,
Asks Why Conditions in City
Are So Bad in View of
Money Expended.

The Board of Works was sharply
raped on the score of unclean streets
in the message of President George +.
Reeve, Of the Board of Trade, to that
body at it's meeting last night. Mr..
Reeve said that he believed it would
be a good plan to find out, if possible,
why SO much money brought such small
results.
1T is a pertinent question: the mes
sage, read for this board 10 ask why,
in view of the large amount of money
appropriated by our Common Council
and spent by our Board of Works, 1t
has not been productive of clean
streets; also why our police force is not
instructed to see that our streets are
Kept free from that which is not only
unsightly, but also obstructs and is q
nuisance
The traffic problem at the -Four Cor
ners occupied a large share of the mes
sage. President Reeve said that the
situation had become intolerable, and
was becoming worse every day. The
solution of the problem, he said, should
be found Immediately, and he sug-
gested that the trouble might be les
sened by DETECTING some of the cars
turning the corner either on Mulberry
street or Washington street to some
other route. The Public Service was
ready and wiling to adopt any reason
able suggestion, he asserted.
The message in part was as follows:
You will remember that a year ago
/ called your attention to the lack Of
receiving basins in u sewerage sys-
tenn, urging that such should be pro-
vided to catch the dirt washed from
the streets in our sewers, and from
them into the river. Nothing to rem
edy this has been done, and nothing
will be done unless you, with perhaps
the aid of another potent power which
might be invoked to assist, do
1t. That the I authorities should
persist in destroying that which
has cost SO much to obtain is
strange, to say the least. The
United States government has spent
and is constantly spending to aid nav
igation in our rivers. and I hope that
the proper committee viii take up this
matter and energetically pursue it.
AT the meeting of the board in Octo-
Der last h attention of the board was
called to the lack of proper facilities In
our Newark Postof1ce, and your presi-
dent was directed to appoint a coin-
mittee to look into the matter and sub
nit at a future meeting their conclu-
sions and recommendations You are
all familiar with their admirable. COM
prehensive report. it having been sub
mitted to the board at their December
meeting and ordered printed, which was
done, and doubtless each of you has q
printed copy.
II need not say to o that not only
the members of the Board of Trade,
but also the public. are thoroughly
aroused i'm this matter, and that it will
be pushed vigorously until we have
what We should have had years ago, q
postofiice building in keeping with the
size and demands OF our city.
we also urge. and should insist, that
the building code which was under
taken some time ,.go should now be
brought to q completion"
President Reeve also recommended
the widening of the approach to the
Clay street bridge, and the extension OF
the higln-pressure water service, the re
clamation of the meadows and the
widening of the Plank road, and de
clared himself in favor of better
quarters FOR the Board Of Trade. and
urged that there be no diminution in
interest among the members.