Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-05-04
NEW BATHS, FIRE
AND COPS HOMES
PROMISED To CITY
Councils Finance Committee
Authorizes Bond Issue for
Undetermined Sum.
$Iz5, 900 FOR BIG THIRD
WARD BATH.H0USE ALONE
Besides Public Structures, Fifty
More Policemen Are Given
and Salaries Raised.

s Some Of the improvements Z.
9 which the finance committee de- =
+ cides Newark shall have: (
8 Public bathhouse in the Third 9
Z ward, 10 COST $125, 900. +
+ New Sixth precinct police sta Z
& ton. Z
7 Central fire station. +
+ New almshouse, to cost up to 3
I $500, 0O0. Z
z New truck house In the Six !
+ teenth ward. &
d New nurses home at the City J
i Hospital. the old quarters to be +
renovated, made flreproof n b
added to the hospital proper. !
Fifty additional policemen. (
+ New building to house the 8
{ Board Of Heath, Its laboratories !.
4 and the city dispensary. I
The finance committee of the Com
NOR Council dealt generously In plums
last night. Within the COURSE OF a
three-hour meeting It saved the day
for half a dozen projects that have
been on the boards for the last year.
raised the salaries of all in the legal
department, complimented City Coun-
sci James R.. Nugent upon the mag
niflcent work he has done for Newark,
took half a score of requests for funds
under consideration, peeped into the
big budget of the Fire Board and de-
cided to meet again to gather up loose
odds and ends tomorrow night just be-
fore the council goes into session. In
volume of important measures given
favorable consideration 1t made a
record.
The Board of Works resolution call
ing for the issue of SIPS, 900 in bonds for
the proposed bathhouse in the Third
ward was reported favorably, notwith-
standing hat it had been turned down
before. AS soc as the bonds can be
issued the house will be built II the
council sustains the committee. as 1t
undoubtedly will.
Bonds for Police and Fire Stations.
A new station house of proper size
and dignity for the Sixth Precinct was
authorized. 1t calls for a bond issue,
the mount as yet indeterminate. So
does the proposed new central fire sta
ton, which will be located near the
-Four Corners and from which APP
paratus will answer every fire alarm
that rings in. More fire protection for
the Sixteenth ward in the shape of an
additional truckhouse for hal section
was also approved. Both buildings will
be erected with a minimum of delay.
The old almshouse, definitely doomed
for abandonment, will be replaced by a
new building or group of buildings.
Tho city Is authorized by law to ex
pend any portion of 5000. 900 for this i'm
provement. Plans and consequently
the cost of the new buildings are In
the making as yet. h Board OF
Works, however, submitted a PROPOSE
ton to the committee to purchase part
Of the present almshouse property for
$32, 900. This was accepted and the sale
was authorized by the committee. 1t is
proposed to run a spur from the Lehigh
Valley railroad into the property and
to establish a pipe yard thereon. The
$32, 900 will go into the sinking fund,
as will, doubtless, any other moneys
obtained from the sale of the remainder
of the property.
Fifty additional policemen will be
added to the city's force of guardians
the committee decided. although botf
Aldermen Congleton and Whitfield
voted against the proposition. An APP
preparation authorizing he expendi-
ture of SO, $50 for the first months sala'
ries of the new force was authorized
and thereafter their salaries, witt
those of the other city employees, will
be included in the budget of the Poiic'
Board.
Congestion at the City Hospital. lonl
a matter Of grave concern to the Boart
Of Health, will be relieved by removal
ing and fire-proofing that portion o1
the hospital used as a nurses home
For the nurses thus deprived OF quar-
tiers a new nurses home will be built
their old quarters being devoted to the
use of patients. The auto house vii
be turned into a morgue n a new
garage built, also.
Two new auto patrol wagons and al
automobile for use of the force at head
quarters will probably be included ant
passed in the Police Board budget.
The Board of Health will be housed
in a new building, the ommitte de
creed. The site of the structure will
be at Plane. William and Arlington
streets, in all probability, although tn
board is not inclined to view the loca
ton with favor. The laboratories viii
be in the same building as the offices
and the city dispensary, now over tn
Centre Market. will be removed there
also, ending a long-standing effort-oi
the part of physicians and the Anti
tuberculosis Association for its re
moyal.
Praise aud "Raise- for Oficiais.
Recognition for the big part played
in the gain In city revenues and for thu
splendid services given the city by tn
legal department, of which City Coun
sci James r. Nugent is the head, wa
also forthcoming. Another officia
whose work was substantially recog
! nized was Supervisor Mart King, o
the band concert committee. ME-
Nugent's salary was raised from $3.50
to $4,000 by unanimous action. Alder
man Congleton, leader of the Rep-b
ucan minority, joined in praising thu
city counsel's work, and said hat h
was glad to have the honor of maxim,
possible a substantial recognition of IT
| value.
City Attorney Boggs was also givei
an Increase from 1000 to $4,000, ant
| hts assistant, Charles NJ. Myers. wal
increased from $4,000 to $4,000. Mar
King was placed permanently on tn
roll at a salary of $1,000 a year. H
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