Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-10
P. s. c. OBJECTS
To ORDINANCES
As To FUTURE
"Deal With Each Day and Gene
ration as 1t Goes" Says
President McCarter.

stating thai there were objection
able clauses in certain al
fecting the Public Service Corporation
Thomas N. McCarter, president OF the
appeared before the Board
of Works, at the meeting yesterday,
and asked that these clauses be strlcK-
en- out. He also asked thai an ordinance
be passed giving his company the right
to maintain tracks on Nineteenth
street.
The clauses to which Mr.. McCarter
objected are contained in the ordinance
WIN regard to NJ laying OF a 4" at
Bloomfield avenue, in which there Is a
thirty-day removal notice, and the
clause reading: THE company must
abide by all the existing and future
ordinances" Mr.. McCarter stated that
both the clauses are unfair.
The objection to the first is that a
thirty-days' notice is too short. Inc
second because if the city ever decided
to pass a three-cent fare ordinance
the mpa would have to submit to
IT or have the other ordinances, by
virtue of which 1t operates, revoked.
Each day and generation should
be dealt with as it goes along said
Mr.. McCarter. We must cooperate
and meet each other half a This
board may never ask us to do any
thing unreasonable, but we annot tell
what other boards may do. That clause
is Objectionable and we would like you
to strike 1t out"
Law Department VIII Take 1t Up.
The matter was not settled yester-
day. The law department will take 1t
up. During the discussion Commission
er Mungle stated that the s~ubordinates
of the had often broker their
word with the city. Mr.. McCarter said
that that was wrong and that he al
ways kept his promise.
The Nineteenth street tract propo-
sition is in connection with the or
finance permitting the company to
make certain changes in the position
of tracks in front of the carbarn in
South Orange avenue The company
wants to occupy Nineteenth street
where tracks were laid following the
fire in the barns some years ago. 1t is
doubtful that the board will grant a
permanent right to the street.
That Commissioner Kraemer is not
satisfied with the action of the board
relative to the option on bathhouse
sites IL the Third Ward was demon
strated by the commissioner at the
meeting. He asked whether the board
had taken any official action on the
matter, and was told that 1t had at a
meeting in the Mayors office at which
Commissioners Kraemer and Ryan
were not present.
Commissioner Mungle stated that at
that meeting at which the Mayor, City
ro,--aI NT,ran+ Cnnornfdcfnnnr Dan-
man, O'Connell and himself were pres
ent 1t was decided to secure an option
on desirable property in that ward by
the payment of a small sum of money.
This, said Mr.. Nungle, was to safe
guard the city, because IL 1t became
known that the city wished to purchase
land the price would go up.
DR.. Kraemer Demurs.
DR.. Kraemer said that such bust
ness should be transacted at q regular
meeting and not at a conference such
as was held in the Mayors office.
What authority" he asked, 'had
anyone to make the option?"
Chief Engineer Morris R. Sherrerd
replied that he would stand the re-
sponsibility and would himself pay the
amount of the option If anything I'M
f~oreseen should occur. He said:
such things are not irregular. and
l wish to say that the city Is not bound
by the option. Only the owner L. AS
Gar as making such options is n
cerned I wish to say that it is not I'M
usual, because we often find 1t neces-
sary to do these things in connection
with watershed property"
Commissioner Kraemer hen said that
the matter should be taken up at the
meeting next week, at which time
definite action could be taken.
Following the conference of the
board in the morning on the reduction
of ~scavenger inspectors, when 1t was
decided to investigate the necessity Of
reducing the force from fourteen to
five, according to Mr.. Kraemer's sugges-
ton, Mr.. Kraemer said that he would
put the matter to a vote at the meeting
next week.
Otto Molter appeared before the
board and asked that Abingdon avenue
be opened through the public school
athletic field. He said that the city
should build straight streets through
its new development and abandon the
old method of crooked highways. The