Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-12
SOUTH AMBOY
COUNCIL MET
Lighting Hola in Wall and
Water Supply.
specia1 to the EVENING NEWS.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
South Amboy, July 12:-The reg
ular meeting of the common councll
was held last evening in the city
hall. There were present Mayor
Welsh, Messrs. Manhattan, Berrian,
O'Connor, Stanton and Stuart, also
Clerk Fulton, Counselor Pearse, City
Engineer Mason, Treasurer Perrine,
Water Commissioner Martin and
Street Commissioner Connors.
Mr.. O'Connor called attention to
the improper advertising for bids to
paint the city hall and requested that
those on hand be not opened for the
time being.
The clerk read resignation Of Mr..
Henry Dugan as dog warden. 1t was
accepted.
Communication was read from Jo-
seph r. Byers, general secretary of
State Charities Aid and Prison Re-
form Association of New Jersey,
dated Newark, July 3rd, enclosing
letter bearing on the office of the
Overseer of the Poor. 1t provides
for the appointment of this officer by
the council at their next annual meet
ing. 1t was received and ordered re-
ferred to the committee on poor.
Application for transfer of license
from Charles Schwazer to Ansel Hunt
was referred to committee On licenses
and later acted favorably upon.
Bills amounting in total to 1881
z were ordered paid.
Resolution by Mr.. Berrian that
note for $1,000 and one for $4,000
IN tho ENirct NotionaI Ponk no liuni-
Mated and that the city clerk be au-
Norized to draw warrants for such
nNApunts, were adopted.
lily communication from the Enter
prise Hook and Ladder Company
presenting names of Charles Tim
Minis, Jr., Michael Nagle and Henry
Leonard for approval was read and
favorably ACTED upon.
Motions Carried.
The following motions were made
by Mr.. O'Connor and carried: That
the clerk give notice as required by
law to regulate the grade of Portia
street from Feltus street to the Rari-
tan bay; also for the paving Of
Broadway from Main street to Bor-
dentown avenue.
Mr.. Berrian asked if Mr.. Johnson,
of the electric light company, could
inform them in regard to the high
tension wires that were to be estab-
lished by July /.
Mr.. Johnson stated he was under
the impression hat Mr.. Brown had
written the city attorney on that
matter, that the high tension line
was working on June 27.
Mr.. O'Connor offered a motion
that the clerk be instructed to COM
-}municate with the Jersey Central
Traction Company and ask them to
have their engineer meet with the
committee on streets and the mayor
some time that might be convenient
to him with reference to the sixteen
inch pipe they have to take water
away in front of Christ church, that
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company
is laying a t~wenty-inch main there
now to take the water and the ap-
proach to 1t being a ~ifteen-inch main,
1t does not work very well. Carried.
Mr.. O'Connor stated on the Fourth
of July his attention was brought to
a pole ons,Iehn street by residents in
that vicinity. The pole was in a very
dangerous condition, being rotten at
the bottom. That he Immediately
called the lighting company on the
phone and asked them to remedy
the matter. It is understood since
the pole has not been replaced but
dashed to a tree in order to keep it
from falling down. Mr.. O'Connor
stated he noticed some more on John
street in the vicinity of the property
formerly owned by Mr.. Rathbun and
fhn nn1nc rnttnn of tho hnttnJn and
that there are others In like condi-
ton, and as the superintendent OF
the lighting company was present, he
brought the matter to his attention,
Lights In Hole-in-the-WalI -
Mr.. Manhattan called Mr.. John
sons attention to the lights In the
Hole-in-the-Wall not being turned
on a few Sunday nights ago when 1t
was very dark and to the fact that
the men in charge of the sub-station
claimed to have orders not to turn
them on until s o'clock.
Mr.. Johnson stated he did not
know why the men should make any
such statement al that. We have a
street lighting schedule tackled up in
the sub-station that gives the Elec-
trio World street lighting schedule
for this vicinity for lighting munich
palities, and we rave instructed those
boys in the sub-statton to light the
lamps ten minutes earlier than that
schedule calls for. Mr.. Johnson
stated the Hole-in-the-WaIl is just as
annoying to them as 1t Is to the city
and he would like to see some ar
rangement made whereby they could
light that place to the satisfaction OF
the city, but as it is arranged now 1t
is on the street lighting circuit and
when we light the Hole-in-the-WalI
we have to light half the city, we
have to light thirty-four arc lights to
get those two tncandescent lights to
burn In answer to the question,
was there any way 1t could be put on
the commercial circuit, Mr.. Johnson
stated the matter was taken up a
year or more ago when an offer was
made to put a transformer up there
and put 1t on a meter. Considerable
more discussion was had as to the
merits of the lights, ETC., Mr.. O'Coa-
nor stating there were 215 lights out
during June, Mr.. Johnson admitting
the city should get better service
than that.
Mr.. Berrian stated he thought the
only solution to the Hole-in-the-Wall
matter was to put it on the CONNER
cial line and Install a meter and
switch up there and let the man en-
ployed by the freeholders turn it on
any time 1T Is needed, provided the
electric light company can give a
good fair rate,