Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-10-23
This Is Admission of
Board of Works Com
missioner.
APPROPRIATION is LARGE
ENOUGH, RYAN ALSO SAYS
Specific Complaints Regarding
Conditions Show Street
Cleaning Is Neglected.

1t is the belief of Board of Works
Commissioner Patrick H. Ryan that
the appropriation allowed the Board
of Works is sufficient and that the
board does not need more money with
which to keep the streets clean. Com
missioner Ryan made this statement
today to an Evening STAR reporter
after being asked if he thought the
streets of the city would be cleaner If
the board were allowed more money to
conduct this work The Evening STAR
is conducting a crusade for cleaner
streets. in line with the Boost New
ark idea.
Commissioner Ryan would not admit
that the streets throughout the city
were in a bad shape. He did say that
Market street was a mud hole but
that other streets were not so bad. His
opinion regarding the appropriation,
however, is indeed interesting, coming
as it does as a direct contradiction to
the belief of Commissioners Denman
and Mungle, who are anxious to receive
a larger appropriation.
IT do not think we need more money"
said Mr.. Ryan, 81 expressed my belief
to this effect in open meeting during
the session of the Board of Works. Not
only do I say that we do not need a
larger appropriation but | am prepared
to say that we ought to pay our street
cleaners more money, and thereby get
better and more work out of them.
advocated this at the board meeting"
As a reply to the protest of hundreds
of citizens to the effect that the city
streets were in q disgraceful condition,
and that there is a great deal of money
spent with little result, one of the oft1-
cials IN the Board of Works said today
that 1t Is unfair to oriticise the board at
this -thiiss tj5fse tej5fsie, because it had rained for a
week and that the leaves as they fell
from the trees cover the streets and
make II almost impossible to keep them
clean
The men that have registered their
protests declare that they are not talk
ing about the condition of the streets
for the past week, during the rainy
weather, but of the condition that OBJ
tans generally md at all times.
Mulberry street Too Dirty.
rs Mulberry street clean or dirtY?"
This question was asked James A. Coe,
of James A. Coe g. Co., Mulberry and
CllntOn StreeLS, IN the evening Sian .
crusade for cleaner streets.
mo street is as clean as 1t ought to
be- was the reply. do not put me
down as a kicker, however. because
since this boost Newark dinner we
ought to stick by our city.
Mulberry street ought to be cleaner"
continued Mr. Coe. "Granite block and
the tar and gravel used between blocks
ought to make for a clean street. Why
it is not cleaner | do not know. Per-
haps because we are so near the mar
ket and there are so many trucks on
the street all the time.
What you ought to ask about, how
ever, is High street. That street surely
is dirty"
And then Mr.. Coe told of the con-
dition of High street just as David
Wolff did last Saturday.
In asking the various business men
about the city what they think of the
condition of the streets some of them
say conditions are good and a great
many declare they are bad One thing
that seems to puzzle them, however, is
why the Board of Works asks for n
larger appropriation each year These
men say that the officials of the Board
of Works declare that the streets are
not in better shape only because they
have not sufficient money to spend on
street cleaning.
One business man with an anaIytical
mind referred to last years report of
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