Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-06-03
COUNCIL D. KS
COMMISSIONER
AND FIRE CHIEF
Mclean on Health Board and
I Sloan as Department
Head Confirmed.
FREE CONCERT INSTEAD OF
FIREWORKS ON FOURTH"
Will Save City $1,000, Not to
Mention Noses, Limbs
and Lives.

Mayor Haussling's appointment of
Sonn II. McLea as member of the
Board of Health to succeed John w.
Dobbins was confirmed by the Common
& Council last night, which also con-
frmed the appointment of Joseph e.
Sloan as chief engineer of the fire de-
partment. Both appointments were
made yesterday. The health officer by
the mayor. the other at a special meet
ing called for the purpose by the Fire
Board.
The other important work done by
the Council was the reading of the
building code amendments for the sec
! ond time and the first and second read
ing of the changes in the redistricting
of the wards found necessary because
of errors made in the original work.
A request from the elections commit
tee was made to the Council for the
drawing of a new map of Newark,
showing the open streets and those
dedicated but not opened.
Included in the building code amend
ments were the two important changes
which the committee on alteration and
construction of buildings refused to
submit at the last meeting. These refer
to the curtailing the power of the COM
mittee in times when an appeal is
taken from the decision of the building
superintendent and also curtailing the
power of the superintendent by takins
away from him the discretionary power
exercised under the original section.
These important amendments were
added as committee amendments and
quietly submitted with the Others for
second reading.
The third reading of the building
amendments and the election law
amendments will take place at a special
meeting next Friday.
Committee to De Interpreter Only.
BY the. action of the committee on
construction and alterations in making
the amendments to the ode paragraph
2 of section $50, now gives the COM
mittee the right of interpreting the
code, and nothing more. Under the
original section the committee, when
appealed to, could reverse the decision
of the superintendent in any and all
Soot9 Ahf3 Was C1So ny LIN
appeal made by william Rogge some
weeks ago, who wished to convert a
six-story office building into a. hotel.
The permit for the alteration was re-
fused by Mr.. O'Rourke because the
building was not fre-proof. as required
by law. An appeal was taken to the
committee, which sustained the /
cision of the superintendent, despite
the fact that it had the power to over
rule it.
In order to avoid a situation of this
sort in the future, n make certain
thai the true intent of the building
code, which cost the city $25, 900 in ad-
vertisements, would be carried out, IL
was decided to make an amendment
curtaiiing the power of the committee
and also strike out paragraph l of sec
ton 147, which gives the superintendent
the discretionary power
The committees reasons for not sub
uniting this to Council last month was
that it did not desire to bow to the
wishes of the press. Last night it was
passed, without comment, with a num-
Der of other amendments.
The sale &c the $3.50, 900 fire and police
department building bonds to Esta-
brook & Co, of New York, and the sale
of the old fire department property in
Branford place to Levi Weingarten for
$217, 900 were formally confirmed by the
Council.
Council Gets LincoIn's statue Deed.
The deed of the Lincoln statue, the
gift of the late Amos H. Van Horn
was presented to the Council by Al
derman Reynolds. Alderman Day, of
the poor and aims committee, sub
mitted a long report of h inspections
made by the committee of almshouses
In New York and New Haven. The ap-
pointments of James Hart and Patrick
Scanlon as City Hall janitors was con
frmed, as also appointments to the
Newark camp.
Alderman Biertuempfel offered a reso-
luton for the purpose of submitting
all electric light bills to the scrutiny