Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-08-20
IMPROVE
MANY STREETS
Aldermen Let Contracts.
Dispose of Other Matters

Contracts for placing a sewer in
Vest Side avenue and for grading
tombstone street were awarded to
Liddle & Pfeiffer and Graham & Nc
Keen, respectively, and several other
street improvements, together with
other subjects were taken up at a
regular meeting of the Board of
Aldermen last night. A resolution
was adopted to retire Patrolman
John E. Wood from active service
as a policeman on September /. He
will receive $50 a month.
Liddle G. Pfeiffer were the only
bidders for the West Side avenue
sewer. The offered to do the work
for the following prices: s1.70 a
lineal foot for e~ighteen-inch sewer,
$1.18 a lineal foot for fifteen-inch
sewer, SIS for each manhole and
S75 for each receiving basin. Crab
am & McKeon offered to excaVate
for the grading of tombstone street
at forty-two cents a cubic yard. Lid
die & Pfeiffer bid forty-eight cents
a cubic yard for that work.
The aldermen adopted a rec
ommendation of the committee on
streets and sewers that Bucking-
ham avenue be not paved in accord
ance with request of property own
ers to have any company, securing
ferry privileges for the foot of the
same, pave it.
Ordinances Are Introduced.
Ordinances were introduced ano
passed upon their first readings fol
laying a concrete pavement with g
bftuminous top on Paterson street
between State street and Madison
avenue, to pave a strip thirty feet
| wide on the center of Water street
between Smith and Lewis street with
two-inch asphalt blocks and to lay
out, open and extend GarretsoI
avenue from the westerly line OF
State street to the easterly line Of
Pine street.
Ordinances were read and passed
( upon their second and third and fina.
readings for establishing a grade or
Mechanic street between Fayette
street and Pearl Place, for re-estab'
fishing a grade on Water street be
tween Smith and High streets, fol
requiring that all streets to be paved
have suitable sewer, water and gas
connections, for defining the duties
of the city surveyor, street commits
sioner and inspectors concerning the
construction and reconstruction Of
sewers, providing for an issue OF
school bonds and for laying out
opening and extension of Antoine
street from the southerly end of In.
slice street across several tracts tt
the northerly line cI Thomas street
Notice of Intention.
The board adopted resolutions tt
give notice of intention for laying
ffteen-1nch sewer in Elm street be
tween Smith and Market streets; tt
instruct the street commissioner tt
give notice to property owners tt
place four foot flag stones on the
easterly sidewalk along Sheridan
| street between Market and Paterson
streets; and to provide for proper
sewer connections, installation o.
manholes, cts, in Paterson stree
between State street and Madison
avenue, and in Mechanic street, Owe
the line of the proposed pavement.
Motions were adopted ~instructins
the street commissioner to advertise
for bids for grading Lee street, HON
man avenue, Hanson avenue, Laurie
street, Cornell street n Groom
street.
A petition, signed by Emil Koye1
and other property owners, request
ing Neville street to be graded be
tween Cornell and Groom stree
was referred to the committee OF
streets and sewers. Mr.. Koyen ap
peared and stated he understood thu
grade had been established there ant
requested that the work be done al
the earliest possible date.
Report on Drilling of Trains.
Concerning complaint of drilling
of railroad trains over Broad ant
! Washington streets during earl.
morning and noon hours, which
came up at the previous meeting, thu
board received a report of police of
flcers, showing the amount of drill
Ing at various hours of the day
There were nine reports, rendered
J by Roundsman Morris and Detect
i've Sergeant Long. They were re
ceived and ordered placed on file.
Soren C. Olsen, vas On motion
awarded the contract for changin,
partitions on the third floor of cit!
hall to make room for the building
inspector and city electrician. H,
offered to do the work for 1913.
A communication and resolution!
from the Board of Health, urgint
1.-THE placing of sewer lines in Water
street between Lewis and High
streets, was referred to the com
mittee on streets and sewers.
A petition singed by Paul S. Jes
sen and twenty others, requesting
that a street arc be placed at LawtoI
Place and New Brunswick avenue
was referred to the committee OF
lamps and lights.
TACT BETTER THAN COMMAND