Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-11
ORANGES HOLD Off
ON |MHOFF SCHEME
Joint Sewer Committee OF
Three municipalities Unable
to Reach Decision.
MONTCLAIR ANXIOUS TO
START WORK AT ONCE
committeemen Afraid Legisla-
ture Will Prevent Location
of Plant in Soho.

io,nt sewerage committee urged
tho, Orange and East Orange TAKE
decisive action towards starting soihe
hart of the work on the erectioh oi
the Joint disposal plant in Soho at
the meeting held in East orange ias'
n,obt the representatives of the other
two municipalities were OF the opin'on
that SUFFICIENT proof had not peen
shown that the Imhoff n sheuiu
he adopted. There is stil a possi-
bi,itv of a delay of a year or more
In the starting of actual Operations
30 far as orange and East orahse
are concerned.
Navor Gregory, of East orange
SNEAKER at the meeting. me
representatives were sure the eAe."
live is still undecided about entering
80 tho nlan of the Passaic Vaney
ca,,arag e Commission. He explained
th.+ when he was elected mayor ne
so.aa tho trunk sewer, and he had
eth RI overcome the pre1uolce ne
4hen entertained, but admitted the
en~nortionment of cost as decloeu upon
nv the commission was fer OUT :,
n-ronortion and East Orange couiu
hardly expend the figure askeo.
ar ia nv belief that Is
,r a worse condition than we are IN
odav and 1t is not my bellet tnat
town will be taken in by the COM
rfssiono he said. II believe we
sbo,,ld proceed slowly in this matter
for If bloomfield does eventually
have 70 ioin with us there may be a
better arrangement resarulhe
nlent. 1t is possible that the lmnoH
tanks proposed may be out Oh uale
in a few years.
Councilman Pierson, of East Or
ange. explained the position OF ina
CITY in the present negotiations anu
said there was small chance mat an
amendment would be made to the act
changing the apportionment OF cost
despite the intention of the city TO
place its position before the COM
mission. He declared that communi-
cations sent by the joint
10 the commission were never given
the courtesy of a reply. and that
the CITY is "cut loose" from the com
missions plan.
Councilman Stetson, of Orange,
kaid the plan he had in mind was to
call q meeting of the Orange COM
mittee to ascertain IL a resolution for
the approval of further engineering
work should be recommended for pas
sage by the Common Council at IT'S
next meeting. That will not com
NIT the city to the Imhoff tank, he
said, and he thought the Council will
pass the resolution. 1t will also be
necessary, Mr.. Stetson believed, to
send 3. representative to Atlanta, Ga.
10 witness the operations of a larger
Imhoff tank than the one In opera
ton at Worcester.
The belief was expressed by Mr..
Etetson that the next Legislature Is
very likely to try and interfere with
the plans of the joint committee, no
matter which party Is in power. The
iMontclair representatives agreed on
this and Town Attorney Boyd stated
the pest protection for the committed
would be the starting of some part
of the work. What was feared was
legislation preventing the erection of
a plant outside of the municipality
operating il.
n Councilman Henney, of Montclair,
advised his colleagues that Newark
was interesting herself in Montclair
politics, and the result of the towns
representatives working for a sep
arate plant and should the present
members be defeated complications
were likely to ensue. He accused a
local paper of unfair treatment in re-
gard to facts as presented IN a letter
written by DIR. Synnott, of Montclalr'
An interesting development In the
meeting was the reading of an opin-
ion from Justice Van Sickle TO the
effect tina the city of Newark was
not bound by law to care for East
Orange sewage under the present con-
tract held by the two cities after the
time limit for polluting h Passaic
river had expired. This point has
been under consideration In East Or
ange and an opinion from a we'll
known lawyer was being sought, as
the suburban municipality believed
there was still a chance Newark
would be forced to care for II.
Mr.. Boyd took occasion to declare
during the session that the plant OF
the Joint committee would be no more
of a detriment than a cemetery, and
added that a cemetery can be made
10 look attractive. He read the
agreement made by the Fassaic Val
lev Commission with the United
States and wondered why
the commission did not empty the
treated matter into the Passaic
river instead of New York bay. He
declared in it's agreement the com
mission had really described an I'm
hoff tank n pointed out the diff
culties the commission is still likely
to encounter.
Mr.. Boyd believed much of the
prejudice now existing against the
plan of the joint committee would
soon be ended and that ii campaign
OF education would prove to the pro-
testing municipalities they were
wrong in their suggestions. He felt
sure there was possibility of oppos-
ing legislation still being encount-
ered unless the committee decided on
the contracts for the plant and urged
action.
The committee decided to pay a bill
of 81. 800 submitted by Mr.. Boyd for
his .egal advice and expenses since
he has been attorney for the com
mlttee. 1t was claimed by the mem
hers his charge was a reasonable one
and chat he had done considerable
In a public spirited way in assisting
me committee. He agreed to make a
trip to Worcester with Mr.. Pierson,
..ino urged that Eas Orange send q
party of prominent citizens with tho