Gloucester County Democrat., 1912-05-02
CITY GARBAGE COLLECTION
City Council Refers Matter to Board
Of Health -GIoyer's Lane Ordin-
ance Passed.

A session of Council over two hours
long was held Tuesday evening with
! all members present but Mr.. Batten.
4 The minutes were read and approved.
On motion of Mr.. Parks, Clarence
Redfield was granted permission to
erect an awning on West street. The
price of gravel will be the same as
last year, but haven't heard from the
oil company, said Mr. Parks. There
is no progress as yet on improving
Wood street
Mr.. Heaton reported that the cost of
painting the new shed back of the fire
/ house would be about $35 90 and that
he ordered the same done.
Mr.. Bayer reported that he had se-
Issured an option from Mr. Griscom
lfor the land belonging to him south
IRof Carpenter street and that he had
lengaged Mr. Hollinshead to bore a
a4-inch well, same to cost $40 per.
foot 60
IN An ordinance providing for vacat-
Wing that part Of West st. known as
.IlGlover's Lane. was placed on second
1lreading and voted down, to 8,
llMessrs. Burkett, Wickersham and
IaCoombs voting aye" Later in the
fevening, President Coombs yielded the
chair to Mr.. Parks and made a plea
! for the reconsideration of. the ordin-.
ance on the basis of the great amount
of money the Realty Company is
Espending and that it would be unWise
to in any way retard their work /A1r.
! Burkett seconded Mr.. Coombs 0senti-
ments. Mr.. Martin stated that in
view of the misunderstanding in the
I matter of the laying of the sewers on
| the Bell Tract he would not vote for
the ordinance Mr.. Wickersham took
Mr.. Coombs side of the proposition
and said that because the Realty Com
pany had been unfair to the City was
no reason why the City should EN-
barrass them by holding UP their i'm
provements. We should deal with
them as gentlemen, whether they treat
us as such or not. f@
On motion of Mr.. Bayer. the motion
lvoting down the ordinance was recon
Isidered, Mr.. Martin voting mo. The
Eyote on the passage of the ordinance
llwas seven Ayes" and one No. Mr..
Martins. 20
On motion of Mr.. Heaton, the FIJI
nance committee was authorized to
have the school bonds printed.
Mr.. fIeaton moved and it carried
that the Finance committee be author
iized to bid for as many bonds as
Icould be taken care of by the various
sinking funds.
4 Mr. Heaton reported that $50 90 had
/ been collected from the White Spear
medicine show for their two weeks
stay in town, and that they would stay
lone more week. Because of the un-
favorable weather, said Mr.. Heaton,
they thought they should have some
rebate on the license fee. Mr. Parks
stated that Council should not remit
anything; all the show does is take
from the town without leaving any,
thing in return Mayor Doolittle of
Paulsboro informs me that a medicine
show recently took $4,000 from that
town.
Il An ordinance providing for the open
ling of street, Federal street, along
lside the contemplated new post office
Esite, was read and passed unanimous
Fly, the rules being suspended and the
Fordinance placed on second reading.
ESince the original property owners
cannot be located, said Mr.. Best, the
Solicitor has advised me that an or
dinance such as this, is the only way
out of the difficulty; the records. it
seems, go back only to 1874.
A bill from the railroad for cost of
a watchman during the repairing of
a broken main was referred to the
Solicitor for his opinion as to the le-
gality of same. The bill was $11 Sc.
The conveyance of the street adjoin-
ling the proposed new post office by
III. B. Best and wife was accepted,
lMr. Bayer making the motion.
Mr. Wickersham brought up the
matter of the collection of garbage
tfrom private houses. There is con-
siderable rivalry between two colOred
linen, and the result is that they come
at all hours of the might in order to
4 get ahead of the other fellow, with
i considerable noise attendant upon
such work For time last summer,
( neither one attended to it because the
rivalry was so keen that neither OF
them got anything out of it. The
privilege of collection should be
granted to some one.
On motion of Mr.. Burkett, the mat
ter of garbage collection was refer
red to the Board of Health.
Mr.. Heaton reported that the Civil
Service Commission desired the City
Hall on May 80 to hold examinations
in. On motion of Mr.. Heaton per-
mission was granted, the fee to be
IS 90.
i Mr.. Martin said that Mr.. Thomas
lhad considerable lumber that he was
anxious to dispose of,suitable for sew
ers and bitches about 5000 feet, the
price for same being $50. 90. On mo-
& tion of Mr.. Parks, the Sewer Commit
ttee was instructed to Investigate the
proposition and report at the next
meeting of Council
MIR. Martin reported the siphon on
, the north side of the creek to be
leaking badly, and that he thought q
concrete wall was necessary to repair
same properly. On motion of Mr.
81 Burkett, the Sewer committee was
given charge of fixing same.
i Mr.. Martin said that the sidewalk
Ion the Dubois property had "bulged'
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