Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-05-07
WIRES ORDERED
UNDER GROUND
Aldermen Pass Resolution
Last Night Smith and State
Streets Are Affected.
FOR SAFETY OF PUBLIC
Public Service and Telephone
Company Given Year to
Comprehension Police.

As a means of safeguarding the
public and beautifying the city the
Board of Aldermen last night passed
a resolution to have all wires on
State and Smith streets placed un-
Iderground. An ordinance to adopt
the police pension law was intro
duced and passed upon its first read
Ing; resolutions were passed to give
notice of intention of laying sewers
in Water and Division streets pre-
paratory to laying pavements, and
petitions were received for other
street improvements, including the
extension of Antoine street.
Have Year to Remove Wires.
1t is the intention of the alder
men to have all wires on the two
principal streets removed from poles
and placed underground as they
generally are In larger cities The
resolution passed was to instruct
the city clerk to notify the Public
Service Electric Company and the
New York Telephone Company to
place all its wires on Smith and
State streets under ground before
May I, 1918. This action, It Is un-
derstood, is the result of the Public
Service running heavy feed wire
from It's powerhouse In Buckingham
avenue through some of the streets
OF the city to South Amboy. The
numerous wires on the principal
streets, some of which are heavily
charged, are declared to be danger
GUS to pedestrians.
Pension Ordinance Introduced.
Provisions of the state pension
law for policemen, enabling old or
disabled officers to secure one-half
of their pay and furnishing means
Of support to widows and children
of deceased officers, was passed upon
It's first reading without opposition.
1t provides that officers sixty years
old and having served twenty years
and those fifty-five years old and
having served twenty-five years,
may be retired upon half pay; that
officers permanently disabled may
receive one-half Of their salary at
the time Of their disability and that
widows and children may receive
one-half of the pay of a deceased
policeman. The funds for the pur-
pose are to be raised by taking one
per cent Of the salary Of policemen,
fines imposed upon officers and one
half of rewards paid for the capture
of criminals, the balance to be made
up by tax levy to meet requirements.
| A police pension committee to be
appointed for four years shall have
charge of giving pensions. s.,
| Resolutions were adopted t0>,GIye
notice of intention of laying a
twelve-inch pipe sewer in Water
street between Smith and Gordon
gtr n Low Fl ri
pipe sewer in Division street be-
tween Broad street and New Bruns-
wick avenue.
Petitions for improvements.
Petitions for the following street
improvements were received, read
and referred to the committee on
streets and sewers: To grade and
pave Second street with asphalt
, block between Market and Gordon
streets, signed by N. X. Janderup
and seven others; to lay a twelve
inch pipe sewer in Water street be-
tween Smith and Gordon streets,
signed by c. NJ. Peterson and five
! others; to lay a two-inCh asphalt
block pavement on Mechanic street
between Fayette and Washington
streets, signed by Max Goldberger
and sixteen others.
Resolutions passed by the Public
Playground Commission recomm md
ing the acquisition of fifteen acres
of land, more or less, at the former
water works site in the western part
of the city, were received and re-
ferred to the committee Of the
whole.
Indications are that the aldermen
will authorize the extension Of An
tone street easterly under tracks or
( the Pennsylvania and Central rail-
road to State street. A petition re-
questlng that the street be laid out,
opened and extended to that point
and wideued to fOrty-fve feet was
received from the Massopust Realty
Company and referred to the COM
mlttee on streets and sewers. 1t
was signed by its president, Adolph
Greenbaum The company Volun-
teered to dedicate the land neces-
sary for widening the street.
/ Plans for Convery Place Bridge.
An ordinance to extend Conyery
Place from its sOutherly terminus
Isoutherly across the Lehlgh Valley
railroad tracks to lands of c. Pardee
was introduced and passed upon it's
first reading. 1t provided for u
width OF Convery Place Of sixty feet,
. The road superintendent and con-
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