Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-08-02
TRAFFIC RELIEF
TO COST S269,OOO
Board of Works to Consider
Feasibility of Proposed
Improvements.

The feasibility of Strengthening
Front street and continuing Say
brook place through to that thor
ougbfare will be investigated by the
Board of Works. The cost of the
work yas estimated at 1868 900.
It was explained to the board at
its meeting yesterday that this i'm
provement, besides greatly relieving
the traffic on Centre and Fulton
streets, would also make the double
track of the Mulberry street trolley
line practicable at this point.
Unless the line could be made to
pay the Public Service refused TO
agree to continue running the Clifton
avenue Ears to Mt. Prospect avenue
terminus. For this reason the board
held up the ordinance permitting
curves at Bloomfield. Clifton and Mt.
Prospect avenues, SO that the troll
ley route could be continued to the
terminus.
The second reading of an ordinance
granting the company the right to
lay tracks into its proposed car
barns at Nineteenth street and South
Orange avenue was also held up.
as O civ " thC COb6c5ltu Tain
on the Bloomfield line, Trolley In
spector Joseph Crawford suggested
the placing of a "Y' at Twelfth
street and Bloomfield avenue. A COM
mittee from the Northwestern Inn
provement Association also appeared
in favor of the proposed ~" Mr..
Crawford was instructed by the
board to communicate with the troll
ley officials and request that the i'm
provement be made.
Inspector Crawford is also investi-
eating the complaint of the Walls
burg improvers that South Orange
avenue trolley cars are switched back
at Mum avenu instead of going
through to the city line. This prac-
tise must be stopped, the board said.
Now Oppose Paving.
Paving of st. Paul avenue went
over for another week, when John
Contrell, jr. appeared with more
Withdrawals from the petition to
pave. announcing that fifty-nine per
cent. of the property owners were
nov opposed. The contract for the
westerly division of the yailsburg
drainage system was awarded to
John w. Heller for ss2, $50. IS.
Notice of Intention was posted of
plans to pave with brick Gold street,
from Blum to Jacob; Rose terrace,
from Chadwick avenue to South
Tenth street; Fourth street, from
Park, and Fourth avenue, from Fifth
to Roseville avenue.
An ordinance was passed ON third
reading to construct the easterly di-
vision of the vailsburg drainage sys-
drawn to pave New York avenue
from Garrison to Jabez streets. Rem
ner avenue from Seymour to Clinton
place and Delevan avenue from Sum-
mer avenue to the west side of Wood
side avenue.
The board will confer with the City
Planning Commission to determine
| upon a scheme whereby Engineer
Puff, whose services were offered the
city planners, can be paid in a CO.
operative way. The city planners de-
| clined his services because they could
not compensate him. ai-ss
Freebooter Richard +. Malta ap-
peared again to urge that only citi-
zens. as required by law, be permitted
to work on city contracts. He said,
despite the action already taken to
dismiss non-citizens, ~stonecutters
complained that they had been dis
charged because they were citizens
and aliens given their places. The
freebooter was asked to furnish a
list of names of -contractors who had
failed to obey the directions of Deputy
Chief Engineer Hallock