Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1913-09-04
COUNCIL HAD
BRIEF SESSION
An Appropriation Ordinance.
Was Passed.
SOME ROUTINE MATTERS
A Petition Passed Requesting the
City to Pay 81 Per Day
For Road Labor.

City Council had a brief, but very
interesting session last evening.
President Elmer D. Mulford was in
the chair, and all of the members were
present with the exception of Mr..
Smalley.
The reports of the several commits,
sioners covered in detail the workings
of their several departments, and were
OF interest covering the work in hand.
Commissioner of Public Works Hem
ry Ryon presented a report covering
twenty-four typewriter pages, cover.
ing the water plant from the inception
of the first original plant, down to the
present time, and the successful oper-
alton of the modern new filtration.
plant.
This report of Commissioner Ryon
is OF particular value, and will be pre-
served for the City of Bridgeton, by
Its publication in pamphlet form. The
publication will be illustrated by
views of the original and the present
water plant, and the Clerk was direct
ed to have 500 copies of the same
printed.
Mr.. ]. M. Laning introduced the ap-
preparation ordinance for the fiscal
year of 1914, and it passed on final
reading.
Leroy w. Loder, Esq, addressed
Council, and made brief resume of
the school situation in the city, and
the apparent necessity for new high
school building.
Representing the Board of Educa-
ton, Mr.. Loder requested that City
Council take steps to make available
the $75,O00O0 fund, certified to by the
Board of School Estimate.
The remarks of Mr.. Loder voicing
the request of the Board of Education,
were made part OF the record of the
session, but no step were taken by
Council to make the fund Immediately
available
A petition that was very numerous
ly signed was presented, requesting
that City Council fix the minimum
wage paid the laborers employed by
the city at two dollars per day.
Harry Autenreith, representing al
committee from the local glassblowers
union, spoke in favor of the petition,
and urged that the two dollar mini
mum be established as the wage scale.
The appropriation for the several
departments of the city, already hav-
ing been provided for, the petition was
placed on file for future consideration
Mr.. ]. M. Laning presented a deed
from Platt & Nolan, for the new
Franklin Drive. the same being accom-
panied by a map describing the street
lines. H
Upon motion the deed was accepted
by the city, after the map had been
proved by the city engineer, and the
clerk directed to have the deed placed
on record.
A request for a street lamp at the
corner of Pamphylia Avenue and
Spruce street, was referred to the
Light Committee.
O.. w. Mulford addressed council,
and asked that repairs be made to a
sidewalk abutting his property on
Lemon street, where the walk had
been wasked away~by surface water
diverted from Orange street.
Notice was given that at the next
meeting of council an ordinance will
be offered, to grant the Delaware and
Atlantic Telegraph and Telephone
Company the tight to lay conduits in |
the down town section of the city.
The map filed with this notice pro-
vides for a conduit the full length of |
the paved streets on both North and !
South Laurel, East and West Com
merce
Upon motion of Mr.. Whipple, the |
Commissioner of Public Works was
authorized to make an extension of |
about two hundred feet of trunk line |
sewer on Broad street, West to Law
renee. Council adjourned