Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-14
CHEER BROAD ST.
WOOD BLOCK VOTE
Business Men Applaud Works
Board as 1t Orders New
Pavement.
MEASURE GOES TO MAYOR,
WHO DOESN'T LIKE WOOD
If He Vetoes 1t, Board Must Get
Two-thirds Majority TO
Proceed.

Wood block pavement for Braod
street was adopted by the members
of the Board of Works yesterday
afternoon after a stormy session, by
vote of to ,. Commissioner Charles
p. Gillen cast the deciding vote. The
decision of the board met with the
hearty approval of a majority of the
merchants. and property owners on
the eity's main thoroughfare
When. with the vote standing 2 to
2 Mr.. Gillen said he was voting in
Difference to the wishes of this ma
iority and east his vote for wood
block prominent business men and
property owners accorded him con-
siderable applause. The resolution,
however. requires the signature of
the Mayor for approval, and as
Mayor Haussling is known to have
been unalterably opposed to this
style of pavement in the past it is
no certainty that he will not veto
the measure.
If the chief executive should take
such action the board will need a
two-thirds majority to pass it over
his veto. Ii this should occur it is
almost certain that the board will be
deadlocked on the proposition, as
Commissioners Kraemer and Ryan
are strongly in favor of grouted
granite blocks, while Messrs. Gillen,
Biertuempfel and Denman are just
as strongly in favor of the wood
block.
Vote Is Cheered.
The wood block resolution was in
troduced by Commissioner Bier
tuempfel amid riotous cheering by
prominent business men, members of
the North and South Broad Street
Merchants Association, who with a
number of other citizens. crowded into
the meeting re ON. As the name of
each commissioner was called to vote
he explained his stand Commits
sioner Kraemer, who had previously
introduced a resolution to lay grouted
granite block, which was lost by
to vote, was first called. With |
Commissioner Ryan he voted mo" |
and both were cheered by represen- |
tatives of the Transfers and Team |
Owners Association.
Commissioners Biertuempfel and |
Denman favored the resolution and |
the question was up to Commission
er Charles P. Gillen who, as chair
man of the street committee. presid- |
ed. As his name was called all was !
quiet. Before voting he declared that |
While he favored granite block he |
thought the merchants along Board |
street. who will have to bear 20 per
cent. of the cost of the pavement,
should be entitled to some sconsid-
GRAFTON.
81 want to say now" he declared,
that during all of my public life,
be it long or be 1t short, l will en~fI
deayor to carry out the expressed
wish of a majority of the people.
For that reason vote in favor of
wood block
After the original resolution which
had been introduced by Commissioner.
Kraemer providing for grouted gran
lite pavement had been put to vote
and lost by vote OF to ., Commits
sioner Biertuempfel introduced the
resolution TO repave Broad street,
nue., with wood block laid on an
eight-inch concrete foundation. This
was carried by the margin of 8 to >.
Thanks for Board.
Following the announcement by
Chairman Gillen that the original
motion had been lost and that the
substitute motion of Mr.. Biertuemp-
fel had been carried. Louis Leschiner
and Moses Plaut thanked the board
for the stand 1t had taken in grant
ing a public hearing and in adopting
the pavement desired by the majority
of the Broad street business people.
When Dr. kraemer introduced his
original resolution Mr.. Plaut was on
his feet in a minute and bluntly re-
minded the members of the board
that they were elected by the people
to carry out their expressed wish.
At the public hearing held recently
he stated there were only two who
opposed wood blocks.
Property Owners Speak.
Frederick Keer, member Of the
City Planning Commission, who ex-
planned, however. that he appeared
merely as a private citizen, and prop
erty owner on Broad street, was the
next speaker. lie went into the rela-
tive merits of granite and wood
block pavements, and said that it
was the duty of the board to give
the merchants what they wanted be-
cause they had to pay for 1t. Ed
ward @. Keasbey. prominent lawyer,
and Curtiss r. Burnett both spoke in
the same vein. Former Mayor Will
lam II. F. Fielder called the atten-
/ ton of the board to the fact that the
Market street merchants did not get
what they wanted and declared that
| the commissioners should bear in
mind the lesson.
There were numerous other speak
ers for wood block, including William
| A. Baker Frederick Ward and Ed
ward T. Ward. In opposition to wood
block and in favor of grouted granite
there were representatives of the
Transfers and Team Owners asso-
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