Bridgeton pioneer., 1913-01-23

the present pavement to- the Grove
street crossing of the railroad. Much
work has been done in making sur
veys ty the engineer for private i'm
provements and sewer work.
The report Of the Overseer OF the
Poor covered the work done by that
Official for the month.
Commissioner of Public Safety re-
ported 81 police calls during the past
two weeks. Five convictions of illeg-
al liquor sellers had been made by the
department The Commissioner re-
commended the discharge of the po-
lice officer from East Lake Dam pro-
viding the Board of Health will agree,
The Commissioner declares the ex-
pense useless. There was a detailed
report of the fire department and the
Commissioner recommended the
granting of the building permit to
Maier & Bro. for the erection of the
proposed lumber ware shed on North
Laurel street.
Commissioner of Public Work Ryan
made very intelligent report, He
reports that he has been engaged in
a careful examination of all visible
portions of the water and sewer plants
and systems. The concrete storage
reservoir, East Commerce street, is in
excellent shape with little sediment in
the bottom and valve stem so badly
bent as to make the yasyc :1osable
He recommended the wooden steps re-
moved from the concrete reservoir,
The large snow pump is still working.
but the other pumps at the old station
| have been either disconnected or re-
moved. The old station is in need of
repair and the boilers are not in good
condition.
The collecting gallery is rotting re-
! quiring frequent temporary repairs.
Since the first of the year there has
| been pumped about an average of l.
100000 gallons of water per day. 1t
is generally necessary to use from
100000 to 100000 gallons of water
from East Lake. Chloride of lime is
being regularly supplied to all water
used.
The new plant requires some little
work done before being complete. The
Worthington pump, he urges, should
be thoroughly tested before the water
is taken from the raceway. The filters
are practically complete, but have not
been tested.
The sewer plants have been put in
thorough working order and every
thing there is operating satisfactorily.
An inventory made shows some ma
terials lacking that should be on hand
for emergency and repair work.
! The report of the Commissioner OF
Streets and Highways told generally
that there was nothing being done ow-
ing to the vast quantities Of mud.
A motion was made by j. NJ. Lam
ing to reopen the permit of the Taylor
laundry concern to build a boiler
house on West Commerce street. The
effort failed. Those voting to recon-
slider were Messrs. Fox and Laning.
The negative votes were President
Mulford, Messrs. Whipple, L. T. Ian
ing and Smalley.
Bills to the amount of $7,746.97 were
ordered paid. The bills were charged
up to the following appropriations:
Park, s317.47.
Fire Department, $6O1.06.
Sundries, $S25.75.
Streets and Roads, $334.9S.
Street Cleaning, $S0.75.
Water Construction, S51.4S.
Sewers, $3255.
Water Filtration, $51.03.
Water Maintenance, $1,16424.
Lights, $SS650.
Salaries, $1,09350
| Two bids were opened for the sale
of s55,OOO water and filtration bonds.
They were: y
C. H. venner & Co., New York. $751;
1s4.15.
R. NJ Brant & Co., New York, $685.
143.o0.-
On motion of Mr. WhippIe. the