Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-12

iald IN April. 1855, with six men,. Six
months later two additional patrol
men were added to the, force, and
George Snow and William R. HIT
appointed sergeants.
The first story of the firebell
tower. a room ten by twelve feet,
constituted the Police Court and sta
ton, and was heated by pot stove.
The Jail consisted of three cells in a
small addition at the rear of the bell
tower. Upon the completion of the
old Town Hall in front of the bell
tower the Police Court and station
moved into the second floor of the
new building, where they remained
/ until, upon the completion of the
present City Hail. they took posses
sion of the entire building.
The first police justice, Mr. Alfred
Z. Mum. was appointed in 1888. The
present roll Of the department mum
bers sixty-one men, divided as fol-
lows: Fifty patrolmen, four SER
geants. four roundsmen, two detec-
! tives and Chief w. H. O'Neil.
The East Orange water department
dates from January l, 1908, when the
Orange Water Companys plant was
purchased. A new supply was later
secured at the White Oak Ridge sec
ton of Millburn, west of Second
mountain, lying in the Passaic river
valley, along the Canoe brook and
Slough brook branches. Several farms
in this vicinity were purchased, and
the work of drilling the first group of
wells was started in the late summer
of 1903 On November l6, 1903, the first
pipe for the large main to connect the
city with it's new supply was laid at
the corner of South Clinton street and
Central avenue. The new system was
designed and constructed under the
direction of c. C. Vermeule. civil en-
gineer.
Open New Water system.
The work on the new system was
/ far enough advanced on January 10
1906. to permit of turning off the old
water service and turning on the new
supply from White Oak Ridge. The
members of the City Councils of 1906
to 1905 deserve much credit for ear
nestly carrying out the wishes of the
citizens of the city, but the heaviest
burdens We're borne by ex-Mayor E
e. Bruen, William Cardwell, chair
man of the City Council, and ]. D
Gedney, chairman of the water com
mittee, and to these men especially
| belongs the greatest credit.
| on January /, 1913, the system rep
resented an actual appraised value Of
81, 169, 1928. The bonded indebtedness:
on this date was $1,140,000, but off
setting this bonded debt We're q sink
ing fund of $220,062,26 and an unex-
| pended bond balance of $6S, 1851, 6
total of $2S9, 0O6.O7, making the ne
nebt on January l, 1918, $3.50, 1888
! thus showing an excess of assets ovel
liabilities of $31s,1H.35.
The system of today includes 6
water reserve of 1850 acres in Mill
burn and Livingston townships, OF
which stand eighteen houses and nu
merous barns and other buildings
The artesian wells are In two groups
of twenty wells each, yielding abou
1000, 900 gallons per day. The pump
ing plant, including buildings ant
machinery equipment, represents {
value of 100000 The twenty-four
inch main from the pumping station
to the distributing system in Eas
Orange is eight miles long, with thu
| 81 ,000-g gallon, concrete covered res
ervoir at the halfway point on tn,
east slope of First Mountain ir Soutl
Orange Village. The distributing sys
tenn in East Orange comprises eight.
miles Of mains from four-inch t