Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-03
MUM ON
i SCHOOL REQUEST
Receives Summit Estimate
Boards Requisition of $2o,-
900 Without Comment.


= SUMMIT, June 3.-The requisition
Cot the School Board of Estimate for
sss20,O00 for the purchase of a tract of
~land in Maple street for a high school
~site at last nights meeting of Com
~mon Council was referred to the com
emittee of the whole without COM
Bment.
The requisition for an appropria-
etion of sS6,916.60 for school purposes
wwas also received and referred to the
.committee on finance to be placed in
1the tax budget. In response to re-
Nquest from Freebooter William l.
sdoNIane, of the Second ward, res
, ~olution requesting the Union County
.sBoard of Freeholders to take over as
"a county road that section of Nor
@ris avenue from the Railway Valley
Srailroad bridge to the New Provi-
~dence borough line was adopted.
= To save the shade trees in the
Zwesterly end of the public park, some
.eof which are blighted, the committee
ssnn parks and shade trees was au-
'sthorized to spend 800 in the con-
Instruction of dry stone wells about
ssthe trees and for trimming, and the
,.removaI OF dead trees from the park.
Progress was reported on the i'm
-provement of the easterly section OF
the park.
Z For the water and light commit
sfee Councilman Guy Bates, chair
sinan again requested citizens to
~present suggestions or criticism rela-
Give to the new contract to be en-
ietered into between the city and the
commonwealth Water and Light
Mcompany in July for the city's water
Supply. Within the next two weeks
she committee expects to have the
contract in shape and in the mean
4ime it is desirous of obtaining an
Expression of opinion from citizens as
TO what they believe the new con-
Aract should provide.
= Councilman Walter S. Topping, re-
7porting for the committee on tax
Alton, informed his colleagues that
the city tax. maps have been prepared
N compliance with the requirements
of the State Board for the Equaltza-
zion of Taxes.
Alfred T. Kent was ordered paid
$50 in settlement by the city for
damages to ounce treets during the
construction of the West Summit
sewer system. The sewer contractor
defaulted on the contract, and City
Solicitor Cora \. Williams advised
chat the city was liable for the claim.
The sewer assessments for the con-
struction of the Elm street sewer
from Morris avenue south to Doremus
street were confirmed. Twenty EIGHT
dollars and eighty-five cents was
ordered paid on an attachment held
~ w. A. L. Oaks & Co. against
Charles Matola, of East orange, who
was the contractor on the Pine Grove
avenue sewer. hTe city holds ball
ance due Matola of S40.SS, from which
Che Oaks eompany's claim will be
paid.
EResidents of Evergreen place ad-
efsed council through a communica-
fion that. while IS per cent. of the
property owners in that street had
netitioned for d sidewalk to be laid,
The necessary consent of property
owners in Madison avenue adjoining
Evergreen place could not be OBJ
rained. As the sidewalk is badly
needed, the Evergreen place residents
want council to order the walk laid,
Irrespective of the wishes of the
Madison avenue property holders.
The matter went to the street COM
Mittee.