The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1914-01-13
OFFICIALS REPORT
OF 1918 BUSINESS
Board Of Aldermen Receive An
nual Statements Of Affairs.

officials and departments OF the town
government for the year 1913, the
board of aldermen, last Friday night
accepted them and ordered them
printed in tne year book.
One of the most interesting of the
reports was that of Chief Day of the
fire department. He paid a tribute
to Alderman Reed for the latter's
energy and ability in bringing about
the motorization of the fire depart
ment and told of the acquisition of
the additional auto apparatus. There
are 233 men in the department, d.
Nided into six companies. After
enumerating the apparatus and equip
ment Chief Day reported that during
the year there were seventy-four
alarms answered, twenty-three gem
erals calling out the entire depart
ment and fifty-one still alarms call
ing out but one or two pieces of ap-
paratus. The property damage to
buildings was S35 5,05010 and to con
tents $5,135. Of the alarms forty
five were received in the p. m. and
twenty-nine in the a. m. There were
18,400 feet of two and one-half inch
hose laid, forty-one hydrant connec-
tions, 101 three-gallon extingulshers
used, forty-nine thirty-five-gallo
chemical tanks used and 1,131 feet of
ladders raised. Twelve of the alarms
answered were from points outside
the town.
Chief Day recommended the pur-
chase of LOCO feet of fire hose, a
concrete floor for Washington En-
gine house, the papering and paint
of Resolute truck house, installation
of steam radiators in Humane Engine
house, that "a member of the latter
company be engaged to keep in or
der the company's reserve steamer,
that four new fire hydrants be in
stalled, the early adoption of the
building code and the systematic in
spection of the automobile apparatus
of the town.
Town Electrician Frank e. Pierson,
in charge of the fire alarm system,
police telegraph and sewer Signals,
reported twenty-three fire alarms
turned in over the system, seventeen
from street boxes and six from the
master box in police headquarters.
The equipment of the system had
been augmented during the year by
the addition Of four-way electric
neighborhood whistle.
MI. GIGl5Ou I6COulllltuucu tu6 ItAoh
struction OF the overhead wires OF
the fire alarm system, the installa-
ton of a fire alarm repeater to
properly divide the circuits of the
system and an incombustible switch
board, the placing underground of
the circuit on Sussex avenue from
Henry to Mills streets and that the
fire alarm central headquarters be
n1o0cl IN firaproof ropO
The activities of the police, ac-
cording to the annual report of Chief
j. Frank Holloway, showed 762 ar
rests during the year against 720 the
year previous. 1t cost $13, ,442 to run
the department the year. OF those
arrested lac were jailed, 368 fined,
forty-eightl held for grand jury, 106
reprimanded and dismissed, and thir-
ty-eight discharged Police Justice
Pierson tried 235 cases, Justice Quayle
242 and Justice Bennell 277 Justice
Hagan, of Dover, had one case and
Mayor Todd tried seven cases of
hackmen, suspending the licenses of
several. OF those arrested 480 were
residents of Morristown and fifty
were tramps; 633 were white, 129
colored, 722 males and forty females
and the ages ranged from five to
seventy-five years. Chief Holloway
made his annual request for the pur-
chase OF AN automobile combination
police patrol and ambulance for his
department.
Town Treasurer Rutan reported a
balance from 1912 of $1,02048; re-
ceipts during the year of $298, ,500.97;
expenditures of $298,377.38, cash bal
ance OF S1,14407 and notes outstand-
ing of $5S,70O.
Town Clerk Henry F. Dempsey re-
ported receipts from license fees of
$8,829.60 which he had turned over
to the town treasurer from time to
time. From liquor licenses he had
collected $7,260. He had issued the
following licenses:-Five bootblacks,
fifty hucksters, eighty-two peddlers,
ten musicians, $50 junkmen, seventy
five auctioneers.
His receipts included So from boot
tsacks, hucksters $50, peddlers $S2,
musicians $40, junkmen $3.50, auc-
tioneers $75, pool And billiards $40
fines ard costs from police court
S79330, shows S120, hackmen $150,
billposters 50 and sewer permits
$500
Street Commissioner William II.
Frapwen reported the work of his de-
partment including the cleaning and
repairing of the streets. Speedwell
avenue had been widened he stated
from Kinney street to Corey road,
several storm drains needed had been
installed. The pay roll for his de-
partment had been $11, ,707.79 of
which ST 7,271.5S was for street clean
ing and $1,9S9.43 for street repair
work.
As superintendent of the sewers,
Mr.. FrapweM stated the disposal
plant and the sewer system had
worked well during the year. A few
minor difficulties only had arisen. The
effluent. from the disposal plant he
asserted on only two days had fallen
below 100 per cent. on a fourteen-day
test. The ejector plants had been
improved by the installation of mod
ern machinery and the cost of cleo
tric current for running the ma
chinery was s694.57 less than the
previous year, due, he declared, part
ly to the modern machinery that had
replaced the old pumps and also to a
lower rate for current that had been
obtained.
At the disposal plant seven-eights
Of an acre of unused land had been
fertilized with sludge from the plant
and corn planted. This corn had
been sold standing for $40 and had
netted the purchaser 102 bushels