Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-24
HEATED DEBATE
FEATURES SESSION
OF WORKS BOARD
Much Argument Over Proposed
Reinstatement of Former En-
ployes of City.

The meeting OF the Board of Works
was greatly enlivened yesterday aft
ernoon when Commissioner Arthur
| f. Denman tried to reinstate a num-
! Der of men who We're discharged two
years ago for economical reasons.
Before placing the motion for the
! commissioners to vote upon, Commits
! sioner Denman told of the needed
supervision in all departments con-
| frolled by the board. He outlined the
| u ork of the coming board, and de-
| clared he would not sign any bills for
scavenger work for the city without
| an inspection by city officials.
IF you remember, have never af-
| fixed my signature to any bill pre-
sented in this board for scavenger
work." said Mr.. Denman, "and I will
rot do so unless we have extra men
| to watch, the work of Joseph Marrone,
who has the city contract"
| Mr.. Dehman then stated that It was
| the desire of several members of the
| board to make some changes with
the foremen of the various depart
mentS.
1.-THE city is too large and we must
have additional men," said Mr.. Dem
| man. Il have checked up the work
as Mr.. Hallock, our deputy engineer
, has outlined it,"
Commissioner Biertuempfei said
that he, too. was In favor of the
change. Commissioner Gillen, who is
chairman Of the street department,
| and who said that he was not con-
suited in proposed changes, asked Mr..
Hallock If he was the one to whom
the board was indebted for these so
called great changes.
II am not wholly responsible for
them" said Mr.. Hallock, "but we
! must have extra foremen"
Mr.. Gillen then stated that Il was
a cunning political move on the part
| OF Mr.. Denman to have these men re-
instated for political reasons.
"The real reason why Mr.. Denman
wants these men named today" said
Mr.. Gillen, 'is to cheat the civil SER
vice list. Let them take the examina-
tions, and If they are the competent
| men that Mr.. Denman says they are,
they will surely come out first on the
list and will surely be appointed. It
| is a clever move. and 1 will fight 1t to
the end"
After all remarks President Charles
| F. Kraemer called for q vote. Com
missioners Denman and Biertuempfel
voted in favor of the motion for re-
| instatement and Commissioners Ryan
| and Gillen voted to lay the motion
over for a week. The tie vote put the
matter up to the president.
President Kraemer then stated that
| as he was the outgoing member, 1t
placed him In a very embarrassing po-
sition TO record the final vote. IT do
| not intend to meddle with the affairs
| of the incoming board, and for this
reason vote to lay the matter over" )"
he said.
The men whom Mr. Denman wanted
| reinstated were: John j. Kinney,
Harry Doremus. garbage inspectors;
Herman Snyder, Louis Kaufman,
Henry Lind and Jacob Weiss, fore
men. The inspectors draw $20 a week
and the foremen $1,000 a year. Along
with postponing action on the rein
statements the commissioners laid
over the transfer of three foremen
| from the street cleaning department
| as follows: James Dove to the de-
partment OF street repairs. Bentley
! Hunt to the sewers and drainage and
| Eugene Murat to the department OF
| docks and meadows.
| Mr.. Denman made his motion to re-
| instate the four foremen with a plan
! to redistrict the city and instead of
nine create twelve districts. The plan,
| the commissioner stated, had been
worked out by Assistant City En-
gineer James C. Hailock.
| Commissioner Gillen told the board
that the complaints about garbage
collection In the city had increased
considerably of recent date and he
| named a number of complaints which
Inspector Struble admitted he had not
| investigated. He claimed that his ter
ritory was too large. j. Milton Ken
| nedy. representative of Scavenger
Marrone, stated that OF forty-five
complaints Investigated by his own
men nineteen had been found unjusti-
| fed. He also said that with 10000
collection points the number of COM
| plants were very small