Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-27
WHITE COAL" PROJECT IS
REVIVED BY WORKS BOARD

| cost, the board voted to send dele
gates to a national "Snow Removal
Conference" in Philadelphia on Apri
16 and IT, The delegates appointed
are: Chief Engineer Sherrerd, Presi-
| dent Kraemer and Commissioner Gil
len, chairman of the street committee
All the larger cities in the East will
/ be represented at the conference.
| Prominent French and German en-
| gineers as well as American special
| lists will offer new methods of snow
| dissolution and cleaning. The con-
| ference will be the greatest of its kind
ever held in this country.
! Mayor Blankenburg, of Philadelphia,
| will give a dinner to the visitors at
the Union League headquarters on the
night of April 16. when advance plans
will be reviewed. An invitation for
the local board to attend the confer
ence was extended by M. L. Coome,
| director of the Board of Public Works
of Philadelphia. The official bodies
of Boston, Chicago, Pittsburg, New
York, Cleveland and Washington have
| appointed delegates.
| A delegation from the Vailsburg
| Improvement Association waited upon
| the board and asked for the extern
sion of Eighteenth avenue through
Vailsburg to open up an undeVeloped
| district of that section. The dele
/ CATION, through it's spokesman, Julius
| Dornig, and Gustaf Werner, suggest
ed that Bernard and Breckenridge
terraces and Ocean avenue might be
used in the opening. The matter was
referred to the street committee.
| Chief Engineer Sherrerd explained
that at low tide vessels could not tie
up at the city dock. He suggested
1 aAx mn .iaf ix,r, a4
| 1000 be asked for dredging purposes
The McCauley Manton Construction
Company and the Healy CONSTRUCTION
Company, both bankrupt contracting
firms formerly engaged in building
parts of the Passaic Valley Trunb
Sewer system, are indebted to the
city to the extent of $24S2 and 81 ,04(
| respectively, it is claimed. The Law
department was notified to take steps
! to collect the money. The claims
are for the use of water.
Snow Foremen Paid.
The wages of the snow foremer
| who were engaged In making inspec.
lions to detect neglect OF garbage col
| lections, was ordered paid by the
| board. Commissioners Ryan anC
Biertuempfel upheld Commissioner
| Gillen's motion to pay the men. The
pay roll was held up at the last meet.
ing pending an investigation" The
result of the investigation was MOI
revealed at the meeting yesterday
nor was anything said that showed
an investigation had been made.
Commissioner Gillen called thu
boards attention to depressions il
the pavement of an alley alongsid,
the Essex building. A new building
was recently erected alongside tn,
alley, and 1t was declared that tho
foundations of the building had UNI
dermlned the support of the pave
ment. The alley Is used extensivel!
by the Evening News as an entranc,
for the reception of the heavy papel
rolls. The matter was referred t
the street committee for adjustment
Letters were received from T.. A
Wilkinson. the Wilkinson, Gaddis &
Co. and the Kremlin Company asl1inf
that their names be stricken from
the letter protesting against the re
paving of Broad street with Woo
block. The petitioners declared they
had been laboring under a misap
prehension.