Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-03-03
PROTESTS AGAINST
ASSESSMENT PLAN
NutIey Property-owners Object
to Sharing in Cost for Pro-
posed Improvement.

The lighting system being out OF
commission in Nutley last night, oil
lamps were brought into use at the
meeting of the Board OF Commission
ors in the Town Hall. Each member
of the board and the Town Clerk was
supplied with a lamp. The situation
afforded Mayor Abrani Blum to
spring a pun on his colleagues. This
matter will be laid over until more
tight is had on the matter" he re-
marked in disposing of a small de
tail in the nights business The
presence of the police nearly pre-
vented a small-sized riot.
Many written objections were re-
eeived against the plan of assessment
for the proposed sewer to carry off
The drainage water in the eastern Sec
ton, which now flows into Darby
Brook. The board proposed to i'm
prove the situation by building a
sewer at an estimated COST OF $4,000
and to establish a drainage district,
which was 10 take In property for
miles about which contributed sur
face water to the brook, and to assess
these properties for the cost Of the
Improvement
All of the objections were TO the
pan of assessment, everyone conCed-
ing to the necessity Of the improve
ment. Some were inclined TO believe
that the property owners along the
brook should alone pay the cost,
while others took the more logical
view that the town as whole be as
eessed for the Improvement The
former DIRECTORS advanced the argu
fnent that property owners were
aware Of the risk they were taking
when they purchased property along
she stream. With the opening of new
streets the amount OF surface water
the brook is obliged to carry off is
constantly increasing. 1t was sug-
gested that the town take care of its
drainage water and leave the brook
alone
One petition, sigdned by 113 prop
erty-owners, favored assessing the
whole town. Others asked that the
cost be put up 10 the property -owners
along the brook The matter was laid
on the table for two weeks, until the
Board of Commissioners can consider
the objections.
A resolution was passed instructing
the clerk to ask the corporation of
all the neighborlng municipalities to
aid IN defeating Senate bill 163 and
Assembly bill 376. These bills, accord
ing to Commissioner Carr, will bring
10 naught, if passed, all that has been
done toward securing town ownership
of water supply.
Former Mayor John p. LUX repre-
scented property Owners on Cueman
avenue in fling objections to the pro-
posed opening of that thoroughfare.
Contrary to the usual custom, Mr..
4 oil Ad ia Utn %
his objections, while later on Fl. w.
Meyerholz, of Centre street, was de-
MED permission TO speak on another
matter.
Mr.. Lux said he favored the i'm
proyeinent, but objected to the ordi-
nance which gives the street a width
OF sixty feet from Prospect street to
Sylvan place, and from there on to
3omfeld avenue only fifty feet.
The extra ten feet between the above
swe named streets has been offerd
20 tn town by the Nutley Realty
Company, and on account of the sit
uation of houses below Sylvan place
is viii be impossible to have the
street a uniform width of sixt yfeet
throughout.
Commissioner Carr seemed to think
1t would be folly to throw away ten
feet on this account, and despite the
protests of Mr.. Lux moved that the
matter be turned over for assess
ment. In an argument after the
meeting with Commissioner Carr, Mr..
Lux said he would fight the matter
out.
Objections We're received from w.
D. Sitgraves and II. w. Meyerhols
20 the assessment for stone tagging
recently laid on the west side of