Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-02

mileage of paved streets in the city
at the end of the year 23S.41 miles.
Fifteen streets were graded, cnrbed
and tagged. representing a total
length of 4.43 miles. at a cost of $685.
S11.14. During the year six streets
were opened by ordinance by the
board, the most important of which
was Branford place and Delaney
street During the year the new
municipal asphalt repair plant was
equipped, and while it was placed
into operation somewhat late in the
year, the indications are that sub
| stantial saving can be effected this
year in the cost of repairing and
maintaining the asphalt pavements
| throughout the city. Even with the
plant in operation for such a short
time. a comparison. made between the
repair work done on asphalt streets
| for 1912 and 1918. shows that in 1872
] only per cent. of the total work
was done by the city itself. while in
1919 this percentage has been raised
to 45 per cent.
More work was done by the sewer
department during 1918 than in any
wear since the board was organized.
Fjfty-three thousand five hundred feet
of new public sewers, or over ten
| miles, were built at a cost of $685., 000
While this length has been exceeded
in q few previous years, the mag
nitude of the work. owing to the large
sizes used in Vailsburg, exceeds any
previous years work. In connection
with these sewers 261 manholes and
l31 basins We're built. also over $4,000
feet of house connections.
There We're also built over $500
feet of private sewers with twenty
seven manholes and 2100 feet of house
connections.
In the house connection department
IS. 500 feet of connections were laid
at a cost of $4,000.
Trolley history was made by the
1918 board: history that will be re-
mem6ered for many years TO come, as
the infiuenee of the work of the board
is felt throughout our hustling mu-
nicipality and the suburbs. The
granting of twenty-seven franchises
to the operating traction company
in the city by the board will undoubt-
eddy solve the trolley problem in the
city for many years to come. The
records show that this was the largest
piece of municipal legislation on the
subject ever undertaken by any mu-
nicipality at one time, and after many
hearings and published notices, not to
mention the hard work and careful
study of each and every application,
the board has the pleasure of seeing
preparations made for the installation
of trolley facilities under the new
franchises as soon as the weather Will
permit.
Especial mention should be made of
the fact that during the year 1918 the
project of developing the meadow area
within the city of Newark and estab-
fishing a system of municipal docks.
with shipping and transportation fla
eilities, has received its greatest en-
Ecouragement and impetus. With per-
sistent progress in the acquisition of
the necessary lands and riparian
rights in Newark Bay the first real
start has been made in the develop
ment of this great asset of the city
of Newark, and with the close of the
year we have an engineering corps or
ganized and actively engaged on the
meadows in the work preliminary to
the active reclamation of the meadows
and the construction of improvements
thereon along definite lines.
''The year 1918 has been the busiest
year of my service in the board and
this has been borne out by the fact
that we have had more public meet
ings as a board than any other board
can now recall.
I'm conclusion. | wish to express
my sincere thanks TO you, my col
leagues, to the city counsel. the mem
bers of the press and the employees
of the board, for the many courtesies