Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-03

property owners the benefit of COM
| petition.
LAS a result of the fight | have
made l have succeeded in having
| specifications open to asphalt pave
ments which were shut out of New
ark for many years as a result of
certain influences. Any contractor
contractor can bid on asphalt. In
tie last asphalt bidding three firms
competed, the lowest being $1.96 per
| yard. With. some changes in the
specifications which l am now fight
| ing for, L will get this price down
| to $1.70 a yard. There is a big diff
ference between these prices and
1927 q yard, and asphalt is a far
| superior pavement to bitu,ithic. The
| contractor who gets the contract for
| paving also gets the contract for
| putting down new curb. The Btu
| lithc Company having no competi-
| tors can charge any price they please
| for the curb, an dgenerally about 80
| cents per running foot. Where COM
| petition is had, like on asphalt
streets, the price of curb is generally
about 65 cents per running foot. You
can save a lot of money for yourself
and you can help me break the grip
that this bitulithic trust has held on
the throat of Newark for many
years if you wish to.
Remember, it is your fight, and
you can win it by withdrawing from
this petition. This trust pavement,
known as bitulithic, can be put down
only where a majority of the street
frontage favors it,
Other Requests.
A number of other Withdrawals
were received by the board yester-
day There We're twelve Withdrawals
from the petition asking that South
Twelfth street be paved with btu
lithic, six from the South Nineteenth
street petition, one from the Dover
street petition and five from the
South Fifteenth street petition. Two
letters later were received repeating
two of the Withdrawals on the Fiji
teenth street petition.
A report was received by the board
from Deputy Chief Engineer James
C. Hallock suggesting that the city's
automobile department be entirely
reorganized. The report contradicted
in mary ways q similar report sub
mitted several months ago by Chief
Accountant David Holmes, in which
it was shown that the cost of main
tanning motors was very expensive.
Engineer Hallock recommended that
nine of the city's older machines be
sold to. the highest bidder and the
machines replaced with new ones. He
suggested that the new vehicles be
all of the same make. This would
standardize the equipment, he pointed
out He suggested that the city buy
two electric trucks for use within the
city limits where runs under fifty
miles were made. He pointed out
that a big saving could be made by
buying these trucks, as they could be
charged at night at the citys electric
plant.
A delegation from the Board of
Education conferred with the works
board relative to the purchase of the
city stables at Factory and Eighth
streets as a school site No action
was taken and the matter was put
over for a conference on next Thurs
day night.
The board voted to reinstate
Thomas j. Scanlon a foreman at his
former salary of $1,000 yearly. The
board awarded to Theodore Diebold
for SO cents a ton the contract for
carting cast iron pipe castings, etc,
12 to SO inches in diameter from the
freight yards to the city storehouse.