Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-12
ORDERS PAVING
WORK RESUMED
Threat Mace To Revoke Con
tract for Springfield Ave-
nue. Job.

Dissa tisfactIon over the paving 90
Springfield avenue by the =. n. L
Paving Company was brought into
a meeting Of the Board OF Works yes
terday afternoon. Edwin Fearey.
merchant on Springfield avenue, ap
peared before the board as spoles-
man for a number Of Springfield ave-
nue. merchants.
Numerous complaints have engaged
the attention Of the board during
past months and yesterday Edwin
Fearey. a merchant from springAell
, avenue and William street, appearer
as spokesman for delegation Of
merchants along the thoroughfare
complaining that conditions had be
come unbearable
William Murtaugh representing
the company. asserted that they
were pushing the work as fast as
they could. He claimed that work.
had been delayed by reason OF the
Public Service Company putting in
eonduits. Two weeks ago Mr. Muir
laugh had stated in addition that ne
was handicapped because, as far as
| he knew. the Newark Paving Com
pany, which has the Broad street
job, was getting its curbstones first.
On the strength Of a letter from the
quarries to the p. NJ. Z. Paving
Company Mr.. Hallock asked that the
! contractor be given ten days noticf-
that the contract would be reseiHoeo
unless work proceeded as per agree
ment.
While Commissioners Ryan and
Kraemer were in favor Of lenieucy
Mr.. Hallock said that Murtaugh was
making nothing but promises. In
addition, he told the board that cars
with stone had been lying untouched
at the freight yard. The board grant
ed a weeks grace.
That the collection of garbage was
still unsatisfactory and that as the
/ problem was handled at present prac-
/ tically one-third of the work had to
! be done by the city's forces at the
/ taxpayers expense, was the burden
/ Of a statement made by Commissions
er Gillen, chairman of the street
/ committee. Mr.. Gillen told that he
/ had a conference with Milton Ken
! nedy, the manager of Joseph Mar
i rome. the garbage contractor. to-
/ gether with Engineer Halloek. Gem
! eral superintendent Shipman and the
| garbage inspector.
The troubles appear TO be" Mr..
/ Gillen stated, that the contractor has
not enough wagons and in eonse-
| quence they are overloaded and part
Of the contents is spilled all over the
street. This things must be abolished
! We clean the streets. but we cannon
/ clean them all the time"
Mr.. Kennedy, in explaining his side
! of the case, claimed the chief trouble
was the violation of the ordinances
| by the householders. 50 per cent. of
whom did not supply the regulation
] receptacles, but used soap boxes and
| etker makeshifts. Under the con-
! tract, Mr.. Kennedy said, his people
would be justified in giving notice
/ that after certain date they would
i only make collections where the
/ householders provided the proper re-
! ceptacles. Here Commissioner Bier
/ tuempfel remarked that in cases
where the householders did as re-
i duired the men of the contractor were
handling the receptacles in the rough
i est possible manner.
| Permission was sought by tile Pub
/ lie Service Company for five track
4 franchises in connection with the gen.
eral scheme Of rerouting of cars and
i the relief OF congestion. The add.-
I tons of tracks are as follows:
1 First, through Rector street FROM
/ Park place to Broad street Thiz
4
and the Monsignor Doane monument
! second. double track along the east
+ side Of Military Park from Centre
street to Broad street; third, a track
through Parkhurst street from elm
/ ton avenue to Broad street fourth.
! curve on the east side of Broad street
4 into Thomas street: fifth. a cross
! over on Ferry street. east of Magazine
4 street.
/ The Parkhurst street track is in
i tended as John L. O'Toole. publicity
i director Of the company explained. 10
relieve Thomas street Trolley IN
/ spector Crawford fully conceded with
+ Mr.. O'Toole.
The board concurred in the recon-
I mendations. barring one of Engineer
f Hallock to build more safety isles
along Broad street from Clinton ave
nue. to the Lackawanna depot. Two
have been built so far which Mr.
+ Hallock said proved success and If
& is intended 70 have one more at Broad
street and Clinton avenue, three more
al the -Four Corners" two at New
j street. two at Orange street and two
at the Lackawanna Railroad. In re-
gard to the latter the board decided
/ To investigate first if the width OF
! Broad street at that point permitted
/ the building of such isles.
On the subject of keeping Bank
street free from automobiles being
parked there, choking up traffic, En-
+ gineer Halloek reported that the fire
/ department had called his attention
TO the danger ensuing from the habit
Of automobile owners 10 leave their
cars stand in the street for hours
at 2 time This practise made the
/ street useless for use by the IRE de-
/ partment, he stated. M Hallock
+ also stated that neither the pfuden-
tial Insurance Company nor the Pun
/ lie Service Company were the otteH9-
ers. but people who had Offices in tho
i Prudential building The board de-
! cided TO have an ordinance drawn Up
4 The contract for paving Lake stree
+ from Bloomfield avenue 10 E3WoOd
/ avenue with asphalt block was
i awarded TO the Hastings Pavenent
/ company for s55 5000. The repavinr
of Court street from Washineton
+ street 10 High street with granite
block was awarded to the Cestons
4 Construction Company at ST. 09
The salaries Of employees in the
water department were raised as fol-
lows: Five foremen from $3.50 a
week to S25; three assistant foremsa
from SIS to 1920; four repairmen
from S21 to S245o. and one repairIuan
! from 81. 10 per dav to SIS a week.
Former Judge George Fl. Lambert.
representing the Roseville Business
i Mems Improvement Association, APP
peared before the lighting COMMITTEES
Of the board to ask that flaming are
! lamps be placed on Orange street be
tween the Norris canal and the East
/ Orange line.
4 He also asked that better lights De
installed in Roseville avenue. from
/ Orange street to--the Roseville sta
/ ton. and that all light wires be placed