Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-07
BOARD OF WORKS
WILLPUSH WORK
ON MEADOW PLAN
Plans Under Way for construc-
ton of Dock on Property
at Peddie Street.

So rapidly has the meadow work
development progressed that the
Board of Works at their meeting yes
terday prepared the way for the large
dock which will be built on the zone.
The work, which will be the second
step in the development, will prac-
tically complete the task north of the
Peddie ditch The zone has a. shore
frontage of 1000 feet. equally divided
north and south of the Peddie ditch.
The new phase of the work which
the board decided to enter on. upon
accommodation of it's engineers,
comprises the construction of a dock
along the north side of the proposed
inland channel, which eventually,
with taking in and further excavat-
ing Peddie ditch. will be 400 feet
wide.
The dock will begin from a point
about $500 feet back from the shore
line and will extend 1900 feet into
Newark Bay. Equalling the breadth
of this extension of the dock and
running northeast approximately
paralleling the shore the bay front
will be filled in level with the filled
portion in back of it.
The dock proper will be fifty feet
wide and the roadway between its
northern line and the proposed build
ing line $50 feet wide.
In addition to the construction Of
the dock the digging of the channel
to a twenty-foot depth will be con-
tinued and the excavated material
used as fill. Following this work the
piers for the northern part of the
zone will extend 1000 feet into tho
bay and meet the government
channel.
For the further opening of Bran
ford place, for which the Common
Council voted 81, 200, 000 the board de-
cided to ask $4,000 more.
stone orusher Saves Money.
Commissioner Gil1en, chairman of
the street committee, reported that
the recently installed stone crusher
had already saved the city about $500
in three weeks According to the re-
port about 1858 yards were furnished
the city by the crusher, which would
have cost s1,916 if bought in the mar
ket The expenses for the work were
1927. 60.
Owing to the protests against the
repaving of Orange street the board
abandoned this project. The paving
of South Broad street with asphalt
block was ordered to be proceeded
with. With the dropping out of sew
oral signers against the paving those
In favor of paving exceeded 90 per
cent. of the total frontage of 1858
feet by seven feet. Former Judge
Thomas S. Henry appeared on be-
half of those protesting and charged
that last week the protests exceeded
the petitions in favor of paving by 300
feet, which in his opinion had settled
the project. At any rate he pleaded
that the same courtesy should be
extended to those against paving as
was extended those petitioning in
favor and that the matter should be
laid over another week He was
backed up by Commissioner Gillen,
who finally voted against the paving
of South Broad street.
The board received a letter of ap-
probation from the Board of Educa-
: ton for its efforts to create zones
around schools insuring less noise
from traffic
Following a statement by Henry J..
Lohse, representing the Essex Trades
Council, that several contractors
working for the city were violating
the eight-hour law, the board re-
ferred the matter to Chief Engineer
MOTIFS X. SneTTeTu anu City SOuASSl
James r. Nugent for further consid-
Grafton.
For the new Board of Works stables
at the almshouse property the board
resolved to ask $150,000 from the Com
mon Council
The matter of paying the street
sweeper for Sunday work, for which
Commissioner Gi1len asked the board,
was laid over for one week
Cannot Raise Laborers' Pay.
Commissioner Kraemer, the presi-
dent of the board. announced that
after careful consideration it has been
found impossible to raise the pay of
the laborers in the water department
from rs to 80 cents, as requested by
them. Commissioner Kraemer ex-
planned that such a step would make
the city work more expensive than it
could be done by contractors and also
that the department did not have the
funds.
Protest against the increasing traffic
noise around Beth Israel Hospital, at
High and West Kinney streets, was
made by Joseph B. Breidt on behalf
of the institution and property own
ere of that locality. Mr.. Breidt was
advised that the matter was already
under consideration by the board.
The board awarded the following
contracts: Grading and curbing Plat
street, from Chester to Elm road,
Jackson Contracting Company, s621,-
So; paving Woodland avenue with
brick, from South Thirteenth to South
Fourteenth streets, 1,336.30, and paw
ing Highland avenue from Verona
avenue to the Erie Railroad with
granite, $3,09150, both awards to Alex
ander ]. Milmoe; grading and curbing
of Norwood place, $1,870.50, and Fos-
ter street, s1,557.90, both to William
Ballard paving with brick Sylvan
avenue, $2555, and North End terrace,
s2,303.50, both to Philip and Peter
Jamarone.
Francis H. Sherrerd was appointed
temporary engineer of maintenance
and repairs at a salary of $4,000 a
year. the appointment to date back
from July l. Walter Wuikiewicz was
appointed automobile machinist at
s21 a week, and the following as sea-
son inspectors for public improve
ments at SIS a day: Frank e. Groome,
James Mcdonald, Harry G. Nimsgern
and George w. Sharp, Jr. Leo Ma
guire and John c. Elliott, jr., were
appointed temporary helpers In the
surveyors department at $50 month.
The salaries of the following two en-
nloyes were raised: Edward F. Dom
nelly. keeper of the stone yard. from
$3.50 to SIS, and j. ]. Mcnamara,
sidewalk Inspector, from 1896 to
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