Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-11
MEADOW AWARDS
HELD Up PENDING
CITY BONDS SALE
Tight Money Market Causes
Works Board to Take
Action.

900 city bonds the Board of Works at
yesterdays meeting deferred award
ing any new contracts for the de-
velopment of the meadows. Last week
one-hah of the proposed work was
awarded to O'Cara & Mcclure. This
will be held up until the bonds are
sold.
Although the Common Council has
ratified the bond ISSUE no sales have
as yet been reported The council
had to increase the interest from four
to four and one-half per cent.
The dredging contract was to have
been awarded to the Atlantic. Gulf
and Pacific Company. This is also
held UP by the present financial de-
preston.
Although all of the proposed work
Is being held up. the present work Is
progressing rapidly under old con-
tracts. DR.. Charles It. Kraemer, pres
ident of the board declares that the
work has progressed more rapidly
than expected.
sI455 Refund.
A ray of sunshine brought the an
nouncement by Commissioner Bier
tuempfel, chairman of the lighting
committee, that $1,455. rs credit note
had been received from the Public
Service Electric Company for the
year just passed, from August / last
year, when the old contract expired.
The new contract entered into was
only recently signed after numerous
conferences. The new rate under this
contract is responsible for the credit
given on the old rate which was APP
piled pending the new contract The
new contract will effect a saving of
$4,000 month over what the city
would have paid ten years ago for
the same number of lighting units
The bids received by the board for
the new city stables will be thrown
out in all likelihood, as the lowest
bidder exceeds the estimates by
$22, 900. The lowest of the eight bid
ders is Edward NJ. Waldron, Inc,
with s1s0,000, and the next lowest
William G. Sharwell &c Co., $1S6, 565.
The highest bidder is John II. Parker
e. Co, with S212.93S. The matter was
referred to Chief Engineer Sherrerd
and the architects, Hughes & Back
hoff.
The petitions for withdrawal from
petitions for paving Gotthardt street
and Shaw avenue with bitulithic pave
ment were received by the board. On
the former the signerS represented BOD
feet, and on the latter 216 feet. The
matter was referred to the law de-
partment, as was also the paving of
Seymour avenue, from Renner TO
Book avenue. Commissioner Gillen
stated that a number of signers petit
tioning for bitulitchic pavement on
Seymour avenue had withdrawn and
We're petitioning for asphalt pave
ment under open competition. Mr..
Gillen stated that the withdrawal left
How nj
owners on the original petition: He
also renewed his request from last
week that the board change the
| asphalt specifications to enable open
! competition.
Stone Crusher Profitable.
( That the city's stone crnsher con-
! tinued to operate with profit to the
! city was shown in a report made by
Commissioner Gillen as chairman of
the street committee From July !
to September 1, 3,24315 yards of stone
were crushed, which would have cost
the city in the open market $6,4Si,
but which work was done at the ex-
pense of $2,012.80, effecting saving
of $4,4T420.
Upon the request of the National
Lincoln Highway Association, Ferry,
jackson, Lafayette, Broad streets,
Clinton avenue, Aston street and FIRE.
linghuysen avenue will be known as
the Lincoln Highway as continual
ton of the Hudson Lincoln Highway
and the Essex Lincoln Highway for
merly Plank road. The change will
not affect the designation of the
streets. 1t was stated by Chief
Engineer Morris r. Sherrerd that
Haynes avenue would ultimately
form the highway link from the old
Plank road to Frelinghuysen avenue.
Commissioner Denman again
brought before his colleagues the de-
pleted condition of finances in the
house sewer connection department
and also the needs of increasing the
pay of his laborers. He was given
assurances that the matter would be
taken up with the auditor today,
and no doubt funds viii be made
available to tide matters over until
the assessments can be collected.
The board laid over until October
Is consideration of the Public Ser
vice Railway Company's application
for franchises in Park place, from
Broad to Centre street: RoseVille
avenue, from Orange street to Bloom
field avenue; Rector street. from
Broad to Park place, and Parkhurst
street, from Clinton avenue to Broad
street.