Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-07-21
FIX ON CONCRETE
! FOR REPAV|NG OF
M|LLBURN ROAD
FreehoIders Decide to Make Ex-
pertinent on Advice of
County Engineer.

Concrete pavement viii be used for
the first time on a county road when
Springfield avenue, from Home street
to Spring street. Millburn. will be re-
paved. The road committee of the
Board of Freeholders yesterday deeid-
ed to use concrete for the pavement,
following the recommendation or
County Engineer Frederick A. Rel
mer.
Two years ago a committee of the
Board of Freeholders inspected roads
in Detroit paved with similar ma
terial, and at that time decided to
give the material test on road
in this county. Nothing had been
done in the matter until the repave-
snent of Springfield avenue in Mill
burn came up, and the freeholders
decision yesterday was a result Of the
Detroit inspection.
The county engineer estimated the
total cost of the pavement at ill.,
600. of which the trolley company
will pay approximately $780, Mr.
Reiner advised that before the per-
snanent Improvement is made nego-
tiations be conducted between the
trolley company and the town of Mill
burn for the -tracklng or
Springfield avenue He said that he
unuGI6lbOu THAT the II cAAAA'AA NiiANANe--
are willing to cooperate with the
town and county in having the tracks
laid before the paving work is started.
Belleville Culvert.
The engineers Recommendation for
emoving the culvert on washington
avenue to Nutley avenue, to cross
Washington avenue at the northeriy
side of Nutley avenue, instead of the
southerly side, in Belleville, was con-
CURED in The cost was estimated
at about $240 Mr.. Reimer stated
that plans and specifications for
drain on Mortified road, West
Orange, were ready, and he was au-
thorized to procure bids for the work,
to be opened on August 10. The cost
will be Approximately $4,000. Bids
will also be obtained for the work OF
Improving Springfield avenue, near
the junction with the Morris turn
pike, by the elimination of a curve.
The controversy regarding the side
walk In Bloomfield avenue, which
was left six inches lower than the
curb with the repaving of the ave-
nue., and for which the property own
ers sought to hold the county re
sponsible, was disposed of with the
receipt of an opinion from County
Counsel Benjamin f. Jones, in which
he advised that the county could not
legally pay any of the cost Of relay /
ing the walk to conform to the grade
of Bloomfield avenue.
The clerk was instructed to send
copies of the counsers opinion, to-
gether with copies of the letter from
former County Engineer Owen show +
ing that the figures for the grading
were not obtained from himself or
any one else connected with the
county administration.
A communication from John A. /
Brown, borough clerk of Glen Ridge, (
stated that the borough authorities
had refused to pay a claim Of sac
made by the county for the services
of an inspector employed in connec-
Hipn with the opening of Ridgewood
avenue for installing water main and
representing fourteen days work, al
though they were willing to pay for
one day at 49, 1t was claimed by the
municipality that the inspector was
on the job only one day, June 3. On
May 81 the county authorities halted
the boroughites who had begun to
open the street without the sanction !
|of the county.
Inspector on Job.
1t was then that the inspector was
placed on the job and kept there four
Eteen days. As IL was not until the
fourteenth day that the borough Of
4icials agreed to come to the terms
of the freeholders and make formal
application for a permit to open the
street at the same time depositing a
cash amount as guarantee that the
street would be restored to it's original
condition, the boroughites held that
they should not be charged for more
f.Y7a 6uxtc time fAf. iray
The road board thought different
however and the clerk was instruct
ed to deduct the SAP from the cash
deposit made by the borough.
The recommendation of County
Road Supervisor George w Eager for
the purchase of an auto truck to
facilitate the distribution of stone
quarried at the Caldwell penitentiary
was concurred in and Chairman Will
lam Cardwell authorized to procure
the machine.
Stating that the West Orange Wa
ter and Light Company has consider
able work which often compels it to
open country roads within the town
of West Orange, a communication
from the secretary of the company
asked for the privilege of furnishing
n bond instead of making a cash de-
post each time to guarantee the
restoration of the roadway This re-
quest was denied.
Theodore Jerolaman, of Belleville,
wrote asking that Washington ave-
hue be raised from twenty to twenty
four inches at the low point just
north of Joralemon street and
Powered the same amount at the
crown of the unnecessary hill north
of 1t. Mr.. Jerolaman pointed out
that among other reasons for the
change 1t would be an act of kind
ness for the horses.