Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-06-02
PURCHASE AUTO
FIRE APPARATUS
Horse-DraWn Vehicles to Be Re-
placed in South Orange
Village.

Horse drawn apparatus will soon be
thing of the past in the South Or
ange Village fire department. Act
ing on the recommendations of Chair
man Harry j. Schnell, of the fire
committee, the Village Board of
Trustees, at an adjourned meeting
last night, awarded contracts for the
purchase of two motor propelled We
hicles to replace the apparatus now
in vogue in the village. When the
new apparatus is installed the South
Orange department will be the sec
opd municipality in the STATE to be
equipped wholely with automobile
apparatus.
The five horses and vehicles now in
use in the village department will be
disposed of, the fire committee hav-
ing been empowered to do SO. Be-
sides being means of reaching the
scene of fire, the automobile APP
paratus, Trustee Schnell believes, will
result in a large saving over the
present method.
The contract for the purchase OF
a city service hook and ladder
truck was awarded to the Seagrave
Company of Columbus, o., the cost
to be 5000. The Green Motor Car
Company of this city will build the
combination chemical engine and
hose company truck, at a cost OF
SO. 700. The hook and ladder truck
will have a siX-cylinder motor, a
five and three-quarter stroke, and
will be of seventy-nine horsepower.
1t will have an electrical generator
and lights. 1t will contain a thirty
five-gallon chemical tank, 25o feet OF
chemical hose and eight ladders
There will be a fifty five-foot, thirty
fiye-foot and fifteen-foot extension
ladders, two twenty-foot> and one
eighteen foot wall ladders and one
eighteen foot and one twelye-foot
roof ladders. The machine will ne
cessitate a tillerman, despite its
length of thirty mine feet five inches.
Village President Francis Speir re-
ported last night that the agreement
with the Lackawanna railroad for the
elimination of the four grade cross
ings in the village and the erection
of two new stations would be signed
today. The County Board of Free
holders have opposed the arrange
nent fer the tracks overhead at
South Orange avenue, which q
county road President Speir said
that the work preparatory to the
abolition of the crossings was begun
yesterday.
The president and clerk were au-
thorized to enter into a contract with
the United States Castiron Pipe and
Foundry Company for the purchase
of 5000 feet of ten-inch water pipe,
at 500 10 a ton, and 1,400 feet of six
inch pipe. at $20.35 ton, the pipe to
be used for mains in Grove terrace
and West Fairview avenue. Lepre
q Naglairo, of Church street, South
Orange, were awarded the contract
for laying the pipe. The Ogden d
Reeve Company, of South Orange
avenue. was awarded a permit to sell
fireworks.
ev. Perry H Murdick's communica-
ton relative to having the village
provide suitableN markers for the
graves of soldiers and sailors in the
Valley street Cemetery was referred
to the finance committee. Chairman
Edward 4. Marks, of the police COM
mittee, announced that signs of warn
ing to automobilists have been placed
on streets where auto traffic is heavy
On recommendation of Chairman
Edwin s. Allen. of the water commit
tee, Robert p. Carter, of Arnold ter
race, was appointed an engineer at
the municipal water works, at a
monthly salary of $50, and John J.
Downcy, of Tichenor avenue, and
Joseph steve, of Valley street, fire.
men, at $40 a month.