Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-19
MEADOW FRONT
IMPROVEMENTS
ARE INSPECTED
City Officials Impressed by
Rapid Work on Reclamation
Project.


made yesterday afternoon by the
members of the Board of Works and
the city's engineering force, headed
by Morris R. Sherrerd. Although the
work has been going on for only two
months, those who made the trip were
much impressed with the advances
that have been made so soon. Com
missioner Albert H. Biertuempfel,
who is chairman of the committee in
charge of the work, assured the other
members of the board that within
year the city would be receiving rev.
enue from Industrial concerns that
are anxious to obtain sites on i'm
proved meadow property.
Deputy Chief Engineer James c.
Hallock, who is supervising the work,
explained the various methods of
work to the members of the party
Next month one of the large dredgers
win be put in operation.
Entertainments of sod placed about
the reclamation zone prevents the
water at high tide from spreading
over the lis acres.
The sod is also used with hay in the
construction of temporary road to ac-
commodate the men at work on the
meadow lands. The Central railroad
now marks special train stops for the
workmen. When the work is COM
pleted the meadow site will have
transformed into a new commercial
and industrial centre of Newark, and
will be the nucleus of baking this
city a great seaport.
stop at Dumping Station.
The first stop of the inspection
party, which left the City Hall in
automobiles, was made at the dump
ing station east of the Copper Chem
icaI Works at the present end of
Bay avenue.
The dumping station consists of a
platform raised to a sufficient level
to allow railroad dumping cars to go
under A runway at either end of the
platform permits the driving up Of
wagons loaded with refuse. a train
of patented dumping cars receives the /
material used for filling in. A large
number of the cars are owned by the /
Pennsylvania Railroad, which allows
their use free of charge.
The dirt trains are drawn by "a
small sized locomotive, the City of /
Newark" the only one of its kind /
owned by the city.
From the dumping station the party |
rode on the dumping train to the +
pumping station, where Newark's +
sewage, after being properly screened /
is lifted twenty feet from the level of /
the sewage pipes to the outfall pipes. /
Though in operation for twenty /
seven years, day and night, it was /
found to be in frst-class condition. |
With the opening of the Passaic VAL |
ley sewer this plant will cease to |
exist.
Following the inspection of the /
pumping station the trip to the recla- !
nation zone was resumed, the City
of Newark" bringing the party as
far as the tracks have been laid along
what will be the continuation of Bay
avenue. At the end of the line the
commissioners and those in the party
had to foot it partly over a tempo
rary trestle and partly over strips of
planking until the roadbed of the /
mosquito Line" the Elizabeth I
branch of the Central Railroad, was |
reached.
Owing to the city not having the
right of way, Bay avenue, at least /
until an understanding has been I
will end at the railroad.
Reclamation Zone.
The zone of reclamation runs 1000 |
feet north and an equal distance .
south of Peddie ditch. 1t is the /
northern part Of the zone on which [
the present work of reclamation is I
going on. The territory extends from /
the easterly line of the Central Rail- I
Il 81 hos nd ,T-ie
an area of approximately lis acres
The whole of this surface will be /
raised sufficiently above tidewater 7
level by filing in. bikes constructed I
of sod six feet in height and twelve /
feet at the base, which will include
the whole territory, are now being /
constructed and are nearing COM
pletion. Out into the bay on trestles
huge pipes are being laid, through i
which, under tremendous pressure,
the material derived from the dredg-
ing of the ship channel by the gov
eminent will be carried onto the
meadow land.
After reaching the railroad the in
spection party followed the tracks /
until Peddie ditch was reached. On /
the way a sign was passed which in
large letters calls the attention of the
commuters to the reclamation work
and that application for factory sites
may be made to the Board of Public
Works of the city of Newark.
AT the crossing of the railroad over
Peddie Ditch the works boards
launch Albert was boarded, and the
trip to the shacks some hundred feet
back of the bay front was made, /
where the surveyors are busily en-
gagged with the levelling Instruments.
Commissioner Biertuempfel, Engi-
neer Hallock and the men working
under him were highly complimented
for the comparatively rapid advance
of the work.
Besides the filing in of the re-
clamation zone the undertaking in
cludes the construction of piers some
1900 feet long and also filing in a
part of the shadows of the bay ex-
tending some 1,800 feet out from the
present shore line
Within this zone, up to now in
habited by the snipe, the muskrat and
the mosquito, and non-p productive
from the point of tax revenue, streets
will be laid out and already queries
are beginning to come from out-of-
town firms regarding the question of
locating plants within that area.
The southern boundary will be
formed by the ship canal that will
run about parallel to Peddie ditch,
separated from the latter only by
small strip of land. This strip will
be removed, when the zone south Of