Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-07
COUNCIL SUSTAINS
VETO Of MAYOR.
Executive Claims Nurses Home
Machine Is Not According to
Specifications.

The Common Counsel last night
sustained the veto of Mayor Hauss-
ling on the awarding of the contract
of Osehwald & Murphy for the fur
nishing Of q vacuum cleaner for the
rev Nurses Home. The resolution
calling for an expenditure of S49J was
returned unsigned. Mayor Haussling
asserted the vacuum cleaner was
not in accordance with the specifi-
cations. The vote to sustain the
action of the mayor was unanimous.
A strictly Democratic party vote
approved of the paying of 1851 to
Hooper q Co., architects, for the new
market. Alderman e. Garfield Gift
ford stated that no payment should
be made. as the market case was no.
as vet settled by the courts.
Alderman ]. Francis Hanlon, who
offered the motion, stated that ac-
cording to law the architects were
entitled to the above amount mas
much as the law reads that per
cent. must be paid to architects after
the plans have been approved.
Alderman Bleick offered a resolu-
ton that the administration building
for the Board of Education should be
built in more suitable location than
that offered by the present site, on
Academy and Washington streets,
which partly takes in the old Fawcett
drawing school, and that the new
building should be combined with the
erection of a permanent memorial of
the 250th anniversary of the city of
Newark. For the purpose of consid
ering this change the finance commit
tee should confer with the board of
education and also with the commit
tee of one hundred appointed by the
Mayor for the celebration of the an
niversary. The resolution was re-
ferred to the finance committee.
The administration building as
planned will also harbor the Fawcett
Drawing School. The property on
which this school was originally built
was sold to the city at cost by DR..
Edward III, under the agreement that
it be used for school purposes only.
1t is thought, therefore, by the alder
men that the use of the property
would have to be limited to school
purposes.
Protest against a special meeting
OF the committee on alterations of
buildings was made by Alderman
Bleick because he received no notice.
He said that a certain man had APP
piled for permit to change a three
family building into a six-family
structure. The permit would have
been granted upon application If the
man had not offered bride to Super
intendent O'RourlSe, of the building
The latter at once re-
ported the matter TO the committee,
with the suggestion that the permit
be withheld because of the offer. On
motion of Alderman Bleick the build
ing superintendent was sustained.
Later Alderman Bleick complained
that on the night of the next council
meeting the committee held a special
meeting and reversed its former de-
cision. To this meeting, the alder
man stated, he was not called. Chair
man Doueherty explained that the
clerk of the committee was sent out
to End the alderman, but failed to
do so, and that the committee had
reconsidered the former action on
recommendation of Mr.. O'Rourke.
Alderman Dougherty accused his col
league of INDUCING in "grandstand
play" The matter was settled by
President O'Brien, Of the council,
who asked Alderman Bleick If he
were satisfied if in future meetings
Of the committee would be properly
called, and the alderman replied that
he would.