Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-01
PRODUCE DEALERS
OBJECT TO A NEW
CENTRE MARKET
sruit Association Members
Would Renovate Old Build
ing and Save Expense.

g A protest against the readvertise-
81 nent for bids for the proposed new
s. -entre Market was made yesterday
by the Newark Fruit and Produce
Trade Association at a meeting held
4 the Board of Trade rooms. About
seventy members of the assoc
iation appeared before the Board IF
Trade committee on municipal at
Fairs and urged the board to again
10 on record as opposed to the build
Ing OF a new market.
s. Christian Wolters, jr., president of
Ehe association, declared that the
produce men had decided to enter a
Dew protest when they learned that
she legal fight over the award Of the
#narket contract had been abandoned.
|He said the building of a new market
would mean an investment of 81
boo 900, which at this time is abso-
tftely unnecessary for the needs II
3he city.
1.-THE excavation of the present site
n the proposed market has taken
AWAY the place formerly used as
FARMERS market said Mr.. Wolters.
a4The farmers have been doing BUSH
hess in Mulberry, Commerce and
Park streets and any place near
centre Market, where they could get
&standing room. The farmers have
tbeen talking of getting a market
place of their own in Harrison, but
II know as a matter of fact that they
tgould prefer to stay in Newark.
I'VE wish that the Board of Trade
'Would join us in a protest to the
mayor and Common Council against
Ehe building of the new market. The
Expenditure of the sum necessary to
II.
Create an unnecessary burden upon
|the citizens and taxpayers of New
lark. The project is inadvisable and
Unnecessary because such a structure
Is not required for retail purposes.
Would Renovate Old Building.
.sBy the expanding of sum not
Exceeding $40 000," continued Mr..
Nolters, the present market build
Eng can be renovated and made the
EQUAL if not the superior of any re-
tail market in the country. The
Ynoney now on hand for building a
Flew market can be utilized for more
|lecessary and advantageous purposes.
1--WE saw by the papers that the city
Find the Essex Construction Company
E1aye decided not to appeal the de-
|bision annuling the market building
Contract to the construction COM
P5any. We hope that we will be abe /
30 persuade the Common Council not !
30 readvertise for bids, but to fill |
En- the excavation and repave the site |
30 that 1t can be used again as a |
Farmers market"
Edward +. Bergen, another mem
Der of the association, declared that |
he had been in the produce business .
here for forty-two years and that his
Experience told him the building of a
hew market would be a most unwise
move. He said there was no public
1emand for a new market, and if the
city wished to have a more sanitary
building than the present one it could
renovate the old building. Mr., Bergen
added that with the expenditure of a
reasonable sum the present market
sould be renovated to meet all needs
Tor the next decade.
Peter Rathgeber also spoke against
he building of a new market and
1eclared that among the $50 stand
owners he had not been able to find
1ne who was in favor of the project
he said that while the Common
Council had appropriated s750,000 for
he new building, 1t would cost at
east $1,000, 900 before 1t was completed.
THE building of a new market
you'd not enable people to buy food
my cheaper than they do at present."
continued Mr.. Rathgeber land
Understood that was one of the OBJ
ects of the new market. I cannot
Zee how a new market is going to be
Il benefit. If the city spent only
rs, 600 on the present market it could
'e renovated and changed to meet all