Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-15
PRINCIPAL HIT
NOISY PAVEMENTS
Urge Works Board to Eliminate
II Near Public
Schools.
TROLLEY REROUTlNG is TO
BE STARTED WITHIN WEEK
Contracts for Street Paving
Are Awarded-To Give Me-
ter Demonstration.

Principals of several public schools
attended the meeting of the Board Of
Works yesterday afternoon In an ef-
fort to have noisy pavements elm
mated about the schools. The men,
bers of the board stated that they
we're of the same opinion as the prin-
eipals and ordered Chief Engineer
Morris r. Sherrerd to prepare a map
showing the pavements in the school
zones.
The principals appearing before the
board were Claude l.. West, from the
Newton Street School; Morris Bam-
berger, Bergen Street School. and
Charles Gleason, Belmont Avenue
School.
Beginning next Wednesday traffic
congestion at the four corners will be
relieved of thirty cars. Trolley In
epector Joseph Crawford submitted
to the board the following report:
commencing Wednesday, May 20.
at a. m, the first of the rerouting
of trolley cars in this city will take
place over Central avenue, Park
place. Centre street, Mulberry street
and Market street.
All of the Central avenue cars will
operate in both directions over the
new route, with the exception of the
commission service, which will OPP
crate as usual from Market and
Washington streets.
This change will take thirty cars
en- hour from the corner of Broad
and Market streets during the period
of heaviest travel.
1.-THE next lines to be rerouted will
be the Paterson and the Bloomfield
lines that now go to the Market
street depot These lines will oper-
ate over the same route from Broad
and Central avenue, as Is described
above.
Last Monday morning the work
of installing the single track in La
fayette street was started and this
morning the first shovel of dirt was
turned over for the Green street
track installation.
Work on the extension of the
Kinney line from Tenth street and
Twelfth avenue will be started at
once and the cars operated within
the next few weeks.
THE work of laying the connecting
tracks on Bergen street. south of
Renner avenue, Is moving rapidly,
and my impression is that the cars
will be running all the way to Eliza
beth avenue within a few weeks"
The board voted to throw out the
bids received for the paving of Court
street from Washington to High
street.
City Counsel Nugent stated: you
want to remember that engineers
figure that the work cannot be done
properly at the prices quoted in the
bids
New bids will be received on Thurs
day, May %.
Another set of bids that had been
called for a year ago was rescinded
on account of changed conditions.
They include paving Orange street
from Fourteenth street to the city
line and portions of Lackawanna
avenue. New bids will be received on
Thursday, June 4.
O'Gara &c Mcguire. being the low
est formal bidders. on motion of
Commissioner Glllen, seconded by
Commissioner Ryan, were awarded
the contract for paving the following
streets with reclipped granite: Jeliff
avenue, from Avon to Waverly ave-
nues, 1888; Baldwin street, from
Washington to High streets, 1928;
Dliryea street, Central avenue to Or
ange street, s14 1853: Longworth street,
Washington to High streets, $8,65750;
Weston avenue, Frelinghuysen to
pennsylvania avenue, S6,654.75.
Ralph Sangiovanni was awarded
the contract for paving Soaring street
from New to Warren streets at
50, 066.50. and the Standard Bitulithic
Company. with Commissioner Gillen
voting against, was awarded the con-
tract for paving the following streets:
North Seventh street, Fourth avenue
TO Third avenue; South Twelfth
street, Central avenue to South Or
ange avenue; Norwood street. South
Orange avenue to Abinger place;
South Fifteenth street, South Orange
to Sixteenth avenue.
On motion of Commissioner Gillen,
seconded by Commissioner Ryan, the
board decided to pave Orange street
from High street to the city line.
The motion was the outcome of a
petition by Roseville citizens repre-
scented by George H. Lambert, who
asked that the street be repaVed from
First street on.
On the recommendation of Com
missioner Gillen, Commissioner Krae-
mer moved that engineer of streets
be requested to report on the FEAST
hility of giving streets intersected by
Branch Brook Park some designa-
ton whereby it may be known on
which side of the park a certain num-
Der may be found.
Commissioners Biertuempfel and
Denman recommended the installa-
ton Of a demonstration water meter
for the benefit of the water tax pay
ing public. On motion Of Commits
sioner Ryan the engineer Of the water
department was empowered to pur-
chase such q meter.
Commissioner Denman also recon-
Tnended that instead of the trough,
cups for horses be installed at the
public watering places. The matter
was referred to Commissioner Ryan
as chairman Of the water depart
rnent on motion of Commissioner
kraener.
A general inspection Of meadow de-
veIopment will be made by the board
on Monday afternoon.
Commissioner Kraemer brought up