Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-15

for the celebration of the two hun
dred and tiftieth anniversary of its
founding.
IA bill to permit the city to ap-
propriate adequate sums for city
planning projects.
u" A bill to enable the city to cor
rect advertising abuses.
"a bill to permit the city to estab-
lish a central purchasing bureau.
ga bill to enable the city to estab-
fish an emergency fund.
"A bill to enable the city to insure
against employers liability and the
Insurance Fund Commission
1--WE also agree with him in stating
that these special measures are part
of any proper plant under which a
city may govern itself, and we regret
also the necessity of being compelled
to go to the State Capitol to petition
for such rights"
From elf-government the report
leads over to the question of the
city charter The directors urge
that the subject of giving the city
a new charter, the present being OBJ
solete, be taken up again, after 1t
was dropped in 1911. At that time,
the report says through the agita-
ton the city had a new draft pre-
pared, but then nothing further came
of 1t.
Would Amend Factory Laws.
Dwelling on the ever increasing
number of concerns which come to
Newark, the directors urge the
amendment of certain portions of the
factory laws which work as they
claim as a hardship.
The directors point in their report
to the terminal project which they
say received a great stimulus through
the agitation in it's favor by the
board
Street pavements is another sub
ject treated in tire report in conr &C.
ton with which the directors advo-
cate that the manner of drawing up
specifications be improved and that
instead of the extra expense to the
tax payers by reason of the guaran-
tees, the city engineer be held re-
sponsible for the wearing qualities
of the pavement.
Speaking then OF the street de-
partment in general, the report con-
tinues:
at is gratifying to note that in the
handling of the affairs of the street
department during the past wear
that saving of over $64 900 has been
made and the efficiency of the de-
partment brought up TO higher
standard, in the adoption OF rule
under which all employees are placed
upon a merit basis and IRE en-
ployed regularly; also, that through
the able management of this Depart
ment a large saving is indicated in
the purchase and operation of a
municipal plant used in making re-
pairs of asphalt pavements, and that
we may anticipate better work, at
less cost and large saving in this
department"
The report also discusses the act
i've propaganda carried on by the
publicity department. of the board.
which extended over the whole world
The present membership is given as
l349 against 1870 a year previous In
making an appeal to the members
for active cooperation the report
says:
= I'm closing, allow us to call the at
tention of members to this one fact,
that if the Board of Trade appears
to be deficient, or to be inefficient, or
to be lacking in any respect. it is
perhaps due solely to the want of
interest on the part Of the individual
member, and the best way TO Judge
the efficiency of the board is to form
a judgment based upon the amount
of interest or efficiency of the in
diVidual as a member, because the
Board of Trade is what each individ-
ual member helps to ma 3 it and
the sum total is the amount of time
and thought contributed by those
who take part in it's work and in its
meetings"