Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-05
MARKET FIGHT
WILL Be ABIG
EVENT TONIGHT.
Mayor Raymond Has Called Re-
publican Aldermen to a Con-
ference on Subject.
LABOR AND MANY OTHER
ORGANIZATIONS IN FAVOR
Democrats Solid for improve
ment That Would Aid
Unemployed.

At tonight's meeting of the COM
mon Council it may be decided for
some time to come whether Newark
shall have a new Centre Market.
Mayor Raymond has vetoed the reso-
luton awarding the contract to the
Essex Construction Company, and the
veto will be placed before the alder
men. That the session will be warm
one is shown by the attitude of the
majority and minority members.
Whether the veto is overruled or
sustained warm arguments and per-
sonal remarks are expected to fly
thick and fast. 1t is not at all un-
likely that definite action may not be
reached at tonight's session.
Mayor Raymond and Alderman e.
Garfield Clifford have called a con-
ference of Republican aldermen for
$50 o'clock to finally settle the atti-
lude of the Republicans. The Demo-
Gratis will also have a caucus previous
20 the meeting.
The Democrats have twenty solid
votes in favor Of the market plan.
IN the event that two Republicans
swing with the Democrats the work
will go on in spite of the veto.
Want Market and Work.
During the past three days the
Battle has been growing warmer. The
forces for and against the PROPOSE
ton have been enlarged and the labor
leaders of the city and county have
recruited many hundred influential
citizens to carry on the campaign for
the new market. They want work
TOR the unemployed and they favor
more suitable market building.
The German-American Central
Verein is the latest organization to
muster forces for the market PROPOSE
ton tonight. Letters telling the Re
publican aldermen that every Ger
man in Newark demands the market
have been ent BIZ the organization
to the twel. Republican aldermen
waited on the Republican aldermen.
They have shown the attitude of the
labor voft and demand that the
popular ysntiment of the people be
carried out.
Petitions favorine the market are
pouring In from all sides. The pres
sure on the Republican forces is grow
Ing stronger. Ward petitions have
been circulated favoring the market
and presented to the various alder
men,
Both parties have been battling,
and tonight's affray will be the final
plunge into victory or defeat The
outcome will be lively, and from all
reports the council chamber will be
we'll crowded with those interested in
the proposition.
Petition Method Criticised.
= feature of the campaign to OBJ
tain signatures against the market is
the part a number of women is
severely criticised, as is the motive
behind it.
Since when has womankind
changed its views on cleanliness, love
of neatness and structural beauty?"
is being asked. "Can it be possible
that women prefer the present un-
slightly market building to struc-
ture attractive in appearance, abso-
lutely sanitary and pleasing in every
respect? Do women prefer untidy
conditions that must continue in the
present market because of lack of ia
cilities, to a condition of immaculate
attractveness that would follow the
construction of building up to date
in every desirable respecty
ITO all these questions the answer
should be that women, by nature,
favor the new market, yet many are
being engaged in obtaining sigma
tures to petitions against it. They
are being unduly influenced in this
matter, but the hundreds of women
who do their own marketing are
enthusiastic in favor of the proposed
change. Those who oppose il do not
personally patronize the market, and
seldom, if ever, visit it. Only special
interests are against the new market
PLAN"
1t is said that the mayor will send
a message to the council asking that
the name of August Soffel for auditor
be taken from the table and acted
upon.