Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-11-19
POLICE BOARD
SECRETARY PUT
On THE PAN
'WnoIIy False" Is Way City
Counsel Frazer charactefizes
Alleged Statement.
TROUBLE STARTS OVER
PARK PLACE REGULATIONS
Board of Works Arranges for
Water and Railroad
Conferences.


yesterday afternoon IN references "
information supplied Police Commits
sioner Frederic Bigelow by James j.
Keerney, secretary of the Board of
Police Commissioners. to the effect
that the law department of the city
didn't want Park place as one-Way
street. After asking that Canal and
Commerce streets be made one-way
thoroughfares, Mr.. Bigelow inquired
OF Mr.. Frazer if there were any OBJ
iections to putting the order into ef-
feet making Park place one-way
street.
Mr.. Frazer appeared rather sur.
prised by the query. and Commits
sioner Arthur r. Denman wanted to
know If the duty of the police was not
to enforce ordinances and resolutions
upon their adoption by the Board of
Works. Mr.. Bigelow explained that
Mr. Kearney had told him the law
department advised delay in enforc-
ing the resolutions relating to jitney
and other traffic through Park place.
Mr.. Frazer Immediately denied this,
and when Mr.. Bigelow remarked that
My information is not wholly true,
then" the city counsel corrected him,
saying, 1T is wholly false"
Mr.. Bigelow left the meeting feW
minutes afterward, stating that he
was going to ascertain where the sec
retary secured his information. Mr..
Frazer followed him out. The Park
place resolution calls for making that
street a one-way thoroughfare.
The proposition to place Canal and
Commerce streets in the one-way
classification was laid over until the
next meeting Mr.. Bigelow asked that
traffic through Canal street be headed
east and west through Commerce
street A number of Commerce street
merchants will appear before the Po-
Ice Board next Wednesday in support
OF the plan ~
Wanaqna water Conferences.
The proposed contract between the
State and municipalities entering tho
Wanadue watershed development was
read, and Will be taken up In confer
ence next Tuesday night. Chief En-
gineer Morris X. Sherrerd emphasized
the necessity of expediting matters.
The city of Newark intends to pur-
chase 10.00o.0D9 gallons of water daily.
Paterson will be the chief other CON
SA11tEit Wt1ltG d tAuA{ {=@I VI hAAaAts-@ Re-A&
ties in Essex county besides Newark
will join in the development. AS a
capital fund, each municipality agrees
TO subscribe 5000, 900 for every l ,0OO, 900
gallons for which it contracts. These
subscriptions will be in the form OF
loans to the State. however. All par
ties to the contract must be ready to
go ahead with the development by
July /.
The State Board of Commerce and
Navigation requested that Newark be
represented at o hearing to be held
November 30 at p. m. upon the re-
placing of the Central railroad bridge
across Newark bay, from Bayonne to
Elizabeth. The hearing will take
place In the Court House, Jersey City,
and every municipal and private cor
noration concerned has been urgently
asked to come prepared with some
definite proposition. Members of the
Board of Works and the engineering
corps will attend.
The communication from the State
board reviewed the result of the old
Harbor Commissioners investigation,
which found the bridge to be an in
reference with Industrial and COM
mercial development in Newark bay
and the Passaic and Hackensack
rivers. BY holding ice in the bay dur
ing the winter the bridge stops COM
merce entirely, the commission also
concluded, while fault was found with
the head room and the width of the
draw spans. Furthermore. the bridge
Is in constant danger of fire. The
war department and the Public Util-
ity Commission have both decreed
that the bridge must go, and the Cen
trail railroad is willing.
L 4 a II s4<@~
county are seeking to have a highway
bridge constructed The new railroad
bridge may be doubledecker in order
to satisfy this demand. or the width
Of the bridge may be greatly in
creased. A third scheme is to con-
struct bridge entirely separate from
the railroad structure.
The cost to the counties and mu-
inequalities directly involved would be
S1.500,000 for construction. If a joint
bridge were erected the railroad and
municipal corporations would have to
share the cost OF maintaining It,.
Newark's chief concern is that the
present bridge be replaced with some
kind of a modern structure.
Sewer Conference Monday.
In response to East Oranges desire
to enter the Passaic Valley sewer a
conference with its Representatives
was arranged for Monday afternoon
at o'clock. City Counsel Frazer and
Chief Engineer Sherrerd stated that
they had been in touch with Mayor
Mountain upon the proposition, and
would draft certain resolutions today.
The Board of Health complained
that the streets were not sprinkled as
they. were swept, and that the cart
ing away of dry sweepings was also a
nuisance. Especial mention was made
of conditions in Broome, Spruce and
PRINCE streets Clouds of dust Settle
upon produce, flies into windows and
are breathed In by the people.
Commissioner Charles p. Gillen con-
demned the carelessness of the street
department employees in not sprink-
ling as they swept the streets. When
he wac head of the department, Mr..
Giliien said, that there were standing
orders to discharge anyone violating
the sprinlxling rule, and he inquired
why this was no longer the case.
Protests Water Blll.
Benjamin Weinberg, the owner of
property at 358 Springfield avenue,
which he purchased ten months ago,
protested against water bill amount
ing TO $759. This covered a sixteen
wear period. he said There are four
meters In the property owned at that
point by Mr.. Weinberg, and the water
had been so diverted before reaching
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