Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-05-20
RUSH WORK
FILLING HOLE
AT MARKET
Ten Additional Trucks Pressed
Into Service Carrying
Earth Today.
TRUCKER DECLARES HE HAS
A WRITTEN CONTRACT
Chairman Fitzsimmons, of Mar
ket Committee, Says Work
Must Stop.

| Ten additional trucks were pressed
! into service today for the filling of
the hole at Centre Market, the work
which was started yesterday by Mar
ket Clerk Thomas A. Boyle, despite
| the action of the market committee
of the Common Council in voting to
lay the matter over for two weeks.
According to Charles F. Geiger, of
the firm of John S. Geiger & Sons.
truckers, the work will be pushed
forward as rapidly as possible. Mr..
Geiger said he had a written contract
for the job at the rate of thirty cents
per cubic yard. The trucker was
sure that it was a written contract,
although yesterday Mr.. Boyle de-
clared that there was only verbal
agreement between himself and the
contractor.
Not Sure Over Contract.
Mr.. Geiger, however was not so
sure as to who the first party of the
contract is.
II don't know whether the contract
is with the city or not Mr.. Geiger
said. III have to look it up. Any
way, you better see Mr.. Boyle about
It. don't wish to say anything fur
ther.''
A man who gave his name as Fl. D.
Clark and termed himself an In
spector" was on the job at the exca-
walton today. The inspector said he
had been put to work by Mr.. Boyle
to supervise the job
Alderman John +. FitzsimmoEs.
chairman of the market committee,
which voted Tuesday night to lay
over the filing of the excavation for
two weeks was at the market this
morning.
Mr. Fitzsimmons said he visited the
market to inspect some plumbing and
also to see Mr.. Boyle about filing the
hole. The alderman said he would
Immediately ask the market clerk to
comply with the ruling of the market
committee and to have the work
stopped.
market committee will take until
have seen Mr.. Boyle said Alderman
| Titzsirnihoils 1.-THE hole at the mar
l1et ought really to be filled. Every
body wants the work done, but we
did not feel justified in going ahead
with it until we found out whether
we had a legal right to do so. But
Mr.. Boyle had no authority to start
Lne WOTk Oh MS own NOllIiOI.
Asked If he would order the truck
er to stop dumping the dirt in the
excavation Mr.. Fitzsimmons replied
that he would not.
Market Men Pleased.
"That is his business and Mr..
Boyle's," the alderman declared.
With the additional trucks in op-
GRAFTON the process of filling the hole
went along at a lively clip today.
Several merchants at the Centre
Market declared that the loss of
space for the farmers entailed by the
digging of the hole has meant a big
loss to them. Formerly, when the
farmers market was located on the
ground adjoining the market proper,
the farmers often patronized the
standkeepers in buying meats and
other provisions. The loss of this pa
tronage has been keenly felt, the
marketmen say.
Satisfaction was expressed at the
prospect of having the hole finally
filled. The farmers, who have been
forced to set UP their stands on the
side streets about the market, were
also pleased when they saw that the
task of leveling the ground had been
started. The question of whether the
market clerk had legal right to
proceed with the job apparently did
not interest them.