Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-29
C2iffSide Park Council



system; all connections were made
through a hole in the side of the
pipe. Councilman Cadien suggested
that the entire charge for each con-
nection be made for $500, the work
to be superintendent by the road COM
missioner. Attorney Agnew said that
the Board of Health had jurisdiction
over the matter of requiring house
holders to stop using cesspools, and
connect with the sewer.
Councilman Hoeckelberg, who earl
Ter in the evening had brought up the
matter of the omproving of Walker
street, and as a preliminary, the MAX
ing of sewer connections, had moved
that the attorney be instructed to
draw up an ordinance to this effect,
within sixty days. At former meet
ings Councilman Sammis had urged
the matter. After much interested
discussion, upon motion of Council
man Zimmerman, the matter was
laid over till the next meeting to give
all members ample time to fully in
vestigate the entire matter of sewer
connections, and their regulations.
1t was reported by the attorney
that there was no further bar to the
beginning of the final construction of
the sewer outlet. The clerk then
read resolution, signed by Council
man Cadien, ordering that bids be
advertised for for the construction of
section No. l of this outlet, the bids
to be received at the next regular
mn of Thn
chosen for these advertisements were
the Bergen Record, Hudson Observer
and the Borough News.
The awarding of the contract for
supplying the borough with crushed
stone, was done only under the violent
opposition of one of the two bidders.
Mr.. Banville for the Clffside Trap
Rock Company offered to supply
crushed stone at SLIT cubic yard.
Mr.. Nicola Sciola's bid was for $1.15.
1t was apparent when the question
Of bids came up, at the beginning of
the meeting, that there was some
hesitancy in the council in the award
ing Of the same. 1t was Councilman
Cadien who finally brought the mat
ter to head by saying that there
two bids, and inasmuch as under the
Sciola contracts in former years, there
had been a good deal of trouble and
complaint, he would move that the
contract be awarded in this case to
the higher bidder. Mr.. Cadien, as
chairman of the roads and sewers
committee, spoke with feeling of the
difficulty which the committee had ex-
perienced in getting some of the
crushed stone work done satisfac-
| torily, and recommended that the con-
| tract be given to the Cliffside Trap
| Rock Company.
Mr.. Sciola objected holly to this
discrimination, and insisted that as a
taxpayer, and moreover, the lowest
bidder eta shoulda be giva to
him."
Councilman Zimmerman, also of
the road committee, seemed to con-
cur with his colleague, and asserted
that the bidders contracts had not
Oeen lived up to strictly.
At this point, Attorney Agnew took
hand in what had almost become a
dispute, and sought to draw an adj
| mission from the contractor that sew
eral judgments had been lodged
against him. He hoped that the lat
ter would not refuse to answer. eyes,
tousands, tousands," the contractor
asserted. "Can l pay my men before
| get my money!" The attorney
said that he was not there to answer
questions: he would ask them.
Mr.. Sciola rejoined that last year
he had been easy with the council,
but this year he would not be. The
council had not made good the loss
sustained by him in the collapsed May
& Brady contracts, and he was going
to court now. 81 go to court to-
morrow" he cried.
AS this was somewhat out of order,
the president raped sharply for
order, saying, 81 tell you that's
enough"
Gail right; goodanight, goodanight,
goodanight," came back from the de-
parting protagonist Of the rights Of
| taxpayers and the lowest bidders.
Two bids were received for the
disposal of garbage. The bid of
Pasquale Papa was for 1926 for the
year; Jim Greccho's was $4,000. The
| latter'S bid was accepted. The con-
tract calls for the collecting of gar
bage twice week in winter and three
times in summer.
Poormaster E. C. Raas recommend
ed that the moneys remaining in de-
partment be allotted to various coun-
ty institutions as follows:
Bergen County Children's Home,
$3.50; st. Mary's Home, $50; North
Hudson Hospital $75.
Bids for the construction of Hudson
place lateral sewer were ordered ad-
vertised for in the Bergen Record and
Borough News.
Councilman Zimmerman, for the
finance committee, said that mills of
several hundred dollars had been
FLASHED" at the committee at the last
minute with the expectation of being
paid.
In explanation of the engineers
bill of some $500, Mr.. Roscoe McClave
said that it was in payment for four
different sets of plans in connection
with the Edgewater sewer outlet con-
troversy; the time given to the Edge
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