American Fork citizen. [volume] (American Fork, Utah) 1912-1979, 1920-03-06
NEWARK GOES AFTER STREET PAVING TRUST
Mayor of New Jersey City Denounces Methods of Btu
lithic and Tells of Battle.
Dummy Bidders, Fake Improvement Associations Al
legged to Be Factors in Big Monopoly.

legged to Be Factors In Big Monopoly
According TO - statement issued yesterday by Chair
man Herbert L. Cornish of the Property Owners Pro''c
tive League Newark n j. is having the same tight ov-
or patented pavemeuts which is agating Los Angeles
A statement made by Mayor Gilen OF Newark was
given out for publication, and reads
'About fifteen years ago the bltultnc company
came into Newark and from that time for several years
no sheet asphalt laid. When entered the Board OF
Works found the paving work was under control Of
and that the city in the grasp of-hc paving ring
investigated and found that most Of the pavemens laid
were btulthc Nobody could lay that particular ma
terial without buying it from Warren Brothers or paying
their royalty Nobody could bid on btulithic except
some dummy person selected by the btulithic
trust
"Part of this paving process was to have politician
bid and the company bid, and the other got the
CONTRACTING matter which. promotion cost allow
ed against the job and this money went to the politician
the officials know was offered contribution by the
bitu]ithic trust when I was running.
HAD NO COMPETITION
.The btulithic people have competition, and can
and do charge any price they please and 1t is invariably
higher than other pavements
'sThe company's representative will tell You there
is competitions but will tell you Of the
Pompton Turnpike. Bituthic specified and the
bituithic company able to do the work for $l31
square yard. Why, we figured it out that the
tcria would have cost any other contractor $1.45
$1.46 yard without counting any profit
eve figured it out in Newark, also, and no
tractor except the company its dummy has chance
in the world tried to point this out to learned
gineers at that time hut they hypnotized,
lied and paralyzed by something We kept up the fight
however, and showed the people that throughout the
length and breath of the United States wherever this
company went there scandal in its wake
sit is of the worst influences have i'm public
life today because This very Influence is the greatest
blow to honesty in public life Every candidate for Office
must come to IT. or the company will support his opponent
next time and it knows how to fight It can play politics
and can lay pavemens 1t knows ho to play the game
TELLS HOW PLAN WORKS
.'This is one way the company goes about 1t: 1t gels
crowd together in corner saloon ana forms u rake
Improvement association, which raises cry FOR street
improvements in a certain ward representative OF the
company sits in and buys the drinks and cigars. Then
gets the signatures Of property owners to petitions for
paving by Misrepresentation.
''Sometimes, when signatures for few hundred
feet of street hard to get the police force and the
fremen sent ont by the boss who owned them and
told to get the signatures. They told: "Say, how in
the h going to n machine without grease
Go get the signatures Ny colleagues used listen 10
me, but that all they did. | went court and
spent couple hundred dollars of my money to fight
the bituthc trust, but thrown out like feat,cr
blown out of q window.
"Finally, engineers decided to lay soma Sheet
asphalt and was congraulatng myself that the lig!
was won Then looked at the specifications all found
they provided that paving firm bidding must own IA
plant within two miles of the city and, by George tie
bituthic company, the only concern that had such
plant. 1t had me again.
'The specifications finally rcarranged and we
had lot of bdders-four five think One of them
was for $l9O yard but the bid too low Why when
this company got in, it wanted to put down pavements
everywhere-in alleys and up back streets where nobody
would find them because it seemed the more wore Laid
the more somebody got. :,
SYSTEM DECLARED WRONG.
1.-THE system of permitting solicitation of signatures
is dishonest and wrong and should not be allowed
'How you going to stop it! BY refusing to have
btulithic specified Competition means the end of btu
lithc The two cannot exist together 1t could come in
and bid honest but it's not The company could
have come in and bid honestly and laid asphalt for there
very little difference in the process but after all these
years we re still fighting bulithic 1t is ridiculous TO
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