The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-05-30
COUNCIL ACTS
ON SEWER WORK
Orders City Engineer Thompson
To Prepare Plans for Repair of
Broken Meadow Main.
SCHOOL LIENS CANCELLED

At an adjourned meeting of City
Council held on Friday night, City
Engineer Thompson was instructed to
prepare plans and specifications for
the repair of the broken wood stave
sewer main on the meadows and to
provide for an extension of the main
to be laid with cast iron pipe, accord
ing to the report submitted by special
engineer G. T. Wigley to Council, at a
recent meeting. The plans and speci-
fcations will be submitted to the
State Board of Health for approval,
and if they meet with the approval of
the state board, the work will be star
ted Immediately, so that the embargo
may be lifted from Lakes Bay and
clammers and oystermen allowed to
pursue their occupations there, which
were interrupted by order of the State
Board of Health.
1t is estimated that the complete
work will cost approximately $4,000.
This money will be raised by the issu-
ance of bonds. Then there will be
remaining for bonding purposes the
sum of about $4,000 only, according
to the total valuation of property in
the city this year.
Councilman Charles NJ. Peck called
for the Park Avenue Drainage System
ordinance to be taken up for third
reading. He was declared out of or
der by President James Yates, and a
lengthy argument ensued owe the
matter. Explanation was made by
Councilmen that the Park Avenue
Drainage System would cost at least
$4,000, if not more, and that the city's
bonding capacity would not admit of
the work being done even if the ordi-
nance should be passed. Councilmen
admitted the Importance of this work,
but stated that the unexpected eXpen-
diture entailed by the sewer main
break prohibited any other matters
being taken up this year.
A resolution was passed authorizing
the canceling of the liens for sewer
age assessments on the properties
occupied in the city for school pur-
poses.
An ordinance giving the privilege of
building a one track railroad siding
over Bayview avenue, to connect the
McAllister coal yard with the West
Jersey & Seashore Railroad tracks,
--was passed on first and second@read-
ing.
1t was stated that in the construc-
ton of the sewer main at New road
and Adams avenue, a monument was
removed and later buried in the sewer
trench, which had caused much an
noyance and expense to property own
ers in obtaining surveys of their prop
critics. City Engineer Thompson was
authorized to again establish a monu-
ment at that corner.
On the application of William NJ.
Wood, a letter was given to him di-
rected to the Public Utilities Commits
sion showing the willingness of the
City of ~Pleasantville to allow busses
to pass through the city en- route from
Pennsgrove to Atlantic City and re-
turn. The permission was granted
with the understanding that the nee
essary bonds would be filed by the
company to protect citizens or prop
erty which might be injured by any of
the busses so passing through the city.
1t was stated that the busses would be
part of a new transportation line be-
tween Elkton, Md, and Atlantic City,
via Wilmington and Pennsgroye; b a
there would be -four 80 passenger bus
ses on the line. and that trips would
be made twice daily between the two
points named.