The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1925-06-25

tanned permits for the pumps Wltnln
comparatively few feet of each
other, when there has been no neces-
sity for them Although it is optional
with the Board of Commissioners to
grant the permits, Mr.. Swan said
that he was certain that any one who
had been denied a permit could APP
peal to the courts and charge dis
elimination.
There are also many cases, Mr..
swan pointed out, where pumps have
been installed on small 20 feet fronts,
with the result that cars stop in front
of neighbors' property, to the owners
Inconvenience and annoyance.
Every car driver Is able, with the
number of driven stations in the city,
to obtain gasoline without difficulty
no matter where he happens to be-
Mr.. Swan said, and in keeping with
the efforts of the City Commission to
clean up the streets, the curb pumps
must come out The ordinance will
not be retroactive, those pumps now
in place being allowed to remain.
There are at present about $50 such
pumps, and if the proposed ordinance
prohibiting the erection of new ones
does not bring the desired results, one
may be introduced abolishing those
now existing.
State Offices May Be Moved
accommodations that all State de-
partments located in Newark be
housed in the Industrial Office Build
ing, at Broadway and Pennington
streets, in that city, will be made to
the next Legislature, according to an
announcement by the Joint Legisla-
tive Committee appointed at the last
session to investigate the manner in
which State activities are housed in
Essex county and to report to the law
makers how improvements can be
made in the arrangement Of offices.
In the new quarters the agreement
with the owners provides that there is
to be no increase in rent, and the
State is not to be obligated for any
other expenses for period of twenty
FIVE years. The twenty-fve-y year
clause, however, does not bind New
Jersey to retain its space in the build
ing for that length of time. 1t will
hold its tenancy from year to year,
thus making it possible for the State
to abrogate the contract at the end
of any one year.
Just what the State will pay for
its combined quarters in North Jer-
sey was not made public. But it was
indicated that the price for space in
the Industrial Building was sufficient
ly reasonable to make it worth the
States while to consider the deal seri-
nusIy with the proprietors of the
building.
Advantages of the single building
for all State offices In Newark over
the present plan of having them scat
tered throughout the city are consid-
cred by the committee to be obvious.
Not only will the State, in the com
mittees opinion, benefit financially by
the new arrangement, but the offices
and departments now distributed over
large territory will be more readily
accessible to people having business
with them.
Moreover, declared the COMMITTEES.
the South Street Station of the Penn
sylvania Railroad is only two-tenths of
mile from the Industrial Office Build
ing, Plans are now under way, 1t is
said, looking toward the extension Of
the tubes to the station at South
street.
indicative of the pressing need for
the State to make some arrangement
by which 1t might be safeguarded
against the constantly upward trend
Of Newark rental rates" declared the
committee, it is stated that the rent OF
the Chancery Court quarters was in
creased more than $4,000 in one year.
Realty men do not regard this in
crease as unreasonable in view of the
general city advances"
In addition to convenience and
price, the committee stated that from
the viewpoint of safety for some Of
the departments now located in New
ark, the change is desirable Some
State activities in northern New Jer-
sey, it was added, have now no Office
space at all. Examiners for the Build
ing and Loan Division of the State
Department of Banking and Insurance
in the Newark District, for example,
are said at present to have no head
quarters For the most part these
officials are forced to take State pa
pers to their homes to make out re-
ports.
'"The Commission of the Blind, now
located on Franklin street, is on one
Of the upper floors of building with
out modern elevator or stair exits"
declared the report. I'm case of a fire
in this structure it Is not pleasant to
speculate upon what might happen to
the sightless men and women who
visit this department as we'll as work
there. Another handicap for the blind
people is their inability to ship pack
ages Of finished material by parcel
post Postal arrangements do not
provide for receipt or delivery Of
goods on the upper floors Of loft build