LIGHTS FOR MILLTOWN;
WHAT SHALL THEY BE?
Citizens Invited to Express Preferences Before the Borough Council.

A special meeting of the Milltown Borough Council will be held to-night in Kohlhepp’s Hall to discuss the lighting project. The general public has been invited to the meeting by notices issued by Clerk Robert A. Harkins, and will be asked to present their views whether or not the borough shall be lighted at the public expense.

If public sentiment is in favor of public lighting, the citizens will then be asked to express their choice as to the illuminant. Three different kinds of lights have been proposed to the Councilmen—electricity, kerosene and gasoline. H. C. Richardson, manager of the Central Electric Company for this section, has been in Milltown recently trying to impress the advantages of electric lights upon the citizens. If the Central Electric Company gets the contract, Milltown will get its light all the way from Metuchen. It has also been suggested that a lighting arrangement might be made with the Middlesex & Somerset Traction Company, which has its power house at Milltown.

Since last spring Milltown has had on trial two gasoline street lamps installed by Charles Anderson, of South River. Mr. Anderson is also after the contract for lighting the borough. The lamps have given good light and are not much trouble and will certainly receive due consideration at to-night’s meeting.

The ordinary kerosene lamps have advocates in Milltown as everybody knows just what can be expected from this light and how much it will cost. The public will have a chance to state its desires to-night, however, and the council is anxious to be guided by the general public sentiment whatever that is. There is little doubt that the citizens will declare in favor of public lighting in some form.