MAYOR WANTS FIRE APPARATUS
Recommends That Borough Purchase One in Annual Message — Other Improvements Needed — Council Meets in Renovated Rooms.
Following is Mayor Conrad Richter’s annual message to the Milltown Borough Council:
To the Common Council of Milltown, N.J.
Gentlemen — Under the law, it is my duty as Mayor to recommend to Council such measures as I may deem necessary for the advancement and welfare of our borough.
STREETS.
In regard to streets, I would recommend that you macadamize all the streets in the borough. I would strongly recommend that you begin on Riva Avenue, as all the property owners, excepting a few, have signed a petition willing to give to the borough enough land to make this street wider, and if the same is curbed and the gutters cobbled it will be a great improvement to the borough. The cobble gutter on Main Street, from the car barn to lands now owned by the Kuhlthau Brothers Company, should be gone over and carefully overhauled.
FIRE.
As the Borough Hall is now remodeled so that any kind of fire apparatus may be kept therein, I would recommend that you purchase some kind of apparatus for the borough. I intend to call a meeting of the citizens and place the matter before them for the purpose of organizing a fire company, and I would suggest you to encourage them in any and every way possible.
PEDDLERS.
I would request you to either enforce the present peddler ordinance or drop the same altogether, as at present the same is not enforced the way it should be. I would recommend that you put the borough marshals out and arrest all peddlers who have no licenses.
SNOW.
I would request you to enforce the snow ordinance in regard to having all snow removed from sidewalks so that the same may be passable as soon as practicable after a snow storm, as during the last snow storm many sidewalks were impassable.
STREET LIGHTS.
I would recommend that a superintendent of street lights be appointed. A man who could keep a record of all transformers and of the load they carry, to whom the citizens may apply when they desire to use the current for light and power. This man could also read the meters and collect the moneys due the borough. He could keep a record of all the material used and could recommend to the Council from time to time such supplies as would be needed, and at the end of the year he should make a report to the Council of all the receipts and expenditures during the year. In getting this light matter down to a business basis we know just how much the borough is profiting or losing in our municipal lighting system. I would recommend that more lights be erected in various places in the borough and the lighting system extended to Ryder’s Lane.
BOROUGH HALL.
Now that the Borough Hall is about completed, I would recommend that the driveways and walks be graded and concreted as soon as the weather will permit. I would also recommend that steam heat be installed as soon as possible in the Borough Hall.
SAFE.
I again strongly recommend that you purchase a safe of sufficient size to be placed in the Council Chambers so that the borough books, papers, maps, and other property belonging to the borough may be kept therein and be protected from fire. It will be found to be of great value to the members of the Council to have on hand the borough books, etc., which are often referred to and found necessary to have at Council meetings.
TELEPHONE.
I would also urge you to have telephones installed for the convenience of the Mayor, Councilmen, and other borough officials. I have found that considerable time and expense can be saved if the borough would supply at least two telephones, one in the Borough Hall and one in the Mayor’s residence.
Feeling confident that each one of you will exert yourself for the future welfare of the borough, and wishing you the compliments of the season, I remain,
CONRAD RICHTER, Mayor.
MILLTOWN, Jan. 4 — Bernard Gill has returned from a trip to Atlantic City. Walter Prill entertained a stag party of local young men on Sunday night at his restaurant.
H. S. DeHart spent Monday at Lawrenceville.
Mr. and Mrs. Elwood Boice have returned from Tottenville, where they enjoyed the holiday.
William Prill returned from Detroit on Sunday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Kuhlthau spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Kuhlthau at New Brunswick. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeHart and family were entertained by William Kuhlthau, Sr.
Harry Jones has returned from a trip to Beach Haven.
Howard Moore and family are moving from School Street to a new home, recently erected on Ford Avenue.
Miss Elsie Hyde, of New Brunswick, watched the coming of the New Year with friends in the borough.
Mrs. Conrad Kuhlthau is recovering from a severe attack of grip.
Oscar Pillar has accepted a position with the New Brunswick Tile Company.
Miss Pauline Baldorf, of New York, was the guest of Mrs. Elizabeth Roeder on Sunday and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dupres entertained a number of friends on Sunday. Philip Roeder, of Yonkers, enjoyed the holiday with his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Roeder.
NOW A CASH GROCERY.
When Christian Crabiel opened his store yesterday morning, he did business only on a cash basis. This is preparatory to selling out by April 1st. All groceries, which are still the high grade which he always kept, are receiving “substantial revision downward” in price. Amos Brown is selling Mr. Crabiel’s goods on commission.
A NEW DELICATESSEN STORE.
I. Glickenstein has opened a grocery and delicatessen store in the place owned by Mrs. William Werner, on Main Street.
