4Y' Seeks 33 Parking Spaces Over Vigorous Objections from Neighbors in Area
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USI'S 680IO OUR lOOlh YEAR Second Class Postage Paid ol Wesifield, N. J. Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, November 22, 1990 232-4407 FORTY CENTS ANOTHER MARATHON OF MEETINGS? 4Y' Seeks 33 Parking Spaces Over Vigorous Objections From Neighbors in Area Hy DONALD II. BAGGER Sprciutly Wnl/rnfw Thr Weuftrlil tnntn follow that instruction. ing lot even with the landscaping. Mr. Schmidt thenpresentedGeorge Mr. Kaslusky was questioned by Board of Adjustment members may Rogers, a local realtor, as an expert Mr. Flynn about the out-of-town be heading intoanothermulti-meeting witness. Mr. Rogers testified that use residence of one-third of the marathon to match its recent six- of the properly as a parking lot would association's enlarged membership. session public hearings on the ex- have no adverse economic effect on There was also discussion of the pansion plans of Public Service the nearby residences. He mentioned association's use of another single- Electric & Gas Company. the other exislinglots in the immediate family home on Ferris Place, also a In a crowded Council Chamber in area. residential zone. Former Mayor (he Municipal Building on Monday Mr. Flynn, counsel for the opposi- Thomas admitted that his long service evening, the variance application of tion, cross-examined these four ini- on the group's governing boards in- the Westfield Young Men's Christian tial statements with vigor and detail. cluded the time when this home was Association began what will be a Both lawyers maintained a stream of converted lo office use without au- comprehensive and continuing local objections to each other's question, thorizing variances. topic. keeping Board Attorney Robert W. Mr. Flynn and Mr. Rogers had a The association is seeking use- Cockren busy with rulings. long debate on the impact of parking ROUGH ANDTUMHLK...FredericReininyion(1861-l!)l)9)C!i|)turcdlhcrouj;h and rtiidv spirit urilieAineric;iii\Vi'sl variance approval by the board for a Mr. Flynn countered Mr. Wolk's lots on residential property values. In his oil painting,/tlV/mj; a Comrade, now housed in The Museum or Fine Arts In Houston, part of The Hogg llrut hers 33-vehicle parking lot at 235 Clark screening and lighting plans with Collection, a gift of Miss Ima Hut;;;. The painting is pictured in Art of the Golden West, Mr. Roger reiterated his own belief Street. A single-family residence on comments that Charles Street resi- that in this application the lot would the lot, buill about 1900 and recenlly dents would still sec the basic park- CONTINUED ON PAGES A PANORAMIC VIEW OF THE NATION'S WEST purchased for $165,000, is scheduled for demolition. Shrub-screening and lowercd-lighting will mark efforts to make the facility attractive, accord- Westfield Man Authors Art Volume ing to association witnesses. Neigh- bors in the area, a residential zone, oppose introduction of yet another parking lot into their midst. Of Western Painting in America Mrs. Mary D. Hcrbcrich, board chairman, disqualified herself from By KURT C.BAUER Johnson, Paul Kane, W.H.D. Koemer, the proceedings and Vice Chairman Sptciatly YtriUmfarTht Wtilfltld LraJrr Alfred Jacob Miller, Thomas and James J.Kefalonilis presided. Thomas Peter Moran and Georgia O'Keefe. C. Phelan, another board member, Since the days of the New World's As well as Edgar Samuel Paxson, agreed not to participate at the request early Spanish explorers, authors have of the objectors' attorney, James B. been writing, publishers have been Bert Phillips, WilliamTylec Ranney, Frederic Remington, Peter Flynn. Mr. Plielan is related to some publishing and readers have been non-resident owners in the neigh- reading books about the American Rindisbachcr, Charles Mr, Russell, Charles Schrcyvogel, O.C. Seltzer, borhood who, additionally, are rep- West. resented by his law firm. Mr. Axelrod's is another—but not John Mix Stanley, Arthur Filzwilliam Tait, Jules Tavernier, Waller Ufer, John H. Schmidt, Jr., counsel for just another. the association, began the public Ail of the Golden West is a lavishly James Walker, Olaf Wicghorst, Charles Wimar, N.C. Wyeth, and hearing with the first witnesses. By produced gallery of favorite as well the evening's end, he had presented as little-known western American many others—almost 20O of whom are represented in this volume of more four, with more to come. The ob- paintings and sculptures—from the jecting neighbors' case against the sixteenth century to the present— than 400 extraordinary artworks. Western art, more than that of any application will follow later. seen in the context of a sweeping The association's lead-off testi- narrative history of this at-once other region, is a product of its place, but conventional art history, by fo- mony came from Vincent Wolk, the breath-taking, sublime, unforgiving architect for the project. Mr. Wolk and legendary country. cusing narrowly on the painter and his painting, the sculptor and his explained the plans for the parking Landscapes of staggering beauty stalue, leaves one hungry for the lot have been modified to enhance and grandeur, paintings of cowboy Alan Axctrod broader context of personalities and the screening and to modify the life, depictions of the awful battles and O.E. Berninghaus. Also, Albert events that shaped the artwork. lighting. between the white man and the Indian, Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham, Although Art of the Golden West Stanley Kaslusky, executive direc- the contemplative grace of theTuos Ernest Blumenschein, Karl Bodmer, includes concise, authoritative biog- tor of the Westfield association, tes- Pueblo, the raucous timesof the Forty- Edward Borein, Gutzon and Solon raphies of fifty of the West's most tified that its present 77 off-street niner, the short life of the Pony Ox- Borglum, William Cary, George significant and popular artists, and parking spaces were inadequate in press rider—all of this and much more Catlin, Charles Deas, Maynard I'RKI'ARING THE I"F.AST...I!aird Wonscy carves the turkey as Sue Keith Dixon,, Henry Farny, Thomas Hill, while colorful captions document number and that the new facility is has been recorded by such artists as needed as soon as possible. He stated looks on during Sunday's community Thanksgiving dinner for the benefit oiThc William S. Jewell, Frank Tenney CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 James Bania, Thomas Hart Bcnton that the association's membership of homeless. Please see another phologruph inside today's Wi'stficld Leader. 9,298 represents a five-year increase of 24 per cent. In that same period, program par- What Makes Recipes a Winner ticipation has gone up by 43 per cent. County to Honor Town He added that lower growth rates are now expected. Former Mayor H. Emerson Tho- For Firehouse Restoration Is Owner's Experience in Kitchen mas, president of the association's The renovation of the Westfield Union. Board of Trustees, appeared as a firehouse, which took place from Constructed in 1910, the two-story By RANALD STROTIIERS ' have to be for practical use." undation of modern electrical appli- supportive witness. He told the board 1985 to 1986, will be the subjectofa "Moorish" style building is located SprtiuttyWrillrnJw ThrWolfirlilUmWi The business is enjoying its third ances which serve little purpose other when the institution's major expan- commendation to begiven to the town on North Avenue near Central Avenue. holiday season and is a source of than to clutter the area. If an appliance sion in I960 was approved by town by Union County at a reception on The town bonded $1 million to re- For Marilyn Evangelista, owner of satisfaction to the owner, who with is not used at least once a week, she officials, the association was asked Wednesday, December5,at7:30p.m. furbish the structure in its original the Westfield kitchen utilities shop. this venture received her baptism into explains, it is unnecessary. in the headquarters of the style rather than replace it with a Recipes, and a 21 -year town resident, to increase its off-street parking. It the enlrepreneurial waters. The sonic wha t recent shop has met continues, Mr. Thomas added, to Elizabcthtown Gas Company in modern structure. the foremost ingredient to operate a "The store evolved out of the re- business like hers is plenty of expe- with much success and has been rience in the kitchen. quests of customers who were not featured several times in Garden Stale able to find things in the somewhat House and Garden, most recently "Customershave found Recipes to immediate vicinity," she informed. appearing on the cover of the Octo- beanexcellent stop toacquire kitchen "We do our best to try and find it for ber issue of the magazine. items which range from potteries, them." The association with the publica- porcelains and linens to some hard to A prime feature of the philosophical find kitchen artifacts," Mrs. tion has been a mutually advantageous Evangelista said. attitude at Recipes is the desire to go and collaborative one as the feature "back to bas ics."The owner believes came about as a result of one of the "The most important thing is they that much of the problems encoun- magazine'seditor's having become a must be functional," she added. "They tered in modern kitchens is the in- customer of the store. The two sometimes collaborate on items to obtain for the store. Some items may be hard to find but the shop endeavors to find whatever custom- ers request sometimes reaching thousands of miles to acquire the necessary item. Recipes is a relatively new busi- ness but is doing well and maybe most of all is making its owner, a neophyte in the field, happy to do what she loves. The store is located in the heart of downtown at 108 Prospect Street.