Excerpt from Report on Public Markets to the Honorable the Mayor and Common Council of the City of Newark, N. J: August, 1912 It is proposed to replace the present Centre Market in Newark with a new market to cost about The present market consists of a long one story building with a central aisle on either side of which are retail stalls. A small Space is devoted to general and cold storage. The Morris Canal runs under the length of the building. The major part of the lot is paved without Shelters and with narrow islands at regular intervals. During the early hours the farmers' wagons back up. To these islands as close as they can stand. All the neighboring streets are packed with local retail produce merchants' wagons. Across all the surrounding streets from the market are low buildings, the ground oor and basement, and part of the second oor of which are occupied by commission merchants. Their total frontage is about 1600 feet and their average depth is about 100 feet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."