The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-03
PLANK ROAD REPAIRS.
Freeholders Consider Pater-
son and Newark
Thoroughfares.

There was but little business on the
clerks desk to be transacted at yester-
day afternoons meeting of the Board of
Freeholders. In a communication to the
Board Engineer Ralph D. Earle reported
that a portion of the wall ON the west
side of the recently reconstructed Pater-
son Plank Road, in North Bergen, had
been undermined by an abutting property
owner named Weber. He said that from
$50 to 300 yards of new masonry would
be required to repair the damage, costing
about $1,000. Mr.. Earle also suggested
that Mr.. Weber be requested to remove
water pipe that was injuring the
county's property. On motion of Free
holder Kuper the communication was re-
ferred to the Committee on Roads
A communication from Director Holmes
stated that with F'reeholder F'incke,
chairman of the Committee on Roads,
the writer had inspected the recent i'm
provements on the Paterson Plank Road
west of the Boulevard. 1t was found to
be in bad condition, especially the re-
tanning wall, which was liable to collapse
when another heavy rain fell.
Freeholder Fincke then offered reso-
luton blaming Contractors Gallery and
Murphy for the condition of the Paterson
Plank Road wall and authorizing the
Director and Committee on Roads to see
that the same was repaired at once. The
resolution was adopted by unanimous
vote.
The Meyerhoff Brick Company COM
planned about the way the new bridge
over the Hackensack, on the line of the
Paterson Plank Road, was being built,
and suggested that the Board place a tug
at the draw to help boats through. The
communication was filed and the Free
holders won't adopt the suggestion.
The resolution calling attention to the
dangerous condition of that portion of
the Paterson Plank Road lying in Hobo
ken, adopted by the Council and approved
by Mayor Pagan, came before the Board
in the shape of a. communication from
City Clerk Haggerty. On motion of Free
holder Kuper the clerk was instructed
to notify the Hoboken officials that the
conditions complained of were being
remedied as rapidly as possible.
When the resignation of Jennie A. Bo-
land as "seamstress at the county hospi-
tai at Secaucus,' was read, Freeholder
Kuper moved that it be accepted and that
Mrs. Boland be thanked for the good and
faithful service She had performed while
in the county's employ. The resolution
was adopted
County Collector Hugh Dugan reported
having received from Director Holmes
S14, $50, the amount received from the State
for the support of lunatics at the county
asylum for the quarter ending March l
last He also reported having received
S56 from Medical Superintendent George
w. King for the board of paid patients
at the asylum
The report of Warden Grimes of the
penitentiary showed that 1887 yards of
crushed stone had been taken from Snake
Hill during the past month.
On motion of F'reeholder Kuper, the Di-
rector appointed that gentleman, with
Freeholders Ellington and Kelly, the
chairmen of the three county institution
subcommittee, as a committee in charge
of the bake shop.
The reports of the wardens of the sew
eral county institutions for the past
month were as follows:-
Almshouse-Inmates, 653; cost of main
tenance, s6,5Ss.s0; average per capita,
$1,000.
Penitentiary-Priso 1856: employees,
26; total 1872. Cost of maintenance,
sS, Ss2.66; average per capita, $24.O2ss.
Asylum-Patients, 543; employees, 80;
total $50: cost of maintenance, 5.24O4 As;
average per capita. 1904.