The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-09-12
JAIL TO BE
IMPROVED
Eighteen New Steel Cells Will
be Built and Roof Raised.


FreehoIders Transact Other Routine
Business-SquabbIe Over Bridge
at Pequannoc-County Roads Be-
ing Repaired With all Possible
Haste Transfers Ordered From
Various Accounts
In Freeholders Hall, on Wednesday,
the September meeting of the Board was
held, all members being present. Busi-
ness was started off in rush, with a
lively discussion over bridge at Noun
sale Counties. Freeholder Post, from
that district, stated that the structure
known az the Pequannoc bridge, had
stood the wear and tear of twenty-nine
years, and many times during the heavy
rains it mad nearly been swept away.
Ex-D Director Hoagland, who always has
something important or unimporJant to
say, it generally being the latter, thought
that the bridge was safe enough Back
and forth flew the remarks, some heated
and others tlnged with sarcasm. AT last
Mr.. Hoagland gracefully decided to let
the matter drop, and Counsel Quayle
was authorized to prepare for the work,
the cost to be shared by the two coun-
ties.
The report of the Finance Committee
showed the following figures: Court ex-
penses. $46S .3c; coroners and post NOR
TENS, $179. 10; stationery, 81 03: index
lrlgr A A. 40 = foI of
The report of the Court house and Jail
Committee was next made by Chairman
Spencer AT the time of the last meet
ing there were twenty-five prisoners in
the Jail; admitted since, thirty mine !;
total. sixty-four; discharged, thirty; re-
naming, thirty-four. DR.. GriswoId re-
ported seven visits TO the Jail, and one
case of insanity, the patient being re-
moved to the State Hospital at Morris
Plains. The insurance and miscellane.
GUS committees bills aggregated $15lS Sd.
They were as follows; Fresh1lders' sala-
ries, $3.50 81; officers salaries, $652 40;
and indexiug, $176.27. Freeholder Mills
of the County Almshouse reported bills
amounting TO $10l4 80. At the time of
the last meeting 100 inmates were in the
institution; admitted since, five; dis
charged, two; leaving 1913 now occupy
ing the buildings At the present time
sixty-nine children are being cared for
AT the Childrens Home. Bills for the
month at the Home amounted to f405 06.
Bills of the printing and election COM
mittee amounted to $39460. Mr.. Dal-
rymple, of the road committee said that
work was progressing favorably. and
that the much needed repairs were be-
ing pushed with all possible speed. By
motion of the Board, Director Becker
was authorized to sign a note for $11 900
for this work, in anticipation of money
from the State. Mr.. Dalrymple also
stated that the Dover, Rockaway, and
Port Dram Gas Company, which recent
ly applied for permission to lay its mains
along the county roads from that town
10 Mt. Tabor had been refused a fran
chise in the borough of Rockaway. Con-
sequently no steps will be taken in the
matter until the franchise is granted
Bills for State Aid roads aggregated
$14, 363.73 and for road repairs SO ,010.3
The most important business trans
acted by the Board in many months was
then taken up, when a bid for recon-
structing the old Jail at a cost of $4,000
was granted. Concerning the matter,
Director Becker, who has worked faith
fully for the much needed improvements
at the jail said: There will be eighteen
modern cells to be built by the Paulie
Jail Company of st. Louis, Mo-, upon
the latest improved plans. The price
will be SO, 900, but let 1t be remembered
that the work will not cost the tax
payers one cent more than they are now
paying The new cells will be lined
with 3-16th inch steel sheeting, similar
N~ Ala,H ~, oil
state prisons, and they will have two
The ceiling of the Jail will also be raised
two feet. Several windows will also be
placed or the Western Avenue side of
the JAIL which will greatly add to its
sanitary conditions.
In order that the work might be done
the Board was obliged to transfer So 800
from various accounts. 1t is a problem,
however, which has long been carefully
considered. and not step taken in the
dark. Ex.Director Hoagland thought
the roads were more important than the
JAIL aud in company with few of his
understudles, emphatically voted in the
negative, when Clerk White called the
roll.
A communication from w. l.. Wilson,
of Whippany for damage to horse on
the road from Whippany to Parsippany,
amounting to 500, was referred to the
Committee on Damages.
Bridges then formed the principal topic
of discussion. $l700 was granted to Mr..
Swackhammer for a bridge between
Morris and Washington townships; $400
to Mr. Munson for bridge in Randolph
and $245 to Freebooter VanDayne for
much needed repairs to bridge at Pine
Brook.