Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-25
Road Committee Reported on the
Bids Received, at the Meet
ing Yesterday.
$500 TONS IN ALL
County Clerk COnger Asked for
More Room in His Office
at Once.
Sbecial 10 tic Evening Me7os.

SbeClaI 10 INC EOeUlN& Ne7OS.
New Brunswick, May 25:-The road
committee of the Board of Freehold
ers, yesterday afternoon, made u re-
port on the bids for stone for repairs
of roads which had been received at
the morning session and recommended
that the contracts be awarded to the
lowest bidder. Before a vote was ta-
ken Mr.. DeHart moved to reject the
bids for supplying the stone for the
tCranbury- New Brunswick road at
81 65 per ton, awarded to the Della
ware River Quarry y Construction
Company, on the ground that the
county could furnish the stone for a
smaller figure. He said that by using
the coanty crnsher the stone could be
produced for ri per ton and that it
could be placed on the road for an ad-
ditional 80 or 80 cents per ton.
Later he voted with the other mem
bers to accept the lowest bids, eX-
planning that in case the stone could
be had for lower figure he would
move to rescind the resolution by
which the bids had been accepted.
Mr.. Fulton took the same course.
The successful bidders, the amount
of stone they will furnish for each
road and the price per ton at which
they got the contracts, are as follows:
Rue & Fountain Spotswood Old
Bridge road 200 tors, 81. 40; South
River borough road, 300 tons, s2.35;
Sayreville- South Amboy road, 100
tons, So As; South Amboy borough
road, 500 tons, So. 57l5.
Delaware River Quarry and Con-
struction Company Bridge-Mata-
wan, 1000 tons, $2.65: New Bruns-
wick-Old Bridge, 500 tons, So. 60;
Hightstown- -Manalapan, POO tons,
50. 65: New Brunswick Cranbury,
1000 tons, 50. 65; Cranbury Nights
town and station, $50 tons, 81. 30.
Garretson &. .Gray-Woodbridge-
Perth Amboy, 800 tons, 800: Stel-
ton-New Market, 500 tons, $l.SO;
Bound Brook Dunellen, 100 tons, 81. 81: :
Landing River road, 250 tons, $500.
J. Y. Wilson--New Brunswick, 200
tons, 81. l0 Carteret road. POO tons,
81. %; Metuchen-Oak Tree, 500 TONS
$l.65: Metuchen-Iselin.5 so tons, Sl.20;
Metuchen- Amboy, 800 tons, $500;
South Plainfeld. 250 tons. $1.5O
The total number of tons required
is $500.
A petition for an ordinance from
the Hudson & Middlesex Telephone
q Telegraph company, for permission
to build its line in Raritan township,
was referred. as the first intimation
that the members had of such IL petit
tion was when it was presented in
the meeting.
Mr.. Dunigan asked for a committee
to repair bulkhead and fill in the
Metuchen road between Ford's and
Perth Amboy and he and the road
committee were named to supervise
the work.
1t was decided to meet Wednesday
morning, May 81, at 10:30 O'Clock, for
joint session with the Somerset county
board to consider the Franklin Park
road.
Mr. DeHart's motion that the lin.
ance committee, at the next meeting,
recommend the transfer of money nee.
essary to complete the amount fol
building the Milltowp bridge, wa,
carried.
Mr.. Allgair, with Mr.. Rusher ant
the road committee, were named tc
have repairs made on a culvert il
/ Sayreville township.
The road committee Offered resolu'
tion. which was adopted, recommend
ing that the New York & New Jersey
iTelauhone (tonsnanv he oivan the