Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-03-08

robbed of hundreds Of dollars each
month by people who use more taps
than they tell Of. it was decided at the
meeting last night to put on six in
spectors who shall make a canvass of
the city, find out just who is using
water, how many taps they have and
whether they use the water for pri-
vate or public purposes. In this way
the board expects TO get things down
to system.
For the past year people all over
the city who use city water have put
in a number of new taps and the
water department has received no no.
tice of the matter. The citizens use
water from these many taps and pay
for only one tap.
Employ Six Men.
At the meeting of the board last
night Superintendent Burns reported
that he had looked into this matter
and had decided to start one man at
work at once. Commissioner Haney
objected to this, saying that it would
take one man TOO long to attend to all
the necessary work in this city and
the sooner it was done the better it
would be for then the city would com
mence to make money out of it. Com
missioner Haney further said that
New Brunswick had also suffered
from this same trouble, but that she
had made a canvas of the city, the
same as the water department here is
to do and last year she had cleared
about $4,000 from this one source
alone.
Superintendent Burns said that he
was willing TO do all that he could to
rush the work and if it was necessary
he would tawe in North Amboy him
self, with the aid of an assistant. To
this President Conyery objected, say
ing that the superintendent had all
that he could do to attend to the work
at Runyon at the present time, with
out bothering with this work. A mo-
tion was then made that the superin
tendent submit to the board at its
next meeting the names of six men to
Mr.. Haney Objected.
When the bids for supplies were
received from local dealers and it was
suggested that the members go over
the lists to see if they were correct, (
Commissioner Haney objected, say
ing that as the board had clerks, he
thought it was the duty of the clerks
and not the commissioners to do this
work President Convery said that
the board had always attended to this
and Commissioner Haney said he
would do so under protest. He was of
the opinion that one of the clerks
should do it. and then they could no
tify the board if the list was right or
To pay for the necessary improve
ments that the water board is now
having made to the entire system, it
was decided to transfer $4,000 from
the sinking fund. now on deposit a It
the Perth Amboy Trust Company, TO
the general account.
Want Minutes Published.
Commissioner Clark made a mo-
tion that the minutes Of the meetings
of the water board be printed in the
NEWS and Chronicle. He
said that many people had asked him
why the minutes were not published,
as they would like to read an account
of them. This motion was seconded
by Commissioner Haney. but Commits
sioner VOORHEES, objected. saying that
he feared the newspapers might
charge more than the board expected,
and he thought that a committee
should first be appointed to investl-
gate the matter. Commissioner Clark
said that he had inquired into the
matter and he told what the cost
would amount TO, but Mr. voorhees,
still objected and Mr.. Clark with
drew his motion. President Conyery
appointed Commissioners CLARK and
VOORHEES, as a committee TO look into
the matter. They will report at the
next meeting.
The following bids for supplies and
fire hose were received: William H,
Mccormick. s264 81; Elizabeth
Hardware Company. for supplies,
s149.22. for fire hose. S136. SO; Kel-
lv & MacAlinden, for supplies $152.-
40. and S110 for fire hose. The bid
for the supplies was awarded to the
Elizabeth Hardware Company, and
for the fire hose to Kelly & MacAlin-
den. The board approved the sale of
$4,000 worth of water bonds dated
July |.
Want Commissioners Notified.
Commissioner Haney moved that
the clerk be ordered to notify the
commissioners by letter. any time
that the department was having trou-
BILE with the water Mr.. Haney said
that almost every day he was being
held up by people who wanted 10
know what made the water so dirty
and that the condition of the water
was an outrage ane name. The
clerk was ordered 10 u The mem
6ers wheaeser troahl NY sort oc-
Cured.