Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-04
SOUTH AmBOY.
DR.. WHITE is
IN EARNEST.
Makes Reply to The Mayor at
Health Board Meeting Last
Night.

Health last night DR.. James l.. White
president of the board, read a repl.
10 the criticism made publicly b,
+ Mayor Treganowan at a recent coun
eli meeting. The reply was in thu
form of a communication to the
and is in part as follows.
DIR. Whites Reply.
Looking over your issue OF the
28th inst. | see in proceedings oil
Council that His Honor. the mayor,
has served up his usual irascible
dish of buncome. Having so fully
ACCOMPLISHED all his prediction
promises to right all wrongs and ia
reform the borough AFFAIRS in toto,
he has now found time to direct his
attention to the local a or
Health, in which direction | presume
he will meet with as much success as
has followed his efforts to ablish fiat
wheels on trolley cars, to improve
the service of same, 70 secure better
lighting, both gas and electric, and
a water supply that will supply all
who are paying for that privilege,
the ''hole in the wall" etc, etc.
learn from several who were
present at the council meeting and
heard the mayors remarks, that
vonr reporter has given a true,
though expurgated synopsis of the
discourse. Now, as I have no little
forum from which to declaim my lit
tie peice, I must beg of you a little
Of vour space whereby the reply may
be made as publicly as were the
charges.
Let me take the mayors state
ments seriatim. 'South Amboy is
the ilthiest town in the state of New
Jersey Enthusiastically exagger-
ated and the mayor knows It. Main
street is 0 bad that he will pray God
10 take him away SOON This is not
true. and the mayor knows 1t. SO,
too. do those who live on that street
and those who daily travel 1t. AS to
the praying, go on with 1t. ] nave
heard of no objections and besides IT
will be perfectly sale, for we are told
that it Is the prayers of the godly
that are answered.
The trouble is that the alleged
nuisance complained of exists in the
Immediate neighborhood of one A,
Treganowan, Nj. d. When the large
nonds were in existence and in their
worse condition, a crying evil n a
pnblic disgrace, he then said, as
MAYOR. that it would be a shame to
abolish the nuisance, thereby depriv-
ing the school children of the pleas
nre they found playing in the dirty.
stagnant sink-hOles.
Where The Cause Lies.
Now as to this alleged nuisance
these few Oints, not ponds of water,
The mayor seems to be a little astray
IN his facts. or rather his statements
Of facts. Complaint having been
muie by him, the mayor, Mr.. Sexton
visited the scene and reported to me
The conditions as he found them.
Under my instructions Mr.. Sexton
visited the same place again and
again and on successive days and his
renorts have been almost always the
same and as follows: Second house
from the corner" the property of F.
n. DeGraw, some water flowing into
gutter from drain pipe; water clear
and clean as lust from hydrant; no
odor. Property of Mr.. Charles Muir
head next adjoining, no water or Il
little and that not unclean; no odor.
Properties of Mr.. AID. Bergen and
.Ioseph Wilson, Sr., nothing and gut
ter in front of their residences dry,
HE 10 Tie DIOJCl " " "a lV6ohOW III
dirty and soapy water, no odor. III
have to show you," just look.
will say here that following the
usual course, notice has been served
upon each of these freeholders not
to permit the flow of unclean water
from the premises and requesting
that the flow clean water, even, be
restricted as much as possible.
"" O. 1911 g. kIs- AYAr ne - ~
other matter in which His Honor is
sadly twisted as to facts and figures.
| quote: "Out of twelve cases of
smallpox | had charge of nine and |
got not n cent from the borough.
The Board of Health received about
$4,000 for looking after the others"
That is. the Board of Health looked
after" but three. A false statement
as is well known to almost everyone
in South Amboy at that time, includ-
ing the MAYOR. / think | can safely
speak for all the PHYSICIANS in South
Amboy and say that each n has at
times given his services without re-
Enumeration. but His Honor is the
first one. | believe. to blame the
Board of Health for this most painful
condition of affairs. And then If
lHlS Is his honor s sore SPOT. why ana
he not attend all the cases of small
pOx tmany more than twelve) and
receive his pay from the Board of
Health? That board asked him to
take charge and he declined the Of
fer.
Cannot Remove Board.
The mayor threatens TO move that
the Board of Health be abolished"
and that hereafter he. with a little
help from the council, shall assume
The functions of the board. 1t would
be pitiful to see His Honor, the
mayor, make himself any more ridic-
nlons than he already has, so | hope
that the legal advisor of the mayor
and council will inform His Honor
that ii is not within the power of a
mayor or council to abolish a board
created, governed and sustained by
the state. Mr.. Pearse might at the
same time inform His Honor that
there is no law in the statute books
preventing a man from making sane
and truthful statements, although
there is n law of nature which may
so operate in the mayors case. 1t is
4 constitutional af1ictiOn