The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-07-17
BOARD OF
FPEEHOLDERS
That Stump IN the Macadam
Roads at Netcong Bobs
Up Once More.
THE USUAL ROUTINE WORK


Wednesday. There we're only two
communications presented, one from
the clerk Of Chester township request
ed the board to cut the brush along
the county road near Abram Cooper's
which was promptly referred to the
Chester township committee. The
other was a resolution from the town
committee Of Hanover township,
promising the ten per cent. toward
the cost Of State aid roads in the case
of the road from Shelley's corner to
the Parsippany road.
The court house and Jail committee
reported the following statistics in
Jail at last report. 20; admitted, %
discharged, 81; remaining, IL. The
bill for board OF prisoners was S158,
the lowest in the memory of any Of
the freeholders. For few days dur
| ing the month there were only seven
prisoners in jail, an aim ost unheard of
occurrence. A cont ract was also auth
orized on the commentator of the
lcommittee with e. L. Foster for clean
ing the cesspools on the court house
property for one year from July first
at $500 for the year.
The aims house committee presented
the following statistics in aims house
at last report, So; admitted, 4 dis
charged, 8; remaining, Ga. In child
ren's home at last report, So; ad-
mitted, / remaining, co.
The lunacy committee reported 81
males and IS females in the State
hospital and the quarterly bill of
81 ,972, which was ordered paid.
The road committee reported the
opening Of bids for road construction
on Monday which were read by J. @.
White. A resolution was adopted let
ting the work to the following low
bidders: Jefferson township, Ham
648.18; Sussex turnpike, Roxbury
Mountain avenue, Mendham, J. B.
Salmon, S6, ,993. 90; James street, Pas
sale township, Dickerson & Gill, S20,-
740.6 65.
Elmer King then took the floor and
asked for the road inspector or COM
mittee to visit Netcong and examine
the condition of the county road
through that place. FreehOlder Cliff
he declared had earth dumped on the
road, making pond and mud hole
every time it rained and leaving pas
sage along the side only seven feet
wide for the passage of teams. Mayor
Lunger went to the Freeholder on
Monday and asked him to Tx the road
and he replied that he would when he
got good and ready. He protested for
the borough and asked the board to
abate the nuisance.
Freeholder Cliff said that there was
a mud hole there and the place was
bad all right. He had asked for stone
for repairing the place, but the road
committee turned him down. Then
he had earth from a cellar dumped in
the road to fill up the pond hole.
Freeholder Baker said he had seen a
foot of water there after rain.
FreehOlder Schoneberger declared
for the road committee that NetcOng
borough is to blame. The county had
established a grade and built the road,
then the borough made new grade
for the sidewalks and built the build
ingS up in the air, now wants the
county to raise the macadam to the
grade they have set. Any farmer
might dump earth ten feet deep on
the macadam and ask the county to |
fix it up with as much sense. The
committee is not responsible for the |
condition, but the road is among
Others advertized for bids for repairs. |
These bids will be opened on Monday. |
Mr.. King declared that $40 with |
some Of the cinders at the furnace
would fix up matters and declared |
that there will surely be an accident |
there yet. The matter was referred |
to the Roxbury bridge committee.
In the matter of bridges, cOntractSel
were ordered with f. E. Birch for a !
sidewalk to the Sussex street bridge |
at Dover; with the Canton Iron Co., !
for a bridge over the PaSSaic river at !
ElkwOod with John O'Donnell for a !
bridge in Chatham borough; with |
Mooney & Lyons for the widening Of a
bridge on Early street, Morristown
with J. Lantern an for bridge be- |
tween the Randolph and Chester |
townships and with r.. & N. Miller |
for a concrete bridge in PaSsaic town |
ship, known as the Dixon bridge.
Mooney & Lyons we're also awarded |
the contract for rebuilding the steps |
at the court FouS9 and an area wall at |
the sheriff's house for 5000. The only |
other bid was for S775.
The trolley ordinance then came up |
again. John Sickle again came be-
fore the board and objected to any
consideration Of the ordinance because |
it was not within their jurisdiction as |
enough consents have not been filed; |
neither has the ROckaway township |
committee passed an ordinance. He |
said he was still opposed to the loca-
tion Of the road as proposed for the |
same reasons he had named before.
Freeholder Cook asked il 1t had not |
been laid over for that reason. Direc- !
tor Becker said no, but that the |
second reading did not pass the ordi-
|dinance.
Joseph Hinchman addressed the
board and said Mr. Stickle was right,
the board has no Jurisdiction and he |
knew the consents were not enough. |
One for four Thousand feet given by a |
corporation is not good because it does
not haYe the seal of the company. He
declared bis willingness to make affi-
davit to that fact.
Freeholder Schoneberger asked If it
is the duty Of the board to see If the
consents are proper.
Counsel Runyon said that any ac-
tion is founded upon the consents.
Mr.. Hinchman asked if an consents
had been filed and was Informed that