The Morris County chronicle., 1906-12-18
C0RRESP0NDENCE AND CONSULTATION INNTED


The ordinance granting permission
to the Morris County Traction Co., to
lay tracks on Speedwell avenue was
adopted, being passed on third read
Ling.
The court house and Jail committee
treporred: itt jail it last report, lis ad-
Imitted, s7 discharged. A remaining,
Ia.
The aims house committee reported !:
in thai institution at last report 81 ,
admitted, 2 discharged, 2; remain
| ing, 67 In chiIdren's home at last
report, 65 discharged, / remaining,
81
Freeholder Schoneberger reported
that the road work was about wonndup
for the year The State aid new roads
are finished, except for a little sand
paperlng and the bills are up to the
fifteen percent. The repair bills are
also well III and the work done in
cludes SIS, 900 spent on the Schooley's
Mountain read, besides a good deal Of
what he termed permanent repairs
A note for $1,000 was ordered dis
counted in anticipation OF money from
the State and the taxing districts in
which State aid roads have been built
this year were ordered notified that
the ten per cent. is due.
Director Becker under new business
announced the death OF the late Free
holder RingIieb, and Freeholder
Schonebelger presented a set Of reso-
lutionS, which were adopted.
The. Director announced that w. /.
Powers had been appointed to ill the
vacancy and had submitted his Gre
dent:als.
F'reeholder Schoneberger for the
road committee, to which was referred
the application OF the Hackettstown
Telephone Co. for permission to erect
poles and string wires along the
Schooley Mountain road in order to
connect the Sussex and Hunterdon
independent systems, reported ad-
yersely.
Several bondsmen on bridge work
were released and it was announced
that the County Collector will pay off
$4,000 of county road bonds during
the present month.
Freeholder Schoneberger was asked
after the. meeting about the applica-
tion to set poles along the road from
near Hackettstowu toward German
Valley and said that there already is
poic line Of the N. X. 81 N. j. Tele-
phone Co., along the narrow road and
many Of the poles are in the gutter.
Poles are unsightly anyway, he de-
clared, and the new company which is
rival Of the one now owning a. pole
lire along the road, might get a right
OF way over The private property along
the road. He said further that the
agents Of the independent company
had intimated that if the county re-
fused permission to set poles along
the roads, it might build over private
property.
The plans for the yiaducts pro-
posed were on file. They show earth
entertainments thirEy-three feet wide
at tile top, running up from the pres
ent grade to height where seventeen
feet, six inches is measured, between
the bottOm Of the structure and the
rail Of the tracks below, the APP
proaches being on a grade Of six per
cent. Substantially they are like the
Dover vladuct, except for being small
Her and being bniltup on level plain.
AT Deaville il is proposed TO 60
down near the present approach to
the station ona grade Of tour and a
hair per cent. Then fiat grade pn-
der the present Boonton branch TRACKS
extending for about six hundred feet
to point beyond the Roekaway
branch, then rising to the present
grade on a four and hair per cent
grade. The depression would be fifty
feet wide.