Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-27
SOUTH AMBOY.

reported that he had started proceed
ings to collect the old assessments
That 1t had been necessary for hin
to eXpend some money in court fees
and also for searches, that although
this money will be returned by the
collection of the assessments when
the proceedings are finished, he
would like to have the sum of $50
appropriated so he viii not have TO go
down in his own clothes for it.
Resolution by Councilman Dewan:
| Resolved, that the sum of $50 be APP
propriated for the use of the borough
attorney for cost OF proceedings in
| relation to delinquent assessments.
Resolution was adopted.
II Councilman Foreman: | would
like to ask our counsel what is being
done with the hole-in-the-wall.
Mr.. Pearse: | intended to make
the statement some time ago, but it
slipped my mind. When Vice-C Chan
cellor Stevenson came back from the
south, l think the first of February,
he sent a letter to the various attor-
neys who had business before him
and set a day for each case, and | re-
gret to say he put down the hole-in-
the-wall case for the twentieth of
March. We hoped to have it some
time in February, but he said he
could not possibly arrange it before
that time, so the hole-in-t -the-wall will
come off on the twentieth of March
Under Poor, Mr.. Pearse reported:
The overseer of the poor. and myself
have been doing little charitable
work, strange to say. There is fam
lily here in town who live on John
street; both the Board of Health and
overseer of the poor have been some
what worked up over the condition of
the children of this family, not prop
erly clothed, no bed to sleep on, moth
ing to eat apparently, no fire in the
house, no windows in the house. very
distressing condition. | attempted to
arrange so that we might take GER
tain proceedings and turn the chill
dren over to the State Board of Chill
dren Guardians or some other insti-
tuition which has the welfare of the
children in mind and try to thrust
the expense of it Oh the county, but
| found the only way it could be done
was TO make complaint against
those people for neglecting their chill
dren and commit them and then to
turn the children over to the charge
of the overseer of the poor. That
was done last week. He spoke to the
mayor about 1t and / believe the chill
dren are now at the poor house. We
have thirty days Il. which we can
leave them there before they must be
turned over to the State Board unless
we are able to place them somewhere
else In that time. / might say | am
in communication with the society
known as the New Jersey Home So
ciety, which has its headquarters in
Trenton and looks out for finding
homes for children all right bodily
but poor. We may be able to place
them with them, If not they will be
taken charge of by the State Board
| find we cannot put the expense Of
them on the county, as there is no
county almshouse in which they could
be committed and apparently in this
county each municipality must take
care of its own poor. That means if
they go to the State Board it will
necessitate the paying of their board
until some place is found for them.
saw the superintendent, a very de-
lightful lady, and told her we did not
care to have any more Abbott bills |
coming in and she assured me she |
would use every effort to get these |
children placed without expense at |!
the very earliest moment. Even |
though we did have to pay for them |