The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1908-01-10
Action Taken by Board Of
freehOIders YeSter day.
Owen as Engineer.
OVERRIDE VETO OF BILL
County Engineer Drums Ex'
penses Unanimously Accepted
by Board..Dr Daniel M. Dill
Chosen as Hospitals Su-
perintendentf for Years.

Steps to improve the Newark Plank
road, over which the Public Service
Corporation has the right to operate
cars, according to al opinion by County
Counsel Elvin w. Crane, were taken at
the January session of the Board of
.Ffeeholders, which began late yester-
day afternoon and ran for several hours
into the night. The net result of the
discussion and action was that former
County Engineer James Owen was in
structed to prepare plans ana specif-
cations, take general charge of the i'm
provements, and to submit the plans
to the board for approval as soon as
possible. A number of the Democratic
members of the board were absent, so
that the Republicans had no difficulty
in selecting the man for engineer whom
they wished. No reason was given for
mourning the additional Expense
The board also appointed DR.. Daniel
M. Dill superintendent of the Hospitals
for the Insane for another term of five
years.
Bills of County Engineer Drum, which
were vetoed by County Supervisor OF
terbein, were passed unanimously over
the vetd by h board.
When Clerk Joseph A. Wright read
the resolutions recently adopted by the
Board of Trade of Jersey City, referring
to the fact that the Legislature had
authorized Plank road Improvement,
and that eighteen months had elapsed
without anything having been done by
either Hudson or Essex County, and
went on to d that it was the sense
NJ tho hoo MI that tho urorI~ ha nrn6aaGad
with at once, and that a sub-commit-
tee would meet with the local Board of
Trade in this city Saturday night for
the purpose of discussing and acting,
the matter was at once taken up.
! Freebooter Fred L.. Baldwin then
offered the resolution to name Mrf
Owen and Freebooter F.. Valentine Bau-
mach appended an amendment that
the matter be referred to the
free bridge committee. Various
other amendments were suggested,
including one naming County
Engineer George F. Drum for the work,
but they were all lost and the original
resolution was carried by a vote of IL
to II, the Democrats almost to a man
favoring either the retention of the
county engineer or delay in the matter.
During the discussion Freebooter
Baldwin insisted tina the matter be
taken up without delay, while Free
holder N. j. Ward, as chairman of the
finance committee, advised the board
to go slow because of the condition of
the bond market.
Freebooter Edward Winslow, on the
other hand. declared that the bond
market was looking up and added
that in a short time money would be
very cheap.
There is no reason" he added, "why
we should be the laughing stock Of
Essex County any longer as far as the
Plank road is concerned"
DIR. Daniel M. Dill, the superintendent
of the County Hospital for the Insane, was
~reappointed for a term of five years from
March 1 next, as forecasted in yesterdays
last edition, on motion of Freebooter John
Scanlon, chairman of the committee
on county hospitals. DIR. Dill is a Re-
publican, halls from the Eleventh Ward,
and was first made superintendent to fill
the unexpired term of DR.. Livingston S.
Hinckley, after which he was again chosen
by the then Republican Board of Free
holders. Every member in the room, Re-
publican and Democrat, twenty-nine of
them, voted for his reappointment with
out discussion.
One of the features of the session was
the unanimous way in which the twenty
nine members present rode over the veto
of the old bills that had been presented
by County Engineer Drum for extra serv-
ices in connection with work at the branch
hospital at Overlook and other parts
of the county.
The supervisors objection was that
the engineer did not name two as
sistants who had helped him, and stated
that the salary of 5000 should be
sufficient without such extra charges as
had been made. Some of the bills were
for auto hire, as told at the time, and
covered a period of about four months.