Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1909-03-18
CHOSEN FREEHOLDERS.
Important Road Discussions The
Investigating Committees Report.


the March meeting of the Chosen Free
holders this morning.
Mr.. Ledden reported Mr. Hargis,
one of his old constituents, removed
to the Aims House and of his present
severe illness.
Mr.. Cunningham reported the Vest
vile and Glassboro road in fine shape;
the road from Mullica Hill to the Sa-
lem county line the best in the county;
all other roads in fairly good condi-
tion
The expenditures on roads the past
month aggregate $355.02
/ Mr.. Joyce reported everything in
Hgood shape at the Battlefield Park.
RThe trees planted last fall looked
Ehealthy. The committee expect to
apaint the mansion this spring. The
Tgrass seed had taken well except
about the monument. 60
Mr.. Cooper reported one person in
jail because he could not pay a fine
of 1924. He said that the law pro-
vided for the discharge of such by the
| Board, and he so recommended, and
| it was ordered
Mr.. Cooper, of the committee to ex-
anime the Magnolia road, reported it
| in fine condition, and the best road
he had seen. 1t looked like the btu
| lithic street in Woodbury. He ad-
vised securing bids for this road, when
ever we have any to build. Messrs.
Casperson and Sharp concurred in
Mr.. Cooper's statement. The cost is
| 25c per yard above the cost of regu-
lar macadam road
| Mr.. Cunningham reported there was
half mile of road at Westville that
/ had never been credit to anybody
He moved this be repaired by this
! process-widened four feet on each
! side and recoated all over. He said
they opened this road, and there was
now eleven inches of old stone there.
/ Mr.. Best moved the Committee take
this matter up, find the approximate
cost, and report to the afternoon ses-
sion
Engineer Carter reported the speci-
fications for the Woodbury., Swedes-
boro and Auburn road revised and ap-
proved by the State Road Commits
sioner The Commissioner amended
the specification to require that all
wagons used in hauling for the road
have tires at least 31a inches wide.
They will not approve road less than
"a feet in width, this would require
widening the Auburn road in some re-
spects. The report was ordered re-
ceiyed, on motion of Mr.. Usinger, and
the specifications prepared to meet
the view of the State Commissioner,
and report to the next meeting. Carr
ried.
The Auburn road was ordered made
I26 feet wide. ~
Mr.. Usinger moved that after the
specifications had been approved, the
! 90 ha o1fh RI odunrficn
for bids to build the road.
Mr.. Best said he knew what it was
to go ahead and prepare to build, and
he thought we must first clean up our
| old Indebtedness before we can build
this road
Mr.. Usinger agreed with all Mr.
Best said, but said the people wanted
to know what we were going to do.
Mr.. Cooper agreed with all Mr.. Best
said. 1t cost contractors money to
i figure on doing work, and he was OPP
posed to advertising for bids till we
know what we are going to do.
Mr.. Carter, in reply to question,
said the distance was IA miles.
Mr.. Ledden said that in all our. his
| tory, not more than 6 miles had been
built in any one year.
Mr.. Munyan said every word Mr..
Best had uttered was true. We ought
to decide now what we were going to
do.
Mr.. Joyce said we will be just as
able to build part of this road this
year as next. The road was now
impossible, and the people were suf-
fering
Mr.. Walton said nobody was more
in favor of good roads than him, but
we could not spare dollar from the
present funds. If we could do it by
bonds, he was willing to build all we
could.
Mr.. Best said we had $4,000 to pay
$28, 900 of floating debts this year. He
was not willing to vote for the expen-
diture of money, when we did not have
it to pay. The vote on Mr.. Usinger's
motion was:
e-Eldridge, Jones, Casperson,
Usinger, Tombleson, Porch, Joyce,
Horner. s.
Nay-Cooper, Best, Walton, Gar
wood, Cunningham, Ledden. Whitney,
Morgan, Sharp, Tonkin. 10. Declared
| lost
Mr.. Walton moved that the commit
tee take into consideration, and re-
lsport the incidental cost of building the
l;road from Woodbury. to Mantua creek
|lthis year.
! Mr.. Usinger said he did not vote to
build any road, only to find out what
| it would cost. After we find that, we
could determine what we could do.
Mr.. Walton's motion was adopted
SPECIAL COMMITTEES REPORT
The committee to investigate the
overcharges, duplicate bills, reported
| in writing, as follows:
Woodbury., N. j., Mar. is, 1909
Your committee appointed at the
February meeting to investigate GER
tain apparent Irregularities in the
bills of members of this Board would
respectfully report as follows:
That they have held four meetings
and have gone over large number
Eof bills running back over a number
of years and have found what appears