The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1909-02-16
WANT ROADS
MACADAMIZED.
Several Petitions Before Board
Of FreehoIders for Stone
Road Building.
ELECTRIC co. WANTS RELEASE

ELEGlNlC W. WANl0 KELEAoE
Several petitions were presented TO
the board of freeholders at its Febru-
ary meeting on Wednesday morning
to have sections of road macadamized
and Offering enough land on each side
of the roads named to make them
thirty-three feet in width. Those
asked for were the Boonton- Montville
road, the Jacksonville road, Pine
Drook-Towaco road and the Hurdtown
road in Jefferson township. The free
holders were asked to macadamize.sec-
tions Of these roads a width of sixteen
feet and eight inches in thickness. The
matter was referred to the road COM
mittee.
The Morris & Somerset Electric Co.
asked the freehoders to be released
from its bond filed with the county
insuring the proper replacing of the
roadbed after the laying of the COM
pany's conduits. The company as
serted that it had finished the work.
Freeholder Neighbor said that he had
noticed that after the earth had been
replaced hump was left in the road
which caused the detection of the ve-
hicular traffic to the sides of the roads,
wearing them out and he did not
think the roads had been put back In
proper shape though he could otsay
that it was the electric company that
was the offender. Freeholder Burchell
settled the matter by moving that the
bond be released when recommended
by the road committee, which was
passed.
The Chatham board OF trade petit
toned the freeholders to have Watch
ung avenue macadamized and it was
referred to the road committee.
Freeholder Estler, of the finance
committee, reported receipts from
the surrogate's office the past
month were 81, ,111.O3, from the county
clerks office sSOS.99 and from the
sheriff $4,000. He reported bills
amounting to SO, 1928 25 of which s54S.67
was for the expenses Of the sheriff's
office, S65l.2 the county clefks office
and 1885, % the surrogate's office.
There are now thirty-eight inmates
in the county jail, according to Free
holder Burchell's report of the court
house andjail committee. The num-
ber confined at the last report was
thirty-two, forty-six were admitted
and forty discharged. The committee
had bills aggregating S660.42 for cur
rent expenses and s227.97 for perma-
nent improvements. Jail Physician
Griswold reported eleven visits to the
institution.
| For the aims house committee Free
holder Pruden reported bills amount
| ing to 81, l,386.42 for the aims house and
s413.36 for the children's home. There
were 1.2 inmates In the almshouse at
last report, six have been admitted and
one discharged, making 127 wards Of
the county at the present. In the
children's home last month were sixty
nine, one child has been admitted and
and one discharged.
Freeholder Cook, of the insurance
and miscellaneous committee, had
bills for officers and salaries of $37I.5O,
for freeholders of $500 28 and for inci-
dentals of $1,2l016.
The road committee. by Chairman
johnson, presented bills amounting to
$59. 10, and Freeholder Garabrant, for
the printing and elections committee,
handed in approved bills aggregating
$4,000.
Freeholder Burchell presented bills
for four filling cases for the county
clerks office and a contract was or
dered executed for the work for 81
391. 20.
Director Becker reported that the
Washington street bridge, at Boonton
had been found unsafe and after being
examined. by County Engineer King
and two bridge experts had been closed
to travel. The experts asserted that
two eye-bars had broken and one more
was ready to break. This was caused,
so they said, by defects in the iron and
not from an overstrain. Arrangements
have been made for the repair of the
bridge and the @. w. Dean Co., of
New York, was awarded contract to
make repairs, its bid being 81 ,224.O0.