Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-02-10
FREEHOLDERS 0. K.
SALE Of BONDS IN
SPITE OF protect
Democratic Members Think
Rate of Interest, 4 IL Per
Cent, Too High.

ers last night confirmed the sale OF
bonds amounting to $3.50, 900. The first
vote was "a for and 6 against. AS 1t
was necessary that twenty-five vote
for the sale 1t looked as though the
transaction would be held up, but Free
holder O'Connor, who had previously
voted against the proposition, swung
to the other side after a conference
with County Supervisor S~chickhaus.
Directing F~reehOIdsrs.
Those who still held out against the
action were Freehoiders Bahr, Foley,
Garrison, Mccarthy inc Quinn.
The certified checks which accom-
anied all bids and which a been
held by the finance committee were
Aen ordered returned. The bond
hlch were sold consisted Of 100000
Essex County Hospital bonds, sloo,OOO
AN road bonds and 500, 900 Isolation
ospital bonds, all for forty years, and
80, 900 Passaic River bridge bonds, Tor
wenty years
Get Isolation Bonds.
N. w. Halsey & Co. received the
forty-year Isolation Hospital bonds at
1858 and w. A. Read & Co. the forty
year Essex County Hospital and Plank
IOAu OOAi0S az AOOsoo oiAN bhS N'SANS
year Passaic bridge bonds at 1851.
The only objection of the Democrats
who voted against the bon sale was
the high rate of interest at which they
we're sold. F'reeholders Malta and
Winslow tried to convince them that
the county was in a different position
when borrowing money than the city,
because the city can Issue temporary
ioo1 honda In anfipinuT i0n nf "a hnn1
issue and because the city can borrow
money from savings banks, while the
county can't do either one of the two.
Freebooter Winslow reminded the
board that sl75,O 900 of the money to be
received from the sale Of the bonds
70 needed Immediately and hat for
mer attempts to sell bonds at 4 per
cent. had been futile. He called at
tention to the fact that the cost of
advertising for bid and the printing
of the bonds was about $500. n that
to advertise again n to have other
bonds printed would mean another ex-
penditure of $500 without any guar
antee OF a better result, while the diff
ference for the sale of the bonds at
4.5 per cent. instead of at 4 per cent.
was only about $4,000 for the entire
issue.
The board authorized the contractor
on the Plank road work to so ahead
with the work which is o being held
up by the refusal OF the Public Services
Corporation to remove Its tracks at Its
own expense, authorizing the contractor
to obstruct the tracks of the company
as far as 1t is necessary and authoriz-
ing the county counsel to go to court
If the Public Service Corporation should
take out an injunction against the con
tractor.
Want Courts to Rule.
A similar resolution has been passed
by the Hudson County Board of Free
holders. The intention of the two
boards Is to bring the matter to a head
and nave the courts decide the long
controversy as to who should pay for
the removal OF the tracks. County En-
gineer James Owen was Instructed to
prepare plans for a new bridge to take
the place of the present one at Bridge
street, in conjunction with County En-
gineer Alexander Hammil, Of Hudson.
Hudson County has already authorized
Mr.. Hammil and work will be begun
Immediately.
Resolutions were passed authorizing
the payment of this county's share in
he awards made by the condemnation
commissioners for the condemnation
OF property needed for the widening of
the Plank road. The board created
a committee on competitive bidding,
composed of the chairman of all COM
mittees who purchase supplies. This
committee will do all the purchasing
for the county institutions beginning
| M T06 1 onI DiraCfor n,1oholfraa an
pointed the following members: Free-
holders Peck, Anthem, Gallagher, Voor-
hees, Evans, Winslow and Driver. He
will also be a member of the commit
tee. County Counsel William P. Mar
tin was given power to engage special
counsel to settle the controversy over
the bill for s12, $50, of Hurd & Sutton,
architects for the county insane asylum
at Overlook, which the county refuses
to pay because a bill for a similar
amount for expert services has been
paid by the county, although the under
standing seems to have been that the
bill was to be paid by the architects.
Mr.. Martin refuses to take up that
matter because of his former business
connection with the architects.
Hospital Rules Amended.
AhN hAV LII lhO LS56Ca SO6hby 11Oo"
pital for the Insane at Overlook
were SO amended as to provide a staff
of fifteen consulting physicians, who
will be appointed by the hospital COM
mittee, They are to serve without
compensation.
The following salaries were increased
by the board: DR.. John c. Houston,
pathologist al the Isolation Hospital,
from 1 200 to 81. 500; Miss Anna zim-
hermann, assistant head nurse at the
same hospital, from $1,000 to $1,025;
Harry D. Newton. bacteriologist at the
Overlook Hospital for the Insane,
from $50 to $42 a month, and Charles
Basile, assistant probation officer, from
5000 to $1,000.
DR.. Guy Payne, medical superintend-
ent of the Overlook Hospital for the
Insane, was given power to appoint an
additional inferno for the institution at
a salary of $50 a month, and the hos
pital committee received authority to
secure the services of a registered
pharmacist and an assistant book
keeper, the pharmacist to receive $s5
and h b~ookkeeper to receive $40 q