Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-12-15
NO INCREASE FOR
PLANK ROAD MAN
FreehOIders Turn Down Super
intendent Dugan's Request
for More Salary.

The last regular meeting of the large
Board of Freeholders yesterday after
noon was marked by several lively tits
among the members and evidences of
much difference of opinion. The board
goes out of office on January 1 next,
and the members tried to crowd as
much county work as possible in the
last meeting.
Among the resolutions which the
board refused to adopt were the Great
ing of the position of chief engineer
and assistants on the Plank
bridge over the Passaic river, and to
increase the salaries of William P.
Dugan. superintendent of the Plank
road. from 1880 to $2,250 a year, and
DR.. e. II. Ricketts,, superintendent oil
the Isolation Hospital, from $1,000 to
$500 a year.
Approve Asylum Sale.
The resolutions which were adopted
provide for the approval of the sale or
the South Orange avenue asylum for
$i37, 500 to James A. Berry and others;
increasing the salaries of DR.. w. j.
Douglas, head of the Tuberculosis Hos
pital at Soho, from 81, 500 to $1,000 a
year: Arthur Tench and William G, o.
Crowthers. clerks in the riminal
courts, from 81, 200 to $3.50 each, and
Raymond L. Mahoney, from $500 to
81. 100 a year.
Freebooter Malta enlivened the pro-
ceedings when the proposal to increase
Superintendent Dugan's salary was
made, by declaring the position ought
TO be abolished inctead of increasing
the salary for it. Freeholders Driver
and Gottlieb also created a furore by
strenuously objecting to creating the
positions of chief engineer and assist
ants for the Plank road bridge, when
has not been accepted as yet by the
counties. They declared this movement
would be made for political reasons
and the evasion of the civil service re-
oujrenents This was referred to the
Joint bridge committee, as was the pro
posed increase Of superintendent
Dugan's salary.
The Public Service Railway Com
pany was granted permission TO lay
tracks in South Orange avenue, South
Orange township, connecting with the
car-house at Springfield and Boyden
avenue. The resolution was passed by
a vote of II to 10.
Turns Down Public Service.
Declaring that the Public Service
Railway Company did not offer a pro-
portionate return for permission to lay
tracks in South Orange township, Free
holder Gottlieb sustained Freebooter
Malta in the contention that there was
no reason why any member of the
board should vote in favor of granting
the permission Freebooter Gottlieo
remarked that he was surprised the
matter had not come before the board
at the October meeting, and added that
the personnel of the new board might
have beer affected If 1t had.
When the propositions of increasing
the salaries of The hospital heads were
turned down Freebooter Malta at
tempted to debate on the question OF
laying the matter on the table and was
called to order by the director. who re-
fused to let him have the floor. BY a
vote of twenty-three to four the rnotioa !
10 lay on the table the contract for a
grand stand on the Essex County
Speedway was defeated. N~otwithstcnd-
ing the fact that steps are being taken
to abandon the speedway, the con
tract for the stand was awarded to
Marcus e. Husk for 1896. Andrew r.
Fitzsimmons, chairman of the Joint
committee OF civic societies which seek
to abolish the speedway. notified the
Freeholders that the Irvlngton Town
Council intended to pass an ordinance
providing for the opening of Eighteenth
avenue.
BY a rising vote resolutions were
adopted expressing the sympathy and
regret of the Board of Freeholders on
the death of former Freebooter Charles
W. Romine, and extending sympathy
to Freebooter Rudolph II. Molter on
the death of his father, Otto w. Molter.