Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-03-21
BILLS
STILL UNPAID,
SUIT ORDERED
Lambert Hosting Engine Com
pany Objects to Hudson
County's Delays.

The long fought feud between the
Hudson Essex joint plank road COM
mittee took a very serious turn today,
when. upon the refusal Of the Hudson
members of the bridge committee to
pay his company's bills, Asher Lam
bert. of the Lambert Hosting Engine
Company, instructed his attorneys of
this city to bring suit against the Hud-
son county members for the So, 400 they
owe him.
Tho attorney fer the Lambert Com
pany is Edward Colin, of the Pruden-
tial building, who ven to Jersey City
this afternoon to deliver an ultimatun,
to the attorney for the Hudson county
members demanding that they sign his
clients bills or be hailed before a Judge.
The Essex county members have
o. KID their portion of the bill, and
SO the Lambert concern is not going
after them. But it was simultaneously
announced that Ralph r. Schmidt and
Regner & Co. will also take the Hud-
son freeholders into court, in which
case the controversy will probably be
fought out all summer both In the
board itself and before the judges.
The determination of the Lambert
COIipdhy ~ Suo lat IIudSOH ill6IlDCIS
was made last night when Chairman
Condor, of the joint bridges commit
tee, was the only Hudson nan to
show up.
The Essex men were there, but
Condor refused to sign the bills In the
absence of his fellow countymen.
though 1t was openly charged that the
Hudson r.len had absented themselves
for no other reason that to balk the
payment of the bills.
The storm broke, of course, on the
chairman's refusal to take action.
Emergency Committees Action.
The names of Freeholders Ward, Volz
and Nathan were brought into the dis
cussion of the bills because it appeared
that they had ordered all the work In
question, constituting the emergency
committee. which had the authority to
order work in excess Of $500 without
advertising when necessity demanded
1t. h emergency committee 10 the
bone of contention, because the Hud-
son members of the bridge committee
claim that they knew nothing of the
| work being ordered and therefore could
not O.. K. the bills.
Asher Lambert stated to the commit
tee that the work on the Bridge street
bridge had been done as an accommo-
dalton, as his firm was not in the re-
pair business and that he didn't in
tend to have his bill held up by Hudson
county.
II don't cater to that kind of work
at ALL" MI. Lambert said, land to be
called out at all times during the night
and get my w~orkingmen together to
enable the public to use a bridge which
is out of order and then to be held up
| on the payment of the bill / consider
outrageous. My entire claim comprises
a number of bills which, with tho ex-
| ception of one. are under $500. We
have been called upon to mako the
repairs because we were the only firm
which could do them quickly and had
the facilities to do them and if that
Is the treatment I receive ] will not
respond to any more calls N emergency
cases.
IF you had your work lone right in
the beginning you wouldn't have to
call upon me to make the repairs. Now
that | did make them and gave you
what you ought to have had in the
first place you don't pay. You have
never had any trouble since"
IF you looked at the work you easily
could see that 1t was necessary and
had to be done Immediately, and that
is enough for you to vote for the pay
ment OF the BILL" remarked Mr. Lam
bert.
Mr.. Lambert
why should / bother about that?
/ didn't order the work." came back
Freebooter Condor.
You ought to look at 1t. just the
same,' was the answer of Mr.. Lambert,
because you get paid for it by your
county, and II that is all the interest
your Hudson County members have In
county affairs hat they ever don't
show up after they have notified us to
be present at the meeting, they don't
deserve the salary the county pays
them"
John Regner who has a bill for $1,000
for new ratings on the Jackson street
bridge and who has so far only re-
ceived the share OF Essex on the bill,
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