Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-10-08
ACTION OF THE
TRADE BOARDS
Letter from c. A. Mccormick
of Road Matter.
October s, 1912.

October 3, 1917.
Editor EVENING NEWS:
In your issue of Saturday October
s, 1912, an article appears in very
large type referring to a meeting OF
the Affiliated Board of Trade which
was held at Perth Amboy on Friday
evening last, and in the reporting of
this article several error have been
made to which l reSire to call your
attention.
First, you state that ! appointed a
committee consisting of F. M. Yor-
ston, to determine what amount Is
appropriated by the state for road
maintenance in this county.
I wish to inform you that the APP
pointment Of this committee was the
outcome of discussion that was be-
fore the meeting as to whether or
not this county was getting a fair
share of the revenues from automo-
bile tolls collected by the state of
New Jersey, and the committee was
appointed to interview MI. Lippin-
colt, Supervisor OF Motor Vehicles,
and not the road Supervisor.
Every citizen of the county realizes
that owing to the new reciprocity law
there is more traffic upon the roads
Of the State Of New Jersey, especially
this county, which has twentv-ei1ht
miles Of the main highway between
New York and Philadelphia. Also
the advent Of heavy motor trucks
causes additional wear and tear upon
the roads.
Second: A motion was unanimous
ly adopted that the President appoint
a special committee consisting of
three or five persons at his discretion,
to confer with Road Commissioner
Stevens at Trenton, and bring before
him the Importance of the state
maintaining at their exnerse the
main highway between New York and
Philadelphia, and to further impress
upon him the importance of this
highway so this work could be &C
complished before the new proposed
state highway, which we understood
was to be started at Trenton, be built
along the Delaware towards Lam
bertville.
wish to state that at the meeting
it was pointed out that the Board of
Freeholders had two hundred and
thirty miles of road to keep in order
and that the appropriation was not
sufficient, and that it was either a
case Of raising more money by tax
alton or securing large appropria-
ticns from the state.
The headlines Of your article
would Indicate that a statement was
made that every road In the county
was in bad condition, and to spread
this impression broadcast is not do
ing Justice to u Board Of Freehold
ers, for the eason that the roads re-
ferred to at the meeting were the
main highways.
BY giving the above article the
same prominence In your paper as
the article published Saturday even
ing, you viii greatly oblige.
Yours very respectfully,
CHAS. A. MCCORMICK,
Pres. Affiliated
Board of Trade.
A careful comparison of the article
referred to in MI. McCormick's letter
with the statements he sets forth
shows only one slight difference. In
the EVENING NEWS article 1t states
that the committee Of three was
named to go before the legislature,
whereas Mr.. Mccormick says 1t Is to
interview Road Commissioner Ste
vens. AS the matter is understood.
however, the committee is to see Mr..
Stevens and report at the next meet
Ing OF the Affiliated Boards of Trade
SO as to be able to go before the
legislature, II necessary with q de-
finite plan in VIEWED.