Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-11
BILLS QUESTIONED
BY MORRIS BOARD
Freeholders Oppose Paying
Them Because They Hear Men
"Loafed" on Jobs.
IspcciaI 10 the newark stnr.l

| YOUNGSTOWN, Dec. 11.-That he
| expected to get through the year
without asking any further discount
| ing of notes was the announcement
of County Collector Joseph II. Nc
| Lean at the meeting of the Board of
Freeholders yesterday. Not counting
| in the State aid road bills, there were
about $4,000 in the aggregate OF bus
ordered paid, and the county collec-
tor said he had funds on hand to
meet them.
The State aid bills will be held up
pending the receipt of the $4,000 due
on the State aid account II neces-
| sary another bill will be held up,
! that of the O'Brien detective agency
! that furnished the deputy sheriffs for
strike duty al Wharton and Mt. Hope
last MAY Next Wednesday the board
will meet. at which time the commit
tees will settle up business for the
year and submit estimates of the
amounts required to run the various
departments next year.
Bills of Robert Carroll and ORLANDO
NJ. Stevens for $225 each for services
in watching a prisoner who was uh.
der treatment i'm Memorial Hospltai
from September to October ~, were
held up pending an investigation by
the finance committee. The prisoner
had been shot in the arm during an
affraN among some Italians and was
charged with assault and battery.
F'reeholder George Estler said he WAS
opposed To paying the bill because
he had heard the men had spent more
time hanging around the railroad sta
ton than they had in watching the
prisoner The bills bore the 20. X
of Judge Salmon and prosecutor
Reed, and the men were ordered on
the job by Sheriff Gillen. Carroll was
on night duty and Stevens was the
day man.
Another bill held up was thai of
Samuel Leonard for $50 for services
as Watchman at the jail. Leonard
has been on duty since the shooting
up when the jail keeper had a mar
row escape from being killed. gree
holder Owens, of the finance COM
mittee, declared that all three of the
bills were an imposition upon the
county.
An application from the New York
Telephone Company for permission 10
open South street and Madison ave-
nue., Morristown, in order to enlarge
its manholes, was referred TO tue
road committee with power, as was
the request of Mrs. T. J. Hedges, OF
Florham Park, for permission to open
the county road at that place TO lay
a water pipe TO the road committee
also went the request of the Dover
Board of Health that the county oil
the county roads in that mu-
niclpality. A freeholder remarked
"Why don't Dover pay for its own
dust-laying as Morristown does, but
neither of the Dover representatives
on the board answered
The Warren Board of Freeholders
asked the cooperation Of the Morris
board in bringing about the repeal of
the widows pension act, and the mat
ter was referred to the legislative
committee
The county collector was authorized
to borrow $4,000, ia order TO make up
a deficiency in the State-aid road
account caused by the excess in cost
over the estimate of job of repair
work.
Freebooter Jenkins read an opinion
from County Counsel Runyon, in
which IL was stated that the county
was not liable for damages because
of having changed the course of
brook across the Sickle properly in
Blackwell street Dover.
To the road committee, county
counsel and county engineer was
given power to approve, il found
practicable, Of the plans for elinl-
mating the Lackawanna railroad
grade crossing at Madison avenue,
Madison, when the railroad company
and the Madison authorities finally
agree upon the proposition.
Sheriff Gillen reported forty-tWo
men and women in the county jail
Freebooter Pruddens of the aims
house committee, reported 1874 IN
mates in the county poorhouse and
81 children. wards of the county, in
the Children's Home
Jail Physician Griswold reported
twenty visits to the jail and the ex-
animation of two men and their COM
mitment to the State Insane Hospital,
as well as the usual run of cases OF