Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1914-05-02
$4,000 TO FIX
COUNTY ROADS
Board of Trade Directors Re-
ceive Letter from Com
missioner Stevens.
MAY GET $4,000 MORE
Believes Whole Amount Free
holders Give Can Also
be Used for Roads.
MAY GET $4,000 MORE

Following the agitation for better
roads in the county a communion
{ tion was received by the directors of
| the local Board of Trade at their
meeting last night from State Com
missioner of Roads Stevens, stating
that the state department will fur
nish 100000 for the purpose of i'm
proving the comfy highways. with
a possibility of an addition of
| $4,000 and that by county appro-
priation he believes that the whole
amount that the Board of Freehold
ers contemplate, 100000 can be ex-
pended on the roads heretofore i'm
proved by the county. Commission
er Stevens letter to Secretary Lynch
| is as follows:
| Mr.. A. ]. Gebhardt, director
Middlesex County Board of Chosen
| Freeholders, has submitted to me
your letter of April 23rd, relating to
road matters in Middlesex county.
| | have been in conference today
with the Middlesex board in relation
to road matters. / believe that they
are thoroughly awakened to the i'm
portance of the matter to which you
draw their attention, that is to say,
the need of further extension of
the road improvement and the main
tenance of roads heretofore improved
| in better order than Is now the case.
| They. however, appeal to me for aid
: They have raised from their own
funds $4,000 for the repair fund
and they ask me to set aside for the
State an equal amount. OF the
moneys at present available | can
probably let them have something
like $4,000 and of moneys to be
| received after November first, the
beginning of the new State fiscal
year, l may be able to add $4,000
to this amount. There is no doubt
but that the whole amount that they
contemplate, 100000, can be ex-
pended on the roads heretofore inn
proved by the county. There is also
mo doubt that the failure to expend
this money will not be a wise econo-
my; In other words, the problem be-
fore the board and before this de-
partment is largely a financial one.
4 1.-THE legislature WAS asked this winter
! to provide an increase in the funds
1 that could be applied to road repair
but failed to pass any legislation.
| / would submit that such bodies
as yours can be of great use in awak-
ening the public to the necessity for
| increased appropriations for road
work generally, likewise to the de-
STABILITY of organizing our road
work much more thoroughly than
| has hitherto been the case.
| may add that acts drawn and
submitted by this department to the
| last legislature for this purpose also
| failed of passage. 1t is one of those
questions that / feel must be put up
to the people for them to settle"
The directors of the local organiza-
tion passed a resolution calling for
the city and county authorities to put
the roads in the vicinity of Perth Am
boy in proper condition, the business
men claiming that the poor facilities
for transportation are hurting the
trade conditions of the county and
are having detrimental affect on
this city.
Letters were received from Sena-
tors Hughes and MARITIME and Con-
gressman Scully, acknowledging re-
ceipt of resolution in regard to the
assignment of the banks or north
ern New Jersey under the jurisdiction
of the Philadelphia Reserve Bank
They stated that although they were
willing to assist In any manner pos
sible, that the assignment has already
been made and 1t would be impossible
to make changes until the Federal re-
serve bank commission is appointed
Senator Hughes enclosed a copy of
letter from M. c. Elliott, secretary of
the bank organization committee, to
this effect.