The Penn's Grove record., 1917-04-13
j. ?. neck GET ROAD
Contract Given For SOS, OOO.OO
Freeholders To Dine State
Highway Commissioners

WIZ present. 1DffefTOr
Gray presided.
John A. Robinson having moved from
EisinbOrO to Warrington. the vacancy
was hlled by the Township Committee
~electing Richard G. Hancock. who took
his seat at this meeting.
The morning session was taken up
paying the numerous monthly bills.
At the March meeting Fox & Clout-
ing's bid to construct the 9th section Of
the Malaga-Penns Grove road was the
lowest. $S5.431. As the other bids
ranged from $1OS.O33 to $112.174. Fox
4 Clouting refused to sign the contract
and forfeited their deposit of 81 100.
which accompanied their bid. The Board
advertised for new bids which were OPP
ened on Wednesday and were as fol-
lows:
Sutton & Corson. Ocean City. $685.
5O1.73.
Clark & johnson, Somers Point,
$~100.375.42.
Joseph F. Burke & Co, Plainfeld,
$1OS,O2233.
g. L. Lecompte. Trenton. $102. sos. 80.
John NJ. Kelly Co. Camden. $115.-
1881.
Fox & Clouting, Ocean City. $1O1.-
17S.46.
The contract was awarded to Sutton
K Corson. which was $4,000 less than
their bid at the March meeting.
The section is 15.10O feet. 2.S6 miles
long. 1t is to be paved with broken
stone and a bituminous top for a width
of Is feet and a depth of eight inches.
The base of four inches with a coating
of gravel is to be laid this year and the
bitlIminous top put on in 1918. Sec
ton 6 extends from the end of the stone
road 2 1-2 miles from Penns Grove ut
Biddle Greek to the Pilesgrove line.
which is the road from Courses Land
ing to Auburn.
A letter from Mr.. Fox was received.
in which he stated that as he had made
a clerical error in the March bid and
another honest effort at this meeting.
he requested that his forfeited 1000 be
returned. The letter was received and
put on file.
The county engineer, HI. h. Keasby.
was authorized to prepare plans and
specifications for sections A and ). ex-
tending from the Upper Penns Neck line
through S~harptown, to the Salem
Woodstown road.
MT. tTflStOm TtIbofttu lHdI lfoIl
March IA to April II. there were in
jail % prisoners and 10 in the road
camp. Number committed during that
time SO. discharged IL. In Jail April
18th. 81 white and 8 black; on road.
II white AMI 2 black. Cost for food,
$190.57, an average of .257 cents a day.
The contract to paint Pedricktown
bridge was given to Thomas b. Kille at
$27S.50, his being the lowest.
The only bidder to drive tenders at
Pedricktown bridge was the Bridgeton
Construction Company. at $443S; each
extra pile $13. and extra leaf pine lum-
her at sos a 1000 feet. AS the price
for each pile and the lumber specified in
the contract amounted to less than half
the bid the committee recommended that
the Bridgeton Company be employed to
do it at cost plus 20 per cent. The re-
port was adopted.
Capt. Frank NJ. Horner presented a
bill for damages to the sloop George b.
Mcclellan, which was broken by the
Lower Canal Bridge not being lifted
high enough for the boat to pass thru.
1t was paid and the solicitor instructed
to collect the amount from the Salem
and Penns Grove Traction Co. Since
the trolley track was put on the bridge
it is so heavy that it cannot he lifted to
make q full clear-way for boats. The
current through Penns Neck Canal is
swift and a lift bridge has to be worked
quickly and lifted all the way up. A
pivot bridge could he worked slowly and
could be pushed off by the boat without
much damage.
s. Rushing Leap. Elmer Fl. Smith and
G. Preston Carpenter. commissioners
appointed by the court to condemn land
of Henry Webber at Sharptown for the
State road which is to run from Rich
mans creamery through Webber's land
east of ~Sharptown to connect with the
road near the school house, awarded
him $3.50. He asked $500 and drop
ped to $500. He accepted $1,150 and
appeared before the Board and asked
for more to fence the land along the
road, because fencing was not mentioned
when the commissioners acted. No ac-
ton was taken. The road leaves him
three small three-cornered pieces of land
which adjoining owners of land do not
want except at a low price.
The Board voted to borrow $4,000
from Peoples Bank at Penns Grove at
5 per cent. until January 1.
The Almshouse trustees were given
$500 to run that county institution.
The contract to repair the wing wall
of Upper Canal bridge was given to HI.
B. Richman. County is to pay the cost.
Mr.. Richman is to receive 81 a day TO
oversee the work and get the men and
material.
A letter was received from the dupont
Company acknowledging the vote of
thanks for the donation of land to
s~traighten the road at their reservoir,
Layton pond.
A letter was received from Capt. Hor-
ace Wilson acknowledging the vote at
the March meeting disappearing the in
crease of ferrage on motor trucks be-
tween Penns Grove and Wilmington. He