The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1917-10-30
Snecial Meeting

| The Board of Freeholders held 8
special meeting, Saturday, the primary
object being the consideration OF, the
request of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company to lay an additional track
across Pine street, Mount Holly, and
at Smithville. These being county
roads it was necessary to get the per
mission of the Board of Freeholders tC
go across. There was not any OBJ
lection and the resolution to give the
railroad company what it asked was
adopted unanimously.
1t was ordered that safety gates be
put at both Of the points mentioned
and that they must be operated. At
tentiQn was called to the fact that,
while there are gates at Pine street,
they are not in use. 1t was explained
that there was an accident at that
crossing some time since when the
gates were broken and it has not been
possible to get new castings to repair
the damage.
After the railroad business had been
settled Director Davis asked for a re-
port on the Mullica river bridge. En-
gineer Logan said the work is progress
sing but quite slowly. 1t was possible
the bridge would be completed by the
end of the year but he doubted if such
would be the case. He said the con-
tractor was doing his best, but that he
was certainly losing money on the job.
This matter out of the way, Director
Davis said there had been much criti-
cism on the condition of the roads in
the county and he wanted to hear from
the members to ascertain if the criti-
cism was justified. Each member
answered as his name was called and
very few of them had good word to
speak for the roads. Those in the
neighborhood of Camp Dix are especi-
ally bad and the general opinion was
that the heavy trucks run by the Uni
ted States had done much damage to
our roads.
During the discussion on this ques-
ton instances were related of damage
done by reckless automobile drivers
On the road between Pemberton and
Wrightstown driver had deliberately
knocked down the barriers warning
that the road is closed. On them were
red lights but that did not make any
difference. At least $1,000 worth OF
work was destroyed. While the con-
tractor is under bond to make the
work good it was thought it was too
bad that automobile drivers should not
be brought to some sort OF account for
this sort of proceedings. The name of
the man had been secured and he had
been called before the state depart
ment. He failed to appear on the day
set for his hearing, so it was postponed
to day this week when the man will
have to be present or something will
happen to him.
1t was shown that the owner of the
machine is not worth anything hey ond
the price of his automobile, and thai
sa small amount. Solicitor Davis
thought the man should be made ar
example of and should be indicted fol
malicious mischief. His name is tt
be handed to the solicitor who will
AXE action.
Another instance of the same char.
acter was reported from Moorestown
The road between that place and Mer
chantville has been closed for some
time, at various points. The usua
warning signs have been placed but
owing to the fact that the trolley com
pany has tracks on each side automo
ollie drivers could use the rails until
they passed the barriers, then they
could go back and use the road unit
the next barrier was reached, wher
they would take to the rails again
going along until they could get or
/ the finished surface. This was done
by several drivers and one of then
threatened to run over The watchmar
on duty to prevent such an action.
| This case was also taken notice of by
the solicitor and it is likely that thu
grand jury will have some bushes
along this line.