Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1918-09-20
P. 4. TRUST CO.
BUYS ROAD BONDS
Awarded $215,050 Worth of
ParIin Road Bonds Issued
by Freeholders
AWARD s36O,OOo WORTH
National City Bank Gets Others
--vote Down Plan for Voca-
tionaI School Money

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NEW BRUNSWICK, Sept. 20:-
The awarding of Ss60.000 road and
Improvement bonds to the Perth AM
boy Trust Company and the National
CITY Bank of New York took place al
the regular meeting of the Board OF
Freehoiders yesterday afternoon.
The Perth Amboy Trust Company
was awarded the Parlin road I'M
provement bonds with a bid of $21b,-
O50. the bid of the National City Bank
OF New York for the same bonds be-
ing $215,01e.S5. The National City
Bank was awarded the Plainfield
avenue and Albany street bond issues
with bids of $55,0o4.eb and $s0,0Ss
10 respectively. The bids of the Perth
Amboy Trust Company on these were
$4,000 for the Plainf1eld avenue de-
velopment and $4,000 for the Albany
street bridge bonds.
In voting on the resolution aw9rd-
ing the Pariin road bond issue to the
Perth Amboy Trust Company, Free
holder Haight voted In opposition, de-
claring that the Capital Issues Com
mittee should be notified.
Freeholder Haight was instructed
that the sanction of this COMMITTEES
had been received The resolution
awarding the National City Bank OF
New York the Albany street bridge
and Plainf1eld avenue bond issues was
passed with all of the freeholders
voting aye.
A communication was received
from County Solicitor Richardson
asking for an indefinite leave of abb
sence due to his being called to the
national service. He has been detail
ed to assist the New Brunswick draft
board. Mr. Richardson stated in his
letter that undue criticism was heap
cd upon him by the press when he
enlisted in the service a few months
ego and the board gave him the diff
ference In salary. He stated that he
would gladly sacrifice his present sal
ary. The board passed a resolution
granting his request for an indefinite
: leave of absence without pay and
that Theodore Strong be retained and
appointed to perform the duties as
county solicitor at the salary of $4,000
a year and that he be paid monthly
at the rate OF $166.66.
A communication was received
from the New Jersey Sanitorium for
Tuberculosis at Glen Gardner with
reference to the payment of mainte-
nance of tuberculosis patients and
was referred to the county solicitor
who promised to have a report by
the next meeting.
The lieutenant colonel of the u. s.
Base Hospital No. at Colonia had
a communication before the boRd
complaining about the poor condition
OF the road between the hospital and
the Colonia station and also OF that
between the hospital and st. Georges
avenue. The communication stated
that because wounded soldiers are
being moved over these roads II Is
necessary that the roads be in good
order TO save the men the suffering
which they must now endure due to
the poor conditions of the roads The
lieutenant colonel also complained
. about the condition of the New Dow
er road between the hospital eAd Oak
Tree and Park avenue to Plain
field, these roads being used to bring
much of the food supply to the hos
pital. The committee on roads re-
ported that the road to the station Is
being improved and the clerk was
instructed to write the lieutenant col
onel to that effect
The Public Utilities Commission
had-before the board lengthy COM
munication In relation to the Albany
street bridge stating that they had
ordered that trolley car operation
over the metal spans of the bridge 10
cease after September is. An in
spection had proven the bridge un-
safS, the communication stated
Freeholder Belloz promised that he
would try and remedy conditions iu
a few days.
A resolution was introduced by
Freeholder Haight to appropriate
$4,000 for vocational school bonds
to be used in purchasing land in
Perth Amboy and this city but was
voted down flve to two. The resolu-
ton called for $40. 500 for the Ber-
trand avenue school In Perth Am
boy and $1s.600 for land in New
Brunswick. Freeholders Haight and
Loblein voted for the resolution, Free
holders Dey. Gebhardt. Hilker. Jor-
gensen and Belloff being in opposi-
fion.
Freeholder Jorgensen stated thas
the tuberculosis situation in the
county Is very serious as there are
more than sixty patients who have
not yet made application TO be ad-
mitted In the different sanitoriums
and there are ten on the waiting list
He made q motion that steps be tax
en- to make formal application TO next
legislature allowing this county TO ex-
ceed the bonded Indebtedness so that
the county can build a tuberculosis
hospital.
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