Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-09-12
COUNTY ROADS
|SSUEFORV VOTES
No Funds Available, No New
Work Possible
REPLY TO DEMOCRATIC move
Road Petition Before Free
holders--Repubiicans Report
Deficit of 81, 100
Bu Star Correspondent.

By StuT Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK, Sept. 12:-
Road work, except that which is
now under way and emergency re-
pairs, will have TO be held up for the
| balance of the year owing to the
| money set aside in the 1919 county
| road budget being entirely used.
In fact a deficit of $1,000 now ex-
lists, although an additional amount
| of state road money amounting to
| $4,000 will soon be available to the
county, which will leave a deficit of
| only $1,100.
A total of $195.000 has been spent
| on roads this year and there Is an
additional sum of $4,000 of the road
| Appropriation to be used for work
| now being done.
| There is still due from the state
road funds $4,000 which will also
| be used for work now under way
A complaint from residents along
the SteltonNew Market road was
brought to the attention of the free
holders yesterday by Freeholder
Louis j. Belloff regarding the holes
and rough spots. Immediate repairs
were asked for but owing to the lack
| of finances for the work they will
be advised of the inability of the
Board of Freeholders to make extern
sive repairs this year.
/ A mOtlOn Dy the DemOcTdllc MEM
! Der of the board, f. Leon Loblein.
! that all road work be discontinued
; owing to-the absence of funds, was
defeated six to one. Making political
/ capital of the situation was the ac-
cusation made by the Republican
majority, speaking of Mr.. Loblein's
tactics.
\ County Collector F. William Hilker
4 stated that the road appropriation
! had, been used and that he would not
4 use money from other budgets to de-
fray road expenses, as was done by
the Democratic board in 1917. "A
] total of $186,000 from other budgets
4 was used that year for road repairs
which greatly handicapped the board
in 1918," said Mr.. Hilker.
The reason stated by County Solic-
! itor Frederick F. Richardson for the
shortage of road funds was given as
the tremendous increase in prices of
labor and material. Members of tho
board also attribute the high repair
bills to the washing away and under
mining of the roads during the heavy
rains early in the summer. At that
time County Road Supervisor Walter
! Quackenbush and members of the
board were kept busy supervising the
| repairs to damaged spots to safe
guard those using the roads.
| Minor repairs VIII po Hiduc 10 tAo
! roads as far as possible but no COM
plete new surfaces will be laid until
| next year.
The following petition was given
| the board concerning the Shelton-New
Morket road propositions:
New Brunswick. N. j.. Sept 9.
ITO Mr.. Thomas J. Mulvihill, Clerk,
and Members of the Board of Free
holders of Middlesex County, N. ].
Gentlemen:
I'VE the undersigned wish to make
I the following complaint about tho
road leading from Stelton to New
Market. The Board has repeatedly re-
ceiyed communications and requests
to put this road in some shape and we
have been repeatedly STALLED off, and
at your last meeting were put off
again. 1t is getting high time that
this matter be looked into, for the
| longer it is put off, the worse condi-
tiion the road will be in and the great
er the expense for repair.
Some tome ago one of our County
Fathers" as they are called in the pa
pers. Mr. Clarence NJ. Haight, took up
a petition which was sent in and one
! of our other Fathers" Mr.. Louis j..
Belloff, stated, what fine bluff for
Mr.. Haight to make as regards prom
ising the people something for which
| they had no money to fix the road" ;"
| Since then there has been considerable
money spent scraping this road. cut
! ting the weeds and putting little drabs
of stone here and there and the first
vehicle passing along throws 1t out
| which means more scraping. Thus the
work continues and yet they say they
| have no money to give the road a
| good coating of Tarvia. However.
| nothing is said about the money spent
4 fnhf tnl mo
| sonally that 1t takes more money to
keep the two southern miles In repair
| than the rest of the road to New Mar
ket.
| "About two or three weeks ago, sew
! eral tons of stone were sent to the
| Belloff farm and there it lies Every
| now and then a load or two or three is
put on the road and the balance will
| lie there for weeks and months until
our County Fathers" see fit to put
/ II on the road same as has been done
before. We think 1t is better for the
stone to lie undisterbed than to put
IL on without proper binders OF Tar
| via or oil.
Here is something the whole board
might explain to the voters and tax
payers as 1t seems vague to us. At
| the Republican Club In Dunellen
when Mr.. Belloff and Mr.. Haigbt an
nounced their candidacy for the
Board of Freeholders, they stated
the old board had used all the money
and left them with very little-they
did the best they could and sorry
they could do no more. Under pres
ent conditions stone Is carted over
the whole road and dumped on the
Belloff farm, then reloaded and cart
ed back again to be put wherever 1t
is supposed TO do the most good. Now
| II that Is saving money and expense
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