Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-09-27
FINAL ACTION ON
MORGAN CLAIMS
All Returned Vouchers Must Be
in By October IS
OFFICE WILL CLOSE Then
Captain Chase Gives Report of
Work Done BY His
Body

All work in the office of Major e.
B. Murray. officer in charge. Giles
pie Explosion Claims, Morgan Cen
eral ordnance Depot, South Amboy,
In connection with the payment of
claims will be completed and the Of
fees closed October 10. The en-
ployes will probably remain with the
board for ten days or two weeks after
the office Is closed In order to turn
the completed records over to the
proper authorities. where they will be
ords will be filed away at Washing
ton, d. c., while duplicate of them
will be kept at the Morgan depot.
Some idea of the work of the board
during the past month or more may
be obtained from the following fig
ures: On August 1, the board receiv-
ed $1,S15, ,498.67 with which to pay
S,467 claims, Since August 1. the
board has paid 4,494 claims, amount
ing in money value to $876,913.50.
There yet remain to be paid 1,51S
claims totaling $4S8,585.07. There
are still outstanding 400 vouchers,
which people have failed to return to
the board and the checks are held up
until these vouchers are received.
Some Of the claims yet to be paid
date from July 1. The checks for
claims are being mailed at the rate
of 200 day.
When the board began its work,
shortly after the explosion, the Of
fees We're located in the Raritan
building in this city and corps of
fifty employees was maintained This
was cut down to thirty-fiv while the
Board was still here and twenty one
more were released at Morgan on
September l.. The board now has
corps Of thirteen employees and these
will probably be retained until after
the office closes next month.
There have been several checks
and vouchers returned for want of a
proper address. The following is a
complete list to date with the ad-
dresses as given in the claims and
any of those whose name appears
should at once advise the claims Of
flee their new address. 1t will help
considerably If friends( of those
whose names appear Below advise
them that their proper addresses are
wanted or advise the claims office
what the proper addresses are.
The proper addresses are wanting
for the following parties whose
checks have been returned:
Cohen, Charies, 515 Smith St., Perth
Amboy. N. j.; Cowenhoven. Remsen,
400 Leon avenue, Perth Amboy, N.
j.; Feuchtbaum, Solomon. Wood
bridge Township. N. j.: Gaona. Man
uel, IL Fayette street, Perth Amboy,
nue., Washington Heights. Wood
bridge; Kotisz, Imry, 573 Alpine street
Perth Amboy. N. j.: Kesko, Mrs. Jo-
seph. Perth Amboy, N. j.; Luyster,
Carrot s., Middletown, Conn; McDer-
mott. John, 139 Smith street, Perth
Amboy, N. j.; Moran, James, 418l
Madison street. Brooklyn. N. Y; Pat
rick, Mary. 764 Colgate avenue, Perth
Amboy, N. j.; Pytylowski, John. New
Rose, Alfred c., $50 Wales avenue,
Bronx, N. Y; Snow, Fred c., Atlantic
avenue. Keasbey, N. j.; Ur, William,
Alto. Michigan; Vigne, John. Union,
N. J.
The following is a list of returned
vouchers:
Bloom, Herman L., SS Monmouth
street, Newark, N. j.; Bloom, Philip
206 Sherman avenue, Newark, N. J.:
Bourgard. William. 2o5 Stokes ave-
nue., Asbury Park N. j.; Campbell.
Lester, 151 Alden street, w. Orange.
N. j.: Douglas, Thomas. 252 West 49th
street, N. Y; Ehrig, Geo. j. Ridge
wood Station, Brooklyn; Fay, Robert
r., 3S7 Market street. Perth Amboy.
N. j.; Fehr, william, 376 William
street, e. Orange. N. j.; F'leischman,
Morris H., Camp Eust, Virginia;
Gronolfi, Tomaso, 256 W. 43rd street,
N. Y; Kaney, Thos., 311 Elm street,
Perth Amboy. N. j.: Lopez, Manuel,
154 W.-61st street, Manhattan. N. Y;
Macbeth, ]. L., II Smith street, Perth
Amboy, N. j.; Mafh, Egidio, 456 e.
186th street, Bronx. N. Y.
Morgan, P. E., 265 Goodwin street,
Perth Amboy, N. j.; Moscalito, An
geIo, 123 Parker street, Newark. N. j..
Newman, f. H.. 305 Main street.
Bradley Beach. N. j.; Nuccio, Chas.,
206 E. S7th street, New York City;
Palmer Chas., 273 First street. South
Amboy, N. J.; Pocsik, Steve, 405 High
street, Metuchen. N. J.; Pizzuto, Ben
iamin, 266 Leonard street, Red Bank, |
n. J.; Quimby, Mlaybelle, 18th street,
Holley avenue. Keansburg; Reilly. Jo-
seph, $50 w. 14srd street New York