Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-10
FreehOlderS Get Petitions
for Repairs to County Roads
In So. AmbOy And Sayreullze
FreehoIderS Get Petition From
SayrevilIe Asking That
Main Street be Repaired.

By stan Correspondent.
NEW BRUNSWICK. Dec. 10:-lf
carly requests for new road con-
struction are to be given the prefer
ence next year by the board of free
holders. the borough of Sayreville is
almost sure to be taken care of, as
one hundred and ninety-four resi-
dents of that community yesterday
presented their petition for the paw
ing of Main street with a suitable
pavement.
The road leading from Miller's
corner at Sayreville to the Deep Cut
bridge at South Amboy is the one
on which the request was made.
With the exception of the construc-
tion of the Washington road, which
was war time requirement, this
section of the county has been total
ly ignored. according to the petition.
Though the matter was referred
to the committee on roads the mat
ter will probably be considered
when the new schedule is made up.
With a bridge on the Middlesex-
Mercer county line between Gran
bury and Hightstown being daily
u way III tNCtSS VI
its rated two-ton capacity. the free
holders of both counties in joirt
session yesterday decided to take
action I'm protecting the counties
from lawsuits and the claim for
damages. which it has freely been
admitted might come at any time.
This bridge, which is a wooden
STRUCTURE, cares for "a great deal of
the heavy truck traffic between New
York and Philadelphia and to pro-
'perly protect both counties, large
signs are to be placed at either ap-
proach warning that the capacity is
only two tons and is used at owners
risk. After dark a watchman is 70
be stationed at each approach,
whose duty it shall be to stop all
vehicles and warn of the apparent
danger.
While it is the purpose to rebuild
the structure and widening it to the
width of the road, on the advice of
County Engineer Alvin b. Fox, no
work will be done before spring, as
the new abutments will be of con-
crete which cannot satisfactorily be
put in place during freezing wealth
er.
Both counties will share in the
expense of protecting the bridge and
rebuilding it, but the plans will be
prepared by Mr.. Fox and the work
will probably be done by Middiesex
county.
With the reopening of state high
way route No. / between New Bruns-
wick and Trenton. as announced by
the state highway commission. next
Friday all heavy traffic will be di-
verted that. way.
Nobody is apparently responsible
for the filled in bitches on the road
leading from Tanners corner 10
Milltown,. the condition which was
complained of by Freeholder T..
Leon Loblein at the meeting last
week. At that point the road was
opened up for about 400 feet by the
Utility Construction Company for
the purpose of laying a sewer but
officials of that company disclaiin
any responsibility for the impassa-
BILE condition of the road.
Zack & Armstrong, plumbers, who
are now working at that place max
ing connections to the water mains,
acknowledge opening the road, for
which they have no permission. but
have not filled in the trenches, and
so could not possibly have caused
the mounds of dirt which have i'm
peded traffic.
The Public Service Gas company,
which is also doing work at the place
complained of, but had no represen-
tative present yesterday to help in
passing the buck. Though quite a
lengthy discussion took place be-
tween the members of the board and
the contractors who were present,
the responsibility if it was placed
was decided on in committee and
was not made public.
A recommendation for heavy ar
tillery was made by Sheriff Elmer
f. Wyckoff for use during his term
of office for suppressing violence
should such an occasion arise. the
matter being referred TO the COM
mittee on buildings and grounds.
The implements asked for were
twelve rifles and twelve hammerless
revolvers.
In a letter from the Raritan River
Railroad company the advice was
given that new ratings would be in
stalled on the Raritan street bridge
over their tracks at South Ambov.
The new rails are to be of metal and
will prevent anybody using them for
kindling purposes, as claimed was
done with the wooden rails which
were removed. This matter was
pany by the freeholders in order
that protection be afforded vehicles
crossing the structures. which is
about twenty-five feet above the
tracks.
A very slight decrease was shown
by the report from the Morgan gen
eral ordinance depot for the month
of November. The only shipment
made was one of fifty high explosive
shells, leaving 474,21S in storaSc.
The other materials i'm storage being
1,752.739 low explosive shells and
4.607,20 pounds of smokeleas
powder.
The next regular meeting of the
board OF freeholders will be the
night session to be held next Thus
day night. and. according to the SEN
timent of the board members it will
probably be the last of the night
sessions, as so few of the taxpayers
have availed themselves of the op-
portunity that a continuance of the
t-sa r.ts