Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-07-07
BUSINESS
AT JAMESBURG
Council Acts on Health Prob
lem, Accepts New Fire
Apparatus.
by Evening News Correspondent

by Evening News Correspondent g.
JAMESBURG, July MANY sug-
gestions for the betterment of the
town were given decided impetus at
the meeting of Common Council held
in borough hall Tuesday night.
President of council, Jacob Hausser.
president, in the absence of the
mayor, Elmer Patten. Those pres
ent We're: Councilmen Wyckoff.
Hausser, Hutchinson and Dey, and
Clerk William H. Brooks.
An , ordinance, creating a new
voting district, owing to the in
creased number of voters, was given
it's second reading. At present the
voting booth is in the borough hall
and the new voting booth will be
located in the fire headquarters.
An ordinance was given its second
reading that VIII allow for the inn
mediate grading of Memorial Park
and putting it in first-class condition
at once. The estimated cost will be
$500, and bonds will be sold.
A communication received from
the Department of Municipal Ac-
counts, at Trenton, showed the re-
cent audit made by the r. +. Car
roll Audit company, of Perth Amboy,
to be deficient, and made the request
that this be remedied. 1t was found
that the Carroll company had made
the audit for n year when the o n
tract called for a two-year audit.
The council decided to request that
the audit company make the audit
according to law" Clerk Brooks
vas instructed to take the matter
up and have the corrections made.
Payment for the one-year audit has
been made.
Chairman Hutchinson of the
finance committee made a report
showing that the note authorized at
the June meeting for $4,000 was not
negotiated and showed a saving of
several hundred dollars as enough
money had been collected to make
this procedure unnecessary. A re-
quest by the school board for $1,000
by August 1 was reported through
this committee and it was voted to
draw the necessary amount from the
tax account to the custodian's ac-
count.
Chairman Wyckoff of the water
committee made a report on the
wasting of the water by the citizens
during the drought that resulted in
a drop of twenty-five pounds pres
sure during the days water was
scarce, and said that a public notice
had been posted warning the people.
Citizens + not allowed to water
their lawns with water intended for
house use.
A committee of three was named
to take up the matter of improved
sanitary conditions with Attorney
kirkpatrick.
A nuisance was brought to the
attention of the council in the vicin-
ity of Church street and Railroad
venue The alley running from
Railroad avenue to GatZmar avenue
was considered a menace and the
report of fire chief Lokerson showed
that several dangerous fires had
started.
The decision of council was to
notify the offenders and if the nuis-
ances are not done away with the
council will have the work done and
put the bill as a lien on the prop
erty. The committee appointed to
confer with the borough attorney
is Jacob Hausser, Jacob Wyckoff,
William Dey.
Chief Lokerson presented on be-
half of the company the recently
purchased hose carriage, complete.
The department had recently COM
pleted the payment of this appa-
ratus and turned it over free of all
debt to the borough. The cost of
the apparatus was $~1,748.4S, and
during the past two years had pur-
chased apparatus costing the depart
ment $4,000. Councilman Wyckoff,
behalf of the councilmen, thanked
Chief Lokerson. Mayor Patten also
said that the council appreciated the
gift and untiring labors of the fire.
men to make the department more
efficient.