Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-04-08

NEW bINOANo ISTN, hPAh y
Several resolutions having to do
With road work were passed by the
reeholders last night and bids on a
through Warren truss bridge on
concrete abutISents over the Mill
stone rivep Back road be-
Tween H and Cranbury
ce until adted
Hounty free
Areceived in
ptatives of
ent. The
favored
the low
npany OF
res were
. o. B. 8.
$~6,9S2.22:
Company,
1st Jersey
Amboy, ST.
over, Trenton,
y4mpf Company.
s.27; Gus Wick
~,>S8,O57.14; Peter
$~8,283.97; +. B.
", Trenton, $780,
ing, $9.470.20; John
)ynton, s%9,609.20; p. J..
Iuth Amboy, $9.791.10.
ing Mercer county were
Eer Charles H.. Reickert,
Engineer Harry 1. Harris
ID Assistant Engineer Morris Good
resolution was passed awarding
Acontract for furnishing CORFU
iron pipe to the Gallon Iron
A contract to furnish Wit
Aipe was awarded to Andrew
supplemental contract ex-
1.-THE road work between
and Helmetta was ap-
allowance made Off an
dtv$2,O00 A supplemental
t Changing the location of
|1dge at New Market, was ap-
and allowance made o an
ing OF the structure as h re-
of objections to property own
at that, point.
RESOLUTION was adopted approx
fhNpsAkke of Topeka top ~surfacing
zlI"road repaired by the county.
8 purchase price to be $17.O6 per
n. The Raritan Mercantile Com
ANY, of Perth Amboy, was awarded
The contract for furnishing all the
road stone at $3.50 per ton, Conrad
Seibolt to make the deliveries In
the southern part of the county. A
resolution was passed approving the
\ use Of Type r paving on the shoul-
ders of the Metuchen-Perth Amboy
road, the job not to cost more than
10000. Type r paving was also
ected for Washington avenue from
Zen to the New Market school,
l:he Cranbury-Aqueduct road
Elag will be used on Wood
venue from Highland Park
Camp Raritan, the entire
TO exceed $4,000. The same
l will be used in repairing
& Old 2ridge-Spotswood road and
he River Road along the Raritan.
al A resolution was adopted author
hing the county treasurer to Dor
row $4,000 in anticipation Of taxes
1.-The Utility Construction Company
Of this city. which has the contract
for the reconstruction of New
Brunswick avenue, Fords, had a
Communication before the board in
which it stated they expected to fin
ish the south side of the road by the
end of April. The letter called the
attention of the board to the fact
tina The Public Service Railway
Company had failed to remove any
poles or place additional poles along
the road on which to string their
wires. A long delay will result If
the trolley company does not act at
once, the communication said.
Nothing has been done by the
Public Service Company in remov-
ing the tracks from the north side
OF the street to the center, 1t added.
~. A committee of the freeholders
will wait upon Col. Gilmore at his
Newark office to see about the troll
ley company taking immediate &C
ton.
Abram Trenor had a letter be-
fore the board offering for sale a
strip of property forty by 1913 feet
abutting the approach to the South
! River county bridge.
The New Jersey State Department
of Health, Bureau of Child Hygiene,
invited the freeholders to attend a
'%sbirthday party" to be held Thurs
O'Clock in the Baby Welfare Station
In Washington school. The invitation
was accepted.
The report of the County Sealer
of weights and Measures. Nathan
Robbins, brought up the question or
' what was being done to those VINO
were found t be using scales and
>~l7easureR that We're not what the
standard calls for. After a long dis
cussion the clerk was instructed TO
write Mr.. Robbins and inquire as TO
/ whether any fines were imposed
on the violators and II so to whom
were they turned over by him. Free
holder Belloff declared h number
Of inspections had not increased very
much since the appointment OF an
assistant.