Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-27
WANT COUNTY
TO AID ROADS
MiddIesex Will be Heard by
State Highway Commits
sion on November IS

TRENTON, Oct. 21:-Practically
every county in the state will be
given an opportunity to cooperate
with the State Highway Commission
In the matter of pushing to a con-
clusion the road building program
of New Jersey as the result of the
announcement today of a series of
conferences to be held by the road
committeee of the highway board
with the freeholders of the different
divisions of the state. Dates for the
conferences we're given out here to-
day by Thomas j. Collins, of Eliza
beth, chairman of the road commit
tee of the highway commission. His
action is in line with the recent sug-
gestion to the commission from Gov
ernor Edwards that the counties be
asked to go ahead with the con-
struction of the sections of the state
highway system within their terri
tories with the understanding that
the state will reimburse them in
1924, 1925 and 1926.
Mr.. Collins announced that there
will be v meetings., the first to be
held for the benefit of the extreme
South Jersey counties of Atlantic,
Burlington, Cape May and Ocean al
the office of the Atlantic county free
holders, Guarantee Trust Building,
Atlantic City, on Friday, November
4.
The counties of Essex, Passaic and
Bergen will be asked to send repre-
sentatives to a similar meeting in
the Court House, Newark, on We'd
nesday, November 8. At the Court
House. B~ridgeton. on Friday, No
vember IL. the third conference is
scheduled to take place with off,
Gals from Camden, Cumberland,
Gloucester and Salem in attendance.
Middlesex. Monmouth, Morris and
Union counties will be asked to at
t~nd the fourth meeting at the New
ark Court House Tuesday, November
10, and the last of the series of con-
ferences is dated Tuesday, November
22, at the highway commission
offices, this city, when Hunterdon,
Mercer. Somerset. Sussex and War
rem counties will present their views.
I'm carrying out the policy recon-
mended by Governor Edwards, and
approved by the State Highway
Commission at its meeting October
10, as chairman of the road commit
tee l am announcing a schedule of
conferences between the various
County Boards of Freeholders of the
state. and the road committee of the
State Highway Commission. 1 be-
lieve that the governor is entirely
right in his declaration that a mat.
ter of this kind is one for negotia-
ton wherein the interests of the in
dividual county and the State High
way Commission must meet In
order to carry out this recommended
ton in obtaining the consent of
committee tn hrfld oanffnnG ~ et4fZ
highway routes under reimburse
ment. 1 have arranged the above
series of hearings.
1T is my desire that the counties
hould come to the Road Committee
with a desire for a frank and full
discussion of the roads which the
counties believe should be construct
1T may be necessary for the road
ommittee to revise the recommend
ations of the counties, and in some
cases 1t may be necessary for us to
request that counties build certain
when they would prefer tc
other sections of the high
ways. But, l am firmly of the opin-
ion that the interests of the highway
M Of the individual
Boards of Freeholders can be ad-
justed in such a way hat a compre-
program will be outlined"
Because of the lack Of further
funds for road building purposes,
the highway commission having
pledged all it's anticipated revenue
from 1922 under the Edge road tax
act, road building may be halted
unless some other plan of finance is
devised, and to this end Governor
recently suggested the
county reimbursement plan, which
the commission approved.
Hudson county is not included in
the list of counties invited to the
various conferences, but this is prob
ably due to the fact that Hudson has
little or practically none of the
highway system within its borders.