Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-04-21
|RAR|TAN GETS
I. STEEL CELLS
Township Follows Out Sug-
gestions Of Prosecutor in
Providing Police Protection

NEW BRUNSWICK. April 21:--
In line with the oft repeated sugges-.
ton of Prosecutor Joseph f. Strick-
err that the authorities of the smaller
localities of the county provide suit
able police protection in their COM
munities. Raritan township has taxi
en- a step in that direction by pur-
chasing three steel cells from tn :
county which would seem to Indicate
hat they are about to organize some
sort of law enforcing organization
Resolutions were adopted by the
AHechoidcrs yesterday authorizing
the sale of three OF the old cells in
the basement of the court house TO
the township at a price of $50 each.
Since the completion of the jail the
( county authorities have no further
uee for the six or eight old cells
which at the present time are used
for storage purposes.
The freeholders authorized the adj
vertisement of a public hearing to
Be held before the State Board of
Health at Metuchen next month In
connection with the tuberculosis
hospital site and instructed the clerk
70 procure a hall in which to holi
the hearing.
Until the attitude of the state body
IL known the county freeholders a
not proceed with the building of tn,
hospital but they look forward to q
favorable report on the site as they
are anxious to get the building com
pleted this year.
County Clerk Bernard NJ. Cannon
VA authorized to obtain proposals
for indexing the records of his office.
These records have accumulated So
rapidly in recent years that the pres
eut indexes are becoming obsolete
and up-to-date methods are to be
adopted as a near Of increasing the
eficiency of the Office and preventing
the waste of valuable time in search
ing overcrowded files.
Permission was granted the Pub
tic Service Gas Company to extend
their mains along the South River
road from this city to Westons mill
80 as to provide service for the resi-
dents in that locality.
The application Of the borough OF
cayrevillc for permission to open
Main street, q county road, was fav-
orably acted on. This street is to be
0pened to make possible the compile.
uon of the comprehensive plan of
improvements in THAI thriving bor-
otigh which includes the laying OF
water mains. installing Of sewer for
both sani' ~ purposes and carrying
away acc waters.
County Treasurer f. William Hilk-
err was authorized to issue bonds in
the sum of $4,000 to pay for i'm
p.ovements. the probable life of
(which were estimated at twenty
years.
The money received for the bonds
rs to be used for the following pur-
poses:
4 Two trucks recently purchased.
112.600; B~ordentown avenue storm
sewer in South Amboy. $500: bal
ance required for West venue Sewar
en- paving job $500, $1,000 to settle
the obligations on the Fords-Rogan's
Corner pavement, and $4,000 for
the bridges over the Matchaponix
screek at Little Texas and over Ash
manning $500 of the issue Is to be
used for paying the cost of floating
the various bond issues.
"a IcPOIt 1IOIH Ihdtlldsk aAoSlidA
shows the following amount Of ex-
plosives remaining in storage: Black
powder, 1880 pounds: pyro cotton,
4~,772.4S6 pounds; smokeless powder,
7~.282,168 pounds. and 2,97I,888 high
explosive shells: S55,326 Of the low
explosives; ~2,256.625 shrapnel and
S.7SO.014 grenades. The report was
ordered filed.
The committee of the board who
L1et with the Somerset f~reeholders
last week in reference to rebuilding
the bridge over Mile Run brook on
Somerset street, New Brunswick. re-
ported that the Somerset authorities
were not willing to bear a half of
the cost of the construction as they
felt that this county and city would
derive the greater benefit from the
improvement.
The proposition made by the free
holders Of the neighboring county
that they would be willing to bear
forty per cent of the cost was agree
ably received by the Middlesex board
and County Engineer Frederick G.
Schneider and Solicitor Frederick f.
/ Richardson were instructed to COM
plete the arrangements for the i'm
provement.
Director Dey appointed
ers j. Fred Orpen and Louis ]. Bell
of as the representatives of the
hoard to the county vocational
school board Of estimate.
The bridges recently completed on
the Spotswodd- Englishtown and
Plainsboro-Aqueduct road were re-
ported as complete and ready for in-
spectfon as was the bridge over Ash
creek at Potter's Station. These
structures will be visited by the free
holders and if found satisfactory will
probably be approved at the next
meeting of<the board.
ss-,. s-s ,.nAaasn Arxxs m