Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-07
PROTEST MADE
T0FREEHOLDERS
Blasting at MiddIesex Stone
Quarry Causes Complaint
--Other Business

NEW BRUNSWICK. July t.
Complaints were received by the
Board of Freeholders yesterday
from the officials of South Bruins
wick township and master of the
workhouSe Walter Masterson rela-
tiv to the dangerous conditions
prevailing in that vicinity from the
heavy blasting being done in the
Middlesex stone quarry which Is
conducted by Conrad Sebolt ana
Patrick Moran, contractors of this
city.
The blasts which are reported as
set off several times a day
have on occasions thrown stones
weighing up to seventy-five pounds
a distance of several hundred feet
Nand missing by a narrow margin
the inmates of the county farm and
workhouse and other residents o.
that vicinity.
MI. Masterson reported that the
blasts set off by the quarrymen,
who also do a great deal of con-
tracing on the county roads, have
thrown tones on the workhouse
roof, breaking many of the slate
and causing the root to leak and
have thrown stones with such force
against the barr as to penetrate the
side walls.
The operators of the quarry are
to be instructed to so regulate Their
blasts that they will not endanger
life and property, and in the event
that the warning is not needed the
freeholders promise to take drastic
action.
Sheriff Elmer E. Wyckoff formal
ly notified the board hat he had
dispensed with the services of John
Platt of Perth Amboy as a court
constable on July l, but the board
took no action on the matter as
they wish a weeks time to investi-
gate as to why Plat was dismissed.
Freebooter Walter Q~uackenbush
raised ar interesting point when he
asked to be advised if the taking
over of the road between Highland
Park and Metuchen by the state
highway commission did not auto
m%atically relieve the obligation OF
the county in paying off the remain-
Ing portion of the bond issue by
which the paving of this road sew
eral years ago was financed.
\ The Perth Amboy freeholder con-
ytended that the same conditions
ishould prevail as in selling a piece
of real estate when the buyer as
sumes the mortgages and any other
legal obligations. though Counsellor
Richardson asserted that such was
not the case as the highway act
provided hat roads could be taken
over by the state but indebtedness
could not.
Freebooter George Applegate re-
ported that another inspection of
the drainage problems in South Riv-
err had been made by the county and
borough officials together with rep
resentatives of the Raritan River
Railroad Company and hat the en-
gineers of the different bodies had
been instructed to go further into
the conditions and problems and
submit their report at a later date
together with recommendations.
Immediately after the meeting the
entire membership of the board
went to the outskirts of the city for
the purpose of looking over the
bridges on Somerset and Hamilton
streets, the latter of which has been
reported as in a very unsafe condl-
ton. Efforts will be made to secure
the cooperation of the Somerset
county freeholders in rebuilding
both of the structures which are
joint county affairs and on INES
of heavy traffic.
County Engineer Frederick c..
Schneider was instructed to prepare
plans for a culvert to repair the
existing one on Obert street, South
River, which is declared to be in
adequate to properly drain the land
In that locality.
Heavy shipments from the Nor
Ean General Ordnance Depot were
reported during the past month with
1.-THE following materials remaining on
hand on June 80:
lb High explosive shells, 46S,S77;