Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1922-09-16
HAVE LANDFQR
THE APPROACHES
Prices Paid by Highway CON-
mission for Right of Way
on Both Sides
OTHER HIGHWAY MATTERS
Getting Ready for Snow Re-
movaI This Winter More
Mileage is Included
OTHER HIGHWAY MATTERS

TRENTON, Sept. 16:-Plans fol
the design for the new Amboy bridge
on Route crossing the Raritar
river, were ratified by the State
Highway Commission at it's meeting
here yesterday. This bridge is one
of the important links in the road
system leading from North Jersey
to the seashore points. The design
calls for concrete and earth fill ap-
proaches and for the river portion
the structure will be steel encased
in concrete with a steel draw span.
The design was worked out by
Clarence w. Hudson. who was en-
gagged by the commission some
| months ago to plan and supervise
the construction of the new bridge.
He worked in conjunction with the
engineers on the highway commits
sion and those employed by that
body.
Property needed for the ap-
proaches for the bridge have now
beer acquired with one or two ex-
G. ptions. Purchase agreements for
nine additional parcels were approv-
ed by the commission yesterday tot
aling about s112,S33, which with
properties already acquired means
that this phase of the bridge cost
will be about 100000.
The names of persons and COM
panies from whom purchases were
made and amounts paid for land
purchased by the State Highway
Commission to be used for approach
es to the new bridge to be built over
the Raritan river follow:
c. Pardee Tile Works. $685.;
National Fireproofing Company.
Ii L,,1p Q10 E0n.
Henry Wolff, $59S; Henry Wolff, $3,-
Os2; New Jersey Shipbuilding &
Dderging Company. 81: Henry Wolff,
$2,4S4; Richard Rue, 81, and the
New Jersey Shipbuilding & Dredging
Company, 81.
Because of several fires on the
present bridge on recent Sunday
the com mission authorized the
doubling of the fire patrol on the
structure from three to six men.
They will serve on eight-hour shifts.
Additional water supply facilities to
stop incipient blazes will also be in
stalled on the bridge.
The United States Fidelity &
Guarantee Company, of Baltimore.
which supplied the bond for the j..
S. Robson, Inc, which was the low
est bidder and awarded the contract
for the supplying of lignin binder
! for the gravel roads, has been asked
by the highway board to proceed to
carry out the contract. The Robe
son, Inc, has been restrained from
laying the material on the roads by
an injunction issued from the chan
cery court. The bonding company
then offered to do the work for the
concern and the commission has ac-
cepted the proffer. The Robeson
Process Company, which sells the
binder under the trade name Of
"Glutrin," obtained the injunction
on the ground that the other con-
cern planned to use its product. The
process company claims J. S. Robe
son sold the patent to "Glutr1n" to
1t and has no right now to offer to
do the work on which it submitted
the lowest bid. Assistant Attorney
General Newcorn has ruled that the
commission could purchase the ma
terial from others and it is assumed
that 1t is under this ruling that the
bonding company has offered to do
the work.
The question whether the words
"Jersey City" shall be included in all
directory signs marked for New
York" along the highways has been
referred to Benjamin Farrier. a
member of the highway commission
who lives in Jersey City.
9 State Highway Engineer T. j..
Wasser and Commissioner Thomas
Z. Collins, of Elizabeth. will repre-
sent the commission at the hearing
which the Public Utility Board is to
give here next Tuesday on the ques-
tion of removing the dangerous B.
e. o. grade crossing near Linden on
Route 1. State Highway System.
The highway commission is max
Ing preparations for winter travel on
the roads. 1t has authorized the
purchase of additional trucks and
ploughs to the extent of $4,000 to
be used in the snow removal organf-
zation which the com mission his per-
fected during the past two winters
for the removal of snow i'm Immediately
after storms. This action means
that an additional 225 miles of the
state system of highways will be in
cluded within the snow removal pro-
gram for the coming snow season.
This addition results in bringing the
entire system of over 700 miles OF
roads under the control OF the
snow removal organization OF the
highway department. Last year after
. very heavy snow storm the re-
mova1 forces cleared Approximately
200 miles of the system in forty
eight hours.
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