Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-06-23
STREET
PAVING ACTION
FreehoIders Want Public
! Service to Complete Its
. Share of Work

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 23-
Another effort on the part of the
Board of F~recholders is to be made
for the purpose of arranging a meet
ing with officials of the Public Ser
vice Street Railway Company rela-
tive to making the necessary ar
engagements fot the paving of upper
Smith street. Perth Amboy.
On several occasions the free
holders have attempted to meet
representatives of the trolley COM
~nany with the idea of settling the
~estion, but lave been unsuccess-
4dl The portions of the roadway
between the tracks and for two feet
on either side remains in the same
condition 1t YVES in prior to the paw
ing Of the balance of the road by
the city and county several years
ago.
tFreeholder Quackenbush request
ed thac a meeting be arranged and
the clerk was directed to make an
appointment with the trolley officials
for next Tuesday afternoon at 1880
o'clock at the car barns in Perth
Amboy.
"A similar condition exists on
Main street. Midtown, and a COM
mi,tee consisting of Freeholders
Clarence NJ. Haight. Louis J. Bell
off and George s. Applegate was
named to take thai matter up with
the Public Service Company in a
further effort to get satisfactory
action.
The board also directed the clerk
10 notify the Perth Amboy Water
Company OK the necessity of repair
ing their remains on upper Smith
---.k Afnxa the antro1 cnnCtrs1C-
ton ork in connection with the
new Nvement is started by the
count :.
A meeting with the council
of South River was arranged for
next Monday night at which time the
flooding of jackson street will be
discussed and efforts made to rem
edy those conditions which are
thought to be due to the diversion
of a small stream
Within the next two weeks the
Hastings Paving Block Company ex-
. pect to complete the replacement OF
k,halt blocks at Main street and
Ahway avenue, ac-
! cording to q communication before
the board. The hold up in the work
was explained as being caused by a
shortage of blocks on hand at the
IIDle IHo uldIlCl Wdo AhSN
ed of.
Mrs. J.. Palmer -Quinby. superin-
tendent of the tuberculosis preven-
torium for children at F~arminsdale,
in a letter to the board requested
that the ~freeholders take advan-
tag of the opportunities afforded
children at that institution, though
Freeholder Belloff asserted that as
far as the board know there were
no cases of this kind in the county:
Mr.. Belloff informed the board
that requests for admission to the
various institutions were mace
Though the county anti-tupercuiosls
league, to which organization the
communication will be sent.
The writer also called to the free
holders attention an opinion rem
-dered by the attorney general 10
the effect thai the county could De
reimbursed by the state for any ex-
penses incurred at Farmingdale In
the same as is done for in
digent patients sent to other nos
pitals. The daily rate per patient
at Farmingdale is S1.25 per day.
Resolutions were adopted uthor-
izing the admittance of eight new
patients to the tuberculosis hospital
at Bonnie Burne, seven OF the sur
ferers being residents of Perth AM
boy. Though The cost to the county
for each of these patients is SlS
per week which continues to in
crease at an alarming rate, no action
has been taken by the State Board
. of Health in approving the site Tor
0ounty hospital which would make
sible the treatment OF many OF
these patients at a point nearer
their homes.
Freebooter Applegate informed
the board hat a timber bridge on
the road leading from Midtown to
Fresh Pounds vas rapidly going to
pieces from the heavy trucking that
goes over it. and was in need OF
immediate repairs.
Mr.. Apologize favors the replac-
ing of the small timber bridges of
the county with concrete as fast as
they show the need of extensive re-
pairs as 1t would in time greatly
reduce the amount of money re-
quired annually for maintenance.
Freeholder j. Fred Orpen c%oncurred
in the stand taken by Mr.. Apple
gate, by declaring that in his opin-
ion 1t was a wsxsa OF county funds
in continually repairing structures
, hen permanent bridges of con
c4ete would relieve the conditions
for years to ONE Mr.. Apologize
and county Engineer Frederick c.
Schneider were instructed to inspect
the bridges and make a report with
recommendations at the next meet
Ing.
The letter from the New Bruins
wick board of trade which was pub
iished in the Evening News a few
mig is ago was Before the board. |
County Treasurer F. William Hilker
informed the members that the open
letter which was a QUESTIONABLE
regarding the road bond issue that
he had replied to it in a statement
to the press.
Four contractors were present
with bids for the building of a new
D{dge over Mile u brook on Som
let street this city. but the bids
Were returned unopened in view of
fthe fact that the construction will
be a joint affair with Somerset
county though the latter body failed
to advertise the work as was done
in this county.
The following explosive materials
were in storage at Raritan arsenal
on the tenth of this month. accord
Ing to a report before the board:
black powder. r.N0 pounds; pyro
cotton, 4.772.4S6 pounds; smokeless
powder. 7.006, 602 pounds; 2,929,O79
high explosive and 355.326 low ex-
plosive shells: ~2,156,625 shrapnel,
and 3,782,9S6 loaded grenades.