Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-20
ROAD BOARD|N
SOUTH JERSEY
Whole Board Will Tour That
Section of State Starting
Tomorrow

TRENTON, March 19:-The new
four state highway commission
will tour south Jersey beginning to-
morrow, in order to hold a series of
conferences with various boards of
freeholders on road matters with a
view to overco. hing the handicap Of
being two months behind in a spring
building program. The delay is due
to the prolonged refusal of the SEN
ate to confirm a state highway com
mission. The inspection tour will
continue until Thursday night. The
chief object of the conferences to be
held with the freeholder boards is to
ascertain what roads are the most
so that work can be started by the
road board on these roads, allowing
work on other less important routes
to be delayed for :. time.
General Hugh L. Scott, chairman
of the board, pointed out that the
south Jersey tour will be the first in
spection to be undertaken by the
whole road board. This pronounce
ment was in effect a reply to the OBJ
jections of the Republican "bitter-
ender" legislators that Governor
Silzer did not name south Jersey
man to the commission.
I'VE feel that we are all interested
III south Jersey" said General Scott.
1--WE want the people of the state to
feel we are interested in every part
of the state, whether we come from
there or not"
A few days ago Commissioners
Scott and Abraham Jelin toured
Mercer, Middlesex, Union and Som
erset counties.
Following is the itinerary of the
commission through south Jersey,
the tour covering about PSI miles:
Leaving Trenton at 1890 today
and going TO Burlington, where a
conference will be held with the
Burlington county freeholders, from
11:15 to II O'Clock; luncheon at
Camden from L to 2 o'clock; from 2
until 2:50, conference with the
Camden County Board OF Freehold
ers; thence to Woodbury.. where the
board will confer with the Glouces-
ter county freeholders; arriving at
Atlantic City at CHS, a conference
will be held with the Atlantic coun-
~ freeholdera from o'clock until
S:45. The COMMISSION will stay at
Atlantic City for the night.
Thursday, the board will leave the
shore resort at 8 and go by way of
Mays Landing to Cape May City,
where IL confab viii be held with the
Cape May county 1reeholders, from
II o'clock until 11:45. At lis the
board will be at M.illvil!e, and from
I:40 until 3;15 a stop will be made
at Bridgeton, where lunch will be had
and a conference will be held with
the Cumberland county freeholders.
From o'clock until 4:45, the COM
mission will confer with the Salem
county freeholder board at Salem,
and the commission will return to
Camden by way of Woodbury., an
irving at Camden at 5:45. This will
end the tour.
Frederick S. Smith, an engineer
OF Morristown, was before the COM
mission personally, to apply for the
highway department, the $4,000 a
year job left vacant when State
Highway Engineer Thomas j. Was
ser resigned. Mr.. Wasser was en-
gineer under the commission ousted
by Governor Silzer. The commits
sion took the application under con-
sideration. Other than to say that
several applications were being con-
sidered now for the job, the board
would not commit itself on any pos
sible appointment to the office of
cnIet engineer.
In an executive session, the COM
mission discussed III great detail, the
open specifications bill passed a few
weeks ago by the legislature. The
bill was committee substitute for a
measure introduced by Senator
Mathis of Ocean. The highway
board will make recommendation
concerning the various provisions of
the bill to Governor Silzer. 1t was
declared that the recommendation
to the governor will not take the
form of a request for a new open
specifications law, different from the
bill just passed.
Elbert w. King. assistant secre-
tary of the Palisades Interstate Park
Commission, appeared before the
commission yesterday with a re-
quest that the board request Gov
ernor Silzer to sign the bill by As
semblyman Crawford, Democrat of
Hudson, to making the Bergen turn
pike in Hudson county a state high
way. Kings request was made, it
was said, in order to have a line of
communication between New York
and New Jersey, by way of the park.
The request will be taken up by the
highway commission at its meeting
here today.