Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-03-23
PATENT PAVING
DEATH kNELL
Sounded by Freeholders-
Concrete. Only. Says d. i.
rector Dey
CUT DOWN ON ROADS
No More to be Taken Over
City Street Action Taken
by Board

NEW BRUNSWICK, March 23.--
The death knell of patent pavements
in Middlesex county was sounded by
the freeholders yesterday with their
publicly uttered determination to lay
nothing but reinforced concrete
pavements during the present year.
This fact was brought out by Di
rector William S. Dey during the dis
cussion on the Hole-in-the-Wal i'm
proVement when he said:
"At the present time this board
is not laying any patent payements.
We have decided to build concrete
roads exclusively, which can be. laid
much cheaper than warrenite, and
the I 9ople banging us as well as
a the newspapers, we don't propose TO
lay any warrenite."
Following this amazing statement
from a body that for years have
been favoring the patented surfaces,
numerous resolutions were adopted
authorizing the preparation of plans
for reinforced concrete roads in var
ious sections of the county, and
the request for bids on non
patent road surfacing materials.
Not only was forceful blow
directed at paving materials, which
at the present time are SprlnglnS
into most popular disfavor among
public officials, presumably through
in fear of the club being so unmer-
cifully welded by Governor Slizer.
but the curtailment OF the OLD naplI
of the promiscuous taking over or
roads, was g1Vep a severe Jole py thc
county fathers.
With the eyer-increaSing NUMBER
af requests made 10 the freeholders
10 take over and MAINTAIN TOWN.
snip and borough roads as county
roads. a condition has suddenly Deeh
discovered that bids fair to seriously
interfere with the proper malnte-
nance of the present county ROAD
ystem.
While no definite action was taken
,jn the subject, the county iathef
Indicated that the practlce Woule
i,ave to be stopped as the money ap-
,ropriated each year Tor foau "oIh
Il proving entirely inadequate TO
n,operlv care for the 2S3 miles or
county roads. .,
A request from Woodbridge town
shin that the county take over the
~hain-O Hills road as county
road and the insistence of Mrs. hate
IIass of Raritan township, that the
freeholders give her dennlte an
..1yer. as TO whether or not they pro-
,,osed TO acquire and improve tne
New Dover road, provoked the ire
of Freeholder Louis j. BelloI' VINO
said: .s 5oos
not mass a resolution refusing TO take
over any more roads; we now nave
more miles of roads than we can
nroperly take care of. during tne
mast winter the damage thal mas
heen done to the county ROAD system system
Is such that our road approprldtioiil
won't begin to take care OIL tne W. W. n
required, and I think it is about time
that we called a halt TO the pi"0
tice." ,,;,.,no14
Freeholder Orpen declared hlmselt
90 heartily IN favor of adopting Mr.
BeIIoff's suggestion and pointed out
mai the S4O,000,000 road bond issue
of the state contemplated the I'M
y,rovement of 500 miles OF ROADS
while the $275,00O annual approprla-
lion of the county had to be stretch-
ed to the limit in trying to care Ior
nearly 800 miles of roads.
George S. Applegate, chairman Oh
the road committee, asserted tnat
the plan would be most agreeaple 10
him and that he would support
resolution limiting the county roaa
system to it's present mileage. Both
requests submitted yesterday Tor the
taking over of roads were referred
to Mr.. Applegates committee.
at is physically impossible for the
freeholders to care for the many
miles of roads with the limited road
appropriation" said Freeholder ROD
ert r. Vandenbergh, land | not only
lndorse the plan to refuse to increase
orr road mileage, but will be glad 10
sign a resolution, to that effect as l.
think the time has come for us TO
SION taking over roads"
Opposition to taking over any
more roads after the acquiring OF the
New Dover road was favored py
treeholder Clarence nj. Haight, out
IL declared that he had pledged
himself to favor that road in the
forfhern section of Raritan township
d would stand by his promise.
This particular road is in the ter
.iinry over which Freeholder Orpen
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