Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-12-12
FREEHOLDERS
ASKEDFORR ROAD.
The County Taxpayers Assn
Wants the River Road
Completed
STATE MAY GIVE AID
FreehoIders Defend Their
Road Program of Former
Years Despite Complaints
STATE MAY GIVE AID

NEW BRUNSWICK, Dec. 1.-THE
Board of Freeholders were urged
yesterday by a delegation of citizens
ito provide the missing link" in con-
Meeting the improved roads of this
county with the improved roads of
Somerset, by providing for the COM
pletion of three miles of permanent
pavement on the River road, the
main road between this city and
Bound Brook.
representatives. from the local
Board of Trade, the Middlesex
County Taxpayers Association and
several business organizations united
in asking that the completion of the
pavement on that road be given first
preference in the 1925 roadbuilding
schedule. on the ground that the
road is one of the main arteries of
travel in the county.
Robert Carson, of the Taxpayers
Asso citation, declared that the free
holders owed a duty to the entire
county to complete the road at cnce,
instead of annually building a mile
| of road "yonder and there" in the
seven districts allotted to each MEM
! Der of the board. Lack OF system
was attributed as the cause of partly
paved roads in the county by the
! speaker.
The freeholders strongly resented
! the charge. and pointed to the roads
/ from tn county seat to Perth Am
boy and South Amboy, New Bruns-
wick to Cranbury, the improvem ents
through Woodbridge and Carteret
and the project now under way be-
! tween Old Bridge and Matawan as
evidence of a system that was con-
Meeting the roads of the county just
as fast as finances would permit
A com nittee OF the board will be
named to confer with the State
| Highway Commission relative 10
learning their sentiments toward
making an appropriation to pay for
building up half of the pavement
asked for. Several of the speakers
who have brought this road to the
attention of the board during the
last few weeks have been emphatic
! In stating that the state body was
willing to defray the cost of half the
/ project, providing the freeholders
] would contribute a similar amount
] and plan to complete the road at one
/ opera ton.
A letter from the Iselin Taxpayers
! Association asked if there was any
/ possibility of the freeholders laying
a permanent pavement on the Oak
Tree road this year. The centre por-
! ton of the road was described as be-
ing in very poor condition The
query was referred to the board for
{ consideration.
/ Freeholder Haisht reported to the
board that he had taken up with the
I Department of Institutions and
! Agencies of the state the question OF
/ erecting a detention home for iuve-
nile delinquents on the county farm
J property on Georges road. Accord
! ing to the report Commissioner Bur
/ dette G.. Lewis has asked that the
matter be held in abeyance for an
/ other two weeks, when an answer OF
interest is expected from the state
! department.
Governor Silzer's letter reauestinc
! the appointment OF a county shade
| tree commission was received and
read and referred to the board and
county solicitor for consideration
/ The governor in the interests of pre-
serving the shade trees bordering the
counties of the state has asked that
/ tdCu county name q commission fC
provide for the care and for addi-
tional planting of trees as a mean:
OF identifying the highways.
Reports were received from St
Peters hospital of this city and the
! South. Amboy hospital showing the
number of patients treated during
! the past year. also the costs for
maintaining each institution
St. Peters received $500 patients
| during the year which represented
1897 patient days. or that number
! 1888 were classified as free patients
with 1925 patient days. The total
cost for maintaining the hospital
was $119,S25.71, an average cost OF
/ S2.76 per patient day
The South Amboy institution was
run at cost of $12.427.9O. an aver
age cost of $5.21 per patient day
I Fifty-three free patients were treat
ed for 704 patient days and 17s pay
patients received treatment for ,52s
patient days. The latter hospital re-
uuested a larger contribution from
the freeholders for 1925, but $500
was allotted as in 1924.