Perth Amboy evening news., 1924-06-20
STATE STREET
BRIDGE PLANS
ARE APPROVED.
War Department Satisfied
with Proposed New Span
Over Woodbridge Creek
MAY START WORK SOON
Present Structure Is Again
Giving Trouble South
ern End Now Binds

NEW BRUNSWICK. June 20.--
Plans for the new bridge over Wood
bridge creek. at State street. Perth
Amboy. have been approved by the
war department, according to Coun-
ty Engineer Morgan F. Larson. and
the finishing touches are now being
added to the drawings. That re-
port was made after Freef1older
Walter Quakenbush asked II 1t was
not about time something was done
on the proposed structure. The pres
ent bridge is again giving trouble,
declared the Perth Amboy free
holder. the southern end having a
tendency to bind each time 1t is
opened or closed. That condition
Is caused by the expansion of the
trollev rails. In the opinion of pi-
rector william S. Dey and the Pub
lie Service Railway Company will
be asked to shorten the rails to
eliminate the difiiculty.
As q result of a Joint conference
between members OF the board of
freeholders and representatives OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
Yesterday morning the bridge SPAN
ming the company's tracks on the
Cranbury-South River road between
Jamesburg and Dayton will not be
rebuilt. but the structure will be
widened from thirteen to twenty
feet. The company expressed will
<ingness TO make the repairs to the
bridge according to the report sub
mitted to the board of freeholders
by Freeholder Robert r. Vanden-
burgh. but they declared that the
expenditure of $4,000 in building
L~tI 1.1 ~ = q
waste of money. due to the necessity
Of shifting their tracks when the
proposed intra- coastal canal Is put
through The company anticipates
that the canal will be built within
the next ten years which will cause
the moving of their tracks from
the present location to a line run
ming from Monmouth Junction to
Helmetta.
The freeholders approved the cer-
tificate of the Middlesex county
school board Of estimate for the
year ending July /. 1925. which pro-
vides an appropriation from the
county OF s70.104 for carrying on
the school work for the next year.
n Road Supervisor John Liesen was
directed to advertise for bids for the
furnishing of coal tar products for
road surface treatment.
No more Insurance premiums wiz
be paid by the county for the old
house which stood on the site pro-
cured for a tuberculosis hospital
near Menlo Park as the structure
has been destroyed by fire. accord
ing to a report submitted by Free
holder Quakenbush. The fire In
surance companies will be SO ad-
vised.
Charles Dey., of New Market. was
named as an inspector on the paving
work to be done on the one mile
stretch of the Stelton-New Market
road. The usual salary of $6 per
day was specified.
Freeholder Louis J. Belloff was di-
rected to make an investigation of a
complaint from the Rockefeller In
btitute, that the bridge over the Mill
stone river on the Trenton-New
Brunswick pike is in need of new
guard rails. A request that signs
be erected cautioning automobile
drivers not to make speedway of
that road will also be taken care
of by Freeholder Belloff.
Bids were received from five deal
ers for the furnishing of two ten
ton, gasoline propelled road rollers,
but no award was made. The Buff
falo- Springfield Roller Company
submitted figure of $1,000 for a
two speed and $3.50 for a three
speed roller equipped with double
opposed motors.
The Acme Road Machinery Com
pany bid $5,410 for an Acme. four
cylinder roller, Loder & Sharp
S11,605 for two Hoover four cylin-
der rollers, Gallon Iron Works $5,-
600 each for two cylinder opposed
rollers of their own make and the
Austin Machinery Company $5,567.-
SO for either the two or four cylin-
der Austin rollers.