The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1924-10-09
Reports Show Suggestion to Use
$1,000 for Work in Each Area
Is Being Carried Out.
ESSEX COUNTY FIGURES LEAD
Big Sum Invested for New Jersey
Pensons-Fund Exceeds Half
Million Mark, Treasurer Read
Tells Trustees

State Highway Commission for uni
formity in cautionary and direction
airy road signs as an aid to the travel
Ing public has received the co-opera-
ton of each of the twenty-one coun-
ties, as indicated in reports received
by Major William G. Sloan, state high
way engineer. The county authorities
were requested by the commission to
set aside $4,000 for road markers
from their years share in motor We
hicle receipts apportioned by the COM
mission.
Essex county reported 1t has con-
tracted for signs to cost $4,681.20 and
that the work is twenty per cent COM
pleted. All signs conform to adopted
standards. The report added that
necessary work for the county will
be about seventy-five per cent. COM
pleted when the contract is carried
out.
Hudson County has spent approx
mately $1,000 for standard signs and
the work now completed willie provide
about eighty per cent. of the signs
needed.
Bergen has expended $2,00s.SS and
It's program is about twenty-five per
cent. completed, representing about
seventy-five per cent. of the needs.
Hunterdon Awaits Decision
No money has yet been spent in
Hunterdon, according to its report,
which adds that it is doubtful il any
~ orIy mill he dopa +b{S war tITharo
in a question in the Board Of Free
holders" continued the report, as to
whether they will adopt the standard
signs or to use signs similar to those
erected by Somerset County,
Eighty-fve per cent. of the program
in Mercer has been completed at a
cost of $2,76o.34, providing about
thirty-five per cent. Of the necessary
signs.
In Middlesex, S516 has actually been
paid for signs, but the county is OBJ
ligated for considerably more. 1t is
estimated that eighty per cent. of the
necessary signs have been ordered
and the balance will be provided in
1925.
Signs Of the amount of $500 have
been ordered by Monmouth. Work
will continue during the fall and win
ter to the amount of $500 additional.
About ninety per cent. of the nee
essary signs for the county will be
provided by the $4,000 suggested to
be set aside.
In Morris an order has been placed
for $4,000 worth of warning signs.
This work is five per cent. completed
and this years work will complete
the erection of cautionary signs, leav-
Ing the directionary signs to be placed.
Ocean County reported that $4,000
had been appropriated and that prac-
tically 100 per cent. Of the program
will be completed in 1924, but that
this years work, however, will not
complete the number Of signs needed.
During 1928 Passaic erected ESQ
directionary signs at the cost of $500,
and this year 200 similar signs have
been placed at a cost of $S79. 1.-THE
sign work in the county" said the
report, sis approximately seventy-five
per cent. completed and it is anti
cipated that it will be entirely finish
ed during the present year"
Not Exactly Like Standard
In Somerset 81 ,230 has been actual
ly paid for signs up to the present
and the total cost for the year will
be about $4,000. The years program
Is about ninety-f1ye per cent. com
pleted. "The signs" says the county
report, edo not exactly comply with
adopted standards; the name of each
town is painted Oh separate arrow
and the arrows are supported by iron
posts"
Sussex has spent S41O5. The $4,000
has been appropriated. The county
expects to do considerable between
now and the end of the year
Union expended $2,006.85 and the
seasons program is completed. The
sum of S71S.95 has been spent in War
rem for cautionary signs. Work will
be continued during the fall and the
cautionary sign program will be COM
pleted. Signs erected this year will
complete the number necessary for
proper markings.
In Atlantic county considerable
work was done previous to 1924, but
approximately $500 was spent on the
sign program during the present year.
A similar amount was spent in Bur
Iington county, where about half the
work contemplated has been complet-
ed. Although Camden county has ap-
port oned the amount suggested, none
of it has been expended up to the
present time, as the signs are now
being painted and will shortly be
ready for erection.
Cape May county has apportioned
$4,000 and considerable work has been
done in making and erecting the
signs, which all conform to adopted
standards. About $1,000 worth of
signs have been ordered in Cumber-
land and approximately 10 per cent.
of them are in place. No money has
actually been spent in Gloucester
m ,ntv hl1t tho county will ask bids