The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1924-05-09
AND THE ROAD
STILL WAITS
UNFULFILLED PLEDGE OF
MOONAN AND MUIRHEID
A Detriment To The Prosperity
of Lambertville

! Lambertville While Messrs
Moonan and Muirheid, candidates
for reelection to the City Commits
sion, are Dragging about the wonder
full things they have done for Lam
bertville, the officers of West Am
well Township are bitterly condemn
ing them for broken pledge made
to them over a year ago, and
which means the loss of money to
the city.
When West Amwell Township be-
gan repairs to Brunswick Road, en-
tering Lambertville on the East,
they asked Moonan and Muirheid to
repair the part of the road that
lies in the city limits in order to
connect up with their repairs and
provide a good highway into town.
Both Moonan and Muirheid solemnly
promised that they would make the
repairs. And it would be only good
sense for them to make the repairs.
In providing good road into town
from that section, it would encourage
the farmers there to come into Lam
| bertville to do their trading-thus
making for the prosperity of the
city.
And to make it easier for Moonan
and Muirheid to fulfill this pledge,
the West Amwell officials rented the
city's steam rolled, overhauling it
and putting it in good repair, and
paying the city soc an hour for
the use of it. Then West Amwell
spent over 100000 repairing their
part of Brunswick Road expecting
| Moonan and Muirheid TO make good
their promise and repair the city
section of the road with the money
they received for the use of the
steam roller.
And in November of last year
West Amwell paid in full for the
city's steam roller, overhauling it
use of the roller, and there is an
entry on the treasurer's books COW
ering it for S370.21 made on Jan
uary Is, 1924. Dust why it was
not entered until that date no one
seems to know) Now it was natur-
ally expected that Moonan and Muir
held would use this to make the
repairs they have promised For
such funds, coming under the head
Of "Unanticipated Revenues" can be
used for purposes not already spec
flied in the regular budget But ev-
identity Mr.. Moonan has been too
busy in Dragging about the wonder
full things he has done for Lam
bertyille to fulfill this pledge he
made. And evidently Mr.. Muirheid
hasn't been able to get his hands
out of his pockets, or his frazzled
cigar stump out Of his mouth, long
enough to make good his promise.
And he calls himself "Superinten-
dent of Streetsi"
NORTH MAIN AND YORK ROADS
IN SAME CLASS
And what's more, Mr. Muirheid
kept Fostering West Amwell to re-
turn the steam roller so he could
use il on York Road where several
hundred dollars worth Of stone had
been spread. But when the roller
was returned it was never used at
all. In the meantime the stone placed
on York Road has been kicked in
to the ditch by passing vehicles,
leaving the surface rs full Of ruts
as it ever was, and the money was
thus wasted for the stone,
Everyone knows what hog wal
low North Main street is in winter
from Cherry Lane to Alexauken
Bridge. Constant appeals have been
made for the repairs needed there,
but Mr.. Muirheid continues to loaf
around in a sort Of trance while
the city is cut off in three directions
by rotten roadbeds It's all right for
Mr.. Moonan to strut around with
"see what I've done" boast about
the paving in the center of the
city, but what good is it if you
can't get onto it without begging
down to the axles in one place and
breaking springs in another?
This paving was carried to the
city line on the south, thus con-
Meeting up with the approach to
Trenton so that people can get out
of Lambertyille, but what we need
is to get people into Lambertville
who will buy and sell here. People
on the south of Lambertville do
not come here to trade-they go to
Trenton. And if Moonan and Muir
held could see farther than their
noses they would recognize the fact
that it is good business to con
meet up with the people who will
do business with us.
But you can't expect Mr., Moonan
to be honestly interested in Lam
bertville when he has opened an Of
fee in Trenton, and expects to build
UP business there.
Gordon Cooper.
ST. ANDREWS CHURCH