The Monmouth inquirer., 1925-04-23

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manager Of a hotel in Atlantic City.
of which he was formerly Its receiver.
Mr.. Coyle had no knowledge as to
how many r~eceiverships Mr.. Grossclp
had. He receives $4,000 a year.
To Eliminate Death Traps
To make effective it's plans for re-
moving every possible menace to
traffic on the roads Of New Jersey.
the State Highway Commission will
eliminate two more grade crossings
by a new alignment on Route 4 at
Waretown, Ocean county. Route A Is
the t~horoughfare used by travellers
from northern New Jersey and New
York in reaching Atlantic City and is
now under construction from Toms
River south. tThe new section over
another right of way at Waretowa
will take two sharp angles from the
road as well as relieve automobilists
from the hazard Of crossing the rail-
road tracks.
Since taking Office two years ago.
I the Highway Commission has assist
ed in the elimination of seven grade
crossings on State routes. and for this
purpose and the construction of bet
| ter approaches to the underground
passageways or bridges has expended
S582,673. The Commission has ais
filed with the Public Utility Commits
sion a request that the Lehigh Valley
Railroad be required to eliminate the
grade crossing at Royce Valley. near
Somerville, on Route 16. The re-
moval of other grade crossings is also
being planned.
This action to free the roads from
death-traps is being carried on in addi.
ton to the Commissions program for
building 81 miles more of roads during
the present season. Part of this opera.
tion will include 35 miles of concrete
to be placed on Route 4. the largest
single improvement aver designed on
one road in one year in New Jersey.
This plan is being made effective by
the fact that no suitable detourt roads
can be used in that section and the
Commission was petitioned to com
plete the Improvement quickly so that
traffic would not meet detour delays
for more than season.
The building program for this year
includes the following roads to be CON
structed of concrete:
On Route 1.-TWO miles on Burling-
ton cutoff. Burlington county; one
mile on South Broad street, near Tren-
ton; five miles Of sheet asphalt from
Pensauken Creek to Bridgeboro, Bur
lington county.
On Route flour miles between
Morgan and South Keyport. In Middle
sex and Monmouth counties. and 81
miles extending from Toms River, in
Ocean county, to New Gretna, in Bur
lington county.
On Route 5-Two and one-half
mile from Farmers Hotel to Milburn
avenue, in Union and Essex counties:
one and one-half miles at Irvington.
in Essex county.
On Route six miles. from Colts
Neck road to Freehold, Monmouth
county.
On Route 8-Four miles. from New
%foundland to Stockholm. in Morris.
Passaic and Sussex counties.
On Route 9-Three miles for
Bloomsbury cutoff. in Warren and
Hhnterdon counties.
On Route 15-Five miles, from Me-
nantico Creek to Port Elizabeth, in
Cumberland county; three and one
half miles, from Rio Grande to Green
Creek, in Cape May county.
On Route 1.-two miles. from Som
erville to Royce Valley, Somerset
county.
On Route 1S-Five miles. from AL
pine. Tergen county, to New York
State line.
A new road in the form of a cres-
cent is to be built on the outskirts
Of Camden to connect with three State
J ighway routes to take care OF auto
mobilists using the Delaware River
bridge. F-om the bridge a wide boule-
ward will serve for vehicles to reach
the crescent road In Camden. steps
will be taken to obviate the stopping
of traffic at cross streets and for this
purpose an overhead bridge will be
constructed at Federal street.
Scrap Over Street Widening
Forty feet wide-or no paving"
This is said to be the ultimatum Of
the State Highway Commission to the
borough Council at Glassboro in re-
spect to the proposed Improvement Of
Broad street, part of Route No. 20 OF
the State Highway System. Broad
street now is from 80 to 33 feet wide.
To procure the additional width de-
manded by the State before it will
pave the -oute through town, abutting
property owners will have to agree to
contribute a frontage of approximate
iy ave feet on both sides. Owners
said to represent about two-thirds Of
the frontage, borough officials say,
have agreed to the widening, but some
other owners. headed by D. T. Steel
man, county superintendent OF
schools. and Charles F. Repp, both OF
whom have beautiful residential prop
critics on the thoroughfare, have an
nounced their intention to oppose any