The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-18
CHURCHES MUST MOVE.
Simpson and St. Johns In
jured by the Road on
Central Avenue.
BOTH SEEK HEAVY DAMAGES.
North Hudson County Railroad
Company Won't Agree--An APP
peal To the Chancellor.

For some days past rhs preliminary
for merry, yet business like. legal war
between combination OF two old and
H i'll and the North Hudson County Rail-
way Company, have been quietly going
on. Some eight or ten Central avenue
property owners are also interested in
the results of the battle. and will In all
probability join the Christian forces.
The two Christian congregations that
have combined (though each is under the
command of separate legal generals) are
the Simpson NJ E. and the ST. Johns
(German) M. E. The pastors OF both
congregations are more or less reticent
concerning the ultimate objects of the
battle. but 1t is safe 60 assume, fnasmuch
as both Christian organizations have
offered the Railway Company the option
of purchase of their respective properties.
that they realize that they hays haen
driven from their camping grounds by
the invasion of q noisy traffic aud must
pull up their stakes and erect their tents
in O less noisy neigh borhood,
THE AGREEMENT.
In 1890 In Obtaining permission of the
authorities TO run elevated tracks along
Central avenue the North Hudson Coun-
'ty hallway Company signed an agree>
ment with the authorities of the Simpson
NJ. E. Church, the purport of which was
that IL the church and the company
could not agree on q settlement for dam
ages they or either OF them were to apply
TO the Chancellor, who would select three
men who would estimate the damages, il
any. whose award should be inal. This
church maintained that ir was impossible
to estimate the amount Of injury to the
church until after the railroad had been
in operation at least year. The agree-
ment signed set forth that at the expira>
Lion of that time the church and the rsii>
way company should .agree to appoint
three arbiLratoTs, to be approved of. by
both parties TO the agreement, aud that
il both parties could not agree the Chan
cellor should be appealed to for the ap-
pointment of three such persons ksESH
Six months ago the Trustees of Simp>
son NJ. E. Church applied to the company
for conference concerning the matter, SO
as to agree upon three arbltrators to as
sess damages, according to the original
contract. The company ignored repeated
requests for such conference, until
finally, about three weeks ago, the mat
ter was put into the hands of Counsellor
James A. Gordon. Notice was formally
served on the railway company that the
church Trustees would meet the Presi-
dent or other authorized officers of che
com pany at a certain time and place for
the purpose OF agreeing, II possible, upon
the appointment of three persons TO as
sess the damEgesvto the church property
according to the terms of the contract
THE COMPANY WANTED EVERYTHING.
About q week ago The trustees OF the
church waited upon the company at its
Office in Hoboken. The president and
counsel of the company first insisted on
naming all three of the arbltrators. One
of fho norsona r m, cd a an -rasioonr
of the county, and when the church
trustees objected the company offered to
allow them to name one In his place, the
company still desiring the privilege of
naming the other two. The church trus-
tees offered to settle the matter by agree
ing that the company should ma ne one
arbitrator each, and that the two thus
selected should agree upon q third one.
The railway company refused this propo-
sitiou, and declared 1t would carry the
matter to the highest court In the State
The church trustees Immediately In
structed Counsellor Gordon to apply to
the Chancellor to appoint The arbitrators
sellor Gordon Ia now preparing the
papers in the matter and will make the
application next week.
ANOTHER CHURCH IN THE CASE.
1t appears that this same contract was
made with the Railway Company by the
congregation OF st. johns NJ. II. Church,
and they have placed the matter In the
hands OF Lawyer Klink, and the congre-
cations aud their lawyers Will fight side
by side.
THE INJURY TO SIMPSON CHURCH.
Pastor halieron of Simpson NJ. E.
Church said, when intervlewed, that his
church would insist on full value OF
the church building, as during four
months iu the spring and summer his
church had been rendered useless as
place of worship, aud durin1 that time
his congregation was practically pre-
vented from divipe worship especially.
Simpson M. E. Church Is the princiDnl
Methodist Episcopal Church on tue Hill,
and 1t was among the early Christian
organizations on the HILL. It is located
between Beacon aud st. Paul's avenue.
PASTOR sCHLEUETRR COMPLAINS.
Pastor William Schlneter. OF tue st.
Johns German NJ. E. Church also told
the reporter that his congregation had
also been prevented, especially during
summer, from proper Christian worship
by the Invasion of the elevated road, and
that his congregation woula fight for
fair assessment of damages In the courts.
The church Is frame structure standing
at the corner of Central and Hopkins
avenues. It was erected in 1889, and
bears sigu ever the main entrance in-
scribed st. Johannes Deutsch Kirche and
the date, Of erection, sts