The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-20
Propei ty Owners Don't Want
the Double Tracks on
Grove Street.
{ AT ST. LUcY's HALL
Two Delegations Waited on Mayor
Wanser This Morning The
Mayors Stand.

of Grove street, met last night in st. Lucy's
Hall to enter their respective and combined
vigorous protests against the invasion of the
trolley.
1t was half past eight O'Clock when the
meeting was called to order. Jeremiah Sui
livan was chosen Chairman, and James j..
Halligan, Secretary.
'.This meeting is called" said Mr..
Sullivan. upon assuming the chair,
''to vigorously protest against the
invasion of the trolley on Grove
street, and more particularly to emphatically
protest against the operation of double
tracks between Pavonia avenue and the Ho-
boken line 1t would be an outrage to per-
NIT it. It would ruin our property"
81 insist that every man here, interrupted
Charles Hill, consider himself part of a
committee to wait upon Mayor Wanser and
demand jus tice He will give it to us.
Don't let few of us go, but let us storm his
Office fully agree with Mr. A. Corcoran
when he said few nights ago that the Street
and Water Board would stop, at nothing.
That board has been the object of attack for
the past two years and every member of it
has made for himself reputation which will
go down to posterity. Their pernicious gov
ernment is running us. They act more like
a set of wild animals than men.
MORTAR TEMP Erred WITH BLOOD.
'sThey gave away our lands wit hout our
permission and secured for the mselves
homes the mortar of which is tempered
with the blood of our ancestors. am will
ing to fight for my country and will fight
for my home and the shelter OF my children.
Three years is too long term for such ras-
Gals. We should go down to their Office and
close it up"
'sHold on interrupted John Sweeney,
springing to his feet ..pll not sit here and
hear these gentlemen pounded know them
and went to school with them"
Nobody questioned his statement at the
time and he subsided.
''We want no rapid transit" said Timothy
Murray stIt is not necessary. can walk to
Hoboken in five minutes and to Newark ave-
nue. in fifteen. What more do we want9
Bring your double track trolley here above
Pavonia avenue and people will move
away"
That 4s man is out 4, Of order E ys55sd man IAN
divil would we be without rapid transitw
Mr.. Murray did not dispute the fact that
he was out of order, nor did any one venture
to say where the i'divil we would be" if
rapid transit were missing. The meeting
proceeded. ls---
Chairman Sullivan declared that the COM
pany would get one track through despite
all efforts He thought there was a chance
of keeping off the two tracks however.
The arrival of Father Gillian on the scene
at this point had tendency to restore
order. Upon being accompanied to the plat
form, he was asked to speak.
Before he was permitted to do so, John
McAuliffe repeated story about fire
which destroyed about half of Boston owing
to trolley wires hindering the work of fire.
men.
FATHER GILLIAN INTRODUCED.
II would be very sorry" said Father
Gillon, ''to oppose any Improvement to our
section of the CITY. I would, on the other
hand, be pleased to be identified with any
movement to encourage Improvement Re-
garding the trolley system of rapid transit
and operation of double track system be-
tween Pavonia avenue and Hoboken, it is a
great question in my mind il it would be
an Improvement do not quite understand
why single track should be operated below
Pavonia avenue and a double one above
Horse cars suit us very well, but we must
bear in mind that we cannot control one
part of the city TO the exclusion of the other
The company will have one track, | think
speak now from the experience other cities
have had If we don't do anything, how
ever, everything will be done by Others"
Father Gillian then referred to the school
dren attended He feared that double
would cost some of the little ones their
lives, and for this reason he protested. 'slf"
said he 1.-THE city officials knew that they
intended permitting the operation Of
double track system on Grove street when
they gave up the privilege of erecting our
school which cost $4,000, I think they
dealt with us unjustly. Should our children
get hurt or killed, know justice could not
be done, but I would, can assure You,
willingly head movement to prosecute fully
the persons OF persons responsible. 1t appears,
that we people north of Payonia avenue
have been sold out / cannot see why resi-
dents of the street south of Pavonia avenue
were treated SO kindly and considerably,
while we are made to suffer. 1t may be
that we haven't the money. SPEAK now as
one having in charge hundreds of children.
/ think double track north of Pavonia ave-
nue. is an injustice. / have heard that the
company contemplated running up Eleventh
street to Erie, to Sixteenth, to Grove. To
do that would be to encircle us, and would
make us be on the lookout for two streets.
Il am very much pleased with the way
Mayor Wanser has acted in this matter
He has given and will give US a hearing, and
believe that when acting on the objection
able ordinance he will count heads. not
wealth."
HIGHWAY ROBBERY.
Counsellor Anderson and Michael Camp
Bell piOltolcu dSttlllSt tftc o1SecAAi. cObA @tlN
Auliffe who had remained silent more than
his allotted time, declared that the granting
to use double track on Grove street was
highway robbery. Nobody disputed it, and
then Thomas Meggins, IN a lengthy address.
made the declaration that "A Han l., McD Dermott
was on behalf of the Consolidated Traction
Company buying up all the small blocks of
stock Of the North Hudson County Company.
He credited him with having purchased one
third of it already. He then said that the
Traction Company would soon absorb the
Hoboken line.
ssThe proper thing to do, said he warm
ing up to the subject, sis to appoint vigil
ance committee and prevent this company
from going up Grove street. 1t will be
detriment to property and menace to the
lives of young and old alikey
At this point Father Gillian suggested that
the vigilance committee be formed, If de-
sired, after Mayor Wanser had acted Father
Gillian threw cold water on the vigilance
committee idea, and it was dropped
STREET AND WATER BOARD DENOUNCED
Michael Campbell moved that the Street
and Water Board be condemned, and his
motion prevailed. Mr.. McAuliffe wound
up the discussion by stating that
he feared the goods had already been
sold, delivered and paid for. Whereupon
everybody cheered. He wanted to
raise fund once to fight the case in court
He produced big roll of bills. Some one
suggested that this action be taken later
He accepted the amendment and sat down.
It was finally decided to adjourn to meet
Wednesday, evening next in the same place