The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-03-15
COL, STIRLING MAD
Lively Row Between Prom
inent Lawyers in a
Trolley Car.
Ex-GOV. BEDLE TAKES A HAND
Mr.yredenburg Forbids Mr.. Thomp-
son to Come Into His Office
Sharp Replies.
EX-GOV. BEDLE TAKES A HAND
ALL ABOUT THAT JUNCTION ROAD

No case which has been tried in the New
Jersey courts in many a year has aroused
such spirit of enmity among tho lawyers
engaged in it than the suit of the National
Docks Connecting Railway Company VS..
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
National Docks Company has been trying
for number of years to get under the
yard of the Pennsylvania Company at the
Point of Rocks in order to connect the New
Jersey Central Baltimore and Ohio and
Reading systems with the Erie, Delaware,
Lackawana and Western and West
Shore Roads. The National Docks Com
pany has beaten the Pennsylvania in all the
State and Federal courts, but every time
they have been deprived of the fruits
of their victory by some move on the
part of the Pennsylvania people. As the
Pennsylvania people have been defeated in
every step they have taken, the
lawyers for the National Docks
Company declared that the Pennsylvania
lawyers, knowing they cannot win, are striv-
ing to worry and embarass them with these
fruitless proceedings This the Pennsylvania
LAWYERS deny, and the relations between the
two sides have become greatly strained, un-
til they finally broke today in most dis
graceful scene in trolley car.
When the Condemnation Commissioners
some time ago awarded the National Docks
under the Pennsylvania yard
the company rendered the Pennsyl-
vania the amount at which the commission
ers fixed that right of way. The latest move
made by the Pennsylvania Company was to
claim that the tender was not made in the
proper manner, and this morning Judge Lip
plncott heard argument upon that question.
THE ROW BREAKS OUT.
At its conclusion Ex-Governor Bedle and
James Vredenburg. who appeared for the
Pennsylvania and Mr.. Charles Thompson of
Die kinson Thompson g. McMaster and John
Emory of Newark, who represented the
National Docks, together with Colonel Ster-
ling of the Governors staff, who is Pres
ident of the National Docks Company, all
got into the same trolley car After reading
a few minutes in silence, Mr.. Vredenburg
turned to Mr.. Thompson and said
"f you say in court that l said certain
things, you said what you know was not
true. don't want you to come into my
Office again. don't want to have anything
more to say to you"
ssOh, that's all right" said Mr.. Thompson,
coolly, ''Pm satisfied" This dialogue aroused
marked, contemptuously
'sOh, what rotW
The extreme frigidity of Mr. Thompson
ruffied Ex-Governor Bedle, who unbended
his habitual dignity enough to say
''Oh, you'll apologize for certain things
you've said in this case, Mr.. Thompson"
'Apalogize for whats" asked Mr.. Thomp-
son, while Colonel Stirling again remarked:
"Oh, what rotn and for fear his words
would not be fully appreciated, he en-
phasized them with several superfuous ad-
jectives
COLONEL STIRLING EXCITED.
Some further words passed between Mr..
Vredenburg, who was growing warmer every
minute while Mr.. Thompson's demeanor
rapidly approached the freezing point.
when suddenly Colonel Stieling, who could
contain himself no longer, jumped up and
shaking his finger at Governor Bedle and
Mr.. Vredenburgh, exclaimed
s'You have done everything you could tc
hinder and embarraSs us in this matter.
Why, you even stole our little house, re-
ferring to shanty which the Pennsylvania
Railroad people removed.
81 didn't" hotly retorted Mr.. Vredens
"Tes, you did" yelled the doughty
Colonel. ''You told Crawford (Superinten
dent of the Pennsylvania Company to take
the shanty away"
! Mr.. Vredenburg replied by saying that
Steeling didn't talk that way when he came
into Vredenburgs Office and asked him to
help him.
''Fine help you were," sneered Colonel
Stirling, why on every proposition made
you doubled"
"Why didn't you say that in the first
place, like a man." said Vredenburg, lin
stead of coming into my office the way you
did all the timef'
This seemed more than Colonel Sterling
could bear.
"Whats that you say" he cried loud with
anger, as he rushed toward Mr.. Vreden-
burg, who crowded up in a corner as far as
he could.
Cooler heads interposed at this point, and