The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-05-31
NORTH HUDSON'S MOVE,
It Begins Laying Additional
Tracks on Summit
Avenue.
THAT GROVE STREET ORDINANCE
Mayor Hoos to Veto It and
Street and Water Board
Will Sustain Him.

/
| NIT avenue, between Manhattan avenue
/ and Congress street, yesterday morning.
| Shortly before seven o'clock. a gang 81
| italian laborers swooped down upon thaE
| section OF Summit avenue and began tear
| ing up the paving blocks and otherWlsf
preparing for tbs laying Of an ,s, addlton;aal a;a
way Company. Some of the properly
/ owners were amazed and angrily protest.
ed. They did not know, hoMever' however, as, lnae
| and other property owners had securea
! four years ago mad been vacated, and tna3 3
| the vacation of the writ had been hieo
| with the Clerk of the Supreme Court on
| Friday, Some of them called upon the pos
| lice. Roundsunan Richards. of the Sixth
/ his permit. The foreman refused to az
| SO, and was placed under arrest and TAXI
| en- to the Oakland avenue station housey
Meanwhile, operations We're suspendeuf
| At the station house the foreman pros
| duced notice of the vacations of the
writ OfIicials at Police Headquarters
and at the City Hall were communicates
| with, and word came back that 1T was
| all right to allow the company to pro7
ceed.
All sorts of threats and accusations
| were made by few interested property
| owners. When the protestants found
! that the writ of certiorar had been vHcal7
| ed they denounced the company ana ac7
| cused it of having stolen marcn upon
| them by commencing operations on a
holiday, when the courts were not IN ses7
| sion.
In reply to this, General Manager Starr
| replied that if such had been the case the
company would have started in, on Sunday
| morning. He said the company merely
| wished to take advantage of the good
weather, not knowing how long 1t might
last.
mad all the way through He was mad
not only at the apparent victory of the
company but he objected to having the
sidewalk in front of his residence, at SUM
nit avenue and Sherman place, piled up
with dirt and paving stones. The repre-
sentatives of the company immediately
had the dirt and paving stones removed
The small army of Italians were at worlk
at noon today and the tracks had been
laid for several blocks north of Man
haitian avenue. The company expects TO
have it's new rails laid by tomorrow night.s
While many of the property owners
along the line of tracks are mad and
threaten yet to take the matter to the
courts the residents of the streets cross
ing the avenue, in fact residents all
through that section, are not much dls-S
pleased at the turn of affairs. For the
past four years only every other car on
Passengers on every other car We're.
dumped out at Manhattan avenue in all
sorts OF weather, without any shelter or
protection and wait for the next oar:3
Above South street patrons were obliged
to walk several blocks. Above Congress
street the company has the use OF the
Rutherford Company's tracks. IT IS TO
connect with these that the present track
is being laid, So that there will be double
tracks all the way through.
The laying Of double tracks did not
astenish the city officials very muchss
They had been anticipating such move.
+ There is some question as to whether
the company has the right to lay double
tracks, but that point will have to be de-
cided by the courts. In 1894, when the
Street and Water Board had Messrs. Du-
gan, Somers, Madden, Yoe and Cook for
members ordinances were passed author
izing the company to lay double tracks
in Grove street and also in Summit ave-
nue.
Grove street is only thirty feet thor
oughfare, and the property owners at
once organized and fought the ordinance.
They certioraried it and the Summit ave-
nue. property owners followed suit
The Grove street ordinance was the first
and only cause examined. 1t was shown
in court that Mayor Wanser had vetoed
both ordinances and that they had been
repassed, Notwithstanding his objections
In handing down a decision the court, it
appears, confined it's ruling exclusively to
the Grove street case. The defeat of the
Grove street ordinance led the Summit
avenue litigants to believe that the ordi-
nance infringing upon their rights had
also been set aside. The counsel of the
company have all along taken a different
view of the matter. 1t was this conten-
Summit avenue. Ex-Finance Commits
soner Henry Brautigam and other Sum-
nit avenue property owners have COM
bined and will have the case again re-
The North Hudson Company is engaging
a lot of attention just at present. The or
dinanoe for its relief in Grove, street,
Smith, is now before Mayor Hoos for dis
position. Frederick Mersheimer,. repre-
senting the company, had a talk with
to induce him to allow the ordinance to
become operative without his approval.
Later counselor William p Edwards dis
Robert Davis said something to His
Honor over the telephone. Appeals were
of no avail. Tomorrow the ordinance
will be vetoed and the document promises
to be caustic orre The Mayors veto
will be sustained. 1t requires four votes
to s :, override 1T, and Messrs; a Heintze and
the ordinance becoming operative in it's
present shape.
II is said the company will make no
)n Grove street. District No. 1871, Knights
Of Labor, sent a letter to the Mayor today
commending him for the stand he is TAX
Chauncey Hall, President of Good Gov
'T3rnment Association No. l, wrote the
Mayor letter today. in which he de-
were pfaising him for demanding compen-
sation for the privilege asked by the COM
Mr.. Hall wrote that because other
Mayors have disregarded the eity's inter
ests It is no reason why the present one
should
Mr.. Myron Furstt called on Mayor Hoos
today ard made a novel proposition IN re-
lation to the Grove street trolley ordin-
lance. Mr.. Furst and many other mer-
chants want a trolley line on Grove
street They contend that it will be the
means of drawing new trade to the city
A petition signed by all the prominent
business men of the lower section Of the
city has been presented to the Mayor.
His Honor says the petition s'cuts no ice
with him. He wants per cent. of the
gross receipts of the line. or about $1,000
remuneration yearly. So determined is
the Mayor to get something for the city
that the merchants fear he will forever
kill the trolley project.
Mr.. Furst, on behalf of himself and
brother and fifteen other merchants to-
day offered to pay into the city treasury
$50 a piece yearly If the Mayor will APP
prove the Grove street ordinance. Mayor
Hoos says he does not approve any such
movement He wants the city renuner-
ated Tor the privilege 1t is extending, and
he wants the company, not business men,
to do the paying. Mr.. Furst went away
feeling disappointed.
FINGER CUT WITH CIGAR CLIPPER
Rosie Rains. 1s years old Of No. 81
Garden street. Hoboken while playing