The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-15
OCEAN BOULEVARD.
Assembly Committee Will
Give a Hearing on the
Bill Next Week.
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TRENTON, Feb. Is, 1901.-Assemblyma
Bachelor chairman of the Assembly
Committee on Municipal Corporations,
has announced that there will be a pub
lie hearing before his committee in the
Assembly Chamber at Trenton next
Tuesday afternoon, on the bill for the
creation of the proposed ocean boule-
ward, which provides that Ocean Grove
must remove its barriers and permit q.
county road to pass through the camp
meeting grounds, and to bridge both
Wesley and Fletcher Lakes. There has
been strong pressure brought to bear on
Mr.. Bachelors committee for favor
able report on the measure and just as
vigorous opposition to the scheme.
There is possibility of the bill becom-
ing a law, because all the municipalities
from Seabright to Point Pleasant, includ-
ing North Long Branch, Long Branch,
Anenhurst, Asbury Park, Bradley Beach,
Coma, Belmar. Spring Lake, Manasquan
and Brielle, have expressed a wish for
a continuous road along the shore at the
ocean side.
The Rev. E. A. Ballard, president of the
Ocean Grove Association, and Frank
Tantum, sergeant-at-arms of the House
of Assembly, who is also the chief of
police, police captain, sergeant. rounds
man and patrolman of Ocean Grove, are
lined up against the BILL and have missed
no opportunity to talk against it.
DR.. Ballard says that if the other sea-
side resorts force Ocean Grove to throw
open its camp meeting grounds to drivers,
bicyclists and automobile operators, the
association will abandon the place as
seashore resort. This would follow, says
the doctor, because Ocean Grove was or
ganized as religious resort on plan
adopted when the upper coast was prac-
tically unoccupied.
The people who summer at Ocean
Grove, the doctor says, come there be-
cause of the religious restrictions which
the passage of the bill would remove.
The clergyman says that the bill. IN
somewhat similar form, has been before
the Legislature in other years, but that
the lawmakers had too much respect for
the religious sentiment of the State to
allow it to be law. He does not think
IL will go through this time.
Chairman Bacheller and his colleagues
of the Committee on Municipal Corpora
tions have determined to let the people
of tha sections affected have their say
about the measure in a public hearing.
1.-THE committee will meet in the Assem-
bly, chamber next Tuesday afternoon and
will hear all there is to be said for ana
against the BILL said Mr.. Bachelor to-
day. 1--WE will give them the rest of the
afternoon and all night, if they want It.
This bill is a troublous one and the mem
bers of the committee feel that they cam
not have too much light on it,
Mr.. Bachelor has again undertaken to
secure the passage of an act to provide
for a withdrawal value for the shares in
building and loan associations. The
Essex man had similar bill last year,
which passed both House and Senate, but
was turned down by the Governor with
in half an hour of the final adjournment
of the Legislature. But, as the Execu-
tive had considerable to say in his mes
sage to the Legislature this session con
cerning building and loan associations,
the Essex leader hopes for better luck
this time.
Mr.. Bacheller's bill is as follows:-
An act relating to mutual loan, home
stead and building associations.
dc II SltdClSu ny liiS OtildlS anu Cen-
eral Assembly of the State of New Jer-
sey:-
/. The shares of every mutual loan,
homestead and building association or
ganized under the laws of this State or
doing business therein, may be with
drawn at any time after one year from
the date of the issuing of such shares,
by the holder thereof, by giving thirty
days notice in writing to the secretary
or other proper officer of the association,
and if such shares shall be pledged to
payment OF a loan, by repaying the bal
ance due On such loan; the Withdrawing
shareholder shall be paid the withdrawal
value OF his Accommodations. which shall
be, Notwithstanding any charges against
such shares for fines, proportionate share
of losses, expenses, etc, an amount not
less, after the expiration of the first year
than nirhety-fVe per centum of the sum