The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-06-15
NINE RAILWAY CHARTERS
President of Trenton Com
pany Gets Them Under
Pennsylvania Acts.
ESPECIAL to .aThe Jersey city News.,,l


TRENTON, June Is, 1901.-While Penn
sylvania's political corporations, ineor-
porated under the Focht-Emery acts. were
securing franchises which virtually give
them the entire control of the streets of
Philadelphia, over which their lines are
to pass, the United Power and Transpor-
tation Company, headed by Henry G.
Moore, president of the Trenton Street
Railway Company, and several other men
prominent in the local system, have Sc
cured nine charters under the same acts,
which give them clear and undisputed
right to all the important highways in
Delaware and Chester counties, Pennsyl-
vania. These privileges materially in
crease the value of the United Power and
Transportation Company, which controls
the majority of the stock of the Trenton
company.
The systems are all on the outskirts of
Philadelphia. Their incorporation will
prevent the operation of new suburban
roads running from the Quaker City, at
least in the immediate vicinity of Della
ware and Chester counties.
The Philadelphia concerns will he nm
able to leave the city's boundaries unless
traffic arrangements can be made with
the nine new companies, which ares
Chester and Rose Valley Street Rail-
way Company, capital $4,000.
Chester and Middletown Street Railway
Company, capital $4,000.
Chester and Rockdale Street Railway
Company, capital $4,000.
Clifton and Sharon Hill Street Railway
Company, capital $24 600.
capital $4,000.
Colwyn ana Ridley Park Street Rail
way Company capital, s36, ,O0o
East Side Street Railway Company, cap
ital $4,000.
Darby and Fernwood Street Railway
Company, capital $4,000.
Lima, Gradyvilie and West Chester
Street Railway Company, capital
$60,000
All of these companies have the same
incorporators in the persons of Walter A.
Rigg, Reading; Henry C. Moore, Tren-
ton; William S. Bell, Philadelphia; D. B.
Winchester, Wilkesbarre, and Homer
Shoemaker, Harrisburg.
According to Mr.. Moore the new con-
cern will at once begin the work of con-
struction.
In Philadelphia a merry war is now on
between the rival companies, in which the
Johnson syndicate is figuring very promi-
nently
The action of Mayor Ashbridge in dis
regarding the proposition of Albert L.
Johnson for three cent fares and John
Wanamaker's offer of $2,50OO00 for the
same rights, will no doubt result in in
junction proceedings being instituted by
the two men, to restrain the building and
operation of the roads which Mayor Ash
bridge has sanctioned.
Former Judge James Gay Gordon IS
named as the attorney for Mr.. Wanna
maker and A. S. L. Shields for the john
son interests.
All the Philadelphia morning papers
yesterday editorially denounced the May
or's action and yesterday afternoon the
Bulletin, which heretofore has support
ed the Mayor, said
'tThe Wanamaker proposition sets forth
so plainly the unjust, inequitable, one
sided and vicious character of this whole
sale gift of railway franchises for private
profit that no fair minded citizen who has
the slightest regard for the welfare of the
city can fail to see how the city is plum
dered by the disgraceful methods which
have been employed in the Councils and
the Legislature. A more wilful and
brazen defiance of the plainest public
duty of a chief magistrate of Philadel-
phia in protecting the legitimate rights
of his fellow citizens has never been ex-
hibited in that Office,