The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-10
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CLAD IT'S OVER
Parties to Newark Plank
Road Agreement Sign
This Morning.
WHAT EACH WILL GET
Basis of Understanding AS
Fixed by Vice Chancellor
Stevenson Plans for
Future.
WHAT EACH WILL GET

Plank, road will pass into the joint con-
troll of the Hudson and Essex Boards of
Chosen Freeholders The companies
pay-rolls for employees on the bridges
over the Hackensack and Passaic rivers
will begin.
After many moons of quibbling, wrig-
Cling, seesawing, backing and filling, the
Newark Plank Road matter was settled
this morning by all parties signing the
agreements to turn over the road to the
counties of Hudson and Essex on the
basis made by Vice Chancellor Stevenson,
namely, fve-eighths of the cost of MAIN
tenance and operation to be charged to
Essex County and three-eighths to Hud-
son. The Plank Road Company will
bear a proportion of 25 per cent. for the
building of new bridges and it will re-
ceive $4,000 out of the $27 200 it has
spent on the present bridges
At ten o'clock this morning Director
Thomas McGovern and Clerk w. A.
Crane, of the Essex Board of Freehold
ers, with their counsel Joseph L. Mum,
came into the offices of the North Jersey
Street Railway Company, where they
.ounu a"ai''ns .neni Niessrs. sJaiiies p
yredenburgh and Spencer Weart, repre-
senting. the Plank Road Company and
North Jersey Street Railway Company.
I hfee agreements lay on the table IN Mr.
David Young's Office. They had been
Sipnnd hv s1Ir n n vonps, ,,ras; .1x,,4 ~
s,sneu ~ = =. iouhg, president q
lHe 4Noren Jersey Slreel hallWay Com
pany' anu p y loung,, president
u ", 'Ae tse"s'lA : iahA, Aoau company.
"a p.sss Msle ~
.ssofss anu W.. - = ohnson.A y l'hes Essex
1s,'',at ma M " sae
ssAt s'lRu = g ts'-
sass."as sene ~ lssDarA lor als 9 llssse4ger
y prans = On as Iast as posslpie.
21taN = - q = l'-'s'1 fSIS f1SJtJSH
u the MeaNhtlme tne agreements we're
senI up g the Court HouseafoI the slsha-
lures OF director w. =. Hoimes 'lfrk
Egan ana Jonn 6r1ffln, representing the
Huason County end OF the affair. When
ehese signed them they We're returned to
the North Jersey Street Railway cpm-
pany's oHces, where the Essex gefltle-
men afflxed then signatures and the seal.
ihat's all we are here for observed
Mr.. Joseph Z. Mum, with sigh Of re-
lief, to a News representative, to for
mally execute the agreement, and it is
done
Mr.. Spencer Weart, too, looked re-
lieved, for it has been a species of night
mare to him for months, although vir-
tually the company which he represented
had nothing to do but stand aioof and
wait till Hudson and Essex kissed and
made. up.
| WHAT EACH GETS
BY the terms of the aprednant
stripped of the legal parlance which Mr.
Spencer Weart and Mr.. Josenh Z. M,,nn
jocularly insisted was more nrecisa than
newspaper language. because the LAWYERS
would stick to their text and news,Ia ners
often wouldn't. the Newark Plan, Road
Company 4conveys to the conptsps of
Essex and Hudson all its pronortv /, tba
plank road.Aextendino from, ro;n+ s.
Ian.o,, r;4,, 3 ~, -. pit. z
a. eie intersection Of f5oIl-
i munlpaW avenue to a point in the city
| of Newark where the road stops at
Rlancbard straat. tho oom,,a,,r ~.
-. = a''
lns It's figHt 70 opefale the troliey tracks