The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1902-07-15
Shall the Trolley Come ?

America Hall, on Friday morning, to dis
cuss the proposition of allowing the troll
ley company to change the motive power
of the street railway and to make such
other alterations as may be necessary.
By invitation of the committee there was
large number of citizens present to give
their views on the subject.
Joshua E. Borton, counsel for the road,
read the papers showing that all legal re-
quirements had been attended to and then
he offered the ordinance that it was de-
sired to have passed. This was read in
full, and was taken to be the first reading.
Several questions were asked on minor
matters and then Col. Charles M. Sloan
asked for the reading of the section with
reference to paving
The county has already granted the
trolley company permission to use upper
High street and West Washington street
and the application under discussion was
for that portion of the street from the cor
ner of Madison avenue to Zelley's hotel.
Col Sloan called attention to the fact
that the streets of Mount Holly are already
owned by corporations, and the town gets
nothing in return. Before any privileges
are granted in this instance there should
be distinct understanding, and he be-
leved the trolley company should be com
PEELED to pave the entire street from curb
to curb between the points mentioned.
He moved that it be the sense of the
meeting that such demand be made and
that the company be required to give
bond for the keeping of the streets named
in continual repair
Mr.. Borton objected to this procedure
on the ground that the meeting was not
public gathering but meeting of the
township committee This started gen
eral talk and several suggestions were
made with the view of getting the matter
in proper shape and it was finally decided
to let the committee take a rest and a
meeting of citizens was organized with
Joseph G. Kingdom chairman and Ernest
d. Holeman secretary.
Col Sloan then renewed his motion.
He believed this to be the golden oppor-
tunity to get some compensation for
valuable franchise If this was the first
application for street railway, if there
never had been any tracks on the Streets
there would be no doubt what course the
committee should pursue and he thought
this matter should be treated as an entirely
new one.
Judge b. P. Wills said he would favor
any action that would benefit the people,
and he did not want to be too hard on the
corporation. He feared the measure pro-
posed by Col Sloan would be too hard on
the trolley people as it would be an ex
pensive job. In response to a question
Mr.. Borton said the cost would probably
be $31 000 Judge Wills then continued
his talk and called attention to the difficult
ty attending a trip to Burlington since the
abandonment of the trolley. The rail
road company not only increased the fare
but reduced the train service 1t is said
the new corporation contemplates running
through to Burlington. A foundry is to
be erected in the latter city and it is pos
sible if there are proper accommodations
between the two places we might secure
many advantages.
Charles H. Folwell asked Judge Wills
what he thought would be fair PROPOSE
ton
The Judge answered that he was not
prepared to say. The trolley people have
been very liberal and fair and they shoeld
be met at least half way.
Morris H. Keller wanted to know what
was to be done in the matter of giving
means of getting to and from the railroad
station.
Charles H. Folwell said it might be a
good thing to have the trolley people keep
the streets in repair, but it must be re-
membered that they are not in that con-
dition now. If we are ever to have good
streets now is the time to begin the move
ment.
James W. Deacon could not see why
the trolley people should be compelled to
spend money on our streets and keep them
in repair when the township had never
done anything of the kind. He favored
charging the trolley company lump sum
each year for street purposes.
! Charles K. Chambers made an extended
address on the benefits of trolley.
Josiah W. Evan expressed himself IA
vorable to the trolley and moved that the
trolley company be asked to pave High
street four feet on either side of the track
and Washington street two feet either side
This was amended so that the request
would be the company pave from curb to
curb from the corner of Garden street to
the Washington street bridge. leaving the
amount of paving on Washington street
as first mentioned.
The motion was adopted. Then an at
tempt was made to get an expression on
the subject of meeting the trains. Rob
ert S. Gaskill moved that an agreement
be secured from the trolley people to run
cars to and from the station between the
hours of A. NJ and P. M.
Robert Street thought this was going a
! little too far. 1t was too much like an at
tempt to run the business of the company,
arrange it's time tables and attempt other
things entirely outside the province of the
public. Roberts idea struck the meeting
favorably and the motion was Withdrawn.
The public meeting adjourned and the
township committee went into session and
passed the ordinance to second reading,
after which the matter was laid over until
Thursday, the Oath Mr. Shemeley was
absent from this meeting and is expected
to be home by the date fixed for the next
| gathering.
Death of Rev. Thomas d. Sleeper.
Rev. Thomas Dunn Sleeper, one of the
best known members of the New Jersey
Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, died Wednesday at the Methodist
Episcopal Hospital, in Philadelphia, of
uremic poisoning. Mr.. Sleeper was born
in Pemberton September 7. 1890 His early
life was spent at Pemberton, Tuckerton
and Mount Holly, When quite q young
man, he was engaged in the vocation of
school teaching. He was admitted to the
Black River Conference, in New York
State, in 1848, and was transferred to the
Southern New England Conference in 1850
and in 1868 became member of the New
Jersey Conference.
He was employed as an agent for the
Seamens Friend Society in the early Cos
at Savannah, Ga, his work in that direc-