Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-21
COUNCIL
DOWN TO WORK.

LIO IOBuLuL Hio6lluR VI UH6 COuuCll
was held in Borough Hall last night.
nesent, Mayor Muirhead, Councilmen
Rn, Haines, Hoffman, Kerr,
and Gallagher and Clerk
bam.
ion asking the council to
Jersey Central Traction
franchise and signed by at
Two and a half per cent. of
y owners on Stevens ave
read and upon motion of
an Hillman was laid on the
Wortley was appointed jani-
yiremen's Hall.
bids of Charles B. WILDER for
6g Church street, was referred to
treet Committee. There were no
r bids.
wholesale liquor license was
anted to Henry Wolff.
The bill of Street Commissioner
bne councilman charged him with
4 perjury if he had sworn to the bill as
being correct. He said a bill for
sta. % was an outrage and he would
not sign it as one of the committee.
He wanted to know where the money
went to. He said it had rained the
greater part of one week, so that the
wagons could not be used and he
wanted to know how some of the men
got in sixty, tifty-five and some only
five hours. Commissioner Quinlin
said he had forgotten the bill of E.
McDonough, when he put in his bill at
the last council meeting and had in
cluded it in this bill OF the last two
weeks and this bill was correct.
Hillman said, he was incompetent to
fill the position.
The mayor said it would be impossi,
BILE to find a councilman or even a
Street Commissioner who would not
make a mistake.
The jersey Central Traction fran
chise was then taken up on second
reading. The floor was, then given to
anyone in the audience who had any
thing to say and Mr.. Wilson, as usual,
made several statements, the same as
on former occasions with the addition
that Mr.. LeGree had stated that thew
could not get the consents, or at least
enough consents to go through Stevens
avenue. He said, here is a petition
before the council of sixty-two and a
half per cent. of the property owners
on Stevens avenue, asking the COM
pany to go through that street, which
was more than enough, as the COM
papy needed only fifty-two per cent.
and he did not believe in allowing the
company to come into town and hook
on the M. and S. Traction company
the way they wished to.
Councilman Gallagher did not think
= it would be right to grant a franchise
to any company to run on the streets
where a franchise had been granted
to another company. Councilman
Hoffman stated that there was a clause
in the franchise with the M. and s..
company that if one year from date of
the granting of the franchise they did
not complete their lines on the streets
named by them in their application,
that the said application for said
! street, was null and void, and as the
; M. and S. Traction company had not
lived up to their agreement to extend
their road on B~ordentown avenue to
the borough limit, therefore their
franchise for Bordentown avenue was
null and void.
Mr.. Gallagher then said he did not
believe in letting another company
come in and not make them live up
to their agreement, they had trouble
enough with the M. and S.
\ The application was taken up on
)second reading and adopted as amend
I Ell, up to the fourteenth part of the
fourth section. The second section
created quite an argument and after
considerable discussion, it was thought
best to leave it to the borough coun-
! selor. The second reading was then
ycontinued until the mex regular meet
I ing, November 8. The grade map of
Henry street was accepted.
Charles B. Miller was. granted the
contract for curbing Church street,
he being the only bidder.
The resolution by Councilman Cor
don that John Quinlin be paid $50 a
month, to act as Street and Water
Commissioner, was opposed by Mr..
Hillman.
z Councilman Kerr said that the Street
Committee was as much to blame as
J Qulnlin, that Mr.. Hillman had not
requested the Street Committee to
meet, but he was not in favor of