Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-06-27
INSPECTED FERRY
YESTERDAY; STILL
FAVOR IA YETTE ST.
Staten Island Railroad Officials Visited Perth AbOy and Although
an Offer has been Made for them to Stay at Foot of Smith
Street They still Determined to Unless too MGny
Protests are Received-- Dislike the Smith Street Grade

The News on Wednesday published
exclusively the announcement OF the
Staten Island Railroad Company s IN
tention of making many improvements
including that of changing the present
ferry slip at the foot of Smith street
to the foot of Fayette street. Today
the News is authorized to repeat that
assertion without fear of contradio-
tion. 1t has also been stated positive
ly by the same authority that the
Staten Island Railroad has not accept
cd nor purchased any land at or near
the foot of Smith street, owned by
George Evans, as some are inclined
to believe.
@. S. Simms, general manager, and
James HCampbell, assistant manager
for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad,
which controls the Staten Island
system, and Mr.. Randolph, the new
general manager and vice president OF
tho Staten Island Railroad, were in
this city yesterday for the purpose OF
looking over the ground. They view
ed with considerable interest the
ground surrounding the proposed
change at the foot of Fayette where
they already have options on certain
land. They also looked over the sur
roundings of the present slip, and
when thd ,e gentlemen left they were
very much in favor of the Fayette
street site OIL account of it's low grade.
The only objection the officers of the
road nave to the present slip is the
Smith street hill.
AS to the reported sale of the land
at the foot of Smith street, Mr.. Evans
this morning said:
81 have not and do not want TO sell
any of my land around here and 1
can't understand how any one can say
that have when / dom know it my
self. :"
Further than this Mr.. Evans refused
to talk. It was learned elsewhere,
however, that man, presumably Mr..
Evans and two other prominent bust
ness men, who came to this city over
the Central railroad, went to New
York on Thursday where Mr.. Evans
was induced to offer to sell his pro-
perty t. the Staten Island road as an
z inducement to keep the ferry at the
foot OF Smith street. This much was
admitted by an official of the road.
but as already stated, that official de-
MED the reported acceptance and pur-
chase of the property on the part OF
his company.
Here, this official said, the matter
will rest for a while to see what the
people of Perth Amboy want. Ii
there are too many protests from the
y Isiness men on Smith street the pro-
liabilities are that no change will be
made at Smith street. On the other
hand if there are no protests, or the
protests are nverbalanced by requests,
the change will be made to the foot
of Fayette street.
Protests were made several years
ago by the Smith street merchants and
the proposed change was then aband-
oned. Since that time the conditions
have changed. Then there were only
a handful of merchants doing business
no further up Smith than State street.
Today there is trolley company to
he taken into consideration. By run
ming the loop, as outlined IN the
News, this would bring the travelling
public up Smith street just the same.
Then there are the State street mer-
chants whose opinions will have to be
taken into consideration in making
I - proposed change
No objections have yet been heard
In Perth Amboy, but in Tottenville
there are some opposed to the change,
but the public generally in that town
to date do not believe the change will
ever occur in their day as it is said
the railroad company have been talk
ing about the change for some time.