The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-15
HOUSE BLOCKS TROLLEY LINE,
LANGUAGE FAILS TO MOVE 1T OR
THE MAN WHO STARTED IT.
Perhaps II May Take RO0t-Teiephone
Company Refuses TO Put Its Wires Out
OF Commission for Less Than &ls1, So
the House Can Proceed on Its Journey.

the House Can Proceed on Its Journey.
Bergenline avenue near Seventeenth
street, West Hoboken, has been blocked by
big frame dwelling house that for nearly
week has been stalled In the street. Con-
tractor Mcdonald got permit about ten
days ago from the West Hoboken city
council to move the house from Sixteenth
street to site In Bergenline avenue. near
which the building Is now stranded.
BY paying the trolley company s25, the
contractor got them to move their wires
80 he could get under them and to consent
to transfer their passengers during the
brief time Mcdonald expected to block
their tracks Things were going on swim
mingly until the house got where it now
stands, when Mcdonald discovered that
there was yet the telephone company to be
reckoned with.
The telephone company wanted SITS to
put their wires over the highway out
OF commission and stand all the growing
and swearing on the part OF their subscrib-
ers that necessarily would ensue. Nc
Donald fatty refused to pay the SITS.
!. The telephone company fatty refused to
let him interfere with the telephone wires.
The house stuck where 1t Is.
Bergenline avenue Is a much travelled
thoroughfare, Thousands Of people ride
on the trolley line through 1t daily to and
from their business, and on their way to and
from the Hoboken and New York trading
centres. They had TO change cars every
trip, and walk around the house that was
taking a rest In its travels,
At first, passengers contented themselves
with saying things In chosen language to
themselves. Then singly.. and finally In
bevies and in deegstions; they began going
selected speech to them. Then the trolley
people began saying things in picked words
to Mcdonald. Mcdonald kept on saying
things at random from a large store OF
explosive terms to the telephone people
spoke ,l ,t the Words one hundred and seventy
five dollars Only this and nothing more.
Then the trolley company went to the
City Council. The solons considered and
pondered and debated the matter from all
optimistic, pessimistio. The learned lurists
OF the corporation were called in, The de;
bate ran high around the cracker barrel
pedestals in the corner groceries.
Meanwhile the house stood there as
though, i were beginning to take root. and
took the next car forward, please and
the mild September air about the scene was
heavy with the sulphurous haze Of language
picked out with the view OF giving ex-
preston to emotions Of a violent character.
Finally, the solons. with the aid OF the
jurists and the lay advisers Of the cracker
barrels, reached conclusion. They were
delivered OF an opinion. The opinion was
that whereas the City Council had given
Mcdonald permit to move the house, and
whereas they had allowed him until the list
OF October to move II in, therefore resolved
that If the trolley company did not like to
have houses stroll out into the street and
settle down for the fall on the trolley tracks
the best thing the trolley company could do
was to 60 to law about 1t.
There was the house there was Mcdonald.
there were the COURTS let the parties con-
cerned clinch in catch-as- can legal
tackle and enjoy themselves. And there
the matter stands-and there the house
stands. There, likewise, the trolley travel
lers walk. The City Council has washed its
hands of the whole business and turned
over In bed for another nap.