The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-06-07

! TROLLEY HEARING.
LAST NIGHT
Assembly Chamber Crowded
to Hear Arguments on
the Franchise Ex-
tension.
PUBLIC SERVICES OFFERS
Hreenville and the Horseshoe
Demand Better Facilities
of Traffic.

Quite large number of citizens, most
" tax payers gathered last night in the
Assembly Chamber in the City Hall dur
ing the public hearing, by the Street and
Water Board on the applications of the
Public Service Corporation for franchis-
IS for the following extensions along with
number of connecting switches
1. Erie street from Payonia avenue to
Eighteenth street to Grove.
2. West Side avenue to Greenville ave-
nue.
3. jackson avenue to Grsenville car
barns.
A committee appointed at a mass meet
hg in Greenyille had forwarded the May
pr and the Street and Water Board
petition requesting at once the grant of
he franchise to the Public Service Cor
poration to extend the West Side avenue
trolley road with the Ocean avenue road,
tt the Greenville avenue road, at the
Ersenville car stables. and that the per-
led Of ten years at least be allowed the
eubac''ssrrice Corporation before per-
)sntage of the receipts of said road be
ssnsnded BY the city.
/ Thescommittee was composed Of the
RsSss Tehn ID. Heidel. William Arm
iTtsf sza Alderman Gotthardt.
pumbeF of West Side avenue res
- Gents and Others interested in the pro
posed West Side avenue extension were
lresmttet, last nights hearing and they
llrhacked up the request set forth in the
address submitted BY the committee.
Several prominent taxpayers of the
Horseshoe, including Andrew ]. Corcor-
IN and John Casey were present and
tpoke on the proposed Erie street extern
zion.
President Thomas N. McCarter, of the
Public Service Corporation; Col. Hine,
Eeneral Manager of the trolley service,
I'd Superintendent Stanley, of the local
'ision, were also present.
President McCarter said the people of
The West Side avenue vicinity had petit
toned for the West Side avenue trolley
line extension, and the company was will
Eng to grant the petition. He said it
rested with the Board to state the terms
IN which the franchise should be grant
I'd. If the franchise was granted on
sompany's terms all right. If not, the
company would feel satisfied and would
refuse to make the extension.
President McCarter was already on
record as having stated that the company
was willing to enter into any reasonable
proposition with Jersey City; and would
give the people better trolley service and
feel satisfied to pay back to the city
portion of the receipts on the extended
lines after period of at least ten years,
,r as soon as they would pay a profit on
The money invested in them He said
the company would not accept twenty
Eve-year franchise as the company would
be unable to sell its bonds in the fnan-
tial market if it did So
As to the proposed extension Of the
Erie street line, President McCarter said
the proposition was admittedly for the
benefit of the company as well as the
public, and that the company was willing
10 pay five per cent. Of the gross receipts
sn the section of the line it was proposed
to extend. He said the removal Of the
:urn-outs in Grove street would be ad-
vantageous to the company as well as to
lhe public.
With reference to the proposed Erie
street extension, Mr. John Casey urged
that in the event of the Board granting
The franchise that the company be bound
By contract to make street over the
meadows and pave it three feet on each
side. Mr. Casey expressed the fear that
The company would build trestle oyer
the meadows and that the street would
remain IN the same condition as the
meadow end of Ninth street is in at pres
mt.
Andrew J. Cofcoran, il the course Of
yeEy sensible vet witty speech, allud-
ID to the present crowded condition Of