Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1905-04-08
People from Carteret Call for the
Line TO That Place --FOrds
for the Reduced
Fare.
OPINIONS FREELY EXPRESSED
The Committee Gave the Ordinance
Its Second Reading but Deferred
a Vote Until Next Meeting,

Although less calumny and contume-
ly were uttered by the various
speakers than at the former hearings,
the Woodbridge township committee
hearing on the Woodbridge creek troll
ley matter at Rogan's Opera" house,
Fords, last night, will go down in To-
cal and Woodbridge, not to say Fords,
annals, as one of the most vociferous
and widely-divided gatherings ever
held.
Many of those at the hearing spoke,
some of them several times, and +,
among the speakers were several
whose voices or influence had not
previously been heard in the agitation
one way or the other.
About 80 o'clock, after the ques-
tion had been thoroughly threshed
out, one of the members OF sthe COM
mittee made motion to have the
ordinance TO cross..the bridge taken up
: or is second reading. The motion
was carried and the lengthy ordin-
ance. which had its first reading some
time ago, but which has TO be passed
on its second and third readings be
fore becoming law, was read by the
clerk, Irving Demarest.
The crowd. Of course. expected the
matter to be settled on the spot as
the ordinance had never been put to
its second reading before. Expectancy
was plainly depicted on every one OF
the several hundred faces in the large
pavilion. On the faces of the tords
and nearly all of the Woodbridge citi-
zens there rested an expression of sat
isfaction on those of the Carteret
and Port Reading contingent could be
read feelings OF expectant dismay. On
the conntenances of the Public Ser
vice representatives and those few
present cognizant with their moves
there sat an expression of knowledge;
knowledge that the ordinance would
not be passed last night, but that
Woodbridge would be selected as the
place for the final disposition of the
matter, And so it was.
After the clerk finished reading the
ordinance, instead OF putting the ques-
tion to vote, the committeeman
passed motion to adjourn until next
Wednesday night at the Woodbridge
town hall,
This, despite the fact that clamorous
voices in the pavilion were calling:
Take vote; let us see how you
stand!n
But every move had been blocked
out even before the committee went to
Fords, the farthest of the far ends of
Woodbridge township, and the ques-
tion was harked back to the little
stuify, dingy inadequate place that
Woodbridgers By habit, and Perth
Amboyans, by courtesy, call Town
Hall. .
There was nobody who questioned
the sagacity OF referring the question
back TO Woodbridge village, but why
not have it in Masonic hall, or tent,
or anywhere but a place no largef
than a good sized bedroom?N
However. the sentiment prevails
that the hope of all Woodbridge and
Perth Amboy is that the matter be
settled pro or con in the very near
Future. An entirely disinterested
spectator, q prominent business man,
who has followed up all the hearings
andmoves in the agitation thus far, re-
marked as he left the pavilion, that
1T begins to look as if some folks are
weakening and chat the ordinance will
be PASSED without any trolley spur to