Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-02-15

! River, Seyreville and this city, and
published in the New Brunswick
Daily Press and Perth Amboy EVE
MING NEWS.
Call for Correspondence.
| Col. Livermore then asked is any
one present had any recent CORE
spondence relating TO the bridge
Letters were read from manufacture
ing concerns above the bridge, to
whom copies of the notice had been
sent but who did not have represent
tatives present.
The letter of the American Enam.
el Brick and Tile Company stated
that they did not consider the bridge
any great obstruction and that the
efforts against the present structure
may have been fostered by the rail-
road companies, who only wanted to
see the river crossed by people in
their trains, or by desires for a diff
ferent bridge. The Raritan Rive,
CLAY Company suggested that the
bridge be taken up for some distance
and spans put in. Sayre & Fisher
]
mer County Solicitor Willis to the
secretary of war applying for the
approval of the plans was then read
Col. Livermore then called upon
Mr.. Bloomfield. and the stenographer
set TO work. Mr.. Bloomfield said that
he felt that the correspondence which
had been read had covered the mat
ter. but added that he mad been to the
scene Tuesday afternoon at 3 O'Clock
and that th river was blocked with
ice for half mile above the bridge.
Col. Livermore said that he would
have sent an engineer down If Mr..
Bloomfield had notified him at once.
Captain H H. Hoyer, of Brooklyn,
who has been running his vessel up
the Raritan for forty years, said he
could not get up Tuesday.
J. W. Podmore then spoke and he
said that the river was closed TO nav
igation several weeks longer than
formerly each winter.
Walter A. Snow, formerly of this
citv, spoke for the Great Eastern &
National Clay Manufacturing Com
parry, of South River, who have two
tows at their dock and cannot get a
tug UP 70 take them away, and there
fore de a more open bridge John
Ford, l1- lager of the Raritan Tow
ing company, spoke in a similar
strain
Director Pownan Speaks.
Director Pownall, of the Board of
Freeholders, then spoke. He stamp
ed the proceedings as an injustice.
He said that tug went up the river
Tuesday afternoon only an hour af-
ter Bloomfield had been there. He
said that to make the proposed
changes would cost more than the
county could raise, and that it would
be two or three years before a bill
authorizing it could be passed. He
said that, as he understood it, the
plans had been approved by the war
department. He asked for two years
to test the bridge.
Borough Attorney F. NJ P. Pearse,
OF South Amboy, spoke similarly and
asked if the ice would not be blocked
anyhow by the railroad bridge. E.
W. Barnes, president of the local
Chamber of Commerce, said the
chamber wanted to see the bridge
completed.
County Solicitor Strong then spoke
and, with carefully-worded sarcasm,
threw hot shot into Bloomfield, and
said he was the instigator of the agi-
tation, and he asked whether Bloom
field was after "notoriety for him
self, expense for the county, or trou-
Bile for the Board of Freeholders.
Mr.. Strong reviewed the history of
the affair and asked for two years
time for a test. Mr.. Strong made the
speech of the day and spoke at some
length. Col. Livermore asked if Mr..
strong had his speech in writing
He had not, and at the end of the
hearing, that was deemed unneces-
sary, as the stenographer had all the
remarks.
Arthur E. Sanford, of Sanford &
Harris, said the tug Fireproofer went
ternoon. Mr.. Sanford told of the
work.
J. D. Van Pelt, of South Amboy,
spoke i9e zaf the present bridge.
and uG = necessity of this
"greatf .,nway between north and
southA sey." He said that there
are Eople in certain lines of trade
who always object to new bridges.
because every bridge is somewhat of
an obstruction.
Charles w. Crane. who has trans
portation and property interests
above the bridge, said the savings of
lifetime depended on navigation up
the Raritan.
Mr.. Bioomfied then spoke in an ex-
tied franrS of mind raising his voice
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