Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-08
SOUTH AMB0Y.
Mayor Tells A Story.


Mayor Tells A Story.
Mayor: You remind me of a
patient | had some time ago. | gave
the party who called for me the as
surance that | could relieve him and
cure him and | went up as quick as
| could, not as fast as ] might. When
| got there they said. Doctor, the
is dead
Mr.. Wilson: You are not sug-
costing Mr.. Coan is a doctor?"
Mr.. Coan: Il hope he don't sug-
gest | am dead"
Mr.. Lykes: Il agree with our hon
orable gentleman in some respects.
| believe that you should have the
company tied so that they cant get
away. This thing has been under fire
for three months. | have been here
three or four times. 1t has been I'M
der fire for about three months at
least and it Is queer to me that the
honorable gentlemen here and the
lawyer or two don't know enough
how an ordinance should be drawn.
Now. gentlemen, | go in for granting
this ordinance. | see where other
parties are waiting for South Amboy
to take the lead. The township COM
mittee of Sayreville is waiting; they
are waiting over at Perth Amboy to
hear the decision of South Amboy.
Now then If our honorable gentleman
here wants three months longer"
Mayor: "Joe, you and | will be
dead and we won't get the advantage
of it,
Hiliman Gives Experience.
Mr.. Hillman: might I be per-
mitted to tell a little story in connec-
ton with this franchise? Three years
ago last March l was elected council
man. When | toow my seat here
there was a franchise pending before
the body and | think the application
for the franchise was the Jersey Cen
trail Traction Company, and that the
ordinance had been under considera-
tion five or six months at least. We
worked at it, pondered at it until we
got it to what we thought was pretty
nearly perfection and then we voted
not to grant it. At that time they
had built up the borough line, what
is known as Swan Hill, right in front
of Mr.. Perrine's property. They had
their ties laid, their track laid, and
they were under agreement, / be-
liece, in order to get the right of way
from Mr.. Perrine and Mr.. Conover
to complete their line within a year.
I think | remember it rightly. They
unable to do so because South
was in the way, and Mr.. Per-
rine brought suit against them and
compelled them to vacate the right
Of way and he would not permit them
10 take up the tracks after he won
the suit. That application was to
come into Broadway, Meinzer's cor
ner. They made another application
to go out from Louisa street, down
Pine avenue, Bordentown avenue, as
lar as the bridge connection with the
Service tracks there. There
was a whole lot of fighting about that
and we had the franchise under way
for n long while, then there came a
monster petition from the people of
Stevens avenue. They wanted 1t and
they demanded that we have the
traction company so through Stevens
avenue. We had to drop that ordin-
and have them make another
application to come through Stevens
avenue.
I'VE got another ordinance under
way. We had it, as | said before,
nearly perfect, 1t was agreeable to
us, it was agreeable to everybody.
We had public hearings. 1t was
agreeable to the traction company.
We imposed upon them the necessity
of taking ARE of the water in what
is known as the hole in the wall. We
had meetings held comforting with
the traction company's representa-
tives and talked these matters over.
They even agreed to take care of that
water. although they would not agree
to widen the approach because it
would cost about $4,000, they claim
ed.
Ordinance Is Satisfactory.
Now then, this franchise was
ready for adoption, it had been
amended in every possible way that
We thought beneficial to the public.
we had provided as far as we could
penalties and all those things, all it
needed was to be taken up on the
third reading and passed, and n of
our members of the council received
q letter from the Public Service rep
resentative asking us If we would not
hold the matter over a little longer
and the mayor submitted the propo-
sition, said there might be something
beneficial to us, we will lay the mat
ter over, and we did-so. Previous to
that we pounded and pounded the
Public Service to get them to COM
plete their lines to the borough linn
its, but they could not do it, but this
franchise was held up and the Public
Service came forward and promised
the mayor and founcilmen they