Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-08
TROLLEY DISCUSSION
Continued from Page Co.

might think longer and ponder fur
Their. The very suggestion, gentle
men, made was an impeachment of
your own intelligence and of the good
faith, not only of this municipal body,
but of the corporation that has asked
for this franchise. The next gentle
man to get upon his feet did not in
tend to suggest except that the cor
poration he represented. and he was
frank enough to say who he repre-
scented, the Public Service Corpora
ton, said that the Public Service
Corporation, if you would give them
a chance and more time, would come
here and ask you to give them a
franchise that would serve the pub
lie convenience and promised if you
granted a franchise to his corpora
ton you would have a more easy
journey from and to Perth Amboy
and you would at once be put in con-
nection with the other outlying lines.
If you are going to wait that long,
how long do you think it will be?'
Mayor: Never, l guess"
Public Service Has Its Day.
Mr.. Wilson: His whole PROPOSE
ton is predicated upon the charge
that he has in his pocket somewhere
a franchise from the freeholders of
this county to traverse the Raritan
river. The Public Service has had its
day before the arena of public opin-
ion, but consistent with its grasping
methods when it had its day in court
it demanded that the public officials
of this county permit it to run its
tracks free over the bridge the
county had constructed. We do not
ask that, gentlemen. We do not ask
the county to give us their property
to wear it out, we ask that we may
be permitted to build an independ-
ent structure ~paralleling the struc-
ture of the county, and this whole
problem Of delay grew out of the fact
that there was q time when they
thought that by at their
command they could obtain a fran
chise to run their tracks, run their
ars over the bridge of the county
and wear 1t out. When they found
they could not, when complications
arose which it is not necessary to
comment upon here, they stood still
and waited. They said to themselves,
We will play the dog in the Manager.
We will not hurry about this thing.
When we get ready to give the people
of this community some sort of SER
vice we will make our application in
due time, when we have our wires all
strung and things all clean, we will
go ahead
The Public Can Wait.
"In the meantime the public can
xxyatt npd A,4rtno that inAnHnttn ~
iod the Central Traction Company
conceived the idea of coming into this
town and through this town, not
along over the tracks of the Public
Service Corporation as they are
Obliged to do now, to be at the mercy
of the Public Service Corporation;
1--WE are nov on their tracks under
an agreement they may terminate
when they conceive the notion) come
into this town and said we want togo
through your town and across the
Raritan yonder, apG ii you will tell
us what you think is fair in respect
to the construction of our tracks and
the maintenance OF our tracks we will
accept those terms, and | venture to
say not one single gentleman has
opened his mouth in opposition to the
passage of this ordinance from the
standpoint of citizenship. | make
that charge and | make it advisably.
We came here in this spirit and said
to you, this is our purpose, and tell
us what sort of bargain you want to
make and put it in from and shape.
| have been employed on both sides
Of the question, | have represented
municipalities, and | undertake to
say this is as good a bargain any
municipality in this state ever made
a traction company. There is
on one protesting from the standpoint
d~isinterested citizenship, but a
group of lawyers, distinguished law
yers here protesting in the interest
somebody whom they represent
and who are not, | venture to say, the
disinterested taxpayers and citizens
of this town.
Limit to Endurance.
Now. gentlemen. thing there
be a limit to human endur-
ance. / think there is a limit beyond
the patient man ought moi be
asked to do. / think when the Pub
nc Service comes here and says to
In effect, don't grant this fran
chise. Law it over, we will come back
and make an application, that it Isl