Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-12-08

thai Is over four yaays as thay ~
piled for n franchise in this boron
and they have had at least twenfv
Ave hearings on the question and ~,
people of Stevens VENUE have SIGN
ed q petition. 1t is in the care Of n,
borough clerk today, asking for tha
track TO be laid through Stevens ave
nue.. Now it is truly ridiculous Il
say the public have not been heart
on the question of granting franchise
to the Jersey Central when they have
been applying here for four years
and l have got four copies at home
OF different ordinances that have been
made" a,.}E
Col. Gilmore Speaks.
Col. Gilmore, representing the
Public Service Corporation): Il do
not intend to appear here as opposing
any grant this council might feel dis
posed to make. ! simply want to
make a statement on behalf OF the
company | represent in regard to
this matter. After the bridge across
the Raritan river had been complet-
ed there was an application made by
the Raritan TRACTION Company TO the
Board of Freholders for permission
to cross the bridge and permission
was granted by the city of Perth Am
boy to that company to build down
to the bridge and to the city line at
the river. The bridge was not then
in 4 condition to build a street rail-
way on, and that application was
withdrawn. Since then the Eliza
beth & Raritan River Street Railway.
which is operating through that city.
has succeeded to the franchise and
.rtuhtC of tho porifon 1Nroatf@- 49,.
pany and now controls that franchise
on the other side of the river. 1t is
operating street railways in the city
Greek, down to the ferry and to
Ford's Corner, and you know the
street railway it is operating here
from your borough limit on one side
10 your borough limit on the other.
1t has always been the intention f
this company that, as soon as the
condition to build a street railway
on, to make application both to this
borough and to the ~freeholders for
permission to cross that bridge.
The delay has been for the reason
that | have considered there was
plenty of time after the bridge was
lut LII tOAdltlOh lOl tHc .ODtIdllOl Ol |
a street railway. | merely want to
suggest to you gentlemen that this
company has lines on both side of
the river and is in a position to give
YOU better service, to give your peo-
pie a better service across that bridge
than any other company without
lines in the city of Perth Amboy and
| would like to request, although the
ALBANIAN hoc r1thar. a. ,,,oan1 ,,.l
ardor, | would like to request that
make application before this board.
understand that this application has
been before you for some time. For
some reason inexplicable. our officers
were not advised of the fact that this
application was pending md we knew
nothing of it until a week or ten days
ago. Since hat time we have not had
time to make our surveys or present
any formal application to this board,
but we would like the privilege of
presenting an application here and
we think that we would be in position
to convince the gentlemen of this
council that we could give a better
service and more satisfactory service
to the citizens of South Amboy by
which they could reach any reason
able part of Perth Amboy over the
lines which we would like to build.
| simply make that suggestion to you
and | think 1t Is worth considering"
r. P. Mason: II did not come
here to have anything to say, but |
will say that we have had consider
able experience with the company
Col. Gilmore represents and we would
like to have some experience with the
other company in the borough"
Voice from Sayreville.
Senator SilZer: Il represent an
adjoining municipality. The chair
man of the township committee of
Sayreville has asked me to say at
your meeting tonight a similar appli-
cation has been made in the township
of S~ayreville, that this matter is of
such far-reaching Importance, not
only to the borough of South Amboy,
but to the people of the township of
~Sayreville, who practically are with
in your limits and work here, and
also to the people of tfa county of
Middlesex that it has seemed to the
township committee of S~ayreville
that it would be wise IL thethree mum
having the giving OF this
lIdlCuiSG SHOuiQ idN6 d JOAht CoilSi
a conference between this coun-
Gil, the township of ~Sayreville and
the Board of Freeholders, in order TO
determine for the people of this bor-
ough and the township of Sayreville
and the county of Middlesex what is
best for the people to do. III there,
are two companies or three compan-
les ready to properly bid against each
other, let us put them against each
other and see the best we can get, let
tie them up in every way possible.
This is a suggestion. Probably the
principal reason is that under the
present conditions of a narrow street
leading down to this hole in the wall,
which we are all familiar with, and
the condition of that hole in the wall,
the granting of this franchise by your
board tonight would be a monopoly,
it would shut ont all other corners,
if the section which Mr.. Coan has
read is correct. it would prevent any
body from getting through II the
hands of the other municipalities,
the hands of the county of Middlesex
would ba tjad Thpraf0rp we think 1t