The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-30
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FRANCHISES
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street. from Broad street to Halsey street:
Halsey street, from Cedar street to war
rem street; Warren street, from Halsey
street to Bruce street Spruce street, from
Belmont avenue to Clinton avenue Hign
street. from Clinton avenue to Orange
street. and from Orange street to Nassau
street: Nassau street, from High street TO
Sheffield street; Chestnut street, from
Broad street to 'McWhorter street; Adams
street. from South street to Market street;
Gotthardt street, from Chestnut street TO
Hamburg place; Kossuth street, from
Hamburg place to- Magazine street, Ell
met street. from Avenue A to Avenue -
Avenue c, from Emmett street 10 fark-
hurst street; Parkhurst street, from ave
nue. G to Dawson street; Dawson street,
from Parkhurst street to South street,
Astor street, from Clinton avenue to Sher-
Sherman avenue to Miller street; Sheffield
street, from Nassau street TO SeVenI9
avenue; Seventh avenue. from Shefnelo
street to Cutler street. cutter street ppraorb
avenue, from Bloomfield avenne, 10 city
line; Summer avenue. from
avenue to Second River; South Tenth
street. from Springfield avenue TO apou.
5O9 feet south of Avon avenue; Harvey
street. from Belleville avenue to OGDEN
street: Ogden street. from Harvey streee
to Fourth avenue: an qrq n,nranee R5ea la !
COMPANY: approved April IA. 1893; Ham
burg place, Avenue I 70 Doremus avenue.
City Counsel james R. Nugent VIII To-
day send a notice to the officials or the
North Jersey Street Railway Company
requesting them TO appear at the meeting
Of the Board of Works on August 8 to
show cause why the franchises should not
be revoked. :.
Most of the franchises have accrued
to the present company from old COM
panies. bought or merged into the PUP
lie Service Corporation.
Some of the franchises were granted
fifty years ago, most of them without
restrictions as to the time of laying
tracks or operating the lire, but a fsW
of them granted by Common Council
and Board of Works nave clauses max
ing the charter invalid II the road was
not operated in a specified tiroe, while
the conditions existing at the present
on streets In the centre Of the city, for
which the old companies were granted
the right to operate a street n line,
preclude the possibility of the project,
for instance, Cedar street and Halsey;
while the residents of High street
would have something to say If the
company attempted to lay tracks on
that t~horoughfare under the ordinance
granted to the Consolidated Traction
Company in 1893, empowering them to
| operate a line on High street from
| Clinton avenue to Orange street.
City Counsel Nugent now has the list
of streets or which the old companies
have been granted the right to lay
tracks and will present his opinion as 10
the validity Of the ordinances to the
Board Of Works in h near future.
A number Of the ordinances, ones granted
dt ring the Civil Wal especially. have been
amended year after year and the task OF
the city law department in trying 10
straighten out the tangle and decide as to
the validity Of the ordinances after the
expiration of many years is a difficult one.
The question of unused street rights
was mentioned in the EVENING STAR
some time ago when the trolley people at
tempted to extend he Bergen street line
under an old franchise, over a street but
recently paved, and despite the protest of
the property owners who had just been
assessed for the paving and the protest OF
the Board of Works; the North Jersey
Street Railway Company stood on their
legal rights to make the extension under
an ordinance passed thirty years ago and
the newly paved street wal torn up and
the rails laid.
Neither the property holders nor the
Board of Works took the matter up in
time to procure a stay from the courts,
and the opportunity CT making a test case
was lost.