The evening star and Newark advertiser., 1907-12-12

| Shepherd, general superintendent Of
the Pennsylvania Railroad: Presidents
f. D. Underwood and w. II. Trues-
dale, of the Erie and Lackawanna
Rilroads, respectively; Chief Justice
William H. Gummere.
In casting the ballot of the board for
! the officers for the ensuing year James
! M. Reilly, the secretary, omitted his
own name. DR.. Samuel p. Robertson.
chairman of the committee on nomina
tions. then cast the ballot of the board
for Mr. Reilly's election as secretary.
| The president, three vice-presidents,
treasurer secretary and arbitration
committee were all reelected. In ac-.
cordance with the usual custom of the
board, a new board of directors was
chosen The advisory board remains as
| formerly, consisting of former presi-
dents Of the board.
The following members were elected
to the offices indicated:
| President-Peter Campbell.
| Vice-P Presidents-Joseph Coult, James
H Abercrombie, Franklin Conklin.
| Treasurer-David H. Merritt.
Secretary-James M. Reilly.
| Board of Directors-Isaac +. Roe,
Abraham Rothschild. George r. Reeve,
Herbert p. Gleason, Moses Plaut, Henry
| II. Dawson, Henry Dickson, William H.
F. Fielder, John F. Kehoe.
| Arbitration Committee-Colonel James
e. Fleming, chairman; Henry r. Kings
| ley Frederick L. Eherhardt, Philemon
| L. Hoadley, George w. Jagle.
| Board members found SO much business
waiting that some important items were
given oaly passing consideration. One OF
these pertained to educational affairs, and
| the city OF Boston was held up as all
example which Newark could well notice.
| This matter was laid over on the motion
of the chairman of this committee. DIR.
Samuel e. Robertson further discus
sion Of the subject will take place on a
| later date.
What little time was given to this sub
| ject showed that the committee on edu-
cational matters believed in the employ
ment of an architect to supervise the
work of building school houses. The
present method" of picking out some
architect who Is a friend of some of the
School Commissioners without any regard
to his professional experience as an archi-
tect of buildings of this class or impor-
tanee." was condemned.
School Commissioner George f. Simonds
spoke in explanation of his course on what
he termed 1.-THE notorious school house com
mittee." He said that he had been in
| favor OF this plan and would vote for 1t II
given an opportunity.
| ]. W. Howard's report on paving guar
antees was curtailed and only brief
| extracts were read therefrom The
substance of his contention was that
the making of assessments against taxiay-
ers for laying guaranteed pavements was
| Illegal The ground upon which he de-
Tended this statement. he said, was that
A u.
pavements, although he might be made to
pay his proportion of the cost of laying
them and inasmuch as pavements which
were guaranteed" were put down at
prime cost in excess of what the amount
would be IL the guarantee clause were not
inserted the difference. he held, amounted
to the cost of keeping the pavemenss III
repair during the life of the guarantee.
Mr.. Howard left his report with the sec
retary for the edifcation OF the members.
The other matter laid over was that OF
the paving question, and this, too, will
come up at later date.
One thing the Board of Trade would like
to know. and that is the identity of the
| thief who was so bold and perhaps so
patriotic as 10 steal the nameplate from
! the Seth Boyden statue In Washington
Park The nameplate is gone. and the
! charity of the members of the board lay
| 1t TO the. fact that some relic hunter IN
| his eagerness, or perhaps it may have
been woman, carried off the treasure to
! preserve 1t from the winters cold. At any
rate. the Board of Trade Is happy to think
| that the statue was not taken along with
the nameplate. Whoever stole the plate
can put It back and no questions will be
asked.
w. G. Besler, vice-president of the Cen
trail Railroad Of New Jersey outlined the
stand which his road takes in the present
controversy between the Central and New
| Haven lines over the cutting off of through
connections at Jersey City, and declared
| that he was working to protect the ship
pers along his route. 1t is a fight for the
interest of the public as well as for the
railroads interests, he said
MIR. Beser's address was made after the
report of the transportation and freight
committee of the board had been handed
in He reviewed the agreement which, lie
snid, had existed for twenty years between
his road and the New Haven, whereby tho
latter was to accept traffic from the Cen
| tral at Jersey City, and denounced as un-
fair the cancellation Of the arrangement
and the shifting of freight from his line
for New England points to the New Haven
line via Phllipsburg, which was entailed
by the refusal of that road to accept traf-
fc at Jersey City.
AT the conclusion of the meeting Mr..
Besler gave out the following statement:
'The public may be interested to know
that the Central Railroad Company
of New Jersey in its controversy
with the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad Company, is
not only defending its own rights
but those of the public, since the severance
of through connections between these
systems via Jersey city means dis
continuance of a very important trans
portation service between great commercial
centres.
'fhe general public has no particular in
terest In questions between railroads re-
lating To longer hauls and consequently
greater revenue. but 1t has right to ex-
pect protection and to know that its in
terests are sateguarded. All public
spirited men, representatives of industries
boards of trade and other commercial
bodies, should consider most carefully the
far-reaching effect should this highway OF
commerce between New England and the
middle States be destroyed
These favorable traiflc Interchange ar
rangements via Jersey City have been iT
ef1ect for more than twenty years, estab-
fishing short route, making possible
quick service and Warranting low rites.
i THESE transportation auvan tages nave
In large measure, encouraged tine estaD-
lishment of extensive and important indus
. tries along the line Of the Central RaIlronJ
of New Jersey and connections, as we'll as
the exchange of a large traffic between
communities in New Engianu and New Jet-
sey, Pennsylvania Maryland and Other