The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-23
PLANK ROAD
REPAIRS TO
COURT?
Chancsry May Be Asked
to Decide Obligations Of
Public Service.

At a Joint meeting of the Newark
and Jersey City Boards of Trade. i'm
provement associations and automobile
and driving clubs, held at the Board
of Trade rooms Saturday night, the
Board of Freeholders of this county
came in for considerable censure for
not having representatives present to
tell the cause of the delay in repairing
the Plank road. and were further ar
raigned for "creating the impression
that the work was delayed because it
was impossible to make arrangements
with the Public Service Corporation TO
Deal a part of the cost"
After a prolonged discussion a resolution
was passed by the representatives of the
Newark and Jersey City Boards of Trade,
the New Jersey Automobile and Motor
Club, the Road Drivers Association OF
New Jersey, the Team Owners Associa-
ton and the Hudson County Automobile
Club, protesting against any further de-
lay and calling for a conference With the
Public Service Corporation and the Boards
of Freeholders Of Essex and Hudson coun-
tics. The resolution follows:
Resolved, That this joint meeting, rep
resenting the Board of Trade of the city
of Newark, the New Jersey Automobile
and Motor Club, the Road Drivers Assoc
citation of New Jersey, the Jersey City
Board of Trade, the Hudson County Au-
tomobile Club and the Team Owners AS
ISOLATION, protest against any further de-
lay In carrying out the provisions Of the
law passed to secure the Improvement Of
what is known as the Plank road, be-
tween the city of Newark and Jersey
City.
Resolved, That we favor a conference
between a committee of the said bodles
with the Public Service before urging That
a petition be made to the Court OF Chan-
Gerry, and in the event of failure to bring
about a satisfactory agreement without de-
lay, between Public Service and the BOARDS
of Freeholders of Essex and Hudson Coun-
ties, then to recommend that an immediate
application be made to the Court of Cham
Gerry to effect a settlement OF the question:
of cost and its apportionment.
Resolved, That the committees present
request the bodies they represent 10 anlrm
this action and pledge taei nc eoi imnrovement
in the interest of the present ana con-
stantly increasing commerce 49,.
Joseph Fl. Wood; of the special tiank
read committee of the eWark board OF
Trade, called the meeting to order ann,
after explaining the object, read the re-
port of the special committee, or which
Major James w. Howard Is chairman. ihls
TPIGTIeu~ 10 lit uttNECd NhNthJt L'
Colonel Edwin Hine, of the Public SerV-
ice Corporation, was at the meeting ava
declared that the rights of the Fcp.c
Corporation to the Plank road were
In perpetully AMI that the rlghtS VIII pe
r.rotecfed and not surrendered unless the
corporation is forced to do so by legisia-
tion. ~
Colonel Hine further declared that the
corporation he represented may not SNARE
the expense Of the proposed improvements,
which, he pointed out, the law. proVl1eu
should be borne by Essex and Hudson'
counties, Essex bearing h~ve-eighths Oh me
cost and Hudson three-eighths. lie auueu
that this statement could be made a posi-
tive one il the plans of the Essex Free
holders were not submitted to President
McCartcr. of the Public Service Corpora
lion for approval. This, he added. the
Freeholders had agreed to do, but failed.
Assemblyman Charles Heudrickson spoke
for the Jersey Board of Trade, anne
the action taken by those present, ana
stated that he was heartily In OIL
definite action at once.
Major Howard was made the permanent
chairman of the COMMITTEES, which VIII
meet regularly. He said that the PuDnc
Service Corporation would be consulted
before the matter was taken to court.
At a recent meeting of the legislative
committee of the New Jersey Automobile
and Motor Club a hke resolution was
passed and supplemented to read that the
matter should be presented to the Grand
Jury, and that that body be asked to IN
vestigate the material used in the erection
the bridge on the Plank road over the
Hackensack River.
This resolution was not mentioned py
the representative of the club at the meet
ing, but II Is understood that the counsel
for the club is preparing to submit 1t TO
the county inuuiSitOrS.