Perth Amboy evening news., 1907-02-13
SOUTH AMBuY.

care how good horseman or horsl.
woman is, Of which we have lots conl
| Ing in from the country, It would bl
q dangerous place. there is Just rooh
for wagon If man is a good driver
/ If you can fix any other way | thinl
| 1t is a shame to spoil that avenue b,
laying another track. | keep a pub
lie house up there, but of course
am not looking at 1t the way som,
people do. The trolley would brinf
business to me just as much as t.
some other people, but / am not look
ing at 1t in that light; am lookinf
for safety. think we have Other
streets for the trolley to come to tho
down justdepot. There are street.
they can come down just as well as
Bordentown avenue. l want to make
this statement: l signed the applica.
tion for the trolley to come down that
street, but did not mean second
track"
Mr.. Littell: Il do not think much
more can be said In explanation OF
objections on the avenue to this troll
ley-1extra trolley track. think you
gentlemen all understand it. Our OBJ
jections are just as voiced by Mr..
Steuerwald. We do not think there
Is room there, We do not think the
present arrangement Of tracks would
be safe or be a benefit to our proper
ties along the line. If you gentlemen
could make any arrangement SO they
could run. over the same track |
think there would be no objections
at all. We are willing and should be
able to put up with what dust and
dirt there Is for the benefit--we can
eliminate that--but with the present
track as 1t is lying nearly if not In the
center of the road and running an
other one to give clearance way, /
think 1t is certainly very objection
able and | do not see why it should
be forced upon us. If that was the
only route or the only street in town
1t would be different matter as we
look at it, but there are three or four
streets where the same purpose could
be reached by going down that has
no track at the present time. Now
this is not selfish matter on my part
because as | say | am perfectly will
ling as one to put up with two lines
running over the one track So it
is not that We want to escape the
dirt of anything else, but we do want
to escape this taking up of our en-
tire street for the sake of benefiting
some corporation that would not ben
eft us In any way when there is a
means of getting to the desired point
through some other street."
E. r. Rose: II do not think there
is anything l can add to these re-
marks except in one particular and
think the borough counsel will bear
me out that the Jersey Central Trac-
ton Company cannot build another
trolley line on Bordentown avenue
without consent of the Public Service
Corporation
Mr.. Pearse: 81 am not prepared to
say"
Mr.. Rose: II had occasion to look
up the statute and 1 think I am
right"
Mr.. Pearse: What statute lid
you look at?"
Mr.. Rose: "The street railwcy
The statute reads to this effect: Pro
vided that no street railway shall be
constructed in the same street or
high way in which a street railway
may then be constructed and oper-
ated within one thousand feet of said
railway when parallel therto within
less than two block thereof for dis
tance greater than 200 feet without
a written consent of the company
then operating said railway except to
cross the same, etc. If l understand
that statute right, and 1t seems to be
perfectly easy of comprehension, 1t is
impossible for another trolley to
build line on that street or within
two block of that street without the
written consent of the company al
ready holding franchise. OF course
the purpose of that statute is to pro-
tect the company already having
franchise. I do not appear in the
interest of the Public Service Corpor-
alton, but If 1t is possible to obtain
the consent of the Public Service
Corporation 1t is just as easy to OBJ
track. I am not prepared to give the
exact width of the street. I think
Mr.. Slower prepared the width of the
street. AS l understand it the widest
part of the street is about twenty
three feet on one side and twenty-five
feet on the other from the present
trolley. track. The franchise as pro-
posed provides that the new trolley
track shall be be at least twelve feet
from center of center of the track
already in existence The guage of
the new track as / understand 1t is
five feet from the outside rail to out
side rail. that adds two feet and a
half to the twelve feet, making four
teen feet and a half. There is at
least two feet. possibly more, to the
outside of a trolley car from the
track, leaving n margin of five feet
from the curb to the side of the car in
the widest part of Bordentown ave-
nue.. Now the average track of a
wagon is five feet and l do not see
how 1t is possible for wagon to pass
a trolley car. We presume there are
two trolley cars coming this way Gin
dicating) on Bordentown avenue and
a wagon going north. according to
the laWg of fhia efnfa haliava there