Perth Amboy evening news., 1908-11-17
They Laid Over Until Next
Regular Meeting for Con-
cessiOns by the Company.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN
HOLD BUSY MEETING
d.. NJ. Bachman's Expulsion
from Hook and Ladder
Company Not Sustained.

At a meeting Of the Board Of
Aldermen, last night. the ordinance
designating a long list of streets on
which the n. Y. & n. J. Telephone
Company may place poles and con-
duits was given its first and second
readings. In consideration of the
franchise, which is for twenty years,
the telephone company will give the
city number OF Improvements.
The franchise shall not be exclu-
siye and if it IS passed the ordinance
of 1901 will be repealed. The ordi-
nance was ordered printed on slips
and laid over until the next regular
meeting
After the council had adjourned
the aldermen conferred with Repre-
sentative McHarg, of the telephone
com pany, in regard to. an agreement
with the city in case the ordinance
was adopted
Mr.. MeIIarg had prepared an
agreement and read it to the alder
men. The matter was thoroughly
discussed and number of changes
made for the benefit of the city. The
company is satisfied with the agree
ment, of which Alderman-at-Large
voorhees, has a copy, and will sign it
when the franchise is granted
The agreement provides for a
forty-line switchboard in the city
clerks Office with one power and
four additional service trunks to the
central Office. Twenty-seven extern
sion stations will connect with the
board.
The company is also willing to
furnish a direct line from the police
station to central Office and give free
service on all official calls in New
Jersey within a radius of twenty
miles.
They further agree to lay 5000
feet of subways within one year and
over $40 feet in ten years; also to
give one duct in the conduit systems
for the police telegraph and fire
alarm wires, and TO maintain ttsae-
same
Mr.. Voorhees, says that the COM
pany has also agreed to place tele-
phones in all the city Offices and in
the homes of the mayor and chief of
police, the public schools, and all
other public buildings and allow free
local service. Mr.. Voorhees, says
that the free service will amount to
over $1,000 year, and he thinks
that the city will be benefited by the
franchise.
AS the company makes more ex-
tensions they must pay more taxes.
Furthermore, the company pays a
state franchise tax of two per cent.
on its gross earnings, which the
city gets. The alderman-at-large says
further that people living on streets
where there are no telephone extern
sions will also be benefited.
The switchboard in the city hall
will be great advantage as one
Office or one city building can be con-
nected with the other without the
aid of the company's central" Office.
Although there will only be twenty
seven telephones attached to It, 1t is
a forty-line board, so that new
schools or other new city buildings
can be connected later. The COM
pany also agrees to install free tele-
phones in any city buildings erected
during the life of the franchise.
The city hall switchboard could
be operated in the day time by Mr..
LaRoe's stenographer, and at night
it can be ''cut OUT and calls obtain
ed as usual through the regular cen
trail Office
One N ember of the minority in
the council told reporter that he
did not expect to vote for the ordi-
nance.
Expulsion Not Upheld.
At the council meeting, last night,
on recommendation of the fire COM
mittee. it was decided that the name
of D. j. NJ. Bachman should remain
on the roll of Protection Hook &
Ladder Company. At regular
meeting of the company on October
Z last Mr.. Bachman was expelled
''for conduct unbecoming a men,
ber." When this action was report
ed to the council, it was referred
to the fire com mittee. The commit-
tee stated in it's report that it had
been informed that Mr.. Bachman
had never had a hearing before be-
ing expelled.
William Walters Constable,
CITY Frsi IL tiers
asked to be appointed as a constable
for the second ward. The appoint
ment was, by ballot, made
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