The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-06-11
lrt, Hughes and U. S.
Officials on Tour
Up Hudson.
SEWERAGE OULETS
ARE TALKED OVER
Governors of New York and New
Jersey Get Into Discussion
.0n, Utilities.

Governor Fort embraced the unusual
opportunity which the official gathering
for proposed Hudson river bridge site
inspection offered today and put in a
plea for the proposed Robbins reef out
let for the Passaic Valley intercepting
trunk sewer. In the party was the ex-
ceptional combination of war depart
ment representatives, New York and
New Jersey State officials and legisla-
tors. and New York city officials. For
more than four hours they were to-
gether, and even such big subject as
bridging the Hudson did not hold the
interest without interruption for such
period of time.,
r. A. C. Smiths palatial yacht Pri-
vateer was placed at the disposal of
the Interstate Bridge Commission, that
Is at present charged with the prelim-
mary work in connection with the
plan of uniting New York and New
Jersey.
The vessel left the New York Yacht
Clubs station, at the foot of East
Twenty-third street. at a little after
l0:30 a. m. today with the commission
and its distinguished guests aboard to
look over sites that have been proposed
for bridging the Hudson. From mid
stream and as close in as the yacht
could go to the Jersey and New York
shores these proposed terminals were
scrutinized.
OF the three sites inspected, that
from West Fifty-seventh street. New
York, to West Seventh street, Hoboken,
was most favored.
The others are from Washington
Heights to the Jersey shore and from
10th street across
Governor Hughes and Governor Fort
spent much OF the time together before
and after the elaborate luncheon served
on board. While the conversation in
the main was general, there was much
that passed between them that reached
none but gubernatorial ears. 1t was
only natural that in the course of the
day the Jersey executive should take
up the question OF a Passaic Valley
sewer outlet.
Secretary of War Absent.
Secretary of War ]. R. Dickinson was
unable to be present. Colonel Lock-
wood. head Of the New York Harbor
Line Board, represented the depart
menh. Speaker John d. Prince, OF the
New Jersey commission, Emmanuel w.
Bloomingdale, Alexander ]. Shamberg
and Senator Martin SAKE. counsel OF
New York; Colonel Anthony R. Kuser,
Victor F. Mason. Elias D. Smith. Frank
r. Long and Fred N. Eberhard, of New
Jersey, were on the trip.
It will be remembered that the Pas
sale Valley Sewerage Commission has
approved a plan calling Tor SUD
merged outlet near Robbins reef, lower
bay, of the sewer intended to stop Pas-
sale pollution. This has been fought by
the New York city and State authori-
ties through the initiative of the New
York Merchants Association.
Governors Hughes and Fort have had
many conferences since the assumption
of office by the latter, and they are
on the best of terms. There has been
somewhat in common between the
messages they have sent to their re-
snecttve State legislatures in the last
two sessions. One subject that was
discussed today was the regulation of
public utilities, on which the New
York executive holds more radical
views than Governor Fort.
Essex men on the trip besides Gov
ernor Fort included Colonel Austin Col
gate, his personal aide; Senator Harry
y. Osborne and Director Wallace
Ougheltree, of the Board of Freehold
ers Colonel Colgate met the others Of
the Fort party in Jersey City, the
Governor having spent the night at his
summer home in Spring Lake. The
complete list of those who accepted in
yitations for the trip follow:
Guests of the bridge commissioners
aboard the Privateer were:
General Dickinson, General Oliver,
Governor Hughes, Colonel G.. G.
Treadwell. aide; Lieutenant-Gov
HORACE White, Speaker James w.
Wadsworth, IT,, Senator lothian p.
Aids. Senator Alexander Brough. As
semblyman Edwin A. Merritt, jr., AS
semblyman Frederick R. Toombs,
Mayor George B. Mcclellan and secre-
tary. Comptroller Herman A. Metz,
Job p. Hedges, Weller H. Noyes, Gov
ernor Fort, Colonel Austen Colgate.
aide: Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen,
sneaker John D. Prince, Senator Ed
rund w. Wakelee, Senator Ernest r.
Ackerman, Senator James f. Fielder,
Senator John Hinchliffe, Senator Harry
v. Osborne, Assemblyman Edward T.
Moore and the directors Of the Boards
of Freeholders of Essex. Hudson,
TTnion. Passaic and Bergen counties;
McDougall Hawkes., chairman of the
New York commission, and e. w
Bloomingdale, A. ]. Shamberg, Colonel
George r. Dyer, J. w. Stevenson, and
frederick P. Flanagan, secretary; Mar
lin SAKE, counsel; Whitney Warren.
constructing architect; Henry w.
Hodge, constructing engineer; Colonel
Anthony r. Kuser, chairman OF the
New Jersey Commission, and Frederick
n. Eberhard, secretary; F. r. Long,
Elias D. Smith and v. L. Mason; A. 7.
Boiler, constructing engineer; K. d.
Arons, assistant secretary; supreme
Court Justice James F. Minturn, W. n.
Corbin, ]. "A. G. Johnson and F. Il. NC
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