Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-11-23
MUNGLE TAKES
P 5. G. CASE TO
UTILITIES BOARD
Demands That Commission En-
force Agreement Company
Made With the City.
ACTION BEGUN In BEHALF
OF BOARD OF WORKS
Seeks to Have Trolley Excursion
Rate to New York and
Return Reduced.

Consistent with his promise to force
the issue with the Public Service Cor
poration relative to the issuing Of a
twenty-ive-cen excursion ticket be-
tween this city and New York, Com
missioner William Munsle, of 1t Board
OF Works, presented at today's meeting
a. copy of the petition which he sent
or Monday to the Public Utilities Com
mission.
The petition includes extracts from
the ordinances approved in April, 1894,
and April, 1898, in which specific refer
encc was made to the rate that was to
be charged for a continuous ride from
any part Of Newark to or from New
York.
In the ordinance of April, 1894, the
rate is liked at twenty-five cents for an
excursion ticket, good either way, be-
tween the two cities mentioned. and 1t
is in order to reestablisf this rate that
Commissioner Mungle and the other
Board of Works members are seeking
to bring the Public Service Corporation
to tine.
Ordinances ON Subject.
The ordinance OF April q, 1898. called
for a ten-oent fare to or from New
York. while on April %. 1898, another
ordinance was adopted establishing a
~twelve-cert rate between Newark and
New York.
All Of these agreements were lived up
to by the trolley company for a limited
period, but the alleged arbitrary dis
continuance of these through rates and
the repeated refusal of the company to
reestablisn any of them has stirred the
ire of the Board OF Works and induced
the present action. :
MI. Mungle makes the appeal to the
Utilities Commission as an individual.
but the board is behind him and would
have taken the same. step IL the law
permitted 1t to do SO as a body.
While not o-ver-sanguine that the Pub
lie Utilities Commission will act in &C.
cordance with the desires OF the board.
the petition was sent to that body In
order to pave the way for an appeal
later IN to the encouragement for a
repeal of the franchises under which the
trolley company is operating n which
are affected by the different ordinances
referred to in the petition.
1t is contended that in violating that
part of he agreement relative to the
Newark-New York rate. the trolley
company has sacrificed any benefits
that arc elsewhere embodied in the
ordinances of which this rate clause
r-a n A., {pavSo,.fo,% or4
Board of Works Determined.
The Board Of Works will not cease in
its efforts to get the twenty-five-cent
rate until every resources is exhausted,
realizing that it would be a great. con-
venience to the residents of the city,
particularly in the light OF the increase
in railroad transportation.
Tho petition, as forwarded to the
Public Utilities Commission. was as
follows:
To the Board of Public Utility Com
mission of the State of New Jersey:
Your petitioner. William Mungle,
shows
"a That he is a resident of the city
of Newark and county of Essex, and a
member Of the Board OF Street and
Water Commissioners Of said city.
CD That on or about the thirty-first
day of May. 1895, an ordinance was
adopted by the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners entitled:
IAN ORDINANCE TO SUPPLEMENT
AND AMEND AN ORDINANCE
ENTITLED AN ORDINANCE TO
AUTHORIZE AND EMPOWER THE
\ CONSOLIDATED TRACTION COM
PANY, A CORPORATION INCoR-