Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-17
GAR MILEAGE IS
BASIS OF NEWEST
s P. c. ORDINANCE
Board of Works to Meet Next
Week to Take Up Street
Railway Regulation. +

clat meeting some Time next week Ior
the purpose of taking up a new ordi-
nance which will govern how much the
street railway company shall pay to the
city. The new ordinance is based on
what Is known as the ''car mileage"
plan. That is to say. the percentages
will be figured on the basis of how
many miles each car travels.
The ordinance. in part, is as follows:
THE street railway, Its successors
and assigns, may and shall continue to
maintain and operate certain of Its
existing electric railway (plant) sys-
tenn within the corporate limits of the
city Of Newark. and within the limits
of any territory which may be here
after annexed thereto, and shall be en-
titled TO charge not more than five
cents for carrying each passenger
above the age Of seven years within
the present limits of said city and as
tar as such limits may be extended
within the present county of Essex.
to the base of the Orange Mountains,
which shall entitie such passenger TO
a single transfer to. continue his jour-
ney within the limits aforesaid, in the
manner hereinafter set forth.
School tickets shall be issued on the
following terms: Thirty-three Gag, In
one strip for n dollar; such tickets to
be void IL detached, and to be good only
between the hours Of 8 q. m. and s .. m.
on days when the schools In the city of
Newark are in session, and when pre-
sented by a scholar attending a school
In said city, n going to or from the
same. Children under the age of z
years, when accompanied by their par
ents or (guardians) adult companion,
may ride free. Any person entitled to
the (a) transfer, issued as aforesaid,
(shalD may (entitles the person to
whom it is issued to- continue his jour-
ney within the limits above prescribed
only on the next available car operated
by the party of the second part (run-
ming toward his destination), provided
that no passenger shall be entitled to q
transfer from one car to another when
there is a through car passing his
starting point on which he may ride to
his destinations; and, provided further,
thai no passenger shall be entitled to a
LfditbIcT " a Gar buhb EuIlS DdCh SuD-
stantially parallel to the route Of the
car on which the transfer Is issued or
to a point Of connection (therewith)
with his original route,
"2. The said party of the second part
shall pay to the city Of Newark in the
month OF January of each year. for the
use Of the city, a license fee Of ten dol
lars for each Of the cars to be run on
Its lines Of street railway in said city
sufficient for the operation of the maxi
mum schedule on all such lines for the
ensuing year. The license fee for
each additional car used on such lines
for a part only Of each year shall be
paid pro rata for the time so used,
"3. In addition to {the generaD any
tax to which the party of the second
part is or may be subject by law, and
in addition to the license fee herein
prescribed, the said party of the second
part shall pay to the party of the first
part on the 1st day of May In each
| year 5 per cent. Of its gross receipts
for the then previous (years) year. re-
ceived from passenger traffic within
the city limits derived from lines upon
which electricity is used as a motive
power). A detailed statement of the
amount Of such earnings shall be (de-
| posited) filed by the party OF h Sec
| ond part (with) In the office Of the
auditor Of accounts of (the) said city
(sworn toy, verified under oath by its
treasurer or other principal officer;
provided, however, that in case any
laws heretofore or hereafter enacted In
this State require or shall equir
street railway companies to a said
city any special or franchise tax by
way of a certain percentage on their
| gross earnings or otherwise, then the
amount hereby required to be paid shall
not Che held to- be in addition to such
special or franchise tax, but the pay
ment of such special or franchise tax
shall be (c~onsidered) deemed a pay
ment for and on account of the tax
hereby imposed.
"a. The amount due and to grow due
to the city of Newark under h pre-
ceding paragraph, or under said reso-
lutions, ordinances and agreements
hereinbefore mentioned. shall from the
first day of May A. d. nineteen hun
bred and ten and thereafter be (here-
after) computed on the basis OF car
mileage, within and without the limits
of said city. provided that mileage on
tracks outside of the limits of the city
Of Newark ehall include only mileage
Of tracks within the present county
of Essex, mileage of tracks connecting
the city of Newark with points In the
present county Of Hudson and mileage
Of tracks connecting the said city OF
Newark with the cities of Elizabeth
and Paterson; and provided, further,
that in all cases where two or more
lines Of cars are run on the same lines
OF track and any Of UGH lines Of cars
do not or shall not run over the e
tire length Of track the distance, with
in the limits aforesaid. rel which each
Of such lines of cars are, or shall run
shall be taken and considered. for the
purpose OF such computation. as II the
same were a complete line OF tracks
This provision for payment Of s pei
cent. of the gross receipts from fares
collected within the present corporate
limits of the city of Newark shall EN-.
brace all territory hereafter annexed
thereto.
70. Whenever the party Of the fire.
part shall pave OF repave any street II
the city Of Newark, or In any territory
hereafter annexed thereto in which the
party of the second part is maintaining
or operating, or shall maintain III
operate, q street railway track OF
tracks, the party OF the second part
shall pave between its tracks n eigh
teen inches outside thereof with thu
saroe material that the marty Of thu