Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-23

consent Of the city, which owns the
mark. that being SO per cent. of the
abutting property.
Appended is a full copy of the bill:
an act authorizing the construction
maintenance and operation of an eN-
tension or extensions Of street railway
tracks in municipalities in tbs State
for the purpose on connecting existing
tracks.
B it enacted by the Senate and
General Assembly of the State of New
Jersey;
.eWhenever, in the judgment of the
board or body having control OF the
highway Of any municipality in this
state. public interest or convenience
requires an extension or extensions
therein of street railway tracks for the
purpose Of connecting existing tracks,
it shall be lawful for such board or
BODY having control of the highways,
after notice and hearing in the manner
prescribed by law in case Of appliea-
ton for consent to construct street
railways in the highways thereof, to
authorize and consent to the construc-
ton. maintenance and operation OF
sush extension or extensions of street
RAILWAY lIdIkS AbA lllt pun Ppei 3AC-N
said. provided that no authority and
consent for any such extension more
than one-half a mile in length in any
street shall be given without the con-
sent in writing of the owners of one
half of the lineal feet of land fronting
on the line thereof, executed and ac-
knowledged, or, in case of deeds OF
conveyances of land. to be recorded
and filed in the Office of the clerk OF
the board or body 10 which application
for the extension shall be made, and
provided, further. that no authority and
consent to extend any street railway
in of this act shall be for a
longer term than fifty years.
Disapproval Of the bill was expressed
at the snap" hearing by Frederick
Frelinghuysen. president of the Mutual
Benefit Life Insurance Company; Coun-
selor John o. II. Pitney and Marcus l..
Ward. Their principal objection to the
proposed trolley extension was that it
would have the effect of deteriorating
the value of property along the route of
the extension. The plan of the trolley
people is to run their ears down Cen
trail avenue. across Broad street and
Their into a loop around Military Park.
The running of trolley cars on the resi-
dental side of the park would, it was
argued before the committee, prove
detrimental TO the property-owners.
Senator Harry V. Osborne told the
committee that he did not like the
method of conducting the hearing. He
declared that he had not received a
fair notification of the meeting of the
committee. even though Senator Will
son, the chairman. had promised to do
so. The Essex senator insisted that
certain people in Newark desired to
speak on the bill and he declared that
it was the duty of the members of the
committee to give them an opportunity
to do so. He urged that another hear
ing be given on the bill and that time
~ publicity be given to the date.
Senator Fielder, of Hudson county,
also expressed his interest in the meas
ure. He declared hat he had learned
but half an hour before the meeting
was called to order that there was to
be a hearing on House bill Nc. 219. He
was protesting loudly when the COM
mittee members put their heads to-
gether and abruptly ended the hearing
Later the information reached those in
IefGSItQ Illdl the DilI WOulu bC ARpCANNN
bv the committee without any further
hearing. 1t was rumored around the
State House today that the Senate pro-
gram was to have h bill reported at
once and to complete the jobbery by
rushing it through the upper House,
thereby preventing any further OBJ
jections to be raised against the meas
ure.
The trolley people have for many
years tried to get a loop round Mill
tary Park, but the requisite consent or
the property-owners could not be Sc
cured. The present move to ignore the
property-owners and to get the trolley
favor is characteristic Of the public
be-darned methods of the present Re
publican Legislature.
Regarding the bill and its advance
ments in the Senate, John o. II. Pitney
said this afternoon:
"In 1893 the Legislature provided that
municipal authorities should not grant
a trolley franchise throughout any
street without the written consent OF
the owners Of one-half the frontage.
For more than sixteen years that has
been the fixed policy of this. State, and
the requirement has never been modi- {
fed. Under that provision the whole
trolley system of the State has been
built up, and every public demand for
trolleys has been satisfied.
Nov it is proposed to deprive the
people interested of q voice as TO all
lines not more than a half-mile in
There is no occasion or demand
for such change. except for The selfish
interests Of the trolley people. The
Lee bill was c~raftily contrived to con-
ceal it's real purpose. On its face 1t
imposed conditions on The trolley peo-
pie, while really it would relieve them
of these conditions.
TT also alters the limited franchise
law by making all franchises for con
Meeting roads, of whatever length, con-
tinual for fifty instead of twenty years.
Frederick Frelinghuysen said;
1T would be a mistake to give the
trolley people a right to run lines
through any street in Newark that they
choose. and especially to make a loop :
out of such sections as Park place and
Washington Park. A loop i'll these
places would make conditions as they
are at the Market street station, which
is anything but desirable in a resi-
Dental section