Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-07
NEW BOROUGH
IN MONMOUTH
Agitation Started to Include
Ksansburq, Port Mon
mouth and Belf0rd.
OF NAME

Keansburg, Oct. THE success
full management of internal affairs
and the wonderful improvements in
public commodities In such small
municipalities as the %boroughs OF
Englishtown and F~armingdale, have
led the people of Keansburg to be
almost unanimous in their wish that
the next state legislature Of New
Jersey may see at to pass the bill
necessary for their incorporation.
This agitation has also spread to the
adjoining communities of Port Mon
mouth and Bedford, and many OF the
progressive citizens wish them to be
united and organized into q borough.
In this event the new municipality
would begin on the west at Bray
avenue which Is the easterly boun-
dairy of the proposed borough OF
Keansburg, and would follow the
bay shore to that projection known
as Watermelon Point, which would
mark the eastern limits. On the
western side the line would follow
Bray avenue to Horace Smiths cor
ner, thence past Elmer j. Willett's
to Harmony school house and from
there to ID. A. Coddington's. From
the latter place a straight line ia to
be struck In q southeasterly direc-
ton to the residence of the late
James X. Walling, then taking the
Roberts Road in another straight
line to Campbell's Junction, and to
a point a little to the east of John
T. Hopping's, thence in a n%ortherly
direction to Watermelon Point.
1t is understood that any house
along the various boundary, roads,
If on the opposite side, would also
be Included. Within these limits
are almost a thousand people who
feel that their proportion of the
township tax Is much larger than
the benefits that are4received. These
people believe that they could enjoy
all the benefits derived from ineor-
poration, such as improved streets,
sidewalks and roads, street lights,
w~aterworks, police and fire protec-
ton and better schools without any
increase in the tax rate. Valuations
would increase as q matter of course.
In this area much property has al
ready been purchased for the pur-
poses Of development, and a number
Of farmers have refused large offers
for their farms.
This section has a water front OF
two miles, the large stretch of sandy
beaches renders 1T especially attrac-
tive to bathers, and the numerous
creeks and inlets furnish excellent
facilities for commerce. The tracks
of both the New Jersey Central Rail-
road and the Jersey Central Trac-
ton Company run through the ems
tire length OF It.
The salt meadows II properly
drained and filled In by deepening
and widening the waterways, will
provide unexceiled sites for manu-
featuring plants. Electric lights and
power can already be furnished, and
the mains of the Atlantic Highlands
Gas Company supply every part OF
the region.
Three schools, employing nine
teachers, are located here as follows:
Bedford, six teachers; Port Mon
mouth. two; Harmony, one, The
grammar school graduates have al
present their choice Of going to any
one of these high schools: Long
Branch, Red Bank, Atlantic High
lands, Keyport. The present school
facilities are entirely inadequate, and
all the buildings are crowded. IL
the event of Incorporation, Of
the first things to becdone would be
to dispose of the old school houses
at Harmony and Port Monmouth
and to erect at the latter place {
modern brick building of adequate
proportions. The school at Bedford
would be enlarged SO as to include
a high school department.
Should the proposition become al
actually, there would probably b.
some dispute about the selection o
a proper name. Port Monmouth il
the older and more historic of thu
two, and the people of Bedford en-
tertained hard feelings for a lonl
time when the postof1ce and rail
road station on the west side o
Compton's Creek were given the for
mer name. Many now think tina
Seabrook would be the proper nam
for the consolidation, In honor o
the family that once owned most o
the land within the proposed limits
Others favor naming the borough
after Rev. DR.. William ". Wilson
who was the most eminent man tina