Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-05-11
SOUTH AMB0Y
COUNCIL EASY
Col. GiImors's Bluff About
Withdrawing Cars.
sneciol to the EVENING NEws.

" 49, 49,
South Amboy, May 11-When our
council grants the franchise to the
Public Service for the connecting
switch at the corner of Broadway and
Main street they cut the cable that
holds the last anchor that is a pre-
tentative to the city of South Amboy
from drifting In upon the breakers
that the Public Service has been so
diligently erecting since Col. Gill
more's visit. The only way that a
fifteen-minute service could be made
available in accommodating the
people Of South Amboy would be to
have a double track all the way be-
tween the Amboys, excepting over
the draw. What accommodation is
1T to the people of South Amboy to
be enabled to board a car every IF
teen minutes If the operation is so
congested or a single track that 1t
takes for the greater part of the time
one-half hour to get from one city to
the other, We have noticed that the
employees on the Public Service seem
more anxious at the corner of Broad
way and Main street to block the in
coming car at the terminus of the
double track than to accommodate
their patrons and had / been in the
councilmanic body when Col. Gill
more threatened the withdrawal of
the Public Service cars on the Perth
Amboy run | would advocated his do
ing sc at least for a season, and
have tried the experiment of solving
the problem as to whether the Jersey
Central could not have given the
people of South Amboy better accom-
mediation singly than in connection
with the Public Service. A franchise
was given for the laying of tracks In
and through the city with the under
standing that only one fare should
be charged from city limit to city
limit. This the J.. G. T. is doing at
present. Col. Gilmore says the Pub
lie Utilities law will not permit a dis
elimination in u favor, yet we sup
pose the city Of South Amboy las no
hindrance in discriminating in favor
of the Public Service, that is, letting
the Public Service charge two fares
from the South Amboy city limits on
Washington venue to the city limits
IL. Perth Amboy, while the j. C. T. is
compelled to carry passengers from
the city line on Feltus street to the
city line of Perth Amboy. But the
Public Service can dump the passen-
gers boarding their cars on Washing
ton avenue or Main street in this city
and State street in Perth Amboylo or
make them pay two fares to reach
the city limits at the Lehigh Valley
docks. Apparently the council lost
sight of this fact, or else felt like
backing down, when the colonel said
he would take the car off before they
would give a transfer on a transfer.
We think our council ought to have
shown as bold a front as the colonel
when he threw that bluff.
The colonel is very willing for
sp%rinkling, but he was careful to say
they would sprinkle the track. He
did not say street" But there Is
n hope left, as far as the one fare
from city limit to city limit is con
cerned, and that is in the Board of
Freeholders. We have two good and
staunch men in the board from this
city and the others, We believe, are
good square men and, as We under
stand the matter, the cars that were
operated over the county bridge &C
cording to the franchise granted
were only to charge one fare from
city line to city line. We don't think
the freeholders will discriminate or
let the colonel throw them a bluff OF
any kind. We would rather have
the cars stop running than the pres
ent imposition. What say you. Mr.,
Freeholders?