Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-10-11
ASBURY To GET
SUNDAY TRAINS
Public Utility Commission
Orders Railroads to Stop

Trenton, Oct. 11.=Sweeping
aside all the contentious of the
Ocean Grove Campmeeting Assocta-
ton in the matter OF the petition of
the city of Asbury Park to have
trains stopped at the main Asbury
Park railroad station on Sundays,
the State Utility Commission today,
following the hearing on September
IL, issued an order directing that
all passenger trains operated
through Asbury Park on Sundays
be stopped at the main depot. The
order Is directed to the New York
& Long Branch Railroad company,
the Central Railroad Company of
New Jersey, and the Pennsylvania
Railroad company.
The order is to lake effect Novem-
Der 1 and is as follows:
'That the said defendants here
after stop their passenger trains on
Sundays at the main station at AS
purpose of taking ON and letting off
passengers, in the same manner as
at other stations of similar import
ance on the line of said road, and
that no discrimination be hereafter
shown as to the number of trains
which are to be stopped for that
purpose; and that all trains which
nov stop at North Asbury Park sta
ton for the purpose of taking on
and letting of passengers be also
stopped hereafter at the main sta
|tfon as Asbury Park and Ocean
Grove, and that this rule be OBJ
served In making up the schedule
OF trains to stop at said station"
Petition Filed July 9, 1911.
The city of Asbury Park filed It's
petition with the State Commission
July g., 1911, praying that the thraa
railroads be compelled to stop their
trains on Sunday at the main sta.
ton, and hat by failure to do 30
the city WIS Disseminated against
and the companies rel not furnish
ing proper and adequate service.
The nswer of the companies adj
mitted most OF the contentious of
the city, but offered In evidence GER
tain agreements with the Ocean
Grove Campmeeting Association. In
| which for the consideration of the
conveyance or certain real estate,
the companies agreed not to stop
their trains at the main station on
Sunday; and II the agreement were
broken the property would revert
to the Association.
The contention of the Association
was that the Board had no power to
make an order impairing the said
agreement: that 1t had no power to
enforce the stopping of Sunday
trains there.
Duty to Public First.
The decision on which the order
is based says, In part:
THE contention of the railroad
company that 1t is in honor bound
to carry out the terms of the con-
tract is not sufficient to absoIve 1t
from its duty to the public In fur
nishing proper and adequate ser
vice. 1t is not the province OF the
board to enter into the question
whether the stoppage of trains on
Sunday. would. under these agree
Tnfehfss SUI fnfH fcrfcftuvs~of@eA~
land granted.
These companies are created by
the State for serving the people;
they are subject to orders intended
to secure proper and adequate SER
vice. The railroad company is not
a private corporation; 1t Is a quasi.
public cooperation created by the
state for the purpose of carrying
on certain state functions, and it is
subject to the power of the state.
One of the powers uf the state IS
the power to secure proper and
adequate transportation facilities,
and no condition In an agreement
that would limit the power of g.
railroad company to provide such
facilities would be valid"
The Board decides that 1t has the
power to order the stoppage OF
trains at the main station, notwith-
standing the agreements; that the
city has been disseminated against,
and on these grounds the order is Is
Saaegi