Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-08
ASK FOR UNIFORM
POWER RATE ON
CITY LIGHTING
City Officials Present Appeal to
Public Utility Com
missiOners.

A petition asking the Board OF PUB
Ii" Utility Commissioners 10 compel
the Public Service Electric Company
to charge a uniform rate for power
used in all municipal buildings in this
city was made orally today. when the
board met in the Essex county Court
House, by City Attorney Boggs. city
Counsel James r.. Nugent was also
present at the hearing. President Rob
ert Williams, of the commission, de-
clared the complaint of the city would
be considered after the usual proce-
dure of a formal written complaint
had been filed with the commission.
giving an allowance of ten days for the
electric company to reply.
The city's legal representatives will
draw up the complaint in the course
OF a few days.
The board rendered the following
opinion in the case of the city of Eliza
beth against the Central railroad of
New Jersey.
That the Central Railroad Company
of New Jersey proceed forthwith to
establish a station to be located be-
tween First and Second avenues in
place of the one now located at Eliza
OtLD dNtIuGs the new SLdllUu 10 DC
equipped with platforms on both sides
and a shelter on the side opposite the
station building, and the new arrange
ment to provide for an intertrack
fence of requisite length to insure the
maximum of safety.
That gatemen are to be placed at
Livingston street and at Fulton street
during all hours of day and night, and
also at Third avenue unless and until
the embarrassing at Third avenue Is
eliminated.
That between the junction switches
at Elizabethport station and First ave-
nue. the speed of trains shall not exceed
fifteen miles an hour.
This order shall become operative on
October /, 1911, except the last section,
which shall become operative when the
new winter schedule takes effect.
1t was announced today at the meet
ing of the Board of Public Utility Com
n~iissioners that the hearing on Public
Service gas and electric rates through
out the State, which was scheduled for
today, had been postponed until Sep
TENDER 26. On that date the Public
Service officials will report how long
il will take for them to collect the
data needed in the investigation.
The following day the first hearing
in the investigation will be held in the
Essex county Court House.
Following a lengthy argument among
the representatives of East Rutherford.
Wellington and Carlsbad boroughs and
for the Public Service Railway
Company over the proper place for the
fare zones on the Hoboken to Pater-
o line, T.. d. Howard Gilmonr, as
sistant counsel for the company, told
the Board of Public Utility Commits
Sioners the company would fix the
fare zone at n place the boroughs
would agree upon. The hearing before
the commissioners today was the re-
suit of a complaint made by George
L, Record. representing the %boroughs,
stating the company's rates for travel
Ing from one borough to another were
excessive.
The company replied that the in
creased fare at that point was due to
- change in the fare zone, and the
meeting today came as near settling
the time-worn controversy as appears
to be possible.