Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-07-31
Woodbridge !: Sewaren !: Jamesburg
Metuchen : Sayreville !: Fords: Spotswood
CLAIM POLES
ARE DISGRACE
Think South Amboy Is Being
Imposed Upon.
Special TO tbs EVENING NEWS.

bpCElut 10 ~ u @A
South Amboy, July alt has not
only been said, but in unnumbered
cases verified that the pen is might
Ter than the sword, and the news
paper is the medium through which
views, either good or bad, may be
disseminated throughout the nation,
state or community, and therefore
it is through the medium of the
newspaper circulating in our COM
munity we wish to submit to the
governing of our city some things
that should engage their attention
at thep resent time and not deferred
to a more convenient season.
In our minds the thought has been
uppermost hat there would neve
be a more opportune time present
itself if the matter was legally
practicable to eliminate the UNI
slightly poles of the different COM
panies that line our sidewalks, by
passing an ordinance that will COM
pei placing the wires in underground
conduits. At this time as there is
one grand advance along the lines
of improvement for which the citi-
zens are practically bearing the
whole cost then why should those
corporations, who are using the
streets of the city for their own indi-
vidual gain, be permitted to retain
what is unsightly and a detriment
to the city, simply because of the
cost it might entail?
Our city has been severed, our
streets are being paved, our schoo
buildings, both public and private,
are being ~remodeled, Jul water
system is being made more efficient.
All this is being done at the ex-
pense of the citizens of South AM
boy, yet the telephone, telegraph,
electric light and trolley spend no
money for the benefit of the city
that has made it possible for them
to largely increase the dividends of
the stockholders of the aforesaid
companies.
All the money spent within the
city limits by them has been SO far
for their own advantage and conven-
fence.
And now we have reached the real
reason that has prompted this arti-
Gle. An arrangement was made by
the city authorities and these sew
eral companies, whereby the large
number Of poles would be reduced,
but from appearances, we are going
from bad to worse. Holes are being
e~xcavated along Broadway for the
reception Of a new system Of poles
and, as we presume, the poles that
have been unloaded in the proxim-
ity Of where the holes are exca-
waited and others that have been de-
posted in First street are to be used
for the resetting of the line. We
urge upon those having the charge
Of our streets to prevent the placing
of those u~nsightly trees, not poles,
in position on u sidewalks. AS
we said they are trees and the most
unsightly and crooked specimens,
we think, that could be procured
that would answer their purpose.
Why, if those poles were placed on
a highway passing through a swamp
we believ the frogs would cease to
croak for shame, yet the companies
bring them into our city with the
intention of placing them on one
of the most public streets and in the
most congested business section of
the city.
Is it right to endeayor to beautify
our city by paving and then permit
corporations to erect crooked,
scrawny trees on which to hang
their wires? If such things are per-
mitted, ere long we will find our
population decreasing and our door
ways becoming grass grown. Now is
the time to do something when ev-
erything apparently is ripe for ac-
ton. If we must have poles for
wires in our city, let us have re-
spectacle n such as are in antic-
ipation.