Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-09-06
ORANGE COUNCIL TO
AID RAILWAY WORK
Will Give Privilege by Big Vote
Over Veto of the
Mayor.

With only three men voting to sup
port Mayor Arthur B. Seymour's veto
of the ordinance permitting the Pub
lie Service to connect the Main street
and South Orange and Maplewood
trolley lines at the boundary between
West Orange, the Orange Common
Council at an informal meeting last
night indicated that the ordinance
will be repassed over the veto at an
adjourned meeting on Monday night.
This action will result in the con-
summation of plans arranged several
years ago by the traction people to
put a car barn on the property south
of Main street and Immediately west
Of South Jefferson street, and the
Roseville a barns opposite Fifteenth
street. In addition, cars on the Main
street line will cover the territory be-
tween West Orange and South Or
ange and the famous little Swamp
line. built years ago as a private
venture by the late Henry Page, of
South Orange, will lose it's indi
viduality and become part of the Or
ange road.
These changes are expected to aid
materially In development of West
Orange territory and also to create
a new business centre at the extreme
westerly end of Main street, Orange
adjoining the lively centre at the
West Orange triangle.
With the passage of the ordinance
the trolley people will within five
years remove the Lincoln avenue
tracks and also repair the roadways
where the changes are to be made,
There was no m%istaking the deter.
mination of the councilmen to enc
the delays incident to the efforts t.
pass the ordinance. Mayor Seymour.
objections were answered by Presi
dent John c. Fineran, who insisted
the mayor should have attended
meetings at which the ordinance wa,
framed and stated his views then
City Counsel William A. Lord re
viewed the legal troubles of the plan
to put in the switches and told of TIN
Public Utilities Commissions stant
In the matter, which vas recently re
| viewed.
He said the present ordinance con
tains all that the Utilities Commits
sion allowed, and while he was con
hdent the city would beat the de
cision of the commission in highe
courts, there would be the risk tha
no concession might be given Orang
II the reverse were the dictum of tn,
Supreme Court.
councilman Daniel Coleman opene,
the hight against the veto and de
clared the mayor was entirely wron,
n his stand against the changes. H
ridiculed the allegation that the ca
parns would prove detrimental t,
property.
Il am no longer in business, bu
When L mad my little store and tn,
Lincoln avenue a barns were dis
continued it cost me $400 a month
loss of business" said the mayor.
opponent for the mayoralty nomina
ton.
And talk about depreciation O.
property; look at the Roseville ca
barns. There you will find that Their
is little land that Is vacant In tn,
neighborhood, or in the n~eighborhooC
of any a barn, for that matter
West Orange will get a big part o
the new business, 1t is true, but Or
ange will also get a good share"
Councilman Freeman told of ad
vances in property values near thu
Washington street car barns and re
cited his W purchasing experiences
He urged the barns to help business
Business here is at a standstill, ant
If you want to shut the city off from
these opportunities, why build a fenc,
around 1t, send the working elias
away and call the place 'Orang,
Park.
Councilman Fineran and Quinn re
ported no objections were made b,
property-owners to the proposed BARI
and Councilmen Casey, Condron ant
Smith defended the mayors stand
The three officials alone voted to sus
tain the veto and the other nine met
will put through the ordinance OF
Monday night.