Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-12
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

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Railway Company operating its cars
within the city limit because the
company has refused to do its part
toward paving Broadway and put
ting its track in repair. This action
was taken at the regular meeting of
the common council last night. 1t
was also decided to prevent the Pub
lie Service laying any more gas
mains without written order from
the street committee until the re-
quests of the people living in Feltus
and Portia streets are granted.
The resolution regarding the OPP
Grafton of trolley cars was intro
duced by Councilman O'Connor,
chairman of the street committee, as
follows:
Whereas the city of South AM
boy has passed an ordinance to pave
the street known as Broadway with
pavement adopted by said city, and
whereas the Public Service Railway
Company are not now and do not
intend to comply with the said ordi-
pance, be 1t resolved that the city of
South Amboy do and hereby direct
his Honor the Mayor to use every
effort and energy with the assist
ance Of the council to stop the cars
of the Public Service Railway Com
pany from running within the cor
porate limits of the city, as the
tracks Of the said Public Service
Railway Company are now in very
bad condition and the same are
dangerous to life and property: and
be it further resolved that the cars
of the above railway company be
and hnrnhu ctnnnnd rpnpjny within
the corporate limits of the city on
the morning of June 13, 1912"
This was adopted by a unanimous
vote.
Mr.. Pearse stated in accordance
with instructions at last meeting he
had prepared agreement between
the city and the Public Service Com
pany In regard to the pavement of
to them but they refused to sign it
rs it provided for new blocks where
as they desired to use the reclipped
blocks.
In remarking on this matter Mr..
O'Connor stated 1t might be suggest
ed to the Public Service Company
that the city would be willing to &C
cept the amount of money it would
CoSI " 10y ludCdodu pdFClllOht dS
provided In their franchise and the
city do what character of pavement
that suited them. He asked the city
taken for stopping their cars on the
10. Mr.. Pearse stated the matter
had been referred to the mayor and
he would advise him the steps to
take. Mr.. O'Connor objected to this
onnyvor an rnp 80 ~ collation.
claiming the street committee had a
right to be informed, that he repre-
scented the people, that this was a
matter for the people and not any
thing personal and that the council
as a representative body of the peo-
pie had a right to be advised on
such matters. Nothing further was
done.
Regarding the gas question, Mr..
O'Connor stated a number Of people
had requested the Public Service
Company to lay gas mains on Feltus
street to supply them with gas,
which had been refused on the
grounds that it would cost too much;
that this also applied on Portia
street. He made a motion that the
Public Service Company be not per
mitted to do any more excavation in
the streets only on the written order
of the street committee until such
time as they complied with the re-
quest of the people for gas mains.
This motion was also carried unani-
uhously.
The first order of business last
night was opening bids for furnish
ing receiving basins for storm sewer
on Broadway. There were three
bidders, J, F. Stanley Company, of
Newark; P. J. Monaghan and Col
Inns & Gundrum, of South Amboy.
The bids were referred to the ON
mittee on sewers with the city en-
gineer for tabulation and later
awarded to J.. F. Stanley Company
as the lowest bidders, Collins e
Gundrum having withdrawn their
bid.
Bids were next opened for the
Mechanicsville section of the sani-
tary sewer. P. J.. Monaghan, of
South Amboy, s10,139; Collins &
Gundrum, of South Amboy, $685.,
and Liddle & Pfeiffer, of Perth Am
boy, 10000. These were also re-
ferred to the committee on sewers
with the city engineer for tabulation
and later the bid awarded to Collins
& Gundrum as the lowest bidders.
Bids were next opened for the
construction of about 500 feet of
sewer on Thompson street and about
500 feet OF sewer on B~ordentown
avenue: Liddle & Pfeiffer, of Perth
Amboy, bid for Bordentown avenue
section $500, Thompson street 49,
1870. John Quinland, of South
AmbOy, Bordentown avenue section,
$3.50; did not bid on Thompson
street section. P. J. Monaghan, of
South Amboy, bid on B~ordentown
avenue section, s1,16O; Thompson
street section, s3,552. Collins G.
Gundrum bid on B~ordentown ave.
hue section, $1.955; Thompson
Street section, s2,981. The bids
were referred to committee on sew
ers with the city engineer for tabu-
lation and later the contract for
Thompson street was awarded to
Collins & Gundrum as the lowest
bidders, and that for Bordentown
avenue section to John Quinland.
Exemption certificate was granted
T. F. Sullivan as member of the En-
ferprise Hook & Ladder Company.
Communication vas read from
<hs South Amhoy Tarrn Gotta Com-