The Penn's Grove record., 1913-08-22
SERVICE NOT SATISFACTORY.
West Hudson Residents Contend cIas

SERVICE NOT SATISFACTORY.
West Hudson Residents Contend Clay
Street Change Is No Improvement.
The officials of the West Hudson
towns-Harrison, East Newark and
Kearny-are not the least bit ap-
peased over the announcement of the
Public Service Railway that the new
arrangement of trolley lines, with
bridges, gives West Hudson better
trolley service than under the old ar
rangement.
Complaints are heard on all sides.
Harrison is kicking because the SER
vice through that town is inadequate.
are sent through the town without any
apparent effort to on time, al
though the Public Service officials
state that a steady Roadway of about
five minutes is maintained through the
middle section of Kearny throughout
the day. The Public Service Railway
has procured figures to substantiate
these claims, but officials of Kearny
who have times the running Of the
cars for a week or more state that
the company is mistaken.
Harrison Tells Facts.
Recently the Harrison Common
Council took up the matter and at
once proceeded to tell the representa-
tives of the Public Service some cold,
hard facts. General Edwin Hine is to
visit the council at it's meeting in
September and explain the change in
the schedule.
Now Kearny is on the job. Mayor
Louis NJ Brock has named a commit
tee composed of Councilmen Daniel
Bryan, Walter Chapman and William
F. Davis to wait upon the Public Ser
vice officials and ask that better troll
ley service be given the town. The
Kearny town fathers also think
that the sign Harrison" on the ears
is misleading, because there is no ref
erence on any of the signs that they
also III through Kearny by way Of
the Bridge street bridge.
According to the Public Service of
ficials more cars are now sent into
Kearny by using the two bridges than
ever before, although from the many
complaints received from all sources
it would appear some of the cars had
been taken off.
Mosquito Fighters Plight.
81 have had a return trip to China"
remarked Joseph keenan,, an en-
ploye of the Essex County Mosquito
DISCRIMINATING Commission, when he
was rescued from his uncomfortable
plight in the H. L. Pierson pond at
Maplewood. Here is my ticket" con-
tinued keenan,, as he displayed a
laundry check. He certainly looked as
though he might have come from
China or some other far away land,
as he was a distressed looking object
and had really had a narrow escape.
The ex~terminators, comprising four
men, keenan,, Edward J. Price, Mat
thew Reynolds and Michael Foran.
were engaged In cleaning the Pierson
pond. keenan, stepped into a mud
AOlC lIoI qulShlJ Ch6ulICu III Ill O
few minutes he was buried in the mud
up to his armpits. His fellow eXtermi-
majors realized his plight and set
about to effect his rescue. A rope had
to be thrown to Keenan, to haul him
out, and he was a fit subject for a
Chinese laundry when he reached the
shore of the pond.
Claiming that under a contract made
in 1879 between the city and the Mill
vile Water Company, a private con-
Germ, the company was to be exempt
from city taxes, the company warned
the City Commission not to advertise
it's plants for sale for unpaid taxes.
Under the advice of City Solicitor
Louis H. Miller the plants had been
advertised for sale, the lawyer hold
ing that no municipality had a legal
right to exempt a utility company from
taxation. The Millville Water Com
pany and the Millville Gas Company,
which are owned by practically the
same stockholders, are fighting
against what they claim to be excess
sive assessments in the Supreme
Court.