Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-01
WORKS BOARD COY
ON TERMINAL PLAN
Want More Detailed Inf0rma-
ton About Public Service
Intentions.
BEFORE THIS COMES o. K.
WON'T BE GIVEN PROJECT
Railway Company Representa-
tives Explain What They
Want to Commissioners.

Further plans showing in detail the
general recruiting scheme in conten1-
plation in connection with the gen
.eral trolley terminal project are de-
manded by the Board Of Works be-
fore the requests of the Public Serv-
ice for additional franchises and ex-
tension of trolley lines will be passed
upon.
This ultimatum was announced by
the board at a conference with Pub
lie Service officials yesterday after
noon. Besides the board members
there were present at the conference
John ]. Burleigh. vice-president Of
the corporation; Richard e. Danforth,
general manager, and John L.
O'Toole.
In spite of its demands for addi-
tional information the board showed
willingness to meet the corpora
ton half way in all of its applica-
lions. Only one request was refused.
This was the extension into the gas
! works in Market street. Under no
consideration. the board declared,
would it permit this trackage to be
laid.
At the outset, in answer to ques-
ton from Commissioner Gillen, Mr..
Burleigh announced that his COM
pany had no intention of putting on
any additional single-end cars. He
declared that not one had beeen added
during the past year, because they
had found from experience that they
were rather more expensive to oper-
ate than the double-end cars.
Mr. Gillen then suggested that II
would be possible to eliminate sew
eral of the curves" asked for by the
corporation in its general rerouting
scheme He said further that the
board was unalterably opposed to
unnecessary curves, and In this he
was backed by Commissioner Krae-
mer and the other members.
Benefit to Hill Section.
With refere ace to the eastbound
curve at South Twelfth street and
Central avenue, to which the board
found objection, Mr.. Danforth ex-
planned that it was the intention of
the company to operate a belt line
to take care of the Increased traffic
in this section. To successfully OPP
crate this line as proposed. he said,
it would be necessary to secure the
curve at the point in question. Ac-
cording to Mr.. Danforth the new
line is to operate east on Springfield
avenue, through Washington or
Broad streets, west on Central ave-
nue. and south on Twelfth street
Other cars, he said, would be oper-
ated in the opposite direction.
This plan, if carried into effect,
would prove a great benefit and con-
venience to residents of the Hill sec
ton and would in no wise interfere
with the operation of the Kinney line.
which it is planned to carry through
to Main street via Central avenue and
South Fourteenth street. With this
explanation the board members with
drew their objections to curve at
this point.
To further facilitate matters, how
ever, and to secure an opinion from
the Public Service with reference to
the plan of rerouting suggested by
Commissioner Gillen on Monday, to
be put into effect Immediately, an
other conference will be held with the
Public Service officials on Friday
afternoon at 1870 o'clock.
The plan, which has already been
told, includes a Encouragement of the
Kinney line and the building of
Was. iIlgton street line. The. latter
would necessitate the laying OF addi-
tional tracks from Central avenue
north to Broad street and from Kin
ney street south to Clinton avenue,
both within the half-mile extension
allowed by law.
Mr.. Burleigh, seeking to impress the
board with the Importance of grant
ing all of the applications asked by
his company, declared that the i'm
provements contemplated would en-
tail an annual charge of 100000 for
interest and maintenance. If the
curves and concessions were not
necessary for the successful operation
of the terminal plan they would not
be asked for, he declared. He eau
toned the board to go slow about
refusing to grant any curves.
Reiterating his former statements
Commissioner Kraemer declared that
1t would not be practical to place two
tracks in Lafayette street, and OPP
posed the granting OF even one track
for that thoroughfare because of the
narrowness of the street and also
because of the fact that the curve
into Mulberry street would be In
front of firehouse. In this he was
upheld. by the other members, who
| al hn af 4
Kinney streets.
Transfer Privileges.
| With reference to the transfer ques-
ton Mr.. Burleigh declared that the
transfer privilege would not in the
least be curtailed by the terminal
He said further that the company
intended to grant transfers to any
body wishing to transfer from the
subway lines to the overhead lines
or vice versa.
Explaining the curve at Berger
street and Clinton avenue, Mr.. Dan.
forth declared that it would be neces
sary in a short time to provide
additional car service for that sec
| ton. In view of this fact he said tn,
eastbound curve was asked for a.
| this time. BY means of this a lin,
could be operated from the downtown
section. west on Clinton avenue t,
Bergen street and then south on tina
thoroughfare. bringing the residents
of that district home without com
polling them to change cars.
The extension of tracks into thu
company's gas plant in Market stree
for the purpose of removing ashe'
was strenuously opposed despite tn,
fight advanced by the corporation
1 representatives. 1t will nrohably b,