Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-13
ASK REDUCTION IN
FARES ON THE TUBES
Continued from FIRST Psge1

New York, and seven cents for every
passenger taken uptown.
In its answer to the charge of dis
elimination, which the city of New
ark was practised against it, the H.
& M. Co. explained that the short
line railroad between Park place,
Newark, and the Summit avenue sta
! ton in Jersey City was owned and
operated by the Pennsylvania Rail
road Company as an independent
concern.
According to the answer, the sum-
nit station is the dividing line for
the two railroads. West of the sta
ton is under the ownership of the
Pennsylvania railroad, which adjusts
the fares and collects them, and east
of the station is under the ownership
of the Hudson & Manhattan Com
pany, which charges the fiat rate of
seven and five cents regardless OF the
distance Travelled by the passenger.
The line from the Summit station
to this city is an interurban one,
Attorney Bike said, and for that
reason the fare is regulated by the
pennsylvania railroad by the same
rating that applies to its fares ne
tween other points in the State, when
is approximately two and one-ha1
cents a mile.
Mr.. Bike in presenting the case
said that by its charter, the Ii. q
NJ. Company could legally charge
cents a mile if they decided it was
necessary.
Attorney Boggs said Newark
would not object to the company
charging 6 cents a mile, providing
that II charged that rate all along
the line and not just between this
city and Jersey City. He empha-
sized that it was the discrimination
that he was Directing to and not the
rate itself. ...-- .s....
r. ]. De Long, division ticket
agent, with headquarters in Phila-
delphia, went on the stand as wit
ness and told of the early plans and
construction of the railroad and its
subsequent completion and rental
to the H. and NJ. Co.. and the Penn
sylvania Railroad under mutual
agreement. +.s'.
He explained. the manner of desig-
mating just how many people went
from this city to the Summit sta
ton. saying that the conductors car
ried recording ticket punchers. The
number of passengers who get off
at the Summit station is subtracted
from the number the conductors
puncher recorded and the two COM
panies received their dividends on
this basis.
The Board of Trade committee was
represented by Moses Plant, Freder-
lex T. Ward. Louis Bamberger, Al
bert ]. Hahne and julius D. Strauss.
Charles p. Gillen, Board of Works
Commissioner; Joseph S. Wolber,
secretary of the Board of Works, and
Herbert Boggs, city attorney, repre-
scented the city's interest at the hear
ing.
Thomas ]. Hillery and Winthrop
NJ. Daniels. with their counsel Frank
H. Sommer. sat at the examining
utility board
The distance between Summit ave-
nue.. Jersey City, and Thirty-third
street. New York, is greater than be-
tween Summit avenue and Park place,
Newark, yet the fare is less and
trade that would otherwise come to
Newark goes to New York. the pc
tition points out. Merchants in this
city annually spend large sums of
money advertising to attract the
$50, 0C0 people who leave Jersey City
by way of Summit avenue, yet the
lower, fare to New York prompts
them to go there.
The excessive rates forced upon the
residents of North Jersey by the sew
eral railroads operating from this
State to points in New York city
have within three years caused a
property loss in Essex and neighbor-
ing counties of millions of dollars.
the petition. continues. Thousands of
families who formerly resided in this
State have been forced to move to
New York by reason of the excessive
fare.
"A continuation of this rate and
similar rates, not only on the road
complained against, but on all of the
railroads serving points in North
Jersey" the petition concludes, will
force the body which we represent
to seek redress at the next session
of the Legislature through the enact
ment of a statute under which rates
of fare to and from points within the
State will be determined to the salts
faction and for the benefit of all of
the people of the State
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