Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-05-28
c. R. R. MAKES
MORE DEk|ALS
File An Amendment TO An
swsr Against City's Grade
Crossing Petition.

n u6uldi - ubuS Dg lUe central
Railroad Company of New Jersey in
an amendment to It's answer in the
matter of the city's application for
the elimination of grade crossings,
| that the Perth Amboy and Elizabeth
port Railroad Company is operating
| the line over streets for which relief
| is sought. 1t admits inability to de-
termine the company that is respon-
| sible and therefore renders a state
ment to the Board of Public Utility
Commissioners concerning the status
of the operation of what is commonly
known as the Central tracks through
this city.
A copy of an amendment to its re-
| cent long answer, filed with the util-
! ity commissioners, was received by
Mayor Ferd Garretson today. ltl
shows the relations between the COM
panies operating on the line common
| ly known as the Central.
Amendment in Full.
! The amendment in full is as fol-
lows:
An amendment to the answer of
the respondent, The Central Railroad
| Company of New Jersey.
| This respondent amends It's answer
herein by inserting therein at the
end of paragraph VI, page 8 thereof,
| the following:
This defendant further answering
says:
| That It denies the allegation of the
petition herein to the effect that The
Perth Amboy and Elizabethport
| Railroad Company Is operating the
railroad over the highways for which
relief is sought; and alleges that said
railroad company ceased to exist be-
fore said petition was filed herein.
That as to which one of the said
other companies named in paragraph
8 of the said petition as operating
the railroads over highways for
which relief Is sought, respondent Is
unable to determine under the act
invoked in this proceeding and there
fore submits to your honorable
board the facts concerning the same,
which are as follows:
The Perth Amboy and Elizabeth
port Railroad Company was incor-
porated by an act of the legislature
lapproved March 80, 1869, and the
railroad of said company was pur-
chased by and merged into and under
the charter of The Central Railroad
Company of New Jersey September
100, 1873.
The New York and Long Branch
Railroad Company was incorporated
under an act of the legislature of
this state approved April s, 1868,
land thereafter it constructed its rail-
road from Long Branch TO a point
which Is the end of the bridge over
the Raritan river at Perth Amboy,
the southerly end of the railroad of
The Perth Amboy and Elizabethport
Railroad Company being at the same
point. Thereafter the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company constructed a
railroad from Railway to what Is
known as Woodbridge Junction on
the line of The Perth Amboy and
Ellzabethport Railroad Company in
the City of Perth Amboy, and under
an agreement in the year 1888 be-
tween the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, The Central Railroad
Company Of New Jersey, and the
New York and Long Branch Railroad
Company provision was made for the
operation of trains over all of the
aforesaid railroads under certain
agreements therein contained con-
cerning the same. This agreement,
SO far as 1t relates to the operation
Iol thC Chupy Aoou Soiii
pany's trains over what was formerly
The Perth Amboy & Elizabethport
Railroad from Woodbridge Junction
to the Raritan river bridge, was in
1893 modified and the use of this
piece of track by the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company's trains was
placed upon rental basis of $13,-
10000 per annum, which included
the use of the passenger station at
, Perth Amboy, and this agreement Is
in effect at the present time.
A tower was constructed at Wood
bridge Junction to govern the opera
ton of trains. The cost of the con-
struction of this tower was partici-
pated in by the Pennsylvania Rail-
road Company and the said tower
and the interlocking system Is now
maintained Jointly by The Central
Railroad Company of New Jersey and
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company.
The wages of the operators at the
aforesaid Woodbridge Junction tow
er are paid by The Central Railroad
Company of New Jersey and the
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company,
each company paying one-half there
of.
The Central Railroad Company OF
New Jersey maintains the roadbed
and tracks and pays the wages of
gatemen, ticket and freight agents
and clerks.
The tower operators at Wood
,, bridge Junction aforesaid are under
/, the direction and control of the train
!, dispatcher of the New York and Long
Branch Railroad Company, and the
trains of The Central Railroad Com
lpany of New Jersey and the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company running
over the aforesaid tracks between
/ the aforesaid junction and the north
} end Of the Raritan river bridge are
under the direction and control OF
, the train dispatcher Of the New York
and Long Branch Railroad Company
and are under said dispatcher's con
troll while on the lines of the New