Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-05
NEW CANAL BILL
TRAINERS ARE TO
GET BUSY SOON
Subcommittee, Which Will
Draft Tentative Measure for
Legislature Is Named.

Charles +. Kocher. Of Bloomfield
chairman Of the Morris canal COM
mittee of the Conference on Inter-
urban improvement. today appointed
a subcommittee to draft q tentative
bill einbodying the conferences ideas
on the disposition to be made of the
Morris canal for submission TO the
Legislature.
Afr. Kocher named Z. II. Boles
general solicitor Of the Lehigh Val
ley railroad; John Milton. corpora
tion counsel of Jersey City, and Nor
ris r. Sherrerd, chief engineer OF the
Newark Board OF Works.
This committee will consult With
all those who have interest in the
fate OF the canal and endeavor to
draw bill which will meet with their
approval. The committee also will
use the canal abandonment bills
which were not reported out by the
canal committee of the last Legisla-
tCre as a guide in framing the new
bill. It viii be the aim Of the COM
mittee TO learn what those having
interest in the disposition of the canal
belive to be Objectionable features in
the old canal bills, and TO eliminate
them from the bill it will draft
Chairman Kocher was empowered
to name the subcommittee to draft
the canal bill at a stormy meeting
of the canal committee of the inter-
urban conference last Wednesday.
At this meeting, Mayor Robert
Fordyce, of Paterson, new member
of the committee, asserted that he
had been approached by representa-
tives of the Lehigh Valley Railroad
with regard the canal abandonment
project. Challenged by Mr.. Boles,
general solicitor of the railroad, to
name the men who had talked with
him, he declined to do so.
At the same meeting Valentine E.
Kane, representing the Morris Canal
Factory Owners Protective Associa-
ton, delivered a TRADE against the
members of the committee, asserting
that all but two OF them represented
what he called the special interests"
1t is likely no member of the COM
mittee will deny that it is composed
of men representing very special in
terests. The men who serve on 1t
were chosen for that very reason.
The committee has been enlarged
three times since DIR. Charles F.
Kraener, president Of the Board of
Works and chairman of the interur-
ban conference, appointed 1t two
months ago In order that every inter
est connected with the Morris canal
might be included IN Its membership
Committee Was Changed.
fY.s A..
of MIR. Kocher, Frank T. Shepard
Vile. and Chief Engineer sSherrerd, OF
the Board of Works. Later the com
mittec informed DR. Kramer IL would
be well to have the Morris canal I'm
terests" represented on the commit
tee. so DR. Kraemer appointed John
L. O'Toole. publicity agent of the
Public Service Corporation: Julius S.
Rippel. of the Newark Board of
Trade. and Mr.. Boles. of the Lehigh
VALLEY railroad DR.. KraeIner also
became a member of the committee
himself
Later the committee saw the neces-
sity of taking in, still more of the
Morris conal interests and the fol-
lowing were added to the committee
e. p Goodrich. expert of the City
Planning COHHlSslOn, L. II. 1NOWS'
executive secretary Of the Jersey City
Chamber of Commerce; the city oe
Jersey City, Robert II. F'ordyce.
mayor of Paterson; the Lake Hopat-
cong, Inter Municipal Park Commits
sion and the Morris Canal Parkway
Association. JERSEY City chose Cor
poration Counsel Milton to represent
it on the committee, the Lake Hopat-
cong Commission appointed Hudson
Maxim its representative but the
Morris Canal Parkway NA%Sciaticn
has not yet chosen a man to repre-.
sent it.