Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-06-09
Former FreehoIder AlIgair, of
SayreviIIe, and 0'Rourke,
Present at Meeting in 0ppo-
Siti0n to MiIItoWn Switch.
ONLY BID ON COURT HOUSE
Plans for Proposed Convery
Place Bridge Here Which
Were to Have Been Ap-
proved, Put Off Till Thursday
Special to the EVENING NEWS.

New Brunswick, June 9:-Oppo-
sition has been raised against the
extension of the trolley switch on
the Milltown road in North Bruins
wick township. The Public Service
Street Railway Company some time
ago made application to the Board
OF Freeholders for permission to ex-
tend the switch. AT present there Is
a switch almost in front of the resi-
dence of Road Supervisor James
DeHart, and the company wants to
have it extended 80 that better serv-
ice can be obtained on the New
Brunswick-South Amboy line.
Lawyer Gilmoure, of the COM
pany, appeared at the meeting of
the Board of Freeholders held yes
terday afternoon, and stated that the
township committee had passed an
ordinance giving the company the
right to make the extension. He
wanted the freeholders to sanction
the action Of the township commit
tee, as the road is a county one
Former Freeholder Joseph ALL
gair, of Sayreville, who owns a tract
of land in front of the road where
the extension Is to be made, was
present at the meeting.
ut is true that the township com
mittee passed such an ordinance" D."
said Mr.. Allgair, but they have not
determined where the lines of public
property are and where the lines of
private property end There has
| been no map of the road made. Now
does that grant made by the com
m in fnA a m n fn ms h mo hnxV
purchased land from Mr.. O'Rourke
and l don't think that this plan
should go through until after the
lines of all properties are deter
mined"
Thomas O'Rourke, in front of
whose property the extension is to
be made, stated that If the proposed
extension Is to be made it will mean
| that he will be unable to have a
sidewalk in front of his property He
said that he understood that all
property should have six foot side
| walk in front of it.
Il am here to look after my In
terests and that is what l am going
to do,' said Mr. O'Rourke. II
think the Public Service has gone
about far enough, and l for one am
going to fight them. There has
never been any line established on
that road"
Road Supervisor DeHart said that
while the township committee did
pass such ordinance there was moth
! ing to be done with the extension
for the present. The committee, he
said, was going to have a survey
made Of the road.
County Solicitor John A. Coan
said that he did not see how the
board could act in the matter as
there was a question of property In
dispute. He stated that the Public
Service could not encroach upon
private property.
Lawyer Gilmour said that his
company did not want to encroach
| bad to buy land they were willing
to do that.
1t was decided to have the hear
| ing adjourned until July 2.
Much to the surprise of members
of the Board of Freeholders, but a
single estimate for repairs to the
county house building was received
at their meeting here yesterday II
was from George B. Rule. The Incl
dent was declared especially strange
in view of the fact that eight con-
tractors had asked for plans and
specifica tioAs for the work. Mr.
Rules bid which amounted to $67,-
$50, was referred to the building
committee.
The freeholders declared them
selves to be at loss to know why
eight contractors should request
plans and specifications and thus
give indication that they were going
to bid on the work, and but a single
estimate was received. The matter
will probably be disposed of on neUt
Thursday.