Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-02
SPECIAL CANAL
SESSION URGED
BY NEWARKERS
Board of Trade Committee
Hopes to Induce Governor
to Call Extra Hearing.

/ The special committee of the Board
az Trade. which has been studying the
nroposed abandonment of the Morris
! Canal win confer with Mayor Hauss-
! ling and other city officials In an ef-
| fort to have Governor Fielder call
speciaI session of the Legislature TO
| take action on the canal matter. rms
! action was taken at meeting held
/ Yesterday afternoon in the Board OF
/ Trade rooms.
/ The Board of Trade committee Is
/ certain that action in the canal mat
! ter should be taken at this session
of the Legislature. The committee
hopes to confer with the city officials
within the next few daysNin an effort
I TO have the Two work as a joint COM
mittee.
/ Fred G. Stickel, jr, secretary of the
| Norris Canal Abandonment Commits
/ sion. addressed Yesterdays meeting.
/ He told of the work of the commits
/ sion. He answered many questions
/ and urged action this year by the
| Legislature.
! MI. Stickel stated that all of the
! various recommendations contained
i in a brief statement to the commits
| sion by the Board of Trade of this
| city had been incorporated in Assem-
| bly, bill 767 and that the interests of
| Newark were well guarded in this
| proposed law.
| The members of the committee dis
/ cussed urging the Governor to con-
vene a special session to take action
on the canal matter. Former Con-
| gresham r. Wayne Parker offered
! motion that a resolution to that eff
/ ha tNraGpffpA a fha regular meet
| ing of the Board of Trade on next
| Wednesday night He also expressed
| his conviction that the construction
/ of a highway or thoroughfare from
| the point where the canal intereepts
| the Essex and Hudson highway
| through this city following the route
! of the canal, is one of all importance
| to Newark, and that the matter be
made the subject of conference with
/ the city officials in the interval be
/ fore legislation is finally enacted.
This suggestion will be reported al
/ the regular meeting of the Board OF
! Trade, with q resolution authorizing
/ the committee to confer with the city
officials on the subject.
! 1t was agreed that a conference be
authorized of representatives of ali
the Boards of Trade in the northern
| part of the State to bring about
! united action in favor of canal
! abandonment.
The whole subject covered in the
report OF the Morris Canal Abandon
ment Commission and the bills pend
ing will be made the subject of an adj
dress by Mr.. 5tickel at the meeting
of the Board of Trade on next We'd
| nesday.
The general sentiment of the MEM
beers of the, committee is that the
canal is imperative as waterway
| but that it might. at some future
time, be of great value to the State
! to retain the present route outside
! of the city: that it might be possible
| to cut new canal along the same
route, which would afford accommo-
dalton for standard size barges such
as would navigate the Erie Canal.
and which could pass through the
state to the upper Delaware aud then
/ to the coal mines. Juifus s.. feeipfsaAs
! is chairman of the committee.