Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-02
CANAL TERMINAL
FOR BELLEV|LLE
GAINS APPROVAL
Protective Association lndOrses
Plan to Connect Waterway
With River.

The project of new Morris Canal,
whose eastern terminal will be In
BeIleville and whose western termi-
ual viii be the present one in Phillips
burg, has been Endorsed by the Canals
Protective Association of New Jer-
sey. The association will urge that
this question be referred to the
voters at the next election.
The association, which long has OPP
posed the abandonment of the canal,
will urge that that part OF the canal
which runs through Hudson county
and Newark to the Bloomfield line be
sold, and that the State undertake
new construction work and divert the
canal by way of Second River to the
PaEsaic river at Belleville where the
eastern terminal would be estab-
nshed.
Letters received by the association
from the secretary of the Passaic
Valley Sewerage Commission indicate
that the sewer will pass twelve feet
beneath the bed of Second river.
These letters they are using to show
there can be no conflict between the
sewer construction and the canal
construction they are urging.
The association proposes that the
canals waterfront and right-of-way
in Hudson county be sold to the
highest bidder with a view to obtain
ing sufficient money to restore the
canal to the condition in which it
was in 1871, when 1t was leased to the
Lehigh Valley Railroad.
This plan, the association asserts.
would give the railroad 1900 feet of
Morris canal water front in Jersey
City. This with the right of way
through Hudson county to the Passaic
river opposite Newark, is said to be
worth about seven or eight millions OF
dollars.
The association objects to yielding
the Phillipsburg terminal of the canal
to the railroad at any price, on the
ground that this terminal will be es-
sential to the State ownership OF the
canal as a navigable, commercial
waterway connecting the Passaic river
in Essex county with the Upper Del
aware at Phillipsburg.
Respecting the proposed ship canal
through South Jersey. the association
asserts that the Raritan canal can be
improved to meet all the requirements
az .he canal beginning at Cape Cod
and running through several States to
Beaufort, s. c..
The association will advocate the
submission of the expected report of
the Canal commission 10 Llle ptoplc dl
the polls next November. This will be
in accordance with the decision of the
Court of Errors and Appeals respect
ing the chancellor-sherin jury reform
law.
At the annual meeting Of the as
ISOLATION, held at 100 Bloomfield ave-
nue. last Friday evening, officers were
chosen as follows:
President, George Hubschmitt. of
Newark; vice-president, Thomas Bar
Der, of Phillipsburg; secretary, Wilton
q. Caps, Newark; treasurer, William |
sherman Rauch, Newark; assistant |
secretary, John C. Stromenger, Irv-
ington; organizer. Edgar Williamson,
East Orange.
Among the members of the execu-
tive committee are Thomas Cakes, OF |
Bloomfield; Francis E. Woodruff. Nor
ristown; John s. DeHart, Dover; DR..
Andrew F. Mcbride, former mayor OF !
Paterson; DIR. j. Mitchell Reese, Will |
lam Taylor and John L. Gammen, |
Phlllipsburg, and James A. Bray, |
Newark, and A. ]. Drake, Netcong.