Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-10

street, the Canal bridge Market
street, and Clinton avenue. have
marked distinctive step in facili-
tating the handling of great traffic
and lessening the danger to the gem
eral public Of waiting for street cars.
The total contract cost of this work
was $298, 279,9S.
THE Democratic party is proud of
Broad street
1--WE have an inheritance left us
by the Republican party, gentlemen,
which is costing us from $4,000 to
$4,000 in repairs per year. ] refer
to the asphalt paving laid by Re-
publican board, which work was con-
demned by a Republican mayor. To-
day we are paying for Republican
folly in street-making.
I'VE have instituted municipal
repair department, which Is doing
II we are returned to office, will form
the nucleus of department-the
genesis of a department that will not
only repair our streets, but will make
our streets in their entirety.
VIII Keek Work at Home.
Instead of contracting this work
| oS AL thC Pdot, VIC PipPOSS " Ills Toll
department that will do this work,
and the profits that will accrue, will
go to the people instead of, as in
many instances, to contractors out
side of the city. The cities of Mil
waukee and Detroit have already in
stalled such repair departments, and
Newark will have a like department
If we are returned to office.
Everybody acknowledges that the
growth of q city can be facilitated or
impeded according to the quality of
transportation methods provided
Everybody in Newark knows that
the conditions growing out of the
street car congestion at the corner of
Broad and Market streets were I'M
bearable. Cars were held up during
the rush hours when people were
most anxious to get to their work
or to their homes, simply because
the demand for cars was so great that
1t was impossible to move enough of
them across the intersection of the
two streets. AS a result, practically
every line in the city was affected
and something had to be done.
People demanded relief. the news
papers criticising the conditions that
existed, and the merchants finding
fault because their customers didn't
want to put up with the inconyen-
fences of crowded cars. 1t was ap-
parent that Newark needed more car
lines and a rerouting of some of the
existing lines so that every car would
not have to pass the -Four Corners.
I'm January of 1913 the Public Ser
vice Railway Company came for
ward with q general scheme for the
betterment of the street car service.
This included the building of an i'm
farrrafnaI cfatinfl and office
building in Park place. and the lay
ing of certain track connections be-
tween existing lines, together with
certain extensions in territory not
served by trolley cars.
while there were some twenty
eight or thirty different connections
or extensions asked for, the grants
sought did not involve concessions on
the part of the city as great as the
number of franchises might seem to
imply to the casual observer Most
of the applications were for shorter
connections, or laying of double tracks
on streets where there were only sin
gle tracks in certain sections of
streets.
1.-THE longest stretches of track
work asked for were on Hawthorne
avenue and on Bergen street. to cover
territory which was without service
and the residents of which were very
anxious to have means of transporta-
ton.
Subway Changes.
Zone of the most important features
of the scheme was the provisions
made for getting in and out of the
terminal building. This included
subway from Washington street, so
that cars could go underneath Broad
street without interfering with traffic
on the surface of that street: also
that cars could reach the second story
of the building by an overhead struc-
ture from Mulberry street, so that
there would be no confusion between
passengers coming from different di-
rections.
IAN told, the improvements will
cost the company about five and a
half millions Of dollars, which means
that the people will not only get much
better service, but that the city will
gain materially in tax ratables, due to
the Improvement.
'sThe entire subject was taken up
by the board and given the most
careful study and consideration. We
did not go hastily and we did have
many conferences. We realized the
importance OF the problem and for
months studied 1t. The fullest pub
licity was given to the project.
Meetings were held under the aus
pices of the Board of Works and the
Newark Board OF Trade and differ
ent local Improvement associations,
at which the plans were thrashed
out by disinterested and public
spirited citizens who Endorsed the
proposition. The general plan met
with practically no opposition and
very few citizens objected to any
feature of it.
"As a further PIC aution the
board members desired to be guided
and they co.o1erate9 with the. City