Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-03-31
FREEHOLDERS
TAKE A RAP At
PUBLIC SERVICE
Oppose Trolleys on jackson St.
Bridge Until Other Matters
! Are Settled.
SAY COMPANY BROKE FAITH
OVER CLAY STREET BRIDGE
Gen. Illness Challenge TO Set
a Cost for Privilege Goes
Unheeded.

Indicating that the Public Service
Railway Company would have to
St'lSnucl1le down" and take a few Or
ders from the Board of F'reeholders
Before its application for permission
to cross the Jackson street bridge
with its tracks would be considered
favorably, Director Walter A. Evans,
Of the board, addressed some pointed
remarks to General e. w. Hine, the
company's representative, at meet
ing of the joint bridge committee of
the Hudson and Essex Board of Free
holders yesterday afternoon at the
Court House in this city.
*General Hine yesterday renewed
tile application made a year ago for
The same franchise, and said the
company was willing to pay on the
basis fixed by the Public Utility Com
mission and upheld by the higher
aourts in the Clay street bridge dis
H1lte. Need for the cars over the
jackson street structure Was made
more acute at present, he said, by
Eeason of the building of the Federal
Aeague baseball park in Harrison.
While strenuously voicing his op-
position to granting any favors or
privileges to the company until it has
complied with certain demands of
the board in other matters, Director
Evans moved that Friday morning,
April 16, be fixed as the time for
public hearing at the local Court
House on the proposed franchise. He
Expressed confidence that the trae-
fion company would come across"
md do what the county wanted be-
eause it needed the jackson street
franchise.
Say Public Service Broke Faith.
charges were made by Chairman
Richard f. Malta and Director
4syans that the Public Service had
broken faith in appealing from the
decision of the utility board in fixing
the rental of the Clay street bridge,
after both sides had agreed to abide
by the boards decision. MIR. Evans
first made the allegation. which was
later repeated by Mr.. Malta, with
the additional comment that it was
customary for the Public Service to
BREAK faith"
"a General Hine vigorously denied the
charges and gave an explanation Of
the conpany's attitude.
General Hine at the outset of the
meeting reviewed the previous at
tempt of the company to get the right
4 10 operate over Jackson street. Tho
petition at that time, he said. was
laid over by the bridge committee to
await the settlement of the Clay street
natter. This matter had now been
settled, he pointed out, and the COM
pany stood ready to pay the sum
2xed, $2,644.46, as annual compensa-
ha tgrn .aft laa+ Ixsf1 dec
Trolley Company Wants Cheap Rate.
in case the jackson street bridge
was used for trolley traffic, he ar
xued, the charge should not be as
much because two Of the principal
Items entering into the cost of Clay
street are eliminated in the case of
Jackson street. the interest, about
s1,200. OH an additional expenditure
of $30,0 TO accommodate the struc-
ture for trolley traffic and the annual
depreciation on the additional $50, 900,
which figured about $500.
Mr.. Malta said that it was not al
together certain that those items
would not be computed in the rental
of Jackson street bridge.
Eve intend to show" he said,
that the latter bridge was built at
increased cost in the expectation that
some day it would be used for trolley
service
Mr.. Hine, in reply to a question,
said he thought s1,014 fair sum to
pay for the use of the Jackson street
bridge.
Hot Shot from Evans.
I'm inclined to be from Missouri
when the Public Service is involved"
said Director Evans. They'll have
to show me what they are going to
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