Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-07-02
;C|TY AND ''yTS"
! ! MAY ARRANGE A
!: !: !. PEACEFUL PACT
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1city Counsel Frazer Reports
>, That Something Tangible Is
Expected Within a Week.
ONLY POINT AT ISSUE is
BOND AND LICENSE FEES
commissioner CilIen and For
mer Commissioner Halpin
Have Tilt Over Paving.

Although the Public Service Rail-
way Company and the J1tney ser
vice Association were represented at
the meeting of the Board of Works
YESTERDAY. and some developments
out of the ordinary were eA-
pected in the jitney sltuatioh'
there were no fireworks and the
verbal report of City Counsel Spauld-
ing Frazer indicated that the city
and the iitney people would come to
q mutually satisfactory understand
ing.
Mr.. F'razer's report was an entlre-
ly informal one He stated that the
committee appointed to draft regu-
lations, which consists of himself,
CITY Engineer Morris r. Sherrerd
and Trolley Inspector Joseph Craw-
ford. desired another week to decide
upon routes for the jitneys and
other matters in connection with the
new service.
City Engineer Morris r. Sherrerd
intimated that the jitney was hurt
ing the Public Service Railway Com
pany and said that the special COM
: mittee had been visited by a delega-
, tion of Public Service employees, who
told the committee their jobs were
endangered unless the jitney busi-
ness was properly regulated.
Mr.. Frazer explained that all but
two points at issue had been settled
al the last conference the committee
held with the members of the Jitney
Service Association. He said the
jitney men seemed willing to have
proper regulations, such as agreeing
to certain routes, schedules and the
paying of licenses. They also agreed
to the adoption of rules to prevent
overcrowding, he said.
The two points still in dispute, Mr..
Frazer stated, are the question of
the price of license and the matter Of
bends. The committee had sug-
gested $75 to $500 license fee, accord
ing to the size of car. Mr. Frazer
said the jtney people thought these
amounts too high and instead had
suggested to adopt the Rochester
fee" which runs from $50 to S100.
The jitney people are willing to be
o cbonded for $4,000 for small and $4,000
or large cars. The counsel said the
main difficulty thus Ear was the at
titude of the bonding concerns, some
of whom do not want iitney men, or
II they are willing, charge too ex-
orbitant rates, in the opinion of the
jitney men.
Gillen--Halpin Exchange.
Some ginger was injected into
what would otherwise have been an
unusually dry meeting of the board
by a second chapter in the attack
which Commissioners Charles p. Gill
len made upon former Board Of
Works = Commissioner Thomas F.
Halpin
II understand, Mr.. Gillen, that you
Ia,
street matter last week in a way to
seem to indicate that l was represent
ing the bitulithie people," inquired
Mr. Halpin.
My recollection of the incident re-
ferred to by me- said Mr.. Gllen, "is
that it referred to a question which
arose over the paving of Read, OK
ford and some other streets that were
under consideration last year for paw
ing them with asphalt under open
specifications.
The Uvalde Company was low bid
der with $1.94 per yard. at which
: price the city would be benefited, as
|, against paving 1t with bitulithic at
s2.28."
2 Continuing, Mr.. Gillen charged that
!, Mr. Halpin appeared and said his
J, neighbors did not want the street
paved and that he had told Mr. Hal
ppm at the time that the wholesale
= relaying-over was. a scheme to knock
!, out honest competition. Mr. Gillen
lesaid he had also written Mr.. Halpin
L a letter telling him that he and others
= who wanted the contracts laid over
for year would come back asking
efor bitulithic. Since then, said Mr.
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