Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-12-09
CIVIC ACTION
ON DELIVERIES
Chamber of Commerce to
Take Up Complaint of Res
identS at Next Meeting.
PROTEST TO ALDERMEN
Show Need of New Express
Collection and Delivery
Limits in This City,.
PROTEST TO ALDERMEN

The petition of the Western I'm
provement Association TO the board
of aldermen. which contains 203 sig
natures of persons living in the
northwest section of the city, re-
questing the aldermen to take some
steps to obtain delivery service by
the express company in their local.
ity. brings to light the need of new
collection and delivery limits for the
express service in this city.
The present service given by the
American Railway Express Compa-
ny Is within old limits which were
outlined long before the northwest
ern section of the city was built up,
and, according to the schedule of
collections and deliveries for this
city, which are on file in the express
Office in New Brunswics avenue, are
as follows:
Perth Amboy-From Staten ISL
and Sound north; Cedar street to
Parker street: north on Parker
street to CLANCY street, to Easton
street; Hall avenue west to Amboy
Bridge (meaning bridge at Hall ave-
nue. over railroad tracks,, south to
Neville street. north on Neville street
to Cornell street; south on Cornell
street to Becker place to Sayre ave-
nue.; south on Sayre avenue TO Her.
bert street to Water street, east,
back to Staten Island Sound.
FROM the above delivery and col
lection limits, it will be seen that.
these limits probably took in all of
the territory that was necessary
when the limits were made. but
within the past few years, Hall ave-
nue. above the railroad tracks, Brace
avenue, Upper New Brunswick ave-
nue. and all sections up TO the AL
pine cemetery have become built up,
and although many people now re-
side in these different streets, they
have no express service.
Among the streets on which the
express company is to be requested
place deliveries are: West side ave-
nue., Hall avenue west of railroad
bridge, and Brace avenue, in fact all
the territory west to the poor farm.
About five years ago a request was
made to the express companies then
in operation in this city to expend
the deliveries to the plant of the
Perth Amboy Tile Works, about
three blocks further than the de-
livery limits on Sayre avenue, which
| they refused to do, saying that it
would not pay them.
At the present time the express
| system in this city consists of the
| Main office in New Brunswick ave-
nue.; depots at each railroad station,
| four wagons making deliveries, one
making collections and one assign
ed to Woodbridge which place is now
connected with the local Office.
Shipments which are received for
persons living outside of the delivery
limits, are placed in the call station
in the main Office in New Brunswick
avenue, and a postal card is then
sent to the person to whom the pack
age is assigned, telling them of the
arrival of the package and that 1t is
being held until they call. Some
times these postals are delayed and
the shipment lays in the call station
for several days before it is called
for. No deliveries are made to Fords
or Keasbey and these people must
depend on the call system.
keyport, Matawan, Red Bank,
Long Branch, Asbury Park and
other cities not as large as Pert h
Amboy have been supplied with au-
tomobile trucks by the, company,
and the old horse drawn delivery
wagons, except where the deliveries
are very close together, have become
a thing of the past.
These trucks, according to infor-
nation which could be obtained
would be practical in this city, with
the exception of Smith street, where
the horse drawn wagon is prefer
able because of the fact that the
deliveries are so close together.
With motor truck, one delivery
and pickup it is thought, would be
possible in Fords, Keasbey and the
northwest section of the city, which
today demands better service from
the express company.
That concerted action on the
part of the city and the Chamber
of Commerce will be made to obtain
better express service for section
not now served was made known by
Isaac Alpern, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, who stated
that the civic chamber will take the
matter up at the meeting on Mon
day night and see what can be done.
President Alpern was of the opinion
that the northwestern section of the
city should by all means, have ex-
press service.