Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-01-12
AMbOY
HAS ANSWER
Mayor Scully's Speech Quot
ed in Reply to Quaid's Re-
marks as to Annexation.
BY Special Correspondent.

SOUTH AMBOY, Jan. 12:-Citi-
zers and officials of South Amboy
seem to be considerably wrought up
| over Mayor Quaid's annual message
to the borough council of S~ayreville
which was published in Mondays
EVENING NEWS. Mr.. quad in his
message made it clear that he was
against the annexation Of ~Sayrevilie
by this city.
For some years past the question
of the annexation of ~Sayreville to
this city has been a topic of CONVEX
sation and about a year ago a COM
mittee from this. city asked for O
private-conference with the officials
of Sayreville, at which time it was
thought the matter could be dis
| cussed to ascertain If a mutual
agreement could be reached. At
this conference this city was to pre-
sent its grounds and Sayreville its
objections to the proposed annexa-
ton. The conference was granted
by the Sayrevilie officials but when
the men from this city arrived in
~Sayreville they found not a private
conference with the officials of the
. borough but a public mass meeting.
There are several parts of the
message delivered by Mayor Quad
that the South Amboy people take
exception to. One of these follows:
To provide for this contingency IAN,
nexation) it Is necessary that adj
quate organization be effected in the
near future, for the purpose of safe
guarding our interests in this direc-
ton: that the carrying out of
water and eve plans together with
the extending of our electric light
system and providing gas to all of
the citizens and taxpayers of our
borough be vigorously prosecuted"
South Amboy has pointed out to
the people living adjacent to this
city that the borough of Sayreville
will not in years be in a position to
put water and sewer in their section
of the borough, and it is pointed out
by some that it is plainly seen In the
Mayors message that he says, pro-
viding of gas to all the citizens" but
not the providing of water and sewer
to all of iii residents and citizens.
Another part of Mayor Quaid's
message that has caused consider
able comment Isl: THE argument
that the chamber of commerce of
South Amboy can locate factories In
the section which they desire to an
mex; if they are permitted to annex
same, does not in any way prevent
these prospective industries from To-
eating in the territory as it now
stands. namely. the Borough of
S~ayreville."
When this part of the message
was brought to the attention of the
merce, he pointed out the fact that
as up to the present time none of
these prospective factories had To-
Gated in the territory now under
~Sayreville was evident proof of the
inability of the Borough of Sayre-
vile to locate them. This recalled
many instances when manufacture
ers were brought to South Amboy.
taken to property lying over the city
line and were much interested. How
ever. when they learned that the
property was not in South Amboy,
that it would not be afforded water.
gas. sewer, police and fire protec-
ton, and many other privileges now
available in this city. they would not
consider the location.
The position and attitude of South
Amboy. however, is best stated in a
| portion of Mayor Scully's message
| devoted to that particular question
Common justice dictates that II
no advantages will accrue to them
the residents and property owners
of the part of S~ayreville on which
we look with favor would be justi-
fed in refusing to cast their lot with
us. To me it seems that the man,
| fest advantages of joining with us
are so many and the mutual benefits
to each municipality SO great that
there should be little opposition to
the contemplated change. On this,
however. there are other judges, and
would counsel a fair and honest
heart to heart discussion with the
affected people and with the officials
of the neighboring borough to the
end that favorable action be taken
on this project"