Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-20
SEEK TRACKLESS
TROLLEY SYSTEM
Borough President Before Es-
innate Board Today With
Petition to Establish Line.

IBy Evening News STAFF Correspondent
TOTTENVILLE, May 20.-Bor-
oush President Calvin ID. Van Name
is before the Board of Estimates and
Apportionment today in Manhattan.
seeking the aid of that body for the
establishment of a trackless trolley
& system between Tottenville and
Richmond. Borough President Van
Name is presenting the preamble and
resolution adopted at a meeting of
citizens of the fifth ward of the Bor-
ough of Richmond some time ago.
The resolution is accompanied by a
petition of 1000 names signed on
coupons by residents of the borough
praying for the establishment of a
trackiess trolley system from Rich
mon to Tottenville. The petition
is being transmitted by John Poth,
OF Russville, who is chairman of the
fifth ward committee. Borough Pres
ident Van Name is asking that the
petition be placed on the calendar
of the board for a hearing next Fri
day. May 81.
! The residents of the fifth ward of
the borough of Richmond at present
have no steam or electric transporta-
ton other than that of the Staten
Island Railway Company operated by
the Staten Island Rapid Transit Rail-
road Company.
The communities of Kreischerville,
Rossville, Woodrow. Sandy Ground
and Green Ridge are a distance of
from two to two and a half miles
from the nearest railroad station,
and are entirely dependent upon au-
tomobiles for transportation at the
regular taxicab rates allowed in the
City of New York. There are many
industrial plants employing thou
sands of workers, many of whom re-
side from two to four miles from
their places of employment. having
! no transportation of any kind, and
are compelled to walk to and from
their employment in all kinds of
weather and in all seasons of the
year.
The children of Kreischerville,
R~ossville, Woodrow, Sandy Ground
and Green Ridge are deprived of
high school training because of lack
of transportation.
Many people now residents OF
these communities are out of m
ployment, marooned, unable to find
work because of the expense of going
and returning. and are thus deprived
of a mean of earning a livelihood.
The coupons referred to are sign
ed by LOCO people and read as fol-
lows:
Il advocate a city operated pas
isenger line between Richmond and
TottenVille."
The resolution is in these words:
Resolved, That we, residents, citi-
Gems and taxpayers of the fifth ward
of the borough of Richmond. in
meeting assembled, realizing the
! hopeless condition of the present
transportation facilities Of the fifth
ward of the borough of Richmond,
and the impossibility of obtaining re-
lief, appeal to the Board of Estimate
and Apportionment Of the City of
New York. and that the Board of Es-
timate and Apportionment is hereby
respectfully requested to provide the
residents of the fifth ward of the
Borough of Richmond with a track
less trolley system from Richmond
to Tottenville, upon such road or
roads as NAV be best suited for that
purpose; and be 1t further
"Resolved. That said system be
provided with feeders or lateral ex-
tensions to Princess Bay, Huguenot,
Pleasant Plains. Annadale, Elting-
vile and Great Kills"