Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-12-08

more & Ohio Railroad and the Cen
trail Railroad OF New Jersey. This
belt line can be connected with the
tunnel under the Narrows directed
by existing legislation to be built
by the city of New York.
No. 13 is an outer belt line rail-
road extending IRON Piermont on
the Hudson River to some point neal
Summit, and then extending south
erly along a practical route approx
mately paralleling the westerly linn
its of the Port District to some point
near New Brunswick. and also a
branch from this line from a point
near Summit easterly to a connection
with the middle belt line west of
Newsrk Bay.
No. IA is a marginal railroad ex-
tending from a pCint on the outer
belt line railroad near New Bruins
wick down the karitan River to
Perth Amboy, thence northerly and
approximately parallel to the Arthur
Kill TO a connection with the mid
die belt line near the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad.
No. is is a marginal railroad on
Staten Island along the easterly side
of the Arthur Kill from the Balti-
more & Ohio Railroad 10 Tottenville
and from Tottenville along the
southwesterly shore of Staten Island
to StapIeton. to a connection with
belt line No. IL lea Stapleton.
No. 16 is a marginal railroad ex-
tending from the Central Railroad
of New Jersey west of the Passaie
River in Newark, northerly through
the Kearny and Hackensack Mea-
dows to a point near Hackensack,
and a branch crossing the Hacken-
sack River and traversing the Sc
caucus Meadows northerly to a point
near Ridgefield Park. The portion
crossing the Pennsylvania Railroad
and the ID. l.. & w. Railroad main
line passenger lines to be built as
and when justified. These lines to
be connected with existing railroads
where feasible and to the middle belt
line railroad.
No. II is a marginal railroad along
the eas.erly side of the Hackensack
River and Newark Bay from the D.
l.. & w. Railroad down to Bayonne.
with the necessary connections to the
middle belt line
No. IS is a belt line railroad ex-
tending from a connection with the
New York Central at Spuyten Duy-
vii, running easterly and southerly
generally along the Harlem River
to d connection with the New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
and with the New York Connecting
Railroad and middle belt line No. l.
No. 10 is a marginal railroad ex-
tendiIb from Perth Amboy southerly
across the Raritan River, n branch
| extending scutheastly along the Gen.
trail Railroad of New Jersey to AT
lantic Highlands, another extending
southerly from South Amboy gen.
orally along the line of the Raritan
River Railroad, to connect with the
Pennsylvania Railroad south of New
Brunswick.
Because of their special import
ances, lines No. 10 and IL are dis
| cussed separately as follows:
There must be a physical connec-
ton between the west and the cas-
sides of the port. 1t must be sc
located that the consent of New
Jersey municipalities will be readily
secured for the necessary rights Of
way and so hat the assent of the
State or New Jersey to the crossing
may likewise be obtained. The key
stone of the arch in the plan o
presented to you as the middle bel
line in New Jersey, No. 10.
1.-The chief reasons for this are:
"(a) That in that location can bt
made the shortest connecting linz
between all of the railroads termi'