Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-10
WOODBRIDGE AT IT AGAIN

The political unrest in Woodbridge township is once
more shown in the movement now under way to have an
other vote ON adopting the commission form of government.
Political feeling in Woodbridge is unusually bitter. Not onls
is there antagonism between the two political parties, but
there are factions within the parties that keep things pretty
we'll stirred up all the time. Within the past year or two the
women have become a new elment in politics so that things
are more up in the air than ever.
But the main trouble in Woodbridge is the unwieldli~
ness of the township. There are too many different towns
with nothing particular in common, all under a single gov.
eminent. If all these places were contiguous it would not be
so bad, but how can the people of Colonia, for instance, and
the people of keasbey have The same interest? In fact, there
is more in common between Perth Amboy and Woodbridge
proper than there is between Woodbridge and Avenel.
Located within Woodbridge township there are at the
present time seven separate and distinct towns or communi
ties. There is Keasbey, Fords, Woodbridge, Sewaren, Port
Reading, Colonia and Iselin, not to mention Hopelawn and
a few other settlements of that character. Each one of
these places has its own life and its own interests. What
suits one is not always satisfactory to the other. Each one
is growing as a separate entity. In fact, some of these
places, Fords, for instance, are rapidly catching up to the.
town of Woodbridge proper. If it were not for having a
common government Fords and Woodbridge proper would
have little to do with each other, there being nothing TO bind
them together.
As a matter of fact, both Fords and Woodbridge proper
are more associated with Perth Amboy than they are with
each other. Both places are building up with the overflow
from this city. This is also true of Keasbey and Sewaren.
Even Avenel is attracting Perth Amboy residents and the two
places are becoming closely associated. AT Colonia, it must
be admitted, the Railway interests are strongest, but then
Railway is in Union county.
1t IS evident that sooner or later Woodbridge town.
ship is going to fall apart due to its rapidly growing towns
within its borders, each one a community unto itself. Com
mission government is not going to solve the problem.
The only thing that can save Woodbridge from break
;no m ;nto n Iof of Iff1a cfruoolino horouohs is In heconne "a
part of the over shadowing municipality of Perth Amboy
Here is where the interest of the township is conferred and
it is going to center here more and more as time goes on.
With the whole of Woodbridge township united with
Perth Amboy there could be developed here at this stragetic
point ON the coast one of the greatest ports on the Atlantic
seaboard. With a comprehensive plan drawn up, laying out
streets and boulevards, parks, Fairgrounds and street car
lines, and with zones established setting aside certain dis
tricfs for industry, and other districts for residential pur-
poses oaly, it would come about as near beirg an ideal city
as It. is possible to make.
This is no idle dream. But it will require big men
men with a vision TO put it across. Perth Amboy and Wood
bridge have a wonderful opportunity if they would but grasp
ii. Perhaps when Woodbridge has tried the commission
form of government and a few other panaceas it will see the
light and enter into an amalgamation with Perth Amboy thai.
will be the making of both places.