Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-07-24
.DETOUR HERE
lessons JAM
New Brace Ave. Route Less
ems Congestion in Other
Streets of City

81 reaking week the motor travel was
s. sxceedingly heavy yesterday and
I the traffic men of the police de-
b partment were kept on edge until
81 early this morning. A noticeable let
ND in the strea moi cars returning
Il from the shore resorts took place
I at 1880 o'clock and most OF the traf-
tic officers were relieved from duty.
During the day the police put a
9 plan into practice suggested by Al
4 derman Albert G.. Waters and the
N police committee. Instead of allow
Z ing seashore traffic to proceed
s through the heart of the city lncoih-
Il ing csrs were switched from Amboy
< avenue into Brace avenue ana
across the countv bridge by way OF
I Convery place and outer Market
Z street. Incoming cars were DIS
( matched by the same route, in the
n opposite direction.
Bv employing this detour the vol
ume of motor travel was diverted
from the center of the city ana the
lam that ties up the streets last week
was avoided. The plan worked out
successfully, according to Chief oil
Il Police Tonnesen, and it is probable
that it will be employed regularly
in the future, when the SITUATION.
makes it advisable. A solution OF
the ferry problem seems Impossible,
considering the limited approaches
Ito the slip at the foot of Smith
street, but Chief Tonnesen is wei!
satisfied in having even a partial So
tuition of the greater problem, winch
is that of caring for the traffic not
q using the ferry.
The manner in which the trafhc
men kept the situation in han Is
Fdndicated by the fact that only four
Automobile accidents occurred dur
fdng the forty-eight hours from sat
mrday morning until this morning
casualties were confined to one
small child who was struck by n
machine at Amboy avenue ana
eIawrence street last night.
The girl was Julia WACO, seven
wears old. of 447 Lawrence street.
" Patrolman James f. Sullivan in
Investigated the occurrence and learn
4 ed that the girl was knocked down
when she dashed into the path OF
ian automobile operated by Arne
h Arnesen, of 297 Compton avenue,
The officer had the child removed
sto the Clay Hospital, where an OK
animation by DR.. Charles w. Naulty
showed her to be uninjured.
Later on a second accident took
Epidtt dL lt w 49,
instance automobiles driven by John
Kettle, of Roselle Park, and Mrs.
LENA Krebs, of 164 Chauncey street,
scol1ided. Kettle. was proceeding
north on Amboy avenue, with Mrs.
SKrebs driving west on Lawrence
street. Both machines were dam
4aged to some extent. but none OF
the occupants were hurt. Motor
tcycle Omcer Frank Seiboth filed the
police report on the incident.
N AT Brace and Amboy n a
Scollision occurred between machines
under the guidance of Joseph VT
sassy. of Remsen avenue, Avenel, and
peter HerimaD of Newark, on Sat
8 t<ehoon. According TO Mo-
~2fdr.ycle Officer Bachman, Herman
was driving south on Amboy ave-
anue, when his car was struck 10y
vitassy's machine, turning into AM
sboy avenue from Brace.
The only other crash reported was
Aearly Saturday morning when Mrs.
Robert Kroft, of Ocean Grove, drove
4 her machine into a city s~prinklng
cart at Market and Sheridan streets.
The collizion occurred as Mrs. kroft
made the turn from Sheridan into
Market street, it is understood. The
4impact resulted in serious damage to
zthe automobile. The entire front as
4sembly was wrecked but the occu-
1ipants escaped injury. In the car
with Mrs. Kroft were Mrs. Frank
4 Snyder and Mrs. A. p. Alexander.
.also residents of Ocean Grove. Pa
v trolman Charles Jorgensen investi-
gated the accident.
~ MATAWAN, -uly 24.-As the re-
guilt of being squeezed between an
\ iron fence and a Central Railroad
of New Jersey train, at the Mata-
EVAN station of the New York & Long
4 Branch railroad last night, Thomas
Holden, of 355 West 5Sth street,
|INew York City, is in the Monmouth
Memorial Hospital at Long Branch
suffering with two broken ribs and
possible other injuries.
Holden, according to those who
saw the accident, was on his way
to New York City. He arrived from
#East Long Branch on the Central
Miriam arriving here at about 1880
O'clock. A Pennsylvania train, bound
Flor New York was standing at the
station. Holden seeing this train and
II desiring to catch it jumped from
the rain on which he was a passen-
Eyer before 1t came to a stop.
II The two tracks are separated by
Fan iron fence, and as it was dark
that end of the station grounds,
MHolden Jumped into the fence and
q war then Ythrown back against the
car. AS the cars and the fence only
by a few inches. Holder was
f4rolled between the side of the car
1&and the fence as II rolls a lead
pfpencil between the hands. DIR. G. a.
#Gesswein gave first aid treatment,
latter which the injured man was
Efplaced upon a stretcher and taken
kfto the Long Branch institution. AL
though there are lights at that end
3of the station grounds, 1t is said they
were not burning.
Move on Rival Unions
ri NEW YORK, July 24:-The
opening of the fourth week of the
railroad shop strike in the New
York district finds union leaders
estimating the walkout IS to 80 per
cent effective in various centers,
while spokesman for the road cut
zfthese figures, in most cases, below
thirty per cent and in a few in
stances to less than ten per cent.
In these estimates the unions re-
ztferred to the number of their men
Con strike, the employers to the mum
kber of old and new mel at work,
HI Union leaders are taking the