Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-05-04
PUBLIC OPINION
TRAIN SERVICE
EDITOR NEWS

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Being an evening commuter. 1
| cannot help but resent most bitterly
the awful train service that is given
our city. 1t seems that our much
neglected city gets more than its full
measure of poor train service"
Have the people here nc civic
pride?
Can't the welfare of the citizen,
once in a while, be taken into con-
s~ideration by our worthy TRUSTEES"
and can't 1t be shown that they are
trying to improve the conditions of
the citizens?
Must all of the time of the re-
sponsible parties be spent in concur
ring bills and expending money of
the citizens whom they will not even
favor with a "half-decent railroad
schedule?
1t seems almost unbelievable that
a "Pacemaking City" of the size of
Perth Amboy will allow the rail-
vice. In Staten Island, the farmers
and villagers "a easily, rightfully,
and t%ruthfully claim their superiority
over the "Pacemaking City" of
Perth Amboy. There on Staten ISL
and any farmer a get his train
home at an interval of no longer
than one hour. Yet we of the Pace
making City," must wait hours at a
stretch in order to arrive at our
dear city which is known as Pace
making" If that slogan was not
adopted for ridicule, it must surely
have been proposed by a person with
a keen sense of humor.
1t seems that Perth Amboy. the
| "DannmaEinO Cifyp 10 mot az oil a
bad place for a speeding railroad
train to kill nine firemen at one clip
or to have taken numbers of other
good citizens as it's toll, for that
Perth Amboy is o. k. but when it
comes to service, its not there. Perth
! Amboy Is a pood place to be orna-
mented and decorated with scores of
cars of coal which are held here as
exterior decorations. adding SO much
to ones pride of the city beautiful.
but it can't have more than two
trains a day from that station. Perth
Amboy is a fine place to drill
freight cars, but not a place to have
train service. Doesn't it seem that
Perth Amboy has just been "bam-
boozled" out of that which she
rightfully deserves?
When we look at places like
Plainfield, New Brunswick, Mont
clair and cities of that size getting
the service by various train COM
panies passing through there, 1t
makes one wonder, If Perth Amboy
was founded under an unlucky star
or whether it's because the COM
panies realize the lack of civic pride
or the lack on interested, responsible
omceholders.
To conclude. don't you think that
il Perth Amboy is good enough for
a railroad to run on the level of the
street; IL it is good enough for the
railroads to collect it's toll in deaths
annually: if it is good enough for the
railroads to exterior decorate it"
with scores of coal cars and let coal
dust fly as of the essential con-
stituents of the air; if it is a good
enough place to hold up trafic" Of
| times for ten minutes or more: IL 1t
is a good enough place to allow the
road trains today to go through the
city at a rate far in excess of the
fifteen mile an hour limit. II these
things are true. don't you think tina
we ought to be given half as much
consideration as the people in Staten
Island? 1 mean the greatest interval
of time between trains on the Staten
Island is one hour. Why make US
"Pacemaking Perth Amboyans" wait
more than three hours?
For any persons wanting to take
a night course to advance ones ed
| ucation, he must either only take
| one hour Of a class and take the
8 O'Clock train home at night or
wait until 1915 which arrives at
1:1s. That's too much for any one.
20 tempores! o mores"i as Cicero
SAYS, "the time. what change they
bring" II Perth Amboy is a Pace
making City" then we must lament
the fact that time has brought Q
such a change in the OF the
word.
A Night School Commuter.