Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1923-11-06
Local Rotary Club and Staten
Island Civic Organizations
are United
TO MAKE BRIDGE REALITY
Enthusiastic Meeting is Adj
dressed by Representative
Men Favoring Project

bridge between this city and
Tottenville was given a further boos;
last night when the Rotary Club OF
this city and practically every civic
organization on Staten Island repre-
sented at a meeting of the South
Shore Protective Association held at
Tottenville pledged its support to the
movement in making the bridge
reality over the sound to take care
of the increasing traffic between the
state of New York and New Jersey
The meeting of the South Shore Pro-
tective Association which was held
in the lecture room of st. Paurs
Methodist church was one of the
most enthusiastic and representative
gatherings ever held by the associa
ton.
That a bridge between this city
and Tottenville was an absolute
| necessity was shown by every speak
er that took the floor after IfTe i'6 q ~
lar business of the association had
been disposed of through the various
committees who were called upon to
present their reports. Augustus G
Marscher, president of the associa
ton, presided at the gathering and
called upon the various ones for re
marks on the bridge question.
A. l.. Schwab, president of tho
Staten Island Chamber of Commerce
who was the first speaker. said his
organization was heartily in favor of
the bridge and would lend all its ef.
forts to see the bridge constructed
between these two points. Charles
w. Fogarty, president of the Staten
Island Rotary Club, followed, pledg
ing the support of the club to the
project. He spoke of the conferences
of the bridge committee of the Stat
en- Island Rotary Club held with the
bridge committee of the Perth Am
boy Rotary Club in the afternoon
Stapleton where the matter wa
thoroughly gone over.
Oliver ii. Hatfield, secretary of the
Perth Amboy Rotary Club in briei
speech pledged the support of the or
ganization and he was followed by
Max Thaten, president of the Rich
mOnd Borough Board of Trade and
Transportation, who gave lengthy
talk with regard to the possibilities
of the construction of the bridge be
tween this city and Tottenville.
Others who spoke pledged then
support to the movement were Fran
els Leman, president of the Slater
Island Civic League James Walsh
ment Association, Cornelius G. Kolff
a former president of the Staten Is
land Chamber of Commerce and
Senator Mark Allen, representing the
counties of Richmond and Roekland
in the senate at Albany, New York
All agreed at the meeting that If the
bridge was started today it could not
begin to serve the traffic
Senator Allen spoke of the pass
age of the bill at the last session OF
the New York legislature appro
priating the sum of $4,000 for the
survey now being made under the
direction of the New York Bridge
and Tunnel Commission and thai
he was ready TO support any move
ment in the senate at the coming
session for the bridge over the sound
between Tottenville and Perth Am
boy, which he declared to be the
most logical point for a span between
the two states because of its high
elevation on both sides of the sound.
Mr.. Leman also made known that
Grover S. Whalen, commissioner OF
plants and structures of the CITY OF
New York had come out in state
ment in favor of a bridge over the
sound at this point. Mrs. Marion
Webb Cleveland, a member OF the
association spoke of having met
Governor George S. Silzer in Perth
Amboy on Sunday, who said that he
would do everything in his power
to have the bridge constructed.
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