The Monmouth inquirer., 1923-09-27
COURT ORDERS CAR
SERVICE IN STATE
Chancellor Walker Grants Man.
datory Injunction Requiring
Public Service Railway
Company I'd Resume.
MCBRIDE LABOR BUREAU HEAD
Former Paterson Mayor Temporarily
Succeeds General Bryant-Governor's
Statement Says New Commissioner
Qualified to Act in Unbiased Manner.

Qualified to Act in Unbiased Manner.
Trenton Chancellor Walker grant
ed a mandatory injunction requiring
the Public Service Railway Company
to resume service throughout the state
forthwith"
II the company should refuse to
obey such an Injunction a receiver
Will be appointed. according to law.
The injunction was granted on an
application made recently by Attorney
General McCran. It is expected that
the company will appeal the matter to
the Court of Errors and Appeals and
apply for stay pending the appeal.
Governor Silzer, upon his return to
Sea Girt from an inspection trip of
state institutions in south Jersey, said
he had not received the Newark City
Commissions request for a special
session Of the legislature to meet the
trolley crisis
When acquainted with the request
and the details of the letter from Di-
rector Raymond of the Department of
Streets and Public Improvements,
Frederic M. P. Pearse, the governors
secretary, said the governor would an
swer the letter in due course.
"It would not be proper, however,
for the governor to mako any COM
ment until after it is seen what Chan
cellor Walker is going to do in the
Chancery Court action instituted in
behalf of the governor" Mr.. Pearse
added.
Further than that the governors
secretary would say nothing. The de-
Gle on of the chancellor in the appli-
cation for an injunction compelling
TIE company to operate or, as an alter
native, face a receivership, is under
consideration
Director Raymond was especially
anxious that the governor be reached
Immediately with his letter, and a spe-
cial messenger was assigned to find
him and deliver the letter. Mr.. Pearse
said there was no need for such
speed; that the letter If mailed would
reach the governor, giving him plenty
of time to study and answer it after
the chancellor had disposed of the &C
ton already sponsored by the COVER
nor
DR.. Mcbride Labor Chief
Governor Silzer announced the ap-
pointment of DR.. Andrew F. Mcbride,
former mayor of Paterson, as state
commissioner of labor, to succeed Gen
eral Lewis T. Bryant, who died June
u following a heart attack DR.. Nc
Bride took office Immediately after the
announcement.
The selection Of Dr. Mcbride by
Governor Silzer follows much effort
en- Che part Of the chief executive to
fpd particular type of man to take
up the work which was so successfully
conducted by the late General Bryant.
The governor declares that in DR.. Nc
Bride he has found man who pos
sesses the necessary executive capac-
ity and the human touch essential to
the post in question.
ut has been the reputation Of DR..
Mcbride" said the governor, that he
las the qualities of mind that will per-
NIT him to thoroughly analyze situa-
ton and then deal with it in manner
10 bring justice to both sides of con-
troversy."
When the name of DR.. Mcbride was
first brought to the attention of Cover
ror Silzer the physician was in Bu-
rope. The governor Immediately ca
bled him, but because of his profess
sional duties Dr. Mcbride felt that he
could not assume the position of com
missioner of labor. However. after he
had returned to this country August
20 Governor Silzer prevailed upon him
to accept.
Native Jerseyman
The new commissioner was born in
Paterson January 4, 1863 He attend
ed the Paterson schools, the private
school of Professor McManus and
graduated from Columbia College. He
began the practice of medicine in Pat
erson and in 1892 was appointed to the
Paterson Board of Health, continuing
as member of that body until he was
elected mayor in 1907. DR.. Mcbride
served three terms Of two years each.
Prior to his election as mayor he had
also served as county physician for IL
years.
Dr. Mcbride was commissioned a
captain in the Medical Corps Of the
Amy in June, 1917. He was first sta
toned at Fort Benjamin Harrison, In
diana. where he trained enlisted men.
In November, 1917. he was transferred
tc Camp Dix, where he had charge of
the Epidemic Division during the inhu-
enza outbreak. Following the epidem-
ic Captain Mcbride became chief of
the Surgical Division. In the fall of
1918 he was given the rank Of major,
and when he was mustered out at
Camp Dix, March Is. 1919, it was as a
lieutenant colonel After his army
service DR.. Mcbride resumed the prac-
tice of medicine in Paterson. where he
is visiting surgeon at St. Josephs