Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-12-19
Central Railroad Service

Perth Amboyh has a complaint to make to the Central railroad,
also a word Of commentator. The complaint is about the tram
from this city to New York due here at noon, or l2oS to be exact
This train used to arrive at 1853 and one could almost set his
watch by it, so regularly was it on time. 1t made good time be-
tween here and New York, too, stopping only at Maurer to take on
. few heads of industries there who desired to get back to their
New York office for the afternoon, and then at Elizabethport' The
train was very popular with business men generally.
This winter, however, the train has been changed Instead OF
rolling into the station on the dot of 1.58 every day, Its scheduled
time is 1908, but it is seldom here at that time. 1t seems that it
now has to make a connection at Red Bank with a train coming
10 over the Southern division. The kind of service given on the
Southern division is none of our business except as it affects our
service here. This connection does affect us, at least this eonnec-
ton is blamed for the train being late almost every day. 1t Is a
tity to ruin a perfectly good train in this way. Local business
men are becoming disguised. Railroad accommodations Tor Ferth
Amboy are poor enough at best, and now to have the one tram that
meant so much to the heads of industries and others ruined by
what seems to be some measly connection down the line, S a sore
disappointment. 1t would seem as if Perth Amboy was entitled TO
more consideration than this. With the ten minutes change IN the
scheduled time for the train to leave here, and with the tram
usually from ten minutes to a half hour late, it now means arriving
in New York about 3 o'clock instead of 1 O'Clock, causing the loss
Of an hour at the most important part of the day Tor busy men.
On the other hand, the Central railroad is to be commended
for the action it has taken in attempting to clean up the approach
TO the station in this city. Whereas the trees and posts at the en-
trance to the station grounds had been turned into bllooards o
all kinds of advertisements which were tacKeu Oh Ihem, Io Pi"o
tce has been prohibited and a "Post no Bills" sign has been
erected. People who take some pride in the city and the gateway
thereto are greatly pleased at the change. It's a decided improve
ment. What is the use of trying to beautify the grounds IL such
disfigurements are to be permitted.
AS for the parking of automobiles, particularly trucks, In me
driveway at the Smith street entrance to the station, the recent
ruling disseminating this practice is being pretty generally ignored,
as one would expect it to be as long as the Central railroad permits
its property to be occupied by a lunch wagon. This lunch wagon
has been an eyesore ever since it was erected and ought never to
have been permitted there. Since the railroad cared so little for
the fitness Of things, however, it can hardly find fault when truck
drivers and others use the company's driveway to park their cars
while they are in the lunch wagon getting something to eat. That
his parking is an annoyance to the patrons of the railroad, not to
mention the lunch wagon itself. there is no doubt. Itis to be hoped
that this nuisance will be abolished when the new station that is to
come when the tracks are depressed is built. In the meantime, the
railroad company has only itself to blame if it finds that its station
entrance is blocked with trucks while the drivers are patronizing n
lunch wagon that the company permitted to be erected on railroad
property