Grade Crossings Cant Be Abolished Says Railroad
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Published Every Tuesday and Friday Sport News, Page S VOL. VIII, No. 7ft VVOODRRIDCK, N. .1., FRIDAY. DMCKMRKR '.). \'.r.>J) PRICE THREE CENTS GRADE CROSSINGS Automobile Rams Railroad Work Car LOWER WATER RATE j Aveneiwomenview Sewaren's Move Not Promoted hv CANT BE ABOLISHED Derails It and Sends 4 to Hospital SET BY RULING OF Beetle Specimens Members of the Avenel Wo- Unfriendly Feeling for Township SAYS RAILROAD MAN Gasoline Hand Car Is Victim of Odd Mishap in Which Auto man's Club were interested in mobile Escaped Practically Unharmed; Driver Claims UTILITY COMMISSION viewing the Japanese Efeetle Trainmaster Burt of exhibit of The Independent at Says Dix, New^^ommittee Head That Cro»»ing Signal BeH Was Not Working Woodbridge Consumers to Get N. Y. Division of Pennsyl- their meeting Wednesday night Elected Chairman of Enlarged "Steering Committee", He Clari- Reduction According to a and in a paper on the subject vania, Talks to Rotarians on Four employees of the Philadelphia rib close to spine and cut on right fie» Erroneous Ideas Prevalent Outside of Sewaren; and Reading section gang were sent eyebrow. Provision Made This Week read by Mrs. Prank Barth. Af- Crossing Accidents. to Rahway hospital Wednesday ter viewing the mounted speci- Politics Not Connected With Motive I, DeAngela, proprietor of Port To Cut Company's Profits. mens one of the members iden- evening as thc result of an extreme- Reading Bakery and driver of the ly odd accident. The motnr-driven tified the bug as similar to one The danger of Sewaren's borough movement being split STRESSES "CAUTION" automobile, escaped unncathed, He that d*stroyed a plum tree in hand car and its trailer on which COMPANY WILL APPEAL claims that the flashing light and the yard of her home last sum- le rocks of politics is believed to have been nullified Wed- they were riding was struck and 11 1,. Burt, assistant trainmaster bell, that acts as signals for the mer. iiy night when the "steering committee" of seven men, hurled from the track at upper Green crossing, were not working. He sn Water rates in Woodhridge, Car- j ,f the New York Division of the Other organizations are wel- whose samenefls in political faith led to the charge that Re- street crossing by a light auto de- the handcar too late to avoid the teret and Metuchen, long a subject i come to U3o thc exhibit, Thc ivnnsylvania Railroad, spoke at yes- livery truck. Whereas thhe railroariroad publicajis had squeezed the Democrats out of the movement* '1 accident, although he pulled his enr of litigation between the Middlesex Independent being desirous of relay's hjneheon of the Rotary Club ! equipment was turned at right an- to the left in an endeavor to avoid Water Company on the one hand and ! took action to enlarge their body t..o. ., •— — -**"'j e t l( tl ac < an( acquainting as many persons, as . , In an interview last night Mr. "Ihingrr* at Grade Crossings." In ! ?' ' *"" ' ' ' ' l driven several \ a head-on crash which might have the municipalities and a commit,ec of twenty-six. feet by. the impact the auto the Public I possible wijh the appearance clarified several of the issuM Uutt', informal talk after the luncheon was j had fatal results. As a consequence of the inscct^or the reason»that same time Lester Dix, principal of scarcely damagud. the damage was caused by the hub ' utilitics Commission on the other, • have appeared in newspaper account*' Mr. Hurt deelnred, in reply to a an expert from the U. S. Bu- . >r. U. W. Hoagland hud the men \ cap of the right front wheel, were changed this week by action of | i Schools One and Eleven of Wood- of the movement to date. OutaUnd-* '• iinftion, that he considers as re- reau of Entomology predicts bridge and a resident of Sewaren, i"(t among misconceptions of the ; taken to the hospital where he ex Men on the hiind car sny they blew | the Utilities Board, the appearance of the beetle in • -.li the possibility of grade cross. amined and treated them. Johi was made chairman amU'harU's Wis. tive behind Sewaren's desire to with- *1 the h,,rn of their machine an they, Rntea calculated tn reduce the net' large numbers here next year. 17 being eliminated in Woodbridge Owsik, V.t, section foreman and op- j approached the crossing. They in-1. ., wull wns made secretary. draw from the township has been erator of the hand car, sustained a j timaU'd that UeAngelo's clarm that \lncom« of thc wak'r company by up- the idea that Sewaren people hay*- i unship within the next few felt that their section was not yet* years. ( fracture of the right auxiliary rib, the bell wns not working probably ! P™ximately $62,700 n year wore V.iimpts have Iwcn made by town-, and contusions of the right knee;! might be so inasmuch as they did | fixed by the. Public Utilities Com- ting its share of improvement* and •ii|.- criminals within the last, year or George St*'v<\ r>'l, fracture of nalar not know whether a car as light us j mission l() become effective January Ephraim Culler Known j Chestnut Blight Spared that thc township tax rate ia to* . In have this done. bone and contusion of shoulder; Krnit a hand car could operate thojl. The. commission, however, has ai- high. Dix (tcclarthT'lKnt Rewi\n»ri1 "The elimination of accidents at Smith, 22, contusion of left leg; j mochanism that causes the signal to j lowed a surcharge of 2.ft per cent, | no complaint against the township r For Detailed Knowledge Only One Tree in State; J for not giving improvements. "Aa • i-ti<vny grade crossings is undoubt- Frank Vekan. >2, fracture of right work. ! to amortize accrued deficits of ap- a matter of fact Sewaren people lly cm- i)f thc most serious proh- proximately $42,711 incurred during realize, as do people in other parts the three-year period prior to Jan- nn In-fore thc public today," said Of Events of Long Ago That One 150 Years Old of the township, that Sewarea uary. The board estimates that the I'r* "A great many people will could have had improvements had It Iccult Wizardy Makes Legion Elects McElroy Btirplus will b« continued for approxi- .•, ibiit the only prevention of hijrh- Practised Law Here for Fifty j Discovery of Lone Survivor petitioned for them. As to the tax mately three years to make, up the .i> pailv missing accidents is by Years and Once Was Factor j Recalls Days When Woods in rate, I do not believe there is more ' elimination of (trade crossing*. 20 Cents Grow to $14As Its New Commander | deficit. Ffank Bergen, president of In Politics; Funeral to This Section Provided a feeling in that1 matter than ia custom* I ,[> is absolutely impossible of ac- | the company, insists that the new rate ary among groups of taxpayers every- . inplishment, and oven if it were | fails to allow the concern to realize Be Held Tomorrow i Bounteous Crop where." : ••'•ible to do so, the cost would a- Either That Or Jail Is Conceal- First Public Event for "On To 1 a • proper return on its investment. ! Friendly to Townilup .".int to more, than th<' total valu- ing Fund of Which Police Paris" Fund Will Be Held "It simply makes new litigation! Mr. Ephraim The woods around Woodbridge Cutter, counsellor Mr. Dix feels that publicity that •in of the railroads of the coun- necessary," he declared when told of j aj are not the only ones from which Were Unaware Next Friday [aw the Perth Amboy has resulted from the early steps r-y :ind would require generations of the ruling. blight has removed the once abun- taken in the movement may have lea Earned 11.8% U Claim hospital earfy Wednesday morning. dant crop of chestnuts. Conditions Ser eailt Patrifk At a recent meeting of Woodbridge to the belief that Sewaren's desira <^f 'str.ngent examination of auto driv- ' K Cullinanc is going The decision of the commission fol- He had been in ill health for some ai-« the same throughout the state lool< ttlr to separate is due to animosity to- "* - s for physical defects that make ' '" ough the 'cells at the po- Post No. 87, American Legion, the lows an investigation of the com- time and a month ago it became although there are indications that ward the township proper. He de»« 1'irir operation of cars unsafe, and a t Hfo station the first opportunity he following officers were elected by the ! y's affairs which showed that un- the blight has run UR course and that pan necessary for him to go to the hos- dare's that such is not the case. to fducutv drivers tn slow j has. He suspects that somewhere post members for the ensuing year: ' der the rates made possible by a a few years may witness the return pital for treatment. Mr. Cutter was Moreover, he points out, it is antici- luok and listen before crossing' in the jail Is a cache of money. This Commander, Leon E. McElroy; j federal injunction restraining the the son of the late Ephraim and of chestnut true*. '••.•if ks were cited as a practical means \ belief was arrived at Wednesday pated by those In Sewaren that when n • ,,- r- i r-. ! commission from enforcing the rates Mary Cutter, and is survived by his Probably thc only American chest- and if a borough is formed the two rutting down accidents.