Joe Alsheimer's accident, 1916
NEW JERSEY COURIER 13 OCT 1916:
A hand car is not a very delicate looking instrument, but it was proven to be no match for a Ford on Saturday last, when at the Main street crossing over the C.R.R. Joe Alsheimer ran down a handcar and put it out of business with a Ford car. At least that is what the railroad men say. Joe tells it different. He says the crossing bell wasn't ringing, and he had a right to expect a clear crossing; that as he made the track the car shot out from the back of the Newbury building, and he hit the handcar and the handcar hit the Ford. But the Ford was made of sterner stuff, and was practically unhurt, while the handcar had to be taken to the shops by freight for repairs.
Ashbrook Cranmer of Mayetta and Oscar Parker, of West Creek, the firm of Cranmer and Parker, on Friday afternoon last signed up the contract to build a stone road on Main street, Toms River, between Washington Street and Water Streets. Director Otis and Clerk Parker signed the contract for the county. Clerk Parker of the Board of Freeholders, who is also a member of the Dover Township Committee, with Freeholder Harry E. Toner h as been working since last January to get this road built. Both are well pleased to see the contract signed and the work ready to begin.
A hand car is not a very delicate looking instrument, but it was proven to be no match for a Ford on Saturday last, when at the Main street crossing over the C.R.R. Joe Alsheimer ran down a handcar and put it out of business with a Ford car. At least that is what the railroad men say. Joe tells it different. He says the crossing bell wasn't ringing, and he had a right to expect a clear crossing; that as he made the track the car shot out from the back of the Newbury building, and he hit the handcar and the handcar hit the Ford. But the Ford was made of sterner stuff, and was practically unhurt, while the handcar had to be taken to the shops by freight for repairs.
Ashbrook Cranmer of Mayetta and Oscar Parker, of West Creek, the firm of Cranmer and Parker, on Friday afternoon last signed up the contract to build a stone road on Main street, Toms River, between Washington Street and Water Streets. Director Otis and Clerk Parker signed the contract for the county. Clerk Parker of the Board of Freeholders, who is also a member of the Dover Township Committee, with Freeholder Harry E. Toner h as been working since last January to get this road built. Both are well pleased to see the contract signed and the work ready to begin.
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