New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-04-29
THE NEW-JERSEY MONOPOLY.

The Managers of the New Jersey Railroad seek
TO throw all the blame of the lae accident at Ran
cocus uvon the bridgekeeper, but their apology only
shows their guilt in gsrng colors. He is stupid,
but they are criminal and it seems indeed if moth
ing short of the Pententiary would teach them their
duty In every case of accident their road it is
safe to assume that the fault is in them aud not in their
employees who generally careful as those on other
roads. The difficulty is that they themselves pay no
attention to their own business knowing that as one of
them has said, the people have no choice. owe have
surrounded the State" said he, with network
through which not even the smallest fish pass
without our permission"
Under such circumstances, why need they for
the lives of their passengers AT the time of the ser
Gus accident near Princeton, resulting from the break
ING down of one of their bridges it proved that its
utterly ruinous condition had been repeatedly, but in
vain, represented to the managers. And this very
bridge at Rancocus then well known to be in con-
diton so runOus that every man who crossed it did so
at the hazard of his life. Nevertheless, nothing was
done until the matter was brought before the public in
the newspapers Others Of their bridges now,
as we are told, in similar condition, and no need
be surprised at the OF more accidents"
many persons were seriously injured between Trenton
and Princeton it clearly proved before the Coro
ners Jury that there had been total absence of care
on the part of the Company, and that the turnouts
were Left very much 10 take OF themselves be-
cause the Managers, while giving themselves large divi
dends could not afford pay laborers wages to men to
look after them. Last year, when train off the
track and passed through dwelling house in Bristol
of the passengers was at some trouble to inform
himself to the system of the Company and with that
view sought out the who had been in charge of the
turnout and learned from him that the Company had
discharged him because he could afford take less
than $40 per month and had placed the whole matter
under the charge of small boy who could afford to
work cbeaply
The accidents on this road very numerous but
few of them reach the newspapers, and in most
cases they are the consequence of most criminal neg-
gence To guard against them without drawing on the
Treasury of the Company, the managers draw largely
on the time of their passengers is well known to so
many of the unfortunate people who wait for half hours
at the various turnouts and spend six hours in making
tourney that should be made in three. Notwithstand
ing all this loss of time there are believe, more acct
dents than on any other road in the Union.
How long will the people of New-York, Boston and
Philadelphia suffer this state of things For twenty
years they have been pundered in time and money and
ct they continue to submit almost as quietly as does
the lamb to the knife of the butcher What can they
10 will, perhaps, be asked We will tell them
The people of NewJersey need to be awakened to the
act that they heavily taxed than any others m
he Union They need to have their eyes opened and
% be made to see that land is not of halt the value that
il would be if they had free intercourse among them
elyes and with the world As matters now stand, there
Is little more power to maintain trade between the diff
eren parts Of the State than there is between Russia
md Germsny--and with New-York and Philadelphia it
Is not much better. If package is sent to the New
York Office Of the Company to be delivered at any place
along the lne it Is generally week on the road before
Il arrives The transportation Of way passengers is equal
" diatory and vexatious Communication between
derepts parts Of the State is excessively slow and
dous. The Company regard their passengers time as
costing nothing to themselves and therefore very care
full not 10 economist It, The waste of time alone is far
greater than could be paid for BY twice the money the
State receives from the monopoly
These facts the people Of NewJersey are eginnins
to ses and understand They need, however, to have