The New York herald., 1879-02-03
RAPID TRANSIT.

JERSEY PROPERTY HOLDERS ALARMED At THE
PROSPECT OF AN EXODUS TO NEW YoRK-AN
ERA or INFRINGEMENT FoREsHADowED.
1t is estimated that eight thousand residents Of
Newark DO business in New York. and that the
Oranges, Elizabeth and half
of other places in Jersey equally we'll repre-
sented in their tax-paying citizens by per-
sons doing business in this metropolis who are
really New Workers, but who. some years ago, were
driven to Jersey by high rents and slow transit.
Thoughtful Jerseymen are beginning to be alarmed
lest all this shall change. 1t is feared that rapid
transit in New York and the enormous debts i'll the
municipal governments of New Jersey will have the
effect OF returning New Workers tv NcsS York.
Indeed, it was said to a HERALD reporter by well
known Newark real estate firm that Rapid transit in
New York has diverted to another direction the class
of tenants who sought here low-pr.ced houses--it
has sent them up town in New York. 1t used
to be that business down town in
New York could get to New Jersey in half the time
that he could from any part OF upper New York yes,
a Joke in the HERALD, the IL roads going to
play Il. with Jerseys lodging house business You
know these New Workers merely sleep here. As soon
they find out that they can get up town as rapidly
they could get TO Jersey. enjoy equally cheap
rents and immunity from those nastodonc mos
uuitocs in summer and iceblockaded ferries in
winter they will make break Tor New York.
Others express similar fears as to loss OF rents and
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REFORM AND RETRESCHMENT.
Some of the Jersey towns have already begun to
ship in the matter of expenses, in the hope that
low taxes may induce the forei lners to remain.
Newark has started out in this direction but thus
far appears to have bungled badly. For two years
certain interest bonds which the law requires
should be- provided for in the tax levy each year
omitted by the managing authorities. The republi-
cans who had control. say this was "a mere
oversight while the opposition aege that the
omission made on purpose to deceive the people
and lead them to think that the majority were
fort flte fxxn
Is set down at $l6200O, ana will have to be pro-
vided for Meanwhile the majority have agreed to
cut down all salaries. While the general public favor
reduction of the higher priced officials and the lop
ping off OF sinecures, &c, they opposed to the
cutting down of the pay or the hremen and police.
But Council has passed the ordinance and now il
Is in the hands OF the Mayor. He though republi-
can with the majority in Council has strongly i'll
dcacd his intention to veto the ordinance. lie has
already vetoed a resolution of the same character,
and has refused to sign pay warrants under the new
ordinance. Tho opinion prevails that the Al
.lermcn will break and override the Mayors veto.
A republican caucus is to be held next week.
At the Council meeting tho Mayor will send In
special message the finances. There Is great
doubt to the exact size of the citys Indebtedness
Some authorities say 1t Is ''about nine millions,
In consequence of the Mayors refusal to sign the
warrants OF the city officials or rcmcn police
pay yesterday.
CAR HEATING on THE NEW YORK ''L' ROAD.
Travellers on the New York "a" road will have
noticed that within the past week the cars have
been warmed by pleasant. cquabe and well dis
tribucd heat. This produced By simple arrange
ent patented about year ago and now for the irst
time put into Steam from the engine is intro
duccd into one and halt inch cast iron pipes which
run the entire length OF the each side under
the seats, aud wDieh are encased ia IA larger and
thinner pipe of galvanized iron, the space between
being filled with dry, fne sand By this arrangement
called by the inventor a "caloric storage radiator.
the strong heat given out from the inner pipes by the
raw steam introduced INTO them from the engine IL
modified. stored up and gradually dhused by the
casing of sand The heat is easily regulated so that
in moderate weather it is not uncomfortable.