The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-06-14
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improvements Being Made ON the j. O.
and b. Car Routes.


and B. Car Routes.
The Jersey City and Bergen Horsecar
Company of to-day is a somewhat different
institution from the road of several years
ago, and the company are losing nothing
by catering to their patrons wants. Re
Gently the directors have concluded ar
rangements for several other improvements,
which will be put in operation as soon as
practicable.
To the general riding public the greatest
of these will be the new sprinklers, which
are being contracted for. The sprinklers
will hold more water than those on the
North Hudson Line. They will be run at
intervals over every track of roadway, and
will do away with much of the dust that
makes car riding unpleasant. The sprink-
lers are to be of the most improved pat
tern, mounted on car trucks. On Mont
| gomery and Grand streets particularly,
| they will prove of inestimable value
Next to the sprinklers, the work to be
| done in Greenville will attract the greatest
attention, while to the residents of that
section 1t will naturally come first. Con-
| siderable riding is done over Ocean avenue
during the week, but on Sunday the traffic
| is simply enormous, seventy passengers
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| Heretofore the horses have been heavily
handicapped in their work, being COM
| PEELED to travel from the stables, at the
head of Montgomery street, to their start
| ing place, distance of nearly two miles,
and back again after their last trip. After
mature reflection, the company con-
| Guided to build stables at the Greenville
end of the route This conclusion
was doubtless reached after discussion OF
i the prospects of extending their line
through Bayonne, which will be done in
the near future The Greenville end Of
| the route will be under the management
of the genial Joe Mulford, long and tried
| employee of the company, who will fl
the same position that Dan Beatty does al
the main stables. The stable will be OF
| Atlantic street and Ocean avenue. Plans
and specifications for the new work are
ready, and Tomorrow it is expected thai
bids will be received. 1t will be a bis
thing for Greenville, but would be ever sc
much bigger if only double track were
laid along the whole route. As an old ex
conductor, now in business, remarked
"Ocean avenue is destined to become the
| the Third avenue of Hudson county, an6
if the Railroad Company have got awake C
| the fact it shows that there are some lonf
heads among them.
A third improvement, which will interes
some residents of Lafayette, is the new
route through that section of the city
Most of the track is already laid. TIT
| track leaves Pacific avenue at johnson
avenue, runs up Pine street to Communi
paw avenue, thence up to Pacific avenue
and back to the ferry. Special cars of thu
'.jigger' or one horse style will be rur
over this route. Four of the cars are al
ready ct the stables. The cars are hand
some for such cars, and will be rur
between the regular trips of the two-hors'
Pacific avenue cars. AS means of reach
little account. As whole, the improve
ments are to be commended, and in thu
end the company will be benefited By
them.