The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-16
BIG NEWARK SCHEMES.
RAPID TRANSIT AND d LEATHER
TRUST ARE MUCH TALKED OF

In O01 AIkG 1H OOA
The Daft Motor Company Proposes TO
Introduce Its System Into the dig
Village on the P~assaic-Those Dan
gerous Rockaway Dams Canloen 3
Squabbling Republicans
Newarkers are deeply interested IN tne
Rapid Transit scheme which is at present.
under consideration by the Council Com
mittee ON Railroads and Franchises. At
a recent meeting of that committee there
were present three big delegations, num-
bering about so men, n representing the
new Rapid Transit Street Railway Com
pany. another the opposition to it and the
third citizens of the Iron DIS
trict," who want better horse car fac1lltles
down Hamburg place.
There were two surprises at the meetlng'
One dawned gradually when handle W.
Riker read a petition showing that the
Rapid Transit Company wanted the rlshC
to run cars propelled by the Daft overhead
wire system IN Washington street, WesC
Kinney street, Belmont II Avon ave-
nues, in fact on all parts of the proposed
line except on Central avenue, .z
The other surprise was when DaVlu
Young arose and said that he had been
authorized to say for the Essex Passenger
Railway Company, that If the Common
Council would grant the right, that cor
poration would put the electric overhead
system into operation on every ,yaru Oh
street car lines that they owned IN the
city.
In explaining the proposed introduc-
ton of the Daft system Mr.. R1ker ex-
planned that the proposed ROAD runs
through a section of the city that is now
practically without street railway accom-.
modations. 1t u through the heart OF
the Thirteenth ward, a ward that has no
railroad within it's limits, and which has
a population of probably thirty thousand.
IT runs through Washington street, n
of the thoroughfares of the city, and con-
meets its factories and business properties
with the homes of the workmen. 1t runs
through Avon avenue a distance OF 4,50O
feet. where there is now not one house,
and opens up q new district for houses,
which. when developed, will add at least
several hundreds of thousands OF dollars
to the taxable value of the property OF the
city, and for the present will give to the
crowded portions an easy outlet 10 tne
country situated upon the city hills, which
overlook the city, and where in summer
there will be a chance for people to escape
from the city heat.
Mr.. Riker went on
1--WE are prepared to meet the city in all
matters of lawful regulation at this time,
saying that we will gladly agree to con-
struct a road that shall be in all partic-
ulars equal to the best that has ever been
constructed in our State. In regard TO the
rate of travel we will run at any rate OF
speed, not in excess of twelve miles an
hour, that the Common Council may de-
termine. We will provide such safeguards
upon the cars as will best protect the
safety of the passengers and the public.
We will agree to light cars at night so
that O. newspaper may be read in n part
of them, and will heat them comfortably
in winter. We will further agree that in
case it be necessary to takelup u tracks
or to take up any part OF the machinery
connected Herewith, we will at once re-
store the street to it's original condition
and put it in perfect order. 1t is
our expectation and I'll intention so FAR
as possible to meet the demands OF the
public for a rapid and efficient street rail
way service, and while as a new enter
prise we ask no exemption from any just
regulations or from any regulation now
in force respecting the old established
lines, we feel that we should not be sub
ject to regulation not applicable to them.
"As to the motive power to be used,
after a careful examination of the systems
now in use in Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Cleve-
land, Chicago, St. Louis, st. Paul, Min
neapOliS II Boston, we are satisfied that
the overhead electric systems in use by
the street railways on the streets of Bos-
ton, on Euclid avenue in Cleveland and
on the streets of the other cities named is
the best system yet devised, and is the
only system which will afford to the peo-
pie of Newark the rapid, safe and reliable
service which the public demands.
''The passage of an ordinance locating
the tracks of this railway does not carry
with it the right to use either electric or
chemical motors or grip cables as the pro-
polling power of the cars to be run upon
the railway SO located.
I'm case the permission of the Common
Council be granted to the railway com
pany to lay its tracks it is the expectation
of the company to construct and have in
perfect running order over one-half of the
road by December 1 next, and while the
question requires time for it's proper con-
s~ideration, and will receive at your hands
and the hands of the Common Council an
exhaustive examination, we respectfully
ask that the public hearing before the
Common Council should be fixed for as
early a day as is consistent with such an
examination by this committee"