The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
RAPID TRANSIT ROUTES.
There Was Never More In
terest in the Subject of
Elevated Roads.
PRESIDENT BONN'S PLANS.
The Line from the Court House to
HobOken Ferry to Be Built Soon.

puDnc interest In the elevated railroad
projects, which are expected to do so
much towards building up the home sites
on the hill tops, is fully awake, and both
the scheme which contemplates the erec-
tion of spur from the Central Railroad,
and the other which looks to the extern
sion of the North Hudson Railway Com
pany, both north and south, are being
keenly watched by the taxpayers.
President Bonn, of the North Hudson
road, originally projected an extension of
his line northward and another extension
southwark The southernmost branch is
in shape to be pushed to completion.
THE ROAD TO NEWARK AVENUE.
All the plans are completed and it only
remains to finish giving out the contracts
for the material, when the work will be
pushed as rapidly as possible
The present road will be extended from
the elevator westerly to Central avenue,
along that street to Hoboken avenue,
thence across that street to Newark ave-
nue. west of Cook street, through private
property. This will give rapid transit
road from Hoboken ferry to the Court
House.
1 had a conversation yesterday with
President Bonn, of the road and he gave
me few additional facts.
Mr.. Bonn,n / asked, when do you in
tend to commence the building of The ex-
tension?"
"Very soon," was the response, "the
plans are all completed and the contracts
for the iron work have been given out, and
as soon as the sections arrive the work of
building will commence.
1--WE have secured the permission of the
Board of Aldermen of Jersey City to
erect the road and settled all differences
generally with the people on the route"
Ibid you encounter much opposition
from the residents?"
"No, sir. Most of the people wanted
the road and they can have it. The peo-
pie of the Simpson Church, at least some
of them, do not want it, but the majority
of the people want it, and the road shall
go through"
HAS your new extension any connec-
tion with the project of the Central for
building an elevated road on the
Heights?'
Not IN the least we will only run to
Newark avenue. as / told you"
THE CABLE TO BE USED.
"Will you change the time of running
the cars, or the manner of running
them?"
"In about a month we may be able to
commence to build and the work will be
done as rapidly as possible.
when completed and in good working
order there viii be more cars put on, but
for the present they will be run on boat
time. As the cable is perfectly satisfac-
tory, we will extend it,
How about the rumor that you are
about to discard the cable and put on
enginesW
for while, anyhow. We use engines to
pull the cars between the hours of one
sr. Al., sr.lA
scarcely any travel. 1t would not pay to
keep the cable at work then, for it would
only wear it out for nothing. When the
road is complete, or nearly so, the location
of the stations will be fixed, as well as
other details will be arranged"
This is about all known at present"
what are the prospects of an elevated
road on your lines in North Hudson?"
'"The people do not seem to want rapid
transit and if they do not want it we will
not force it upon them"
1t is equally certain that the new ele-
waited railroad to Bergen Hill will be
erected. Its trestle will be of steel and
iron, resting on firm iron pillars. To
make the motion of the cars noiseless the
rails will rest on oaken cushions. There
will be two cable stations-the shorter the
cable the less the racket-and this device
will reduce the noise to minimum.
SPECULATIVE PURCHASES.
That the road will be thing of the
near future is now certainty, and in
view of it the projectors of the road have
already invested $3.50. 900 in real estate Just
west of West Side avenue, the proposed
terminus of the road.
Johnston, the Brooklyn auctiOneer, is
said to be one of those most largely inter
vsted.
The projectors of the road claim to have
secured the consent of the New JERSEY
Railroad Of almost o1 hn
erty owners on Johnston avenue, and of
close on to half the property owners on
Jewett avenue. and they say that If the
right of way cannot be secured i'll any
other way it will be got by condemna-
ton.
MUCH OPPOSITION.
The chief opposition comes from DR..
Forman, who has built new house for
home purposes right in the line of the
new road; from George f. Perkins, who
doesn't want it so close to his mansion,
and from John Herring. They claim,
however, that the opposition mass meet
ing held last Saturday evening was
attended by fifty property owners.
John Herring, when seen this morning,
said
81 have lived here longer than any of
my neighborS, and l have worked hard to
make my little home comfortable. After
a great deal of trouble had Jewett ave-
nue. severed and paved, and now they
come along and try to ruin my property
after all my work. The street is but fifty
feet wide, twenty feet of sidewalk and
thirty of carriage way So the company
would be obliged to encroach on the side
walk for sites for their pillars.
1.-The avenue is now fringed with beau
tiful trees, all of which would have to golf
the road went through"
Messrs. John A. knoeler, Verasssett,
BoyIan, Mcdonald, Birch, Pope and DR..
Forman are i'll entire sympathy with Mr..
Herring and his views.