The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-09
NEWS OF THE STATE.
THE p. n. r.. TRIMS WILL SKIP
NEWARK NEXT FALL.

New Market Street Station-Hacken-
sacks $50, 900 Bank Project to BE
Realized-RaIlroad Thieves Caught at
Monmouth Junction.
Workmen under the supervision Of
James r. Smith began on Friday to get
the ground ready for the erection of the
new Market Street Station at Newark.
MANY distractions nave been removed,
and early next week every vestige of the
old freight depot will be gone and a hole
in the ground will mark the site OF the
new structure. The new building will be
o one-story structure, with lofty ceiling.
The plan of having a second floor with
offices and living rooms has been aban-
doned.
Tt will probably be many years before
the new depot building will be as busy a
place as the old one was, for it is now
positively known that it will be used only
for local traffic, and that the fast through
trains will leave Newark entirely OUT Oh
their schedule. In fact, Newark Will no
longer be a station Oh the road between
New York and points South n Wes1,
and persons desiring to go to Philadelphia
or Washington will have to a their
train from Jersey City.
The Pennsylvania has begun work on It's
short line. which is to enable it to run
around Newark. Gangs of men are work
ing at Waveriey, and other gangs are EN-
plOyed on the meadows below the Lister
Agricultural Works. The short line Will
cross tho Central road at BrllfS farm, ana
a bridge will carry it across the PasSalc 10
the west end of The meadows yard. 1t was
given out that this was intended for y
freight line only, but it is now admitted
that it is intended for O short cut for the
fast trains, and that they will soon pass
Newark on the east, and join the main line
at Waverley. Newarkers will scarcely up
preciate the advantages OF this plan, Tor
the gain in distance by this new route Is
so extremely slight hat it can hardly be
seen on the maps. 1t is only about one
twenty-fourth less b the present dis
lance. The road would not have been
built for this slight gain, but for the fact
that trains can be run faster on this cut
off than they can through the streets OF
Newark. A large element of danger will
be removed, too, and the company will
have additional tracks, which are greatly
needed.
This is not all that is being lone in the
vicinity of Waverley. The Waverley and
New York Bay Railroad is being, pushed
out upon the meadows, and at the same
time that q bridge is being built across
the Passaic for the short cut another Will
be in course of construction across New
Dix DIZZY 1AlS WILL OS pu1CA9 ~ IASlSho
road and will terminate ut the new tract
secured by the company adjoining the
Central Railroad property. Here an i'm
mense work has been commenced. The
tract is one mile in width and open piers
nearly one mile in length will be carried
out to deep water. There will be seven of
these piers and ample water way will be
dredged out between them. The yard and
piers will contain 126 tracks and millions
of dollars will be expended before the
work is complete. The Central Railroad
people do not like the prospect and are
putting distractions in the way, but
meanwhile the work is going on at each
end of the line and giving employment to
nearly one thousand men.
Nothing definite is known about the
project of running trains up the canal
bed to Broad street, n down the canal
to the huge works along the river, but it
is said that this project will be carried
out as soon as the cutoff is completed to
Waverley and the canal abandoned as q
water course. The talk of running the
Lehigh Valley road down the canal is
laughed at by the Pennsylvania people,
but 1t is known that when helping to pass
the Morris Canal Surrender bill through
the Legislature, General Sewell, who re-
presented the Pennsylvania, told several
Newarkers that both roads would use the
bed sometime" and that the Pennsylva-
mia was assisting the Lehigh Valley in
consideration of securing the right of
way. There are many who think that
before long the present tracks through
Railroad avenue may be abandoned, but
this is only conjecture.