The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-12-09
LEHIGH VALLEYS WORK
Mr.. ReOn Barnes Says
There Will Be No Grade
Tracks Across Paci-
fic Avenue.
PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS
Stations TO Be Opened for Green
vile and Communipaw When
the New Branch Is Com
pleted.
PROGRESS OF IMPROVEMENTS

Mr.. Reon Barnes, the representative %
the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company,
was thougntfully contemplating mar
row box which an expressman had just
delivered at his Office, and silently won-
dering IL it was loaded, when l called up-
on him this morning to obtain some in
formation concerning the reason bis
company had for filing in the meadows
on the west side Of Pacific avenue.
Certainly; III tell you all about iss'
Mr. Barnes said, when had made known
when we filed in the meadows last
summer, on the east side Of the avenue.
wnere we have built freight house
which Is an ornament 10 the neigh
borhood, as you know, and laid down
our tracks. II was proposed to M
ia those on the west side
as well. But the citizens OF Lafayette
raised such howl and storm about the
stencil. the flies with green, blue and yel-
low legs that were going 10 De produced
by the material we used for filling and
plague the inhabitants OF tnat section of
the city that SAID no we will wait until
winter to put in the ashes and refuse.
Then when the warm weather comes aud
the meadows thaw out and the nLiIux
and level it OF. We are following ont
that plan now and that's AL there -
"But what does the company propose
to do ultimately with the ground after
they have reclaimed itf" / asked.
"Ah that don't know replied Mr..
Barnes, s4t Is too early TO say yet We
may build warehouses and storage build
Jugs. But this much | can say We are
not going over there with tracks. We
could not get permission TO cross Pacific
avenue on the surface If we wanted 10, we
would have 70 go overhead which would
not pay u.s.
10 TRACKS ACROSS PACIFIC AVENUE
81 see in the papers thar AR Ihursfons
president Of the horse ear company. has
said that We propose TO cross Pacific ave-
nue. at grade, and when We do ne Will
have to discontinue his line OF cars
through Lafayette, and the citizens Of
that section would be deprived Of their
horse car facilities. Now, Mr.. Ihurston
ought 70 know better than that. and You
eau say for me that we are not going TO
lay tracks across Pacific avenue"
1T has been said. Mr.. Barnes" re-
marked. that you propose to locate .
people Of Jersey City direct from the
car"
by Georgei that's capital idea" ex-
claimed Mr.. Barnes. enthusiastically II
never thought Of that before. but think
I'll do it, Let's SEE" and he got out his
maps and studied the topography OF the
ground carefully.
"Bnt If yon did that, Mr.. Barnes y
asked. would you not have to build
tracks across Pacific avenue to get your
cars therer
ION, mol that's just what was looking
at We can run our cars over the trestle
Of the National DOCKS Railroad and build
pocket with a spur for the use OF our
cars"
A REMARKABLE ENGINEERING FEAT.
remembered that at no point where
the Lshigh Valley and the National
Docks are near enough 70 join are the
tracks of the former less tnan ten feet
above the tracks OF the latter, and l was
tempted to ask Mr.. Barnes how he pro-
posed TO have his cars take this upward
leap. But l did not want TO appear as
doubling his engineering ability, and SO
refrained.
Mr.. Barnes spoke at some length on
what the Lehlgh Valley Railroad had
done in improving the Lafayette district
He said that he wanted TO build q culvert
for Mill Greek through the company s
property and thus do away with the un-
gaiDly sight and unsavory odors which
the Shiny waters of the creek produce.
This he offered TO do at his own expense.
but the property owners on the other side
of the stream objected.
Mr.. Barnes also made q statement
which will be received with satisfaction
BY the citizens of Greenvllle and Bay
onne who live on the western slope OF the
two cities. The new road which Ihe
company is building from its tracks at
RoseIle TO Communlpaw will traverse the
couatry some distance between Fifty
third and Fifty-fourth streets and runs
through some portions Of Bayonne.
Greenville and Communipaw. Mr.
Barnes said that his company proposed to
erect q station IN the neighborhood Of
Fifty-third street. between Bergen avenue
ity locate one at Communipaw.
The bridge across the Newark Bay is
about completed, and the road would
probably be running now, he said, II It
were not for the property owners In
Greenville who had tied the road up IN
the courts