The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-17
GOOD PATRIOTS THEY
And Hold the Public Veal
Above the Car Wheel
THEY SEE MR.. THURSToN
But He-Well, They're Going to
See Him Again, Which is
the Key to the
Situation.

Jersey City will never fully appreciate
the really good f1icials it has in Messrs.
Charles Somers, Edward Dugan and
Stephen Yoe, by the grace of the Mayor,
members of the Board of Street and
Water Commissioners, nor will the
citizens perhaps ever know how dear to
their hearts are the interests Of this city.
Notwithstanding the rain which poured in
torrents this morning, these self-sacrific-
ing patriots weuded their respective and
collective ways to the Office of President
Thurston, of the Jersey City and Bergen
Railroad, to ask that Off cial why his
company had its hands on the agg regate
throat of the community and was squeez-
ing the life out of it by refusing to run
more cars
Mr.. Thurston received the gentleme
kindly and ushered them TO seats. On
account of his wellKnown modesty and
unassuming manner Mr. Dugan acted as
spokesman and sent the truths home to
Mr.. Thurston in no unmistakaDle
manner.
After learning officially from the mod
est Mr.. Dugan what the patriots wer3
after, Mr. Thurstoul read this statement,
which he had prepared, showing what
the road was doing now
The Hudson City lines make 139 trips.
covering ABOUT S34 miles, using 110 horses.
the Pacific avenue line makes the same
number of trips and miles. with the same
number of horses.
The Hudson City night car makes
trips, travelling 80 miles and using 6
horses. The Pacific line makes trips,
covering &c miles aud using 6 horses
From $50 O. M. to 7:3S a. m. z cars are
used on 10 minutes headway; from 7.38 to
9.S3 Is cars are used and run every 5
minutes; from 9:33 to 4:03 p m. s cars are
run on 10 minutes headway; from 4:03 to
1888 15 cars are run at intervals of 8 min
utes; from 1888 to 1888 cars are run on
10 minutes headway. From 1858 60 11:50
they run every 10 minutes.
OTHER LINES.
The Montgomery street line makes 1913
trips, travelling 792 miles and using 116
horses. The night car makes 5 trips,
travelling 25 miles and using horses
From 5:23 to $50 cars run / every 10
minutes; from 6:30 to 8 p. M. 10 cars are
run, every minutes; p. IN. to 6:29 13
cars are run, every minntes; 6:2S TO
S:45 cars, every minutes; from S:45 to
11:45 5 cars, l every 10 minutes.
The West Side line makes IS trips, max
ing 210 miles from $40 a. M. TO S:04 p. m.
cars run every IL minutes; from 8:04 p.
m. to 11;45 D. m. every 60 minutes.
! The Greenville line makes $50 trips.
| travelling 1900 miles and using IFS
horses. The night cars make three trips,
about "a miles. From a. n. TO Z a. IN.
| cars run every seven minutes, and from
7p. m. to 1l:46 p. m. every 10 minutes;
| from 11:46 p. M. to 12:a0 a. m. every 10
minutes.
| The Erie street lines makes 2O3 trips,
| travelling S12 miles. using 13l horses.
| From $3.50 to 600 a. IN. they run everv ten
| minutes; from 600 to 7:30 to 4:08 D. m.
every five minutes; from 4:08 to Z D. m.
| every five minutes, from S:32 to $40 every
nine minu ties; 9:40 to 1910 every Zen min
| utes.
The Layfayette line makes seventy
seven trips. covering 318 miles with
| thirty -one horses. From 61S a. m. to 7:05
o. m. cars run every ten minutes. There
| are fourteen hill horses and tow horses at
the Grand street stables, twenty-six at
| the Montgomery street stables, and
| twelve horses used for carting hay, etc.
| LONG DAY.
| The entire number of horses used is S55
and each horse travels during the day
| from - to is miles.
When the patriots heard this they were
! a little disconnected, but modest Mr.. Du-
gan, calling to mind the great duty he
owed to the citizens Of Jersey City as an
appointee of the Mayor, cleared his
throat and asked in those sweet, dulcid
tones of his. If that schedule could not be
| improved.
Mr.. Thurston replied that it could. His
company would like to run cars every five
minutes il they had the facilities. But IN
order to do SO they would have to build
new stables and secure additional horses.
| AS they were about to equip their road
with electricity they did not want to go to
the useless expense of buying new horses
and building new stables.
| Mr.. Dugan then changed his tack, and
| said that 1t was very embarrassing for
him to invite people to come to his house
and then have them wait for car,
i as they have to do now. Often he leaves
| his house and walks almost to the ferry
before a car overtakes him. Mr.. Dugan
| does not live on West Side avenue, where
| the cars run every twelve minutes, as one
| would suppose from this statement, but
| on Jersey avenue where the cars run the
| greater part Of the day on five minutes
headwav.
| Mr.. Dugan also made the startling as
sertion that the facilities of the road had
not grown with the population. He also
| wanted to know when the road would
have new time tables. He ard his fellow
patriots would look the new time table
| over and come again.
Mr.. Thurston intimated that the pres
ent was as good a time as any for the
| gentlemen to discharge their duty and the
| patriots concluded to remain some time
longer. Mr.. Dugan declared that the
| facilities in the middle of the day and at
night ought to be increased, That re-
| Charles Somers, and he made the an
nouncemen5 that the Newark avenue
| cars were always crowded.
| STRUGGLING TO GET HOME
| Mr.. Dugin had a grievance against the
| company himself, and he proceeded to
ventilaIe it. He remarked that one night
he was on the Hill and wanted to go
| home, though why he was on the Hill
and wanted to go home he did not say.
| No car was in sight, so he telephoned to
| the ferry for a hack to take him home.
| The hack came up from the ferry and
| went down the Hill without seeing car.
| MIR. Thurston said that just as soon as
| the Board OF Patriots got through OBJ
structing the company in it's efforts to
extend its electric plant there would be
| increased facilities.
! s.0h, but we didn't obstruct you," said
/ Mr.. Dugau in his that's-the- bes t-b ay for
-price-on-the-marEe voice.
! soSIERS TAKES SHOT,
Mr.. Somers then advanced to the front,
| fred why didn't you submit your plans
| to us there" and retreated to che rear
| again in good order.
| Mr.. Thurston replied that the Board
/ could have gotten better idea of his
| plans by seeing their practical working
| on Montgomery street than by any
amount of lines on paper.
Mr.. Dugan blandly said it wasn't the
| Commissioners that stopped the work
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