Passaic City record., 1891-09-26
ON THE ELECTRIC ROAD
An Accident--A few Hints.

road last Sunday afternoon tor the
purpose of seeing how the system
works.
Starting from Bloomfield ave-
nue. the run to Garfield was with
out special interest. A twenty
minutes walk through Garfield re-
vealed many changes in our quiet
little suburb. New houses every
where and streets stretching out
in all directions through what was
meadow land only year or two
ago The people were just be
ginning to gather at the little
church which stands on the hill
just beyond the depot. The main
street is lined with well.stocked
stores, all of which were closed,
and everything had the appearance
of a people who Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy" but
as l was crossing the bridge |
noticed a suspicious procession of
people strolling along the river
bank toward hotel which stands
a little way up the stream, and
four men were seen in the
neighborhood of the bridge who
were more or less under the in
fluence of liquor or something
else which rendered them incapa-
Bile of walking in a straight line.
Again boarding car we settled
down in corner to enjoy the ride
to Lake View, but just past the
bend in Passaic street the car was
suddenly brought to standstill
and for moment all was excite
ment, for a short distance back, a
child lay beside the track. Our
conductor, who answered to the
name of +" Eddie" ran back and
picking up the child he carried it
to a nearby drug store. The child
proved to be a little five-year-old
boy who had been sitting on the
end of rear seat and though not
seriously injured he was consider
ably stunned by having fallen
from the car. He was accompan-
led by boy year or two older
than himself, who had just jump
ed from the car, and the little
fellow had evidently fallen while
endeavoring to follow his compan-
ions example.
This should be a warning to par
ents to keep their children away
from the cars. They are danger
GUS iplaythings.
We proceeded on our way and
enjoyed charming ride to Lake
View and return to our starting
point.
There are two or three things
| in connection with this trip to
which we wish to call attention.
We noticed sign in the.car (which
was Number 33) which said that
no person would be allowed to
ride on the platform; but notwith-
standing this rule, two young men
took their places beside the motor
man and promptly proceeded to
fill the open car behind them with
smoke from cigars which were
not Havanas. At the same time
they endeavored to keep up a con-
versation with the motornan.
Our polite conductor promptly
put stop to the smoking but the
platform soon became crowded
while there were plenty of empty
seats inside.
Another source of great annoy
ance is the clouds of dust which
passengers on the cars are OBJ
liged to ride through. The driv-
ers of vehicles of every descrip-
ton endeavor to keep up with the
cars and in doing so they raise
clouds of dust, which at times are
binding as we'll as sutfocating.
Some scheme should be devised
by which the entire length OF the
Electric road could be keep sprin-
kled during dry weather.
The cars did rushing business
on Sunday; hundred of people
came down from Paterson to en-
Joy ride by electric power and
ali were highly pleased. There is
a new car standing in the car
house at Harrison street which
bears the following inscription.
Paterson Electric Railway
| Main St. and Passaic This in
scription, to say the least, is not
very complimentary to Passaic;
nor does it do credit to the i'm
portant part Passaic enterprise
had in the establishment of the
Electric road. Paterson and
Passaic" would have been much
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