The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-14
WANT FAST TRANSIT.
GreenVi1le Citizens Talk Of
Starting an Il" or Elec-
. trio Road of Their
Own.
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Property Injured By the Forty
Minute Horse Cars-Mr. Thurs
toms Promises Too Remote.

The property owners in the Greenville
section are getting very urgent to secure
a quicker way of transit to jersey City
than the present horse car line. IL the
jersey City and Bergen Railroad Com
pany does not give them the desired RAPE
pid transit gu ickly, they threaten to or
ganize a stock company and build either
an elevated or electric read to the ferry
themselves.
Last evening, at the meeting of the
Sixth District Citizens Improvement AS
ISOLATION, a committee was appointed to
arr ange for a special meeting to be held
next Tuesday evening at Bamber Hall to
discuss the subject.
Library Trustee S. L. Harvey, who is
President of the Association, is the leader
in the movement. He brought the mat
ter before the citizens last night. Messrs.
Henry Lembeck, Thomas Cogan and
Reuben Simpson made speeches in favor
of the scheme.
"The first question:" said Mr.. Harvey,
''that the perspective buyer asks is, How
quick can we reach your town from Jer-
sey City?' When we tell him that the
horse car forty minutes in
reaching Greenville, he changes his mind
and does not buy. The ferry is az i'm
pediment to Greenville's growth, it is
true; but with rapid transit we could
overcome this one drawback. The city of
Brooklyn was confronted with this same
question twenty years ago and built a
bridge. This, together with the elevated
and electric roads, made that city one OF
the grandest in the Union.
o LONG TO WAIT.
s'Three years ago a committee of Green
- 49,, - Dra,IIo14 HtN,n,t@p
of the Jersey City and Bergen railroad,
and asked him ii it was probable that his
company would do anything toward es-
tablish1ng a rapid transit line to Green
Vile. He promised to do what he could
and there the matter was dropped. Since
then he has Informed us that his company
would not give Us rapid transit until all
the other lines on the road were fitted up
with electric apparatus. This means that
we will ave at least three years: but we
don't propose to wait. l visited a New
York capitalist a few days ago and dis
cussed rapid transit. He told me that if
the property owners of the Sixth district
would form a stock company with
a capital of 800, 0O0 he would guar
and run an elevated road from the Jersey
City ferry to Bergen Point, and, gentle
men, the best thing that you Can do is
accept that offer. The G~reenville section.
located as it is betwee1 two bays, is the
prettiest section of Hudson county, and
your property will advan 25 per cent.
in value two months after rapid transit
ecomes an assured thing. We are tired
of waiting for the Jersey City and Bergen
Railroad Company. Let us wake up,
organize the company, aud after we se-
cure a right of way, build the road. 1t
will be the best investment that We ever
made"
MI r. A. I,-,
that a meeting be held on Tuesday even
ing to organize a company, was seconded
by Reuben Simpson and carried unaul-
mously. Messrs. Henry Lembeck, S. L.
Harvey, Reuben Simpson. D. r. Baldwin
and Thomas Cogan were appointed a cLm-
mittee to make the necessary arrange
ments.
WOODLAND SCHOOL.
The committee hich was appointed to
secure, If possible. a new school for the
Woodiawn section. reported that the
Street and Water Board was now select
ing q site and would begin work as soon
as there were sufficient funds on hand.
l.. Cogan, D. R. Baldwin. L. j. Higgins
and S. L.. Harvey were appointed a COM
mittee to agttate the matter,
In regard TO the West Sic sewer Mr..
Simpson reported that the Street and
water Board promised TO build it if the
property owners in that section would
present. Il petition, with the signatures of
at least fifty property owners asked.
The petition is in circulation now" said
Mr.. Simpson, "and the necessary number
of signatures will be secured in q few
few days"
The following Committee was appointed
to visit the Street and Water Commits
sioners and request them to repair the
broken sidewalks in the Greenville Sec
tion:-Messrs. Reuben Simpson, w. Daily
and n II. Baldwin.