The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-12-15
WANT TO RIDE FAST.
Erie Railways Finger in
the GreenVil1e Rapid
Transit Pie.

That the Greenville property owners
mean business in regard to the rapid
transit scheme spoken of in THE JERSEY
CITY NEWS of last evening, appears
from the manner in which they are hust-
ling to make the special meeting, which
will be held on Tuesday evening, sue
cess.
The committee which was appointed to
arrange the details organized last even
ing. Mr.. Henry Lembeck was elected
Chairman and Mr.. Thomas Cogan, Secre-
tary. Mr.. Cogan has already sent clrcu-
lar letters to over fifty moneyed men and
will communicate with the New York
capitalists, who promised to build the
road If the citizens succeeded in raising
$1O0, 600.
A number of wealthy property owners
in Bayonne, it is said, have promised TO
give financial aid, and the citizens of
GreeDville are confident that they can
raise the money in less than month IS
time.
ERIE is IN IT.
Mr.. LIE mbeck says he is sure that the
Erie Railroad will build the road if the
The citizens get the 100000.
THE Railroad Company" says Mr..
Lembeck, sis anxious to help US. The
chief obstable in our way is the
ferry. The Erie people say that
they will get over this obstacle all right.
All they want is the assurance that we
will agitate the matter and give it our
support. There are also other corpora
| tions which are only too anxious to give
us the road if we secure the franchise"
AN IL" FAVORED.
1t is almost certain that if the road be-
comes a reality it will be an elevated one,
and an effort will be made to secure the
right of way on Grand street and Ocean
avenue. If any serious objection is made
to this route it will be changed so that
--.e road will come up Jackson instead Of
Ocean avenue.
The mbers of the Sixth District
Citizens Association are confident that
the people OF Bayonne Will take lively
interest in the proposed improvement.
The schedule time of the horse car line
from Bergen Point to Jersey City ferry is
one hour and half and If the road is
built through Bayonne it would
no doubt do much towards building up
that city The Citizens Association
Committee will visit the Bayonne Board
of Counoilmen in few days and en-
deavour to obtain aid from that quarter.
WHAT MR.. HARVEY SAYS.
Mr.. 5. l.. Harvey, when Interviewed by
reporter of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS,
said:
will work until we secure the improve
ment. II the Jersey City and Bergen
Railroad gives US the electric road, we'll
and good; but we do not propose
to wait for that COM
pany to wake up. We have
waited three wears already, and the only
answer that we received to our many de-
mands for rapid transit was that we
would have an electric road after the
other lines were equipped with cleo
tricity. This is nothing short of
an outrage. Take a ride in Greenville
car any morning or evening and you-will
be extremely lucky If you secure seat.
That the Greenville line is a paying
one we know for certain, and as
Greenvllle residents contribute largely to
the profits of the company, they have a
right to demand that the electric
road be built at once. The only thing
that has retarded Greenville's growth
is the miserable, slow surface railroad.
Give US rapid transit aud will guar an
tee that the population of Greenvi!le will
be double in less than eight years.