The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-10-12
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ABSOLUTELY PURE
FRACTIONS PLANS.
Interesting Talk With Man.
ager Young on Rapid
Transit.

You may say that within a few days
we will have forty cars, fifteen of them
brand new. running between Jersey City
and Bayonne,'' said Manager David
Young, of the Consolidated Traction
Company, this morning, while pointing
out TO a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter one
OF the new cars put on the Greenville line
yesterday for the first time. Mr.. Young
made other announcements Of equal i'm
portance concerning the Traction Com
pany's plans TO give Jersey City efficient
rapid transit.
First of these is that the line to the
Court House OF Newark avenue will be
begun Immediately. and that already the
communication with the Newark road
mas been started on Communipaw avenue
from the junction of Grand street west.
Inc wires are up on that section, and
there only remains the roadbed to fix.
Inc company also, he said. has COM
menced work on the extension from the
rive corners down West Newark avenue
to the Hackensack River, and before q few
weeks have passed every road mentioned
IN the ordinance will be in operation.
NEW ROUTES.
touching those streets on which the
company proposes to open new routes, Mr..
Yoang said Chat with the exception of the
f0hdiA 0fSAu0 anu AOulluuulpdW
avenue extensions, hone would be begun
until the old routes were finished.
IMPROVEMENTS ON MOTORS.
The company is considering the best
appliance to be placed on the front of the
cars IN the form OF q fender Tor pilot.
brooklyn has adopted a wire netting. and
Philadelphia has a projections something
similar to that on a locomotive. eiYhere
are many inventions, and it is, only a
question of which is the best. The fender,
II IS claimed. will prevent anyone thrown
down being dragged under the body of
the car. The new cars to replaced on the
road are models. Every known Improve
ment in that branch of manufacture has
been taken advantage of. The truck iof
the car is a perfect piece OF workmanship,
and the springs ball bearing. axIesTand
other appliances make riding altogether
free from the jolting commonly expert
enced. Instead of the old legend, Jersey
City & Bergen Railroad Company on
the sides of the cars the new cars will
bear the sign, Consolidated Traction
Company"
IMPROVED ROAD BED.
In relaying the road-bed, the company
has introduced many improvements.
Particularly in the building of the
specials are these observed. Manager
Young took the pains to point out many
changes in the rails now being laid down.
IL "otShAhS Il iiIol ICldllu& UleS0 THIS
many nave wondered why a narrow piece
of boarding has been fixed on the inside
aud outside of the metal rail Just below
the fiange. Mr.. Young explained that
this was done to protect the rail by pre-
venting the edge of the blocks in
the street pavement working under
the metal edge of the rail and fore
ing it out of position. Other devices
new on our railroad are the ''crosses'' and
frogs" used. As to the latter, instead of
separately bolted parts forming a frog
the new ones are q solid casting, with the
raised part of the rail flush throughout.
BY these means, when a motor crosses one
of them, there will be no jolting and no
opportunity to leave the rails.
On account of the care and work in
casting these three specials the progress
of laying the road has been delayed. Finally
the method to be adopted here of securing
perfect contact of the electric mud is by
far the best in general use. The wires are
liked around the bolts of the fish plates
and are riyetted through the sides of the
rail instead of the old plan of CARRYING a
continuous wire from rail to rail.
With these improvements briefly re-
viewed here Mr.. Young feels justified in
declaring that the road in Jersey CITY
will be splendidly equipped and calculated
TO carry passengers from Bergen Point to
New York, and even Newark to New
York, in quicker time and at a cheaper
rate than any steam railroad can do the
sama l.