The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-18

TROLLEY TO NEWARK
Successful Trial Trip sat
urday-A Party Of Tnir-
Teen Enjoyed 1t.
A SAFE RoADBED.
In a Weeks Time Cars VIII be
Running = The Fare to
Newark Will be
Ten Cents.
SAFE RoADBED.

The iirst electric motor to rim from Jersey
City TO Newark, accomplished that trip on
Saturday afternoon, in little more than half
an hour. 1t was Anything but a pleasant
day to make such a trial trip, but the pour
ing rain did not deter the following from
boarding a brand new car No. 1854 at the
Hotel Washington:-Messrs. E. I. C. Young,
President of the Consolidated Traction Com
pany; John D. Crimmins, of New York;
ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant, B. NJ. Stanley,
Vice-President David Young, Superinten-
dents Savers and Lahey, Electrician. E. J.
Emerson, Arthur Sanford and representa-
tives of THE JERSEY CITY NEWS and Newark
Neous In fact, with the motorman and con-
ductor, there were precisely thirteen on that
car.
THIRTEEN AN UNLUCKY NUMBER.
THAT won't do" said Mr.. Crimmins. ''It's
unlucky, you know. Take on any one you
can pick up Singularly enough, before the
fourteenth man was taken on board, Mr.. E.
f. c. Young, i'll striking a match on a box
!. OF Patent Safety" q matches, severely
' burnt his hand by these Safety matches
suddenly exploding like an Anarchistic
bomb. The sudden flash startled everybody,
and at first it was thought that the fuse box
of the motor had burnt out.
While Mr.. Young's wounded hand was
being bound up, the car was spinning along
the five mile run on the stretch of salt mead
ows which lie between Newark and Jersey
City.
SAFE ABB
There being no settlements on these fats,
the motor man sent along the car at a fast
rate, with a binding shower of rain beating
ahead.
The roadbed, from the beginning of the
plank road across the bridges spanning the
Hackensack and Passaic rivers, is as solid
and heavy as that built for the main line of
a steam railroad, and consequently it is per-
fectly safe for the motors. even running at a
high speed, when crossing these gingerly
looking draws"
On sped the motor past the site of the new
power house at what is known as the Itch
enor farm and up Market street to the depot,
which was reached exactly forty-three min
utes after leaving Jersey City.
QUICK
The real running time was thirty-four
minutes, for a stop on the bridge and a long
halt on Market street consumed ten minutes.
A short pause was made in Newark: the
arm on the top of the car was reversed and
back to Jersey City flew the motor, which
CITY was reached after a run of th~irty-three
and a half minutes.
TO NEWARK n RANGE FOR TEN CENTS.
The trip was not made TO usher in exactly
the line of cars to run regularly to Newark
but to test certain arrangements made on the
road and, as Mr.. B. N. Stanley explained
20 see if everything is right beforewe carry
the public over the road" There are many
tdIngs yet to be done before the road is fair
~ ready. but i'll one week at the latest the
motors viii leave the Jersey City ferry and
carry passengers from that point to the Mar
ket street depot in Newark in thirty minutes.
for ten cents a head.
Mr.. Stanley in talking of this branch of
the system said that the cars to run to New
ark are now being built by Brill & Go. of
Philadelphia and will be % feet clear in
length. These cars will run to Orange and
there will be a ten cent run from that place
to New York.
CARS EVERY TEN INUTEs
As TO the Roadway between the cars to
Newark, the present plan is to run the cars
every ten minutes, but, says Mr.. Stanley,
If it be found that there are plenty of pas
sengers collected at the Jersey City depot
the cars will follow at short intervals. All
will depend on the public. If they patronize
the road the company will do all it can to
merit that patronage.
H POWER SUPPLY.
The power to supply this part of the system
is derived from two sources. From the
the power used as far. as the west
side of the PasSaic bridge. From
that point Newark does her share. But
when the new power house, now in process
OF construction on the Newark meadows at
the beginning of Market street, is completed
it will odd itself in readiness to supply power
to both ends of the road if necessary. In
that building there will be two four hundred
horse power generators capable of giving all
requisite power.
In connection with this important branch
of the road Mr.. John D. Crimmins gave THE
NEWS reporter an interesting piece of news
to Jersey City people. Speaking of the
power house on Pryor street in, this CITY, he
said that Mr.. Stanley and himself had pur-
chased for the company to placein the Jersey
City. power house the $50 horse power gen
Grating engine which was OF exhi-
bition in the Electrical Building
of the Columbian Exposition. This
splendid piece of mechanical skill
made by the famous Allis 81 Corliss Com
pany cost the company 81, 900, and is con-
sidered the most perfect of its kind in the
world. With such a powerful generator,
should the Newark end fail TO supply power,
Jersey City can furnish all that is required.
IMPROVEMENTS CONTEMPLATED.
Other improvements to be introduced are
the changes at the Jersey City ferry. Mr..
Young will put in eight arc lights in the
shed, making that erstwhile dingy place by
night as bright as day. Painted signs over
head will tell the passenger where his car
Is, and at the York and Hudson streets
switch will be suspended a large electric
light for the benefit of the Grove street pas
sengers.
The successful trip Of Saturday, added Mr..
Crimmins, marks an era in New Jersey his
tory. 1t is the opening of a vast and COM
plicated system of transit which will bring
into closer communication with each other
the towns lying between the Delaware and
Hudson Rivers.
PICKP0CKET CAUGHT.
Michael Gleason, twenty-seven years of