The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-11-24
SEEN AT THE JUNCTION.
People Stand in the Cold Waiting
for Rapid Transit Cars
Crowded Coaches
Whiz by.

The Grand street Communipaw avenue
junction from halt-past five to half-past
seven O'Clock every night is nothing but
confusion. 1t has been so ever since
the Consolidated Traction Company be.
gan to operate its rapid transit system. This
is point of transfer and the heaviest QUE
there Is, the car stables excepted. Over
TWO thousand transfer rickets are used
there between the hours OF six and
twelve O'Clock. This OF Itself would be
confusing. but added TO it is the urcsr-
tain time kept by the GreenvIIe cars.
NO one, not even the starter, knows
when 10 expect car. and often people
have to staad ou the corner which is
wind swept aud an uncomfortable place
to stand for any length of time
People have been complaining of
th1. Tor wseks and last
night a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter
watched the workings of the system from
six 10 half past seven O'Clock. The starter
informed him that the Greenville cars
We're running on five minutes headwsy,
aud the Monticello avenue cars, which
were started through to tue ferry yester-
day afternoon, on ten minutes headwav
The first thing noticeable was that the
Monticello avenue cars were all the new
four truck trolleys and that on the
Greenvile line nothing but the small old
DEOAQWaf CdI3 were run.
The Monticello aveuuecars were seldom
more than half filled while on the
Greenville line people were obliged to
hang onto the back and ride on the steps
OF the rear platform. Monticello cars
ran on time, bu5 not so with the Green
VILE.
From six to twenty-five minutes past
six O'Clock they ran every five minutes.
but were SO crowded that in two cases
people who had received transfers TO that
line had to let the car pass them aud
wait for the next one. One lady stood at
the corner for fifteen minutes before
she could board car. The men would
manage to get on in some way but the
women had to wait. On the 6. 25 O'CLOCK
car four men were riding on the step and
three were hanging on to the dash board
Another car followed this one at $50
O'Clock. AT 6.33 o'clock three small cars
came within cars length OF each otnsr:
the first one was crowded and people were
hanging on to the back. The second one
was comfortably filled while the third
one didn't have dozen people In it.
About ten people were waiting with
transfer ticKets. and they were all
huddled onto the fret car in spite of the
fact that there was already scarcely
breathing room in 1t as it was, aud that
two other cars that could have easily
accommodated fifty more people were
AT Gal o'clock two more cars passed.
one comfortably filled and the other
crowded. AT 648 another went by aud
then there was a wait until 705 o'clock.
when one put in an appearance packed
to sunocation. Ten minutes ELAPSED be-
fore the next one arrived, and from then
on to 80 o'clock they ran on schedule
ttme-eyery five minutes.
People who wanted to reach the car
stables would, many of them, take the
Green Vile cars by mistake and transfer
at the unction, although in most cases
through car with scarcely any passen-
gers In 1t would be directly behind them.
The probable reason of this is the fact
that the Monticello avenue cars are the
same size ana color as those which run
only to Henderson street, and there has
been failure at the ferry to inform the
people OF the fact that the cars are run
ming through to the stables.