The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-26
RAPID TRANSIT COMING.
The Many Improvements Proposed
By the Consolidated Traction
Company.

One who is well informed upon matters
pc Itaining to the proposed Improvement
of the Consolidated Traction Company
~ that in about six months the Jersey
City system will not be surpassed by n
in the United States. He goes further,
and includes the earth. To hear this
authority talk. the millennium must be at
hand. No more will one hear grumbling
passengers kick about no seats aud no
room inside: NOR will The voice of the
complafner be heard inveighing against
the company for the scarcity of cars.
It is proposed, he says, 60 limit every
Car 10 carrying go many passengers,
When hi car is filled a small metal sign
ut the rear end OF the car will be dis
played bearing this device "AlI Full In-
side" This is meant ia a Pick wlckian
sense of course. The conductors will
have strict orders to stop only at each
block, and must see that the rear plat
form is not choked with passengers who
in turn will be prohibited from choking
each other with the fumes OF pipes,
cigarettes and cigars.
There will De special theatre cars
travelling from Bayonne, Greenville ana
other extended points on the line. ana
between these will only be a few minutes
heafway. Nights on which there are
special concerts, entertainments aud lee
lures or meesings, will be similarly at
tended to, and go tar as the compuny IS
concerned the comfort of the travelling
public will be carefully considered.
1T is curious" continued the iufor-
mant to a JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter,
what suggestions we recaivs from outs
side persons. They ali know, of course.
how to run n horse railroad. But chief
among these suggestions is one which
arrived yesterday aud advises us to ra-
move conductors altogether The
writer says that conductors are no use
anyhow. They never see YOU when you
are racing along g cross street toward an
advancing CAT. They are always busy
ialking to people wnep you want to stop
at any point and before Mr.. Conductor
condescends to notice your repeated sig
nails yoa are past your destination. The
remedy for these grievances he thinks il
no conductor but n metal one."
"A metal one?" inquired the reporter.
yes" replied the other. Some years
ago, when b Pavonia Horse Railroad
Company operated the line now Conduct
Ell by ths North Hudson Comfy Rail-
road Company. they had affixed 10 the
inside OF d car Il travelling grooyed tube
with slots at interval. When the pass
seager boardea the car he dropped la his
nickel and the colo ran down tue grooved
tube into the cash box at the back of the
driver. There Was nc beating that cou-
cern.n
Ingenious as this may appear, It has
been discarded. and Is not likely to be
adopted by the Consolidated Fraction
Company.
To Greenville and Bayonne readers OF
this paper y important improvement
contemplated will give unlimited salts
faction. Extra through cars will be ruu
and those starring from Bayonne will
stop first at Greenville. next at the juno
ton ana finally at the ferry. This will
shorten the present time occupied in
mixing the trip exactly one half.
These good things are not coniag all
at once upon the public. but Within the
time mentioned, six months, 1t Is hoped
they will be conditional aud not theo-
retieal.