The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-05
A GRAND TROLLEY LINE
To Connect New York with Phila-
delphia Through New Jersey.

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To Connect New York With PhiIa-
delphia Through New Jersey.
NEW York, Feb. 5, 1S94.-The Herald
this morning contains lengthy details of the
proposed connection of this city with Phiia-
delphia by means of a trolley system, re-
ports of which have been prevalent for some
time past. After declaring that the
great system of through trolley lines between
New York and Philadelphia which was once
proposed is by no means the chimera it was
then declared to be, but a substantial fact,
and reviewing the traffic situation prevalent
in Jersey City. by which the Pennsylvania
Railroad had control of the principal street
franchises, and the efforts of a wealthy
Philadelphia syndicate to gain a foothold,
with the ostensible purpose of gridirening
Jersey City with trolley lines, the Herald
says that the real purpose of this enterprising
syndicate was to push its lines clear across the
State of New Jersey, tapping the business of
both the great steam railroads that also
cross the State, and, not satisfied with that,
to penetrate Pennsylvania and push down
into Philadelphia.
Two very important moves have been
made in the scheme in the last few weeks.
At this end arrangements have been made to
extend the line from Newark to Elizabeth,
and lust lately from Elizabeth to Plainfield.
At the other end franchises have been secured
for lines from Philadelphia to Trenton.
The course of this road, so far as posi-
lively developed, is very interesting. The
course from Jersey City to Newark by
way OF the plank road, is already well
known. From Newark the line runs into
Elizabeth by a course quite near the
Pennsylvania lines. At Elizabeth, as has
been described, the road will follow the line
of the New Jersey Central. 1t is a section of
country well known to most New Workers
level, fertile, well wooded, sprinkled with
farms and growing very rapidly in pros
perity and population.
The towns are every one of them beautiful
residence suburbs, and most of them of con-
siderable size. Hosts of persons doing bust
ness in Elizabeth and New York live in these
charming towns, and the local traffic is very
considerable. The Central road has hereto
fore enjoyed an entire monopoly of them.
Then the trolley road enters Plainfield, the
most fourishing mid-Jersey city on the
Central Road.
From Plainfield westward the road will
probably take in the towns of Evona and
Dunellen, and possibly Bound Brook.
Having tapped all the principal sources of
the Central Railroads short distance traffic
near New York, the trolley win swerve to
the south ane strike New Brunswick. This
large city will assure it a most excellent
business. Besides, there has never been an
adequate means of travel between New
Brunswick and the Pennsylvania Railroad
group of towns on the south and Plainfeld
and the Central Railroad towns on the
north.
from New Brunswick the course of the
road will be westward throught a fine,
thickly settled farming country, tax
ing in BlockwelIs Mills. Griggstown, Rock
Hill, Kingston and Princeton. It will
doubtless do a large Princeton
business. The only travelling facilities now
possessed by this town with the great college,
its theological seminary and its schools is the
one track branch road leading to the Penn
sylvania main line, three miles to the South
From Princeton the road will then doubt
less be projected to Pennington, with its
seminaries, before turning south to Trenton.
Just now the business of putting this
great activity. Agents have been all
through the country indicated to make
arrangements for rights n franchises.
Nowhere is it told what the whole scheme is,
however. In Western New Jersey it is given
out that the line there making is merely to
connect a few interior towns not having i'm
mediate steam railway advantages with the
city of Trenton, the local metropolis.
Following these details the Herafd's special
despatch from Philadelphia says: "The sue
cess attending the efforts of Colonel
for the electric railroads, which he
has projected between Trenton and
Philadelphia is the occasion of a great deal
of trolley talk in this city. There is excel
lent reason to believe that this is but the
first move from this end for the furtherance
of the ambitious project to connect New
York and Philadelphia by a trolley line.