The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-28
GwREENVILLE'S LOSS
Removal of the Car Stables
Causes Much Hardship
to Storekeepers.
MOTORMEN ALSO GRUMBLE
Petition in Circulation to be Pre-
scented to the Traction
Company.
MOTORMEN ALSO GRUMBLE

The storekeepers and property owners II
the vicinity of the old G~reenville car stables
ON Ocean avenue are circulating a petition,
which will shortly be sent to the Consoli-
dated Traction Company, requesting that
some of the cars now running on the Green
vile line be again stalled at the stable SO
that those employees who reside near there
will remain in Greenville and not remove to
Bayonne, as many have d eclared they would
do.
The majority of the residents in the vici-
nifty of the stables are dependent upon the
Traction Company for a livelihood, and now
that the company has made Bergen Point
the south end headquarters. the motornen
and conductors naturally desire to locate
their residences as near to it as possible, as
they have to start to work from there.
EKREP
Many of the Consolidated Company's EN-
ployes nave already removed to Bayonne,
and the storekeepers in the vicinity OF the
old car stables are alarmed at the large fall
ing off in their receipts. They say that I'M
less the company comes to their aid they will
lave to go out of business. The petition, al
though in circulation but a few days, has
many signatures. II, has been carefully pre-
pared and gives a number of excellent rea-
sons why G~reenville should be made the
starting point for a few of the cars. One of
the reasons is that Bergen Point is too far
from the main end of the route, the distance
being over eight miles. If a break in the
line occurs in Bayonne the entire road is
blocked. A practical illustration was
truck broke down on the tracks in Bayonne,
and blocked the line for over an hour and a
quarter. During all this time not a car
could be secured bound for the city. Had
there been a car at the old stables it could
have been pressed into service, and every
thing would have been all right.
Another reason given by the petitioners is
that the tracks in Bayonne are more exposed
than in any part of Jersey City, and that
the motors are sure to be blocked there
during severe snow storms, while they could
be run without trouble on the Jersey City
end of the line. To prove this argument the
petitioners need bat remind the railroad
officials of the trouble they experienced in
Bayonne during the recent storms.
TO
Under the present system all cars start on
their days work at Bergen Point, and the
motormen and conductors who still reside in
Greenville and who take out the early cars
are grunbling over the Inconvenience they
must bear. The first morning car leaves
Bergen Point at six o'clock, and to catch this
motor the conductor and motorman who
take, charge of it must leave Greenville as
early as four o'clock, when the early car
to Bergen Point passes through Greenville.
The next car TO the stables doesn't reach
Greenville until after six o'clock, which is
too late for the employees who
take out the first morning cars.
The employees invariably have to wait an
hour and sometimes an hour and a half at
Bergen Point before they can go to work.
If Greenville was made the starting point
they could secure more rest, as they would
not nave to leave nome SO early.
One of the motormen, when interviewed
by a reporter of The JERSEY CITY NEWS
yesterday said:-'I do not see why the COM
pany starts the cars from Bergen Point in
the early morning, as we rarely have pas
sengers board the cars in Bayenne. We
have to put in twelve and sometimes four
teen solid hours work on this road, and
every hours rest that we can secure is worth
much to u.s.