The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-21
A GREATER JERSEY CITY
Traction Company Connects
Newark and Other Suburban
Towns With This City.

Three cars one open, arrived at the Penn
sylvania depot car shed of the Consolidated
Traction Company, this morning, conveying
a party Of distinguished men, arrived from
Newark This was the opening of the
electric road between the two first cities in
the State The cars left Market street depot
at 9:26 A. NJ and reached the
depot in this city thirty-one minutes;
six minutes of which time was consumed in
waiting for the closing of the drawbridge
over the Passaic River. When the party
alghted at Taylors Hotel they were ushered
into the long dining room where President
E. F. G. Young Of the Consolidated Trac-
tion, took his seat at the head of one table,
and Mr. B. M. Stanley at the head of
of New York was at the first table. There
were present among others: - Ex-Mayor
Haynes of Newark, Mayor Rankin of Eliza
beth, John Kean, Jr., of Elizabeth, Judge
Hoffman of Jersey City, Commissioner
Hahn, ex-Mayor Hugh J. Grant of New
York and Commissioner Trier of Newark
Manager David Young, Charles B. Thurston,
Superintendent Sayres, J. Leahy. Martin L.
Gardner, engineer, of the P. R. R. After
an excellent luncheon Mr.. Young briefly re-
ferred to the opening of the enterprise of
connecting the cities of Newark, Jersey City
and Elizabeth and predicted an era of pros
peI1ty for those communities consequent con-
sequent upon the means of rapid transit
afforded now by the Traction Com
pany. He called upon Editor Ure
of the Sunday Call. who said that formerly
he was opposed to the monopoly of the Trac-
tion Company, but now saw what it meant
for the development of the cities which it's
lines embraced
THE NEWSPAPERS TALK.
The editor of the Stats Zeitu7g having
responded to call, the representative Of
THE JERSEY CRY NEWS stated that the
scheme now consummated would make pos
sible the projected plan of a Greater Jersey
City, which should include Newark, Eliza
beth and other cities in the eastern portion
of the State.
"Ohl OIL from the distinguished repre-
sentatives of these cities.
Mr.. B. M. Stanley, who received warm
welcome, stated that his term of office was
short. In few days hence he would sever
all connection with the company He con-
tended that the line now completed should
be belt line, which would draw the cities
of Newark and Elizabeth into closer rela-
tions
His work for the company, he said, was
for his ends as well as the company's
[laughterl Mr.. Stanley in answer to a
question put by Mayor Haynes as to the
transfers, replied amid general laughter that
the company had no time to count transfers.
There was only time to count the nickels.
Mr.. John Kean, Jr., of Elizabeth humor-
ously claimed that the opening of the road
would make possible greater Elizabeth.
Then the party took cars and visited the
Bayonne section of the road.
TO NEWARK FOR A DIME.
Manager David Young announced from
the hour of starting the new line regular
trips will be run on ten minutes headway
each day. Sundays included, from $50
o'clock in the morning until s O'Clock at
night, and from that hour until :15 next
morning the cars will run every fifteen
minutes. The first car each day will leave
this city at $50 o'clock in the morning, and
the last car will start from the ferry at rs
O'clock next morning.
The fare on the new cars will be ten cents
from any point on the line in Jersey City to
any point on the route in Newark
Any passenger riding from any point on
the line in Newark to the Jersey City ferry
and desiring to proceed at once to New York,
on payment of the fare of ten cents will be
furnished by the conductor with a ferry
ticket, free of charge, that will be good only
until the arrival of the next car. By the
close of next week arrangements will be
made by which tickets with ferry coupons
attached for trip to or from New York
will be sold for ten cents. No transfers will
be given to or from the new line.
By the end of next week the round trip
may be made for twenty cents. There will
be sold ten tickets for 81, with coupons for
the ferry.