The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-12-24
JERSEY COACHES.
An Old Traveller Enthusiast
tiCally Describes the
Ride Through the
State.
NEW YORK TO SOUTH AMBoY.
Now the Steamboat Has supplanted
the Coach, to the Profit if
Not the Pleasure
of Man.
NEW YORK TO SOUTH AMBoY'

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~ its nrima about q century ago, was
considared ! wonderful institution. 1t
did For certain narts of New Jersey what
tba trollax, roads are now doing for
oertain otber narts To live OH the stage
coach road anvwhere from Paulus
Hook ~ pbnadeanhia. was to live in the
midst If life and excitement. 1t was the
means of np,,n mica t5on between the
EaSt and tba West and while riding in
> COACH across Jersey one was pretty
s,ra 10 meet people from all parts of
tbe country lust as one does now on
the through trains from New York to
Pbiladelphha. Washington to Chicago.
The ,one lavel stretches in Jersey made
II comma rative,v easy to have good
roads and greater soeed was made across
tbis State than in any other section of
tbe con,ntrv. The people all over the
country knew of the Jersey coach and
COACH road forttheir reputation was some
tbirg tram endo,w One could travel nine
aauaa,oss Ia,sav and this
was r~ecaoned as the stage coach recotu
not ontv i'm America, but on the other side
u,.an
OF the wafer as WeA.
,,o,,os when the DAVIS Oh the stage coach
- haran W he Not the
railroad, but the steamboat first I'M
deryoined its supremacy. AS soon as a
:, go ~, WI, - so,,tb
Amboy was established the travel on the
tbrn,,gb stage coach began to fall off.
Tha staon,hoa ro,,te was slower. but
people did not care nearly as much to
make speed as they do now. The steam
haaf was cheaner wtphal. and this was a
matter of the greatest Importance, for
few people had any considerable amount
in these davs' Then. too. it was much
cheaper and easier to transport goods
IL, tha boat At first only was the steam
800 s,ourer tban The stage. however.
for awhile the first steamers to AiDany
no he Hudson travelled only at the
~ 70 Of FIVE myles an hour. steam navi-
ent while stage coaching was
then carried as far as it could possibly
nu The trim to South Ambov from New
York York g quicker and py m e5ag eos shan bS py reason eoa9i Of #
s he erae,ter nu,n1fber Of refays Of horses
ns = ecesssaeT and on account OF the greater
wear and tear on Vehicles, harness, etc.
20 80 s u Inrl navl ga ae c seoh ra anaa 'e even nh rbe
stage from Newark 10 Paulus Hook was
soon r, supPid Ine W
In ISsa +bn New YORK. South Ambov
en- : 2 u g;ne was cons;Serad a re-,
ma d abiW 1na institution and a tray-
eler from Seotland. Patrick Shirreff,
ZANE, y ,,siss stim nnar then I'VE Ieft
NJ 49, I'll IN Steamboat a. little after
NeW dorh ~ raarn;ngu he u,rites
9 b o. 3escb n t so,,t mo Ambg9,y o ne R @Tita5,
ana reacpeo ooHsn : ~ Uantvaaight
Pay, q T nioeu, q a. fbe rate 81 ah6i,t
nlies. ,diinalss was q, essTba na~ssenoers
eieveh mmSs al hoard tha spfaamhoat
preahraSe9f do,isr for a maaI. M Iif,,
Rayrns "a q uoa ~ noronooda tion
iereIlce N elaaSe q ~ the "shin
Delng maas, = in nassS ~ ~ nrosih;ti
~ ~ a1 Tsar pai IS u "a b or on hoard At which-
~. nele y q n a. e. mav he oh
Iainea. Antrican sstGrnoaa o3a H"ve t p
o4hpa ,,s ;e ~ com~ nrabansive &C thev
lot suiuLiclIy aiEar