The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-21
LEHIGH'S NEW LINE
The Big Corporation Will
Build Another Railroad
in Jersey City.
GREENVILLE AND HUDSON ITS NAME
Said to Be a Move Of the Com
pany's TO Secure It's Own
Depot ON the River Front.

The Lehigh Valley is about to add an
other Zine to the many railroads which
gridiron this county. On October 81
there was filed in the office of the Sec
retary of State at Trenton articles of
association and a survey and route of
the GreenvilIe and Hudson Railroad
The route filed with the articles is des-
cribed in this way
"The places from and to which the said
railroad is to be constructed, maintained
and operated are as follows:-Its Begin
ming point is a point in the filed centre
Inc of the main line of the Jersey City
Newark and Western Railway, now the
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway, south
westwardly of the line of Brown place,
if extended toward New York Bay, in
the city of Jersey City, and running
thence in a general northeasterly di-
rection through said city of Jersey City
to a point in the filed centre line of
the Jersey City Terminal Railway, now
Lehigh Valley Terminal Railway, easter
ly of Jersey avenue. in the said city of
Jersey City
LEHIGH MEN DIRECTORS
The length of the new road is to be
2.s3 mills and the capital stock is placed
at 100000.
The Directors named are: John Hood,
of Camden: David S. Baird, of Beverly;
Thomas W. Hume and Frederick H. Lee,
of Mount Holly. and James f. schaper-
hotter. William Bridler and Madison M.
MEREDITH of Philadelphia. John Hood
is the lobbyist of the Lehigh Valley at
Trenton, and David S. Baird is Bur-
lington County politician, who is known
to be interested in that road The com
pany has maintained a suspicious silence
about the matter and Collins & Corbin,
the counsel Of the road in this city, Mr..
Barnes of Staten Island, their general
factotum and every one else connected
with the company. declare utter ignor-
ance of the project
Nevertheless, Mr. Barnes has been in
the neighborhood of the route filed pur-
chasing property covered thereby and
considerable land in that vicinity has
been transferred to man Known to be
friendly TO the Lehigh Valley.
A gentlemen who was in a position to
know what is going on said yesterday
that the new route was the first step
in aplan which the Lehigh Valley has
of securing passenger depot and ter
minal facilities on the North river.
glance at the map will show that
road run in a northeasterly line from
the point in the Jersey City, Newark
and Westerly Railroad at Brown place
extended to the New York Bay, to the
line of the Jersey City terminal Railway
East of Johnson avenue, makes what is
called in railway parlance an 'air line
and makes a shorter route between
these two points such as would be built
for passenger traffic. If the company
intended to use the road for freight and
coal alone the old circuitous route
would be sufficient.
WOULD GIVE A SHORTER ROUTE.
The Jersey City, Newark and Western
Railroad is that section of the Lehigh
Valley system which crosses the Newark
Bay and Hudson county, while the ter
minal embraces the lines in the Lafay-
cite section of this city. TIL Lehigh
Valley owns that portion of tie Hudson
River front lying between the Central
Railroad terminus and the Gap, which
is known as the West Line Grant A
line from Newark across Newark Bay
and through Greenville and Lafayette
by the new Greenville and Hudson
Railroad to the West Line Grant, would
be made shorter than the route now
taken by the Lehigh Valley trains from
Newark over the tracks of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company, and would save
the Lehigh people several minutes, an
item OF much Importance to the Lehigh
Valley in these days of sharp competi-
ton
NOT MUCH 0F A STEAL.
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