The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-11

Big TRACTION PLAN
The New York and Phila-
delphia Trolley Pro-
crossing Slowly.
WITHIN TEN MILES OF TRENTON
Pennsylvania Railroads Exper-
iment With Electricity a
Success.
TEN MILES OF TRENTON

TRENTON, Sept. II, 1S96.-The through
trolley line from Philadelphia to New
York, about which so much has been
written, is not yet an accomplished fact.
In all probability 1t will be four years or
more before the road will be completed.
Little work will be done until after the
election, but as soon as the new Presi-
dent is installed the company will go to
work with a vim. In a recent interview
one of the Philadelphia capitalists inter-
ested in the scheme sai that franchises
for certain distances have been secured
in the upper section of New Jersey, but
as yet nothing had been gained in the
lower portion or in Pennsylvania.
The important North Jersey franchises
secured are Plainfield-R aritan and Rari-
tan-Newark routes. The outes are large
ly through private property and along
public highways.
The promoters have several main lines
under consideration. They are not GER
tain whether the road will be built from
Philadelphia or from Camden. Some fa-
vor building the track out the Bristol
turnpike and then on up through Penn
sylvania to Morrisville, crossing the Della
ware bridge into Trenton, the remainder
of the route to be through New Jersey.
Others are of the opinion that it would
be better to have the entire road in New
Jersey from Camden northward, following
the line of towns on the lower Delaware
River Valley.
The Bristol-Torresdale trolley is fast
approaching completion. This alone will
bring the lines of the Philadelphia Trac-
fson Cnro-onr, xv;tLfc 49, ~sf.- - n--~
ton. In many respects the Bristol line
Is the most important one entering the
Quaker City.
The new steel bridge which crosses the
Neshaminy creek, near Croydon station,
on thel line of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
has been completed, and rails for the
new trolley road nave been laid on it.
All differences between the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company and the new road as
regards the right of the latter to lay
rails on the turnpike at Croydon have
been settled. and the rails at that point
have been laid. The new power-house
and car barn, on the north side of
Neshaminy creek, near Croydon, and i'm
mediately. at the end of the new bridge
on that side, are completed so far as the
buildings themselves are concerned. Al
ready the boilers have been placed in
the power-house; also the engines. The
new road will be put in operation Sep
TENDER Is, when passengers will be car
ried from Bristol to Progressing creek.
requesting creek is the Philadelphia
county boundary. At that point the troll
ley line joins the Holmesburg, Tacony
and road.
The most important feature of this new
route Is that arrangements have been
entered into by which passengers from
Burlington will be carried across the
Delaware River by ferry-boat to Bristol,
and thence to county line, for seven
cents. Here they, can, take Holmesburg,
Tacony and frankfort cars, and. by the
payment of eight cents additional, can
rid via the Second and Third or Fifth
and Sixth street lines of the Union Trac-
ton Company to the extreme lower end
of Philadelphia. The fare to or from
Burlington will be but Is cents each way.
The continuous ride to the lower end of
the city will have but two changes of
cars. viz, at PROGRESSING creek and at
Bridge street, in The time
from Bristol to Chestnut street will be
one hour and forty-fve minutes. From
Burlington the difference In time will be
that consumed in crossing the Delaware
River on the ferry-boat, generally about
ten minutes. The new line passes through
a populous district, touching Croydon,
Bridgewater, Eddington and Cornwells,
and paralleling the line of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad.
Yesterday certain fina1 tests were be-
ing made on the trolley between Mt. Holly
and Burlington. This is an experimental
branch which the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company instituted to supplant steam.
The route has been generally successful;
the rates being reduced and fast time
made. 1t was expected that the railroad
company would utilize their big power
house at Mt. Holly and introduce cleo
tricity on the Vincentown branch. There
was talk of it's contemplated use on the
Philadelphia, Medford and Marion Rail
road, now operated by the West Jersey
and Sea Shore. Owing to the free sill
yer agitation and general Industrial de-
preston no such action has yet been