The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-24
WILL THEY ELEVATE 4?
Consolidated Traction Company
Said to Contemplate the
Plan.
The Newark sunday carr Of this week

The Newark Sunday CALI of this week
says
Statements appeared in the New York
Evening Post to the effect that the
Consolidated Traction Company contem-
plated extensions of trolley lines in New
airy and Jersey City with elevated tracks
and express train service. The State
ments were credited to General Manager
David Young, of the Consolidated Traction
Company, but they were denied by Mr..
Young last evening. He said THAI he
had never made them. He said further
that the company had never seriously con-
sidered the matter.
'The possibility of an elevated railroad
has been talked about in a wholly dtsul-
tory sort of way Mr.. Young said, f'but
with no thought that such a thing would
be undertaken. 1t has not been mention
ed by anybody connected with the COM
pany for three years. I am certain that
the company would not think of consid-
ering the matter in these times. Bust
ness would not warrant it. But even if
business would, we have not thought SER
iously of such a thing"
1t is a fact, nevertheless, that only re-
Gently a prominent city official said to
a Sunday CalI' man that he supposed
that the next big move the Consolidated
Traction Company would make in this
city would be an application for an ele-
waited structure ION Market and Broad
streets, at least through the busy Sec
tons of the city. Such a structure could
be used for the through service to The
outlying cities and towns. OF course,
it would neeessitate the placing of sta
tons at intervals with stairs or eleva-
tors equipped with electricity.
A bill has been introduced in the Se.l-
ate authorizing the elevation of the tracks
of electric roads. 1t is said that the bill
IS in the interest Of the Consolidated
Traction Company. James B. Dill, of Or
ange, couns for the Consolidated Trac-
ton Company of Orange, told a re-
porter that the company had in view the
building of an elevated track from New
ark to New York. to be used in addition
to the present surface tracks. He said
that these elevated tracks would be used
for express trains running at a high rate
to Jersey City without stop, except per-
haps one stop at the junction of the cross
town lines. The time would thus be
greatly reduced. Mr.. Dill said that an
the Oranges was also under consideration
and that 1t was not improbable that a
schedule of 40 minutes from Orange Valley
to New York could be made: just how
soon the construction would begin, would
of course, depend first on the passage Of
the law. and second on the success Of
the company in getting the franchise
through East Orange and Orange.
The Consolidated Traction Company re-
Gently rendered the use of the road
and equipment to Vice-President-eleet
Hobart fer the transportation of himself
and family from Paterson to Newark on
the trip to Washington for the Inaugural
ton, but Mr.. Hobart has already made
now having constructed twenty new cars.
These cars are to be handsomely fur
nished inside. They are to be painted OH
the outside a r~edd;sh-brown color, similar
to the cars of the Pennsylvania Railroad
and otherwise decorated. These cars are
road, or some Of them, and the others
will be put on the Warren and Banh.
street line to Orange.
These are the cars that the company
could have used to convey Mr.. Hobart
and his party to this city. or possibly I'd
Washington for the Inauguration. Mr..
Hobart has accepted the invitation of the
New York, Susquehanna and Western
Railroad for transportation to New York.
1t was published last week that Mr.. Ho-I
bart intended to come to Newark by the.
Washington; but his. is mo- true. General
Manager Young, of the Traction Company
said last evening that the Traction Conn
pany would gladly a had Mr.. Hobart
as its guest. h company's handsome
directors car could have been used by
and the new cars could I've followed
with the other guests. It would have
made a gala trip through Paterson. Pas
sale, Franklin twonship,. Belleville, New
ark and possibly Elizabeth, but, unfortu-
nately, Mr.. Hobart had made other ar