The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-05-07
TROLLEY OUTLOOK
B. NJ. Stanley Talks of
Summer Traffic Pros
poets and New
Cars.
CONSOLIDATED POSSIBILITIES
Smokers TO Be Provided for
Plans for the New Ferry
Terminus.

Mr.. b. M. Stanley of the Consolidated
Traction Company made some interest
ing statements this morning to News
representative about the company's plans
with regard to the summer traffic on the
road between Jersey City and Newark,
and in both cities, respectively.
The company. he said, had ordered
twenty-five additional cars similar to
rhose now running between Newark and
Jersey City, and which are without any
doubt the handsomest cars to be found
on any road in the country, They are
twenty-five feet in length and will be
painted rich chocolate color, with gilt
bordering and lettering. The seats are
OF the newest kind and the appointments
on the car will be of the latest design
The new cars will be distributed between
Jersey City and Newark
Always on the alert to please the tray
elling public, Mr.. Stanley has in view a
plan which will give great satisfaction to
the ladies, and that is he will at some
recent date devote cars especially for
women, and between Newark and Jersey
City these cars will be very popular.
Ladies may then travel that distance
without any of those horrid men,
Il think" said Mr.. Stanley, with a
sly wink, cars exclusively for women
will be much appreciated by those who
do not desire the company Of men. Pos
sibly we may allow a man in them who
is escorting a party of ladies and we
may be obliged to charge little extra
fare, but that will be very little when
you consider what an advantage it will
be. Then, too, I think we ought to do
something for the smoking fraternity. In
Philadelphia, you know, the traction
companies there set apart smoking cars,
and the odd part of it is you will gen
orally find the women crowding into
these cars. l suppose (here was another
sly SMILEY the presence of men, after all,
is not altogether unbearable, even if
they are smoking.
In speaking about the new cars order
ed, Mr.. Stanley said it was strange how
they were becoming longer every year.
When the Traction Company first took
hold of the roads a fifteen feet car or
even one of eighteen feet, was considered
big enough for all purposes. Then de-
mand came for a twenty ty-footer, then
twenty-five feet, and now the limit is
twenty-five feet.
know he said. ''As we are going on
now, / verify believe we will have cars
running which in length will be equal to
one on the steam roads. Who knows but
we may have Pullnan's running through
from Jersey City to the Oranges? The
trouble ever before US is to know what
length of cars to order. No sooner do
we order a lot of one size, believing that
to be the proper thing, than we are
confronted with the necessity of order
ing longer ones.''
mfr. Stanley said that the road now is
N splendid working order and he pre-
diets good season. The open cars will
be soon put on the road throughout the
system. He also added that in a few
days the workmen would begin to tear
down the frame buildings at the depot,
near the Pennsylvania ferry, to make
room for the new structure. The plans
are in the hands of Engineer Brown of
Philadelphia. When they are finished,
and they are nearly completed, they will
be forwarded at once. The general scheme
is for a carshed extending from the wall
of Taylor's Hotel east to the line of the
approach to the Brooklyn Annex. Over
this shed will be erected the two-story
Office building, which will be of stone.
There will then be ample accommodation,
not only for the cars, but for the offices
of the company, which are at present
very much too small.