The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-17
GROVE STREET TROLLEY.
North Hudson Runs It's
Electric Cars for the
First Time Today.
BENEFIT TO BUSINESS SECTION
No Friction Apprehended Be
tween the North Jersey
Company and the N.
H. Co. R R.
BENEFIT TO BUSINESS SECTION

After waiting months for permission 10
change the power on the Grove street hne
the North Hudson County Railway COM
pany were enabled this morning to runthe
first trolley car on that thorougnIare.
What the company has had to go through
to get this permission is well known
Some of the leading organizations ano
associations in this city were opposed 70
the plan Of allowing the company TIE
right to operate trolley cars on Grove
street unless a tax on gross receipts were
levied, while others have urged the OH
cials to favorably consider the company
application. In fact, the majority of the
leading merchants in this city were IN
favor of the plan since the first time II
was mentioned Now that the company
plans are being perfected. the merchants
are pleased. and are of the opinion that
the Improvement will tend to boom busl-
ness in this city.
A leading merchant of this city some
time ago, when the project was hrst
spoken of, said that he thought Jersey
City was deprived of q great deal OF
business from Hoboken because OF the
poor service between the two cities
.The majority of the people he said
'prefer to cross the ferry and purchase
in New York, because of the time It
takes to reach this city and the un-
pleasant trip that has to be taken.
Some who travelled over the route on
the trolley cars, this morning, said that
the service is much better, from ten 10
fifteen minutes quicker, and that riding
in the trolley cars was much more COM
Portable than in the ram-shackle ola
horse cars which belonged to one
horse country town. Eight motors are
being run from the Hoboken ferry to the
junction of Grove street and Newark
avenue This is as far as they VIII run
until an agreement is reached between
the officials of the North Hudson ana
the, North Jersey Street Railway Com
panies
The North Hudson tracks terminate at
Grove street and Newark avenue and for
years that company has been using the
North Jersey Railway Company's tracks
to reach the ferry at the foot OF Mont
gomery street. Now that motors are TO
be used some understanding between the
two companies will be reached in regard
to the maintenance of tracks and power
to be used, before the North Hudson
Railway Company, will run its motors to
the ferry.
yice-President David Young Of the
North Jersey Street Railway Company,
said this morning that he did not think
the former company had made an appli-
cation for the use of the North Jersey
Company's tracks.
However" he added, II do not think
there will be any difficulty in arranging
s'iE' President esd E. F. c. Young said this
morning. that there would be a meeting
of the Executive Committee this after
noon but did not know whether an ap-
plication from the North HUDSON Com
pany had been received.
The latter company handled It's passen-
gers this morning without any difficulty;
Connections were made regularly and
passengers suffered no inconvenience. The
motors make the round trip in forty
minutes. They are run on a schedule of
five minutes headway. Four horse cars
are being used to convey the passengers
to the end of the route A round trip is
made in twenty minutes and these are
also run on a FIVE minute headway sched-
ule. The motors are being run on the
same schedule as were the horse cars.
No difficulty is experienced at the switches
where the cars meet. because of the
single track, and things are running along
quite smoothly.