The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-14
EDGLHV0OD TROLLEY.
Plans Of the Bergen County
Traction Co Route Through
Haekensack.

The Bergen County Traction Company,
which now operates a trolley line from
Fort Lee Ferry to Englewood, is in ac-
tive negotiations with the Leonia and
Bogota Borough Councils and the Tea
neck Township Committee for right Of
way thai will permit 1t to extend its line
across country from the easterly bound
airy of Leonia to Hackensack. This pro-
jeet has been Under consideration for
many months. but owing to the fact that
the Union Traction Company was ex-
pected to obtain a franchise through
Hackensack, the Bergen Company de-
ferred action, expecting that when the
Union line was built through the town to
Cherry Hill the Fort Lee route would be
extended from Englewood to meet 1t. The
Bergen Traction Company applied TO the
Leonia Council last week for right of way
to It's westerly border: on Tuesday even
ing similar application was made to the
Bogota Council, and last evening the Tea
neck Township Committee was petition-
ed.
All these petitions Will receive official
consideration by February 8, and there
being at present no developed opposition,
the company hopes to secure franchises
in time to begin operations In the spring,
and have the road to Cour Street Bridge,
Haekensack, before the summer is well
advanced. This piece of road will be ex-
pensive and troublesome to construct;
the distance is only about three miles,
but the route is across the Overpeck
meadows, between Leonia and Teaneck
ridge, and as the public road 1.-THE ancient
Fort Lee turnpike) is too narrow to adj
nit the tracks, piles Will have to be
driven on the meadows marg for a dis
lance of about half a mile. The North
ern, West Shore and S-usquehanna Rail-
roads will be crossed on elevated tracks.
At Bogota the trolley road will be built
across the Bogert meadows, north of the
susquehanna depot, reaching the cause
way near Huyler G Sons coal yard.
Under the present 'plans the road will
terminate at the east end of Court Street
Bridge, but it is believed to be the pur-
pose of the Bergen Traction Company to
bid for the Union Traction Companys
property. which is expected to be sold by
the receiver before man, months; 1t is in
operation from Arlington to Woodbridge,
about eight miles, and has right OF way
to the southerly line of Haekensaek. At
any rate the expense of crossing the
Hackensaek River will not be Incurred by
the Bergen Company until more definite
arrangements are made for its line
through and beyond Hackensack.
Fl. c.. Adams, president of the Union
Traction Company, said yesterday that he
expected the Consolidated and Bergen
Traction Companies might both be DIG
ders for the Union Traction properly ana
franchises at the receivers sale. In TACT,
the attorney for the latter had said to
him definitely that the Bergen County
Company would certainly bid. He SAID
further that while the receiver, STANDING
for the general creditors and not for the
bondholders, might be empowered by the
Chancellor to sell the road n put the
proceeds IN the hands OF the court TO pc
contested for there by the various cred
itots, yet he questioned much whether
the court would permit any such pro-
ceeding. as being unfair to the first mort
gage ~bondholders. In onsequenee,, fore
closure would nave to come at the hands
of the ~bondholders, who may also BUY
I'D the other claims n take the road
out of the hands of the receiver. Pro-
ceedings under the mortgage canno legal
" begin till June l. 1898. and the sale
would probably be delayed considerably
beyond the period of six months after de-
fault. which the mortgage PROVIDES. In
any event, however, he regarded the road
as even more useful to the Bergen coun-
ty line than to the Consolidated, and con-
idently expected the former, at least, to
nartiriDate at the sale.