The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-03-15
D., L. AND W. TRAlNS
.,vorEyCg OF MR.. TRUEsDAIE's
c0sssysIoy TO THE PRESIDENCK.

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..,,rd. So Long Maintained by John
81 n,.Ir. william T.. Dodge, the Late
I,,dsnt, samuel sloan, and Other Direc-
r'attbc Road IL at length Abandoned
n..vor La okawanna and Western
Ihe ~hich has Just put William II. Trues-
hnT, "a Presidency In place OF Samuel
tne !. ~ make q departure from its ume
Soan, ,uston OF not running local trains on
honV.s BEGINNING with next Sunday the
sunGs' Tho live along the Morris and Essex
rops eli ind themselves able for the first
dNs I" . generation to get 10 OF from New
lnsN ~ those who know the history OF the
I"H' "a W road this new move Ia indicative
Hp.-.,s Internal revolution In the manage
No. vrom the day in 1853 whom John 1.
nsne bIs associates consolidated the LiR-
bA' ! and Delaware and Oobba Gap rail-
~ md began the connection and extern
,psu hitch created the present road. the In
sVn.so. against running sunday trains has
pu w noverrul Mr.. Blair himself. who is still
W. ,be Bonrd OF Managers n perhaps the
ope", s~,ocrbolder. is a strict Sabbatarlan. as
krees oo,hers Of the original coterle. but Il Is
v Z tbot William L. Dodge was more tha
NY. NV one else responsible for the keeping ottne
Nid pract sinny rsamn %S The old manage
samS md he was elected President. OF the
nenn wear after year until when he was
IT. S ssSn, thirty III we Years Of that time there was
anIy one train which ran over any pnfI OF Ine
Empii and ". system.on a Sunday. hat was
Known as the sunday wildcat IL lers n mTSo sed
lM.,s.ngersa and ran to Washington. station, lust
Ssyond Hackettstown, and came BACK later az
a mail train, It is still on the sehedaie, ana IL
Wy I, mill Il gets 10 Morristown. After that 1t
mites a number OF local stops In getting to It's
destination: . ~ -
,,yy,r morning train, leaving at $3.50. which
Soss A somewhat similar, service. and that
uuvsStieaIIy covers all the Sunday local service
q me road s Sffsbt r f9T t + ,ew s'o % B mSdS ny
t tss1e s HoboEen at j, \. $50 and 900 T. n. and
run over the Boont9n 55rsneh; t9 Ibisb 1n1y
y iIsypdhurst. and the 9:30. which let's New
YORK passengers off at Passaic.
Not a train goes to Montclair, and pone but
a. n Hill. Torristown. or any Of the numer-
ana suburban towns fed by the road.
orders have gone forth now to change all OF
this; The change is partly ne result fv o. q tour
TTrussdaIe. He found that there vas a decid-
Al demand for Sunday trains by suburbanites.
This was not always SO; no Is 1t TO be pre-
made, Many persons have settled along the
b. l. and W. road and its branches partly be-
cause there we're no Sunday trains, This was
heir city cousins from lust dropping in on
them OF a Sunday" A few years ago when
there was talk OF running Sunday trains a del
saation from the Oranges protested, declaring
ibat Il would cause their towns to be overrun
by undesirable persons on that day. Bicy-
cIIsts have overrun that country on Sundays
since and there seems to be no further pro-
The local managers in Hohoken were busy
yesterday preparing a new schedule for the
new Sunday trains, but 1t was not got ready.
Yesterday that the new schedule would prob
ably be ready to-day and that likely 1t would
contain seven trains each way, running from
HoboEen to Dover on the Morris and Essex
division.