The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-29
NUMBERING SLEEP
Lehigh Valley Locomotives
Do the Macbeth
Act.
DOWN TOWN RESIDENTS KICK
Atrocious Nuisance Along
the Canal Bank Appeal
to Health Board.

The Lebigh Valley Railroad drills cars
along it's track beside the canal between
Jersey avenue and Henderson street,
every night between eleven and two
O'Clock. The cars are run up and down,
back and FORTH and the entire time the
locomotive emits shrieks and whistles and
the bell rings. At this time of the year
when people are obliged to keep their win
dows open to get the air the racket made
by the cars is unbearable. All along
Canal street, and Sussex and Grand
streets, between Jersey avenue and Hen
derson street and the side streets, Jersey
avenue, Barrow and Grove and Hender-
son streets for two blocks from the canal,
this detestable noise is heard between the
hours when the majority of the residents
are trying to sleep. Those who retire
early are apt to be wakened at twelve
ard kept awake until two by the clamor.
and those who retire late find it impossi-
BILE to really get to sleep until two, when
as rule, the noise stops. Just as one is
dropping off to sleep particularly loud
Shrek is heard.
This nuisance has been borne by the resi-
dents of that vicinity for two years. They
have waited patiently Cor the annoyance
to cease, but now they have came to the
conclusion that steps must be taken to
have the noise stopped.
This nuisance has been the cause of sew
eral removals from the neighborhood.
The sleepless nights have caused the
residents to rebel against the nuisance,
and there is much serious talk of appeal
ing to the Board of Health and Police
Commissioners for relief.
The petitioners feel that the noise at
tending the drilling of cars in that local
ity at night is totally unnecessary. They
believe that it could be ACCOMPLISHED
within reasonable amount of time in the
day when the noise is not heard so plain
ly or the people inconvenienced, or if done
at night 1t should be done without the ac-
companying noise.
The complainants say that In other To-
calities the nuisance has been alleviated,
and that their efforts to lessen the exist
ing evil should meet with success. One
resident of Grove street characterized it
as an Internal nuisance, and said steps
should be taken to have the ANNOYANCE
ended. 1t was of more than two years
standing, said the complainant and the
railroad should adopt plans TO have the
work done so that the residents could Sc
cure the necessary amount of rest.
AT Grand street and Pacific avenue, the
Lehigh road has an extensive freight yard
and depot The shifting of cars is carried
on here every night on a large scale. The
track which runs along the canal as far
as Henderson street is used more for the
purpose of giving the engines a fair start
before pushing the cars up the steep hill,
which runs alongside the National Stor-
age Company's road than anything else.
If this track were done away with. SER
ious difficulty would be experienced in at
tempting to get the cars up the HILL Long
trains are usually made up in these yards,
and two engines are used to push them up
the hill. Then the leading engine takes
the train over the road while the yard en-
gine comes back to do more drilling. 1t
is the yard engine that the protests are
leyeled at