The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-29
TRACK
ELEVATION
Grading Commenced at Morris
town by Lackawanna.

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Street will be Crossed by Bridge
With I3 Foot Headway Abolish
ment Of All Crossings Between
Water Street and Convent Station.
Fifty men with half as many horses
and rts, busily engaged in grading the
easterly side of the property Of the late
VIM. L. King on Morris street, is an
earnest of the improvements to be in
augurated at Morristown by the Lacka-
wanna Railroad Co. A lot so feet in
width on Morris street with an ell at the
rear one hundred feet wide will sooD be-
come part of the plaza at the station.
A new and commodious baggage room
will be located on the ell, which will be
graded to meet the railroad tracks to be
elevated at this point etween eight and
nine feet. The present depot will be
enlarged and raised to conform to the
new elevation of the tracks and baggage
room; the covered platform space about
the depot will also be greatly enlarged.
East bound passengers will take the
trains as at present, while those west
bound will board trains from an
auxiliary depot connecting with the
west bound track, and which will be
reached by tunnel under the tracks
To give sufficient headway probably
twelve to thirteen feet at the Morris and
Elm street crossings, Morris street will be
depressed about four feet, which with
an elevation of about nine feet will give
sufficient headway under the bridge.
To accomplish this, the elevation west of
the crossing will begin at Water street;
at the bridge over the Whippany river,
the rise will be something over four feet,
increasing gradually to more than
double that height at the station, and
continuing eastward until level is
reached some distance down the track
This will make an easy grade and dis
pense altogether with three dangerous
grade crossings, one where the approach
to the present freight house is made,
along saw mill lane" which will be
closed. another and an exceedingly dan
gerous one at the intersection of Morris
and Elm streets,a and third ct the cross
ing near Howell's saw mill, where Ford
avenue will be tunneled. Farther east.
ward the track will be depressed SO that
the dangerous crossings at Sneeden's
crossing and Convent station will also be
abolished.
These improvements will give the
residents of Morristown railroad facili.
ties unsurpassed by any town in, New
Jersey. The changes in grade doing
away with grade crossings, and continu-
ing the double track to Dover, taken in
connection with the other local improve
ments, and the wiping out of many
bad curves and the easement of others
between this city and Newark will be
accomplished before the snow flies in
! 1908.
This will bring Morristown within at
least fifty minutes of New York, and
possibly less. The changes will greatly
enhance the value of real estate, remove
a serious menace to the safety of the
public and prove of direct benefit to every
body in the community. If these i'm
provements had been made dozen
years ago, Morristown would to-day
have population at least one-third
larger.
Add to improved railroad facilities an
up-to-date plan for sewage disposal and
well-equipped trolley system, where
can more delightful town be found I
Well, as the venerable Theodore E.
Cuyler is wont to say, mot within a
hundred miles of New York"