The Jersey City news., 1901-07-27
TROLLEY'S WORK
Old Resident Recalls the
Days of the Horse
Car Lines.
He BAY0NNE JIGGER
1uppose It Still Carried the
Crowd to Bergen
Pointl
: He BAY0NNE JIGGER

Old residents of Bayonne and Green
vile are contrasting the old morse cars
of a few years ago with the modern
un-to-date. double truck eight-wheel
cars now run on that line. 1t seems
like a dream to some of them. One old
fellow remarked that he had lived in
Greenville twenty years and had grown
up with the place.
but in those two decades" said he,
"T have never witnessed such changes as
those of the past few years. These Won
derful transformations have been brought
about by the trolley system.
People remember well enough when
the old horse cars were used, but do they
ever stop to think of those days Of
travel? Picture a car, half the size of
the ones used today running at less than
a quarter the speed Horses instead of
electricity as motive power. How could
the company begin to accommodate the
people today with those cars? I have
known when "a horse and a mule were
used TO draw the Bayonne 'jigger,' and
then there were no conductors. People
going to Bayonne from Jersey City then
had to wait for yellow car to go through
without paying an extra fare.
Look at the changes and the condi-
tions today as compared with decade
ago. Has a city ever been transformed
so quickly? Has a community ever
benefited more by the Introduction of
trolley cars? I believe that the traffic
today exceeds that of ten years ago by
ninety per cent
Never in the history of the Traction
Company has the Bayonne line paid so
I,ie f;o hoe
wonderfully. The increase in the number
of passengers is doubtless due to the in
ducements offered at the various resorts
at Bayonne The pleasure of trip to
Bergen Point on a flying open car and
through Staten Island to Midland Beach
has served to make that route popular.
From early morning until after mid
night on warm days the cars are packed.
Extra cars are put on about four o'clock
in the afternoon to Accommodate the busi-
ness rush from New York These trip
pers are kept on until late in the night
in order to carry the crowds travelling
to Bayonne. At times it is next to i'm
possible to get a seat. The runboards are
packed, too. This sight is witnessed
every night. All along the route pasen-
gers are picked up. Most of these go as
lar as bergen POlnl TO NlSlI the numerous
resorts there. Others continue their trip
to Staten Island.
1t is surprising how well the company
takes care of such crowds. Mishaps are
few and those are not of a serious ma
ture. A few toughs make themselves OBJ
noxious at times, but this is only late
at night, and the pleasure of a trip is
seldom marred.
Not a few persons who found it too
warm to sleep during the hot spell rode
the biggest part of the night on the
Bayonne cars for comfort. 1t was an
inexpensive way of securing rest and
many too advantage of it.
Several changes are being made at the
Greenville terminal of the trolley line.
Additional car room was required and the
big yard north of the office is now being
converted into a car shed Four tracks
are being laid to accommodate about
twenty more cars. The two other sheds
are not large enough to hold the numer-
Gus big cars now in use. The Bayonne
sheds near Bergen Point are also crowd
ed.