The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-05-10
GIGANTIC SCHEME
Trenton and New Brunswick
Trolley Line Said to Be
Part of Wabash.
Especial to "The Jersey City News y


TRENTON. May 10. 19O2.-It is now evil
dent that the Trenton and New Bruins
wick railroad is but small part of a
gigantic scheme.
Neither the johnson syndicate nor the
Camden and Trenton Railway Company
has ever been identified with the New
Brunswick line
Both the Johnson syndicate and the
Camden and Trenton Railway have Bound
Brook as their objective points. although
it is probable that the first will reach
there. There has never been any serious
intention upon the part of the Johnson
syndicate to build from Princeton to New
Brunswick, as has been of often reported
Early in March the Trenton and New
Brunswiek Railway Company awarded to
the Ferguson Contracting Company, Of
New York contract for grading the
lands to which rights of way had been
secured and laying thereon a single track
railway with turRouts.
According to the contract, the rails and
the ties were to be of light construction,
suitable for trolley traffic and capable of
sustaining only limited strain.
In direct continuation of the surveyed
route from Trenton to Midtown there
has been planned the building of a bridge
across the Raritan River
The plans for the construction of this
proposed span are said to have reached
such a stage of maturity that only the
consent of the United States govern
ment is needed to begin the actual WORK
of construction.
The plans. are said to provide for the
crossing of the Raritan at height Of
100 feet, and to construct the bridge of
steel on the cantilever system, and after
the general design of the Poughkeepsie
bridge over the Hudson River.
Surveyors have been at work in the
territory between the site of the pro-
posed bridge over the Raritan and Staten
Island sound. but the plans of the pro-
jectors in that section are still so care
fully hidden that they have not come to
light. except in the most vague manner
It is known among railroad men that
the Gould system has been gradually
working towards the Atlantic seaboard
by southerly route.
The news came east from Chicago only
a few days ago that George Gouldss long
cherished plan for a terminus on the At
lantic of the Wabash railway system was
to be successful
1t limited that the route of the new Wa
bash line will be from Cleveland to zanes-
vile, to connect there with the West Vir-
ginia and Pittsburg Railroad, and thence
by way of the West Virginia Central to
Cumberland, Nd.
If the Wabash buys the Western Mary
land Railroad, according to the informa-
ton from Chicago it win then go direct
into Baltimore from Cumberland.
If competitors get ahead Of the Wabash
and succeed in purchasing the Western
Maryland. the Wabash will Immediately
build a short line from the terminus Of
the West Virginia Central to Newport
News.
Men who are versed in the great rail-
road game says that if, the Gould sys-
TEN gets to the Atlantic seaboard by con-
Meeting with Newport News. it will also
get terminal connection with New York
through New Jersey.
And the suggestion that the mysterious
and strange actions of the Trenton and
New Brunswick Railway Company will
develop into the completion of the plans
of the Gould system has found ready
credence among interested persons.
The conviction that a new steam rail-
way system is projected has grown from
what at first was only suspicion, born
of the mfstrust with which the men most
deeply interested in existing railroad sys-
TENS held the organization, and the an
nouneed plans of the Trenton and New
Brunswick Railway Company. which was
incorporated December 10 last, with
capital of 81 100000
There is abundant evidence that great
four track steam railroad has been
planned and is actually in an incipient
stage of construction, that will cross the
state in direct line from Trenton to
Staten Island Sound. and will continue
across Staten Island to a terminus on
the New York Bay within easy access
of New York by ferry.