The Jersey City news., 1902-02-05
ON TO PATERSON
Trolley Company Said to Be
Planning Line to Silk
City.

Evidence that the North jersey Street
Railway Company is contemplating the
extension of its trolley system Is con-
tanned in the fact that surveyors. said to
be identified with the company. have been
at work on a proposed route through
Brookdale, connecting Bloomfield and
Clifton by rail.
The survey is being made from tae
terminus of the present line of the Pas
sale and Orange Valley Railway Com
pany, which is practically part OF the
North Jersey system, on Bay avenue, ex-
teaairg through Brookdale for a distance
Of a mile and half, reaching across j
wide tract of marsh known as Hyde
Swamp. and thence across stretch OF
private property to the present tracks. OF
the Newark and Paterson trolley line at
Clifton
In connection with the making of the
survey, significance is given the project
by the fact that residents and property
owners along the line Of the survey nave
recently been sounded by men believed ~
be identified with the rights OF way
department of the North Jersey street
Railway Company as to whether or MOI
they would favor the building and opera
tion of a trolley line through treir =
cality.
Thus far the efforts of the supposed
railroad men have been confined to ascer-
tanning opinions. Nobody has as yet been
asked to give consent or yield a. right OF
way over his property.
The advantage to the railway company
of the establishment of a trolley line over
the route indicated by the work OF the
surveyors. when tits known that by run
ming cars from Newark over the Bloom
field line, connecting with the proposed
line through Brookdale and Hyde Swamp,
and Joining the present line at Clifton,
The distance between Newark and Pater-
son would be shortened fully three and
one-half miles and about twenty minutes
time would be saved each way
The plan of construction and oper-
ating trolley line connecting Bloomfield
and Brookdale is not a new one Two or
three years ago the North Jersey Street
Railway Company, through its constitu-
ent the Passaic and Orange Valley Rail-
way Company. sought to obtain a fran
chise for road from the Bay avenue
terminus to Brookdale. The Bloomfield
Town Council, to which the application
I0f a II8HEu1SE w dS llddrs Sd" " 3tdt -
believed to be an opportunity to advance
the interests of the citizens of the town.
The company proposed to charge fare
of ten cents from Brookdale to Newark.
Objection was made on the contention
that this sum was excessive, whereupon
the company offered to establish an eight
cent fare to Newark,
The Bloomfield officials decided to grant
the franchise ON the basis Of an eight
cert fare to Newark, with the added. con-
dition that the two cents extra charscd
Bloomfield residents for transfers IN this
city be abolished. The. North Jersey and
the Passaic and Orange Valley companies
acted separately in the negotiations that
were pending at the time and when the
North Jersey refused to yield to the de-
mand for five cent fare with transfer
privileges between Bloomfield and New
ark. the Bloomfield Council voted against
granting the franchise sought for the ex-
tension to Brcokdale- The present move
nent is believed to be revival OF the Old
rlan of extension on al larger scale.