The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-07-13
WANT CITY'S
COOPERATION
M'Carter Promises s. & w.
Board Great Improve
ment In Local Troll
ley Car Service.
TRANSFERS BETWEEN
LINES NOW IN SIGHT
Two Lines Between This
City and Hoboken Among
the improvements
Contemplated.

The following letter concerning i'm
provements in the trolley car service in
this city has been received by the Street
and Water Commissioners from Thomas
n. McCarter, President of the new Pub
lie Service Corporation
eJuly 10, 1908.
ITO the Board of Street and Water
Commissioners of the City of Jersey
City
'Supplementing the interview held be
tween your Honorable body and Mr.. w.
w. Wheatley, General Manager of the
Street Railway Department of Public
Service, take pleasure in saying that it
is the intention of this company to COM
ply with every reasonable request of the
authorities of Jersey City at as early a
date as possible.
''The company is now engaged in plac-
Ing orders for 15o new cars, which we
hope to have delivered in the fall fair
proportion of which viii be devoted to
the service in Jersey City.
ssThe matter of the pavement on Cen
tral avenue, New York avenue and Sum-
nit avenue about which your Board has
been anxious, is already receiving atten-
tion from the company, if, in fact, it has
not been completed by this time. The
Eprinkling of the streets will be attended
to to the best of the ability of the COM
pany with its limited equipment. 1t is
not possible to obtain additional sprink-
year we hope to be amply provided. In
this connection, it is understood that the
rity will furnish the water for the
Bprinkling free of cost.
s:As the legal existence of the North
Jersey Street Railway Company and the
Jersey City, Hoboken and Paterson Rail-
road Company is still distinct, there is
no compulsion upon these companies to
issue transfers from their various lines.
Nevertheless, Public Service, as the own
er of large majority of the stocks of
both companies, in the public interest is
disposed to grant reasonable number of
transfers on these lines at intersecting
points, as well as to increase the number
Df transfers between the lines of the
North Jersey Street Railway Company.
The transfer problem, however, is a
large one, and one of the most difficult
witty which the management is confront
ked.
: "The whole subject is now being care
fully studied with view to determining
what particular additional transfers will
be of the greatest benefit to the travel
ng public, and also to provide uniform
methods for through-routing of cars.
''The new transfer system will be in
iugurated not later than September 1,
next, and if it can be worked out in time.
It win be put into eject on August /, al
though the time is now rather short to
accomplish this result.
sMr. Wheatley win be glad to confer
with your Honorable Board at any time
In working out details of this matter.
An imperative necessity for the proper
conduct of the transportation business
in Jersey City is an additional line be-
tween Jersey City and Hoboken. At
present the Grove street line "a single
track with furnouts) is worked almost to
the limit of its capacity, and the cars
are much, oyercrowded. The railway COM
pany desires the cooperation of your hon
orable body in obtaining a franchise
through Erie street, from Payonia ave-
nue. TO Nineteenth street, SO that Grove
street may be used for cars in one direc-
tion and Erie street for ears in the oppo-
site direction. between the Pennsylvania
Railroads Jersey City terminal and the
D. L. & w. terminal in Hoboken.
'.The Company also desires franchise
for one block on Ninth street, from Erie
street to Grove street, SO that the cars of
the Summit avenue line bound for Pa
q Don't think that eruption of yours