The Jersey City news., 1906-07-05
STATES HOLIDAY
POPULATION
New Jersey Gained Approx
imately 10000 In P0pu-
lation On the Fourth Of
July
TRAFFIC CAPACITY TAXED

IN IL -
HAD. HOWEVER, ANTICIPATED
THE RUSH AND PREPARED FOR
IT.
New Jersey gained approximately
10000 in population over the Fourth OF
July. and the visitors spent upWards OF
half a million dollars in the State. Were
a census taken at that time. the State
would pass three Of her rivals-lowa'
Tennessee and Wisconsin-which are
now Immediately ahead Of her in popula-
ton.
This access in population naturally
went in large measure to the beach re-
sorts and summer places on the pictur-
esque lakes and rivers Of the State.
New York City contributed the greater
part of the crowds, though Philadelphia
sent good proportions Though New
Jersey is the third most densely populat-
ed State in the Union, such are its nat
ural beauties and facilities for enoyinlg
am outing, that few of its people think
of going out of the State to spend day
of play.
For the railroad man and all persons
engaged in the business Of transporta-
tion, the ''Glorious Fourth" is the hard
est day in the year with one exception
Labor Day. 1t is the day when not o.
ly is the schedule widely different from
that of the ordinary week day. but it IS
complicated by all sorts, of special ex-
cursions and picnics.
All regular trains are crowded to the
limit Of their capacity, and na-turaly,
with delays at stations from the con-
stant inrush of people on these trains
and the heavy specials clogging the
lines with a thousand one little causes
tending toward delay, engineers and
train despatchers are put to it to keep
the trains moving on anything like sched-
ule time
For the trolley lines the day ID even
more strenuous. The trolley lines in
North Jersey this year prepared to ham
die between 100000 and 100000 persons
on the Fourth. all Of which vast traffic
was practically compressed into eight
cen hours when the trolley traffic broke
all records. The officials had, however,
anticipated this and met the demand.
A rainy Fourth means slack business,
and sudden summer shower may great
" diminish or add to the traffic. con-
slant watchfulness over every part of
the line is the only way that trolley
company can regulate it's traffic intelli-
gently. At every intersection men are
stationed whose business it is simply to
watch the state of the traffic and OBJ
serve above all things if the cars are
overcrowded. These men keep in con-
stant communication with the traffic
superintendent at headquarters, the
brains of the whole machine, who is thus
enabled to add cars to one line or with
draw them from another as rapidly as
the traffic demands it.
If Jerseys extra Fourth of July pop.
ulation and the scores of thousands OF
her own people who go from one place
to another on the Fourth tax the trans
portation facilities of the State none the
less do they require an army of hotel
keepers, cooks and walters and proprie-
tors of amusement resorts to cater to
them. For these persons the Fourth OF
July is the most crowded day in the year
Her lonk coast line and the charming
diversity of her inland country with its
numerous rivers and lakes, makes New
Jersey one of the most popular holiday
States in the East.