The Jersey City news., 1906-06-30
TROLLEY TRAFFIC
IN NEW JERSEY
Rapid Growth In Population
Makes It Necessary to
Constantly Improve the
Service
NEW CARS in MANUFACTURE
PASSENGER COMPARTMENTS OF
THESE WILL BE FREE FROM
APPARATUS OF ANY KIND


The rapid growth of population in
New Jersey is evinced in no other way,
more strikingly than by the additions
which thess steam and trolley roads are
forced to make to their equipment
every year. A notable development in
this respect, which may be said to in
augurate a new era in trolley transpor-
tation in the East, will take place about
July /, when the first installment OF the
nihety-five new cars built for the Public
Service Corporation will be put into OPP
Grafton. New cars, Of course, are being
put into service constantly, but these
particular cars are of an advanced type
found nowhere else in the East.
Fasteners visiting the West have
sometimes noticed and remarked upon
the fine and commodious cars in use in
some western cities which were far SUI
perior TO those Of Eastern roads. This
is the type of car which is to be put III
service on the Jerseylines. They will be
almost forty-five feet long and will seat
eighty persons in their broad cross seats.
They will have large eight-foot rear
platforms where passengers can enter OF
leave two abreast.
In order to facilitate the movement of
passengers in and out and to give the
maximum room, the portions of the cars
which the passengers occupy will be en-
tirely free of apparatus. The sand-box-
es, heating apparatus, ETC., will be in the
front vestibule, from which passengers
are excluded. The cars will have steel
panelling nd will be as nearly hreproof
as is necessary in surface operation OF
consistent with the greatest degree OF
comfort. A feature of the vehicles is
| that they can be used as open cars in
summer and closed cars in winter, and
in case of a sudden summer storm, the
conductor can convert the open car into
closed car in two or three minutes.
'sTht generous growth of New Jersey
not only in population, but particularly
in prosperity" said a big real estate
man with heavy interests throughout the
State, ''makes it possible for the people
to be- supplied with cars of a type not
yet reached in Eastern communities gem
orally. The extraordinary growth OF
| Western cities during the past decade
has been accompanied by deelovpment
of the stree. railway business, which IN
many cases surpassed anything the East
has obtained.
'sThis is due to the fact that many
towns in the west in which trolley COM
panies have been chartered have grown
so rapidly that the traction projects have
paid from the start and enabled the COM
panies to begin operations with an equip
ment expensive enough to bankrupt any
new trolley company in the slower-mov-
| ing eastern cities. Smaller fixed charges
and earnings that increase with rapid
| ity that is often the amazement of the
eastern traction magnate, have been fac
ors in the street railway development in
the west.
sTifne was when we were satisfied to
ride in an eighteen or twenty-foot car,
sitting on board streets over straw
covered floor with an illumination at
night that was more dim than religious.
Communitie sin some States have not
progressed much beyond that stage
but New Jerseys growth has left it faI
behind. 1t is now generally recognized
that nothing in the transportation line
is too good for New jersey