Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-27
IMPROVE THE
TROLLEY CARS
New Jersey to Have the Style in
Use in Most of Progressive
Western Cities.

The rapid growth of population in
New Jersey is evidenced in no other
way more strikingly than by the adj
ditions which the steam and trolley
roads are forced to make to their
equipment every year. A notable
development in this respect, which
may be said to inaugurate a new era
in trolley transportation in the east,
will take place about July first when
the first installment of the ninety
five new cars built for the Public
Service Corporation will be put into
operation. New cars, of course, are
being put into service constantly,
but these particular cars are of IN
advanced type found nowhere else in
the east.
Fasteners visiting the west have
sometimes noticed and remarked up
on the fine and commodious cars in
use in some western cities which are
far superior to those of eastern roads.
This Is the type of car which is to be
put In service in the Jersey lines.
They will be almost forty-five feet
long and will sea- eighty persons in
their broad cross-seats. They will
have large eight-foot e platforms
where passengers can enter or leave
two abreast. In order to facilitate
the movement of passengers in and
out and to give the maximum room,
the portios of the ears which the
passengers occupy will be entirely
heating apparatus, ETC., will be in the
front vestibule, from which passen-
gers are excluded. The cars will
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nearly fireproof as is necessary in
surface operation or consistent with
the greatest degree of comfort. A
feature of the vehicles is hat they
can be used as open cars in summer
and closed cars in winter, and, in
case of a sudden summer storm, the
conductor "a convert the open car
into a closed a in two or three min
utes.
"The generous growth of New Jer-
sey, not only in population but par
| ticularly in prosperity" said a big
real estate man with heavy interests
throughout the state, makes it pos
sible for the people to be supplied
with cars of a type not yet reached in
eastern communities generally. The
| extraordinary growth of western cit
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accompanied by a development of the
| street railway business which in
many cases surpassed anything the
east has obtained. This is due to the
fact that many towns in the west in
which trolley companies have been
chartered have grown so rapidly that
the traction projects have paid from
the start and enabled the companies
to begin operations with an equip
ment expensive enough to bankrupt
any new trolley company in the slow
| er-moving eastern cities. Smaller fix
ed charges and earnings that increase
with a rapidity that is often the
amazement of the eastern traction
magnate, have been factors in the
street railway development in the
| west.
thine was when we were satisfied
to ride in an eighteen or twenty-foot
ear, sitting on board seats over a
straw-covered floor, with an illumin-
alton at night that was more dim
that religious. Communities in some
states have not progressed much be-
yond that stage, but New Jerseys
growth has left 1t far behind. 1t is
now generally recognized that moth
ing in the transportation line is too
good for New Jersey"