Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-07-03
HOLIDAY GAIN
IN The STATE
Some Facts and Figures Of Un-
usual Interest TO Jersey
men Are Given.

New Jersey will gain approximate
ly 10000 in population over the
Fourth of JULY and the visitors will,
ispend upwards of half a million dol
lars in the state. Were a census
taken at this time, the state would
pass three of her rivals, Iowa, Ten
nessee and Wisconsin, which are now
Immediately ahead of her in popula-
ton. This access in population nat
urally goes in large measure to the
beach resorts and summe places on
the picturesque lakes and rivers of
the state. New York city contributes
the greater part of the crowds,
though Philadelphia sends a good
proportion. Though New Jersey is
the third most densely populated
state in the Union, such are its nat
ural beauties and facilities for enjoy
ing an outing, that few of it's people
think. of going out of the state to
spend a day of play.
For the railroad men and all per-
sons engaged in the business of trans
portation, the Glorious Fourth" is
the hardest day in the year with one
exception-Labor Day. 1t is the day
when not only is the schedule widely
different from that of the ordinary
week day, but it is complicated by all
sorts of special excursions, picnics,
etc. All regular trains are crowded
to the limit of their capacity, and,
naturally, with delays at stations
from the constant thrush of people
on these trains and the heavy spec
ials clogging the lines, with a thous-
and and n little causes tending to-
ward delay, engineers and train dis
patchers are put to it to keep the
trains moving on anything like sched-
ule time.
For the trolley lines the day is
even more strenuous. The trolley
lines in North Jersey are preparing
to handle between 100000 and 90O,-
eco persons on July 4, all of which
vast traffic Is practically compressed
into eighteen hours. If the Memoir
ial Day crowds are to be taken as a
criterion, the Fourth of July trolley
traffic will break records. But no
trolley company can forecast the vol
ume of its business a day, or, for that
matter, even an hour in advance. A
rainy Fourth slack business,
and a sudden summer shower may
greatly diminish or add to the traf-
fic. A constant watchfulness owe
every part OF the line is the only way
that a trolley company can regulate
it's traffic intelligently. At every in
tersection men are stationed whose
business it is simply to watch the
state of the traffic and observe above
all things if the cars are overcrowd-
ed. These men keep in constant
communication with the traffic super
intendent at headquarters, the brains
of the whole machine, who is thus
enabled to add cars to n line or
withdraw them from another as rap
idly as the traffic demands it..
If Jerseys extra Fourth of July
population and the scores of thous-
ands of her own people who go from
one place to another on the Fourth
tax the transportation facilities of
the state, none the less do they re-
quire an army of hotelkeepers, cooks
and walters and proprietors of amuse-
ment resorts to cater to them. For
these persons the Fourth of July is
the most crowded day in the year.
Her long coast line and the charm
ing diversity of her inland country
with it's nero rivers and lakes,
make New Jersey n of the most
popular holiday states" in the east.