The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-20
TROLLEY TO PHILADELPHIA.

I To be Shortened Fifteen Miles, Follow ing Line of Long Ago.
 Following it's original purpose to con- meet Philadelphia and New York by an electric air line, the New -Philadel- phia Company, which for some time has been operating a trolley system through New Jersey, paralleling the Delaware River, has now well under way the re- moval of the last kinl1 in the line, there by shortening the trip fifteen miles, says the Philadelphia Ledger. At pre- sent the line is as straight as any rail- road can be from Camden to New Brunswick. At the latter point cars are compelled to make long detuor of about thitry five miles by way of Bound Brook Plainfield and Cranford, to Elizabeth. From the latter point the road runs in another straight line to Jersey City
 It is the loop around Bound Brook which is being removed, and a straight away, high-grade railroad being built Ifrom New Brunswick to Elizabeth. The connection is being built by the New Jersey Shortline Railroad, a subsidiary concern of the New York-P Philadelphia Company, With it's completion the en- tire system will be through private right of way which, together with the elimination of all unnecessary bends, will make possible higher speed and greater safety
 This work has cost much. Many deep cuts have had to be made, as well as the construction of concrete arches and bridges over many small streams and marches which abound in the district.
 Ono of the most expensive parts of work is the crossing of the Railway I River Being Q navigable stream, 1t was necessary to build drawbridge, 2 which is almost completed It is of novel construction in this part of the country. Instead of swinging around Iibroadside on a pivot, the bridge, rest=- :. ing on one end, will be moved up and down when necessary for a boat to pass. The bridge spans the river about four miles below Rllhway.
 With the completion of this work and the building of the tunnels under the North River, the crowning triumph of the trial track of transportation" as the stretch between Philadelphia and New York has come to be known, will have been achieved This identical path has been the proving ground of \ every method for annihilation of space I and distance from the day of road : coaching to the present time
 Away back in 1756 John Butler chose his path for the first practical demon- $ stration in this country of the relay 3 stage as a common carrier. Along the same route Colonel Robert L. Stevens, in 1892, constructed the Camden and 7 Amboy Railroad, the first real railway in America The electric telegraph be- ? came 2 paying commercial proposition when Philadelphia and New York were connected in 1So7 and the long-dis- tance telephone proved it's usefulness between these same cities tn 1885, two years before, any other two large cities were talking back and forth over a Iwire
 Of the inc cities of the world with population in excess of 100000 the New York Philadelphia Company connects
 the two closest as seen by the follow ling comparative distances; Philadel- phia-N New York, SS miles; London
 Paris, 2SO; Berlin-Vienna, 4S1; London-
 Berlin, 722; Paris-B Berlin, 7315 New
 Chicago, SS7; Paris-Vienna, S52; Berlin-
 St. Petersburg, 1,0S4.