Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-02

TO RUjH
PLANS FOR PARK
PLACE TERMINAL
General Superintendent Shep-
perd Says Cooperation OF
Citizens Is Needed.

for the development of the Park place
terminal in Newark means Imuch to
this city If the railroad officials carry
out their present ideas. Frank L..
She-perd, general superintendent of the
road, says they will, and that the work
will be rushed.
The property that the railroad COM
pany plans to acquire is at Saybrook
place and Centre street. but there may
be hitch in the deal, as the Aaron
Ward property, consisting of four pieces
in Saybrook place, is not known TO be
for sale, while Aaron Ward, of East
Orange, who owns the property at p
and % Centre street, is not willing to
sell to the Pennsylvania people. Henry
Ward is now in LondosN and nothing
has been heard from him.
There was some talk Of the Colonel
Edward S. Wright estate on the oppo-
site corner of Saybrook place and Cen
tire street being taken over by the Penn
sylvania people. but 1t is now under
stood that they do not want to acquire
this property
The plan for a depot at this point
originated with the late Bernard NJ
Shanley, who was stakeholder in the
Pennsylvania company. He planned a
station on the plot bounded by Front
street, Centre street, Saybrook place
and Park place.
General Superintendent Shepperd. of
the Pennsylvania, in talking of the pro-
posed new depot today, said:
I'VE need all the assistance we can
get over in that big city of
yours in helping us out and
making that the terminal station Our
plan is to have a terminal station in
Saybrook place running down on Centre
street. 1t won't be necessary to close
up Saybrook place, but, of course, 1t
will probably have tendency to de-
preciate property values in the imme-
diate neighborhood.
1--WE plan to run elevated TRACKS from
our new main line at Harrison over
the Centre street bridge and elevated
over Front street, getting down to the
street level at Park place. We will
have a bridge over the Passaic river
similar to the Lackawanna bridge; that
is, a double-decker> with two tracks for
trains and possibly passageway for
vehicular and certainly for foot traffic,
1--WE need the hearty cooperation of
the citizens of Newark, as we con-
template a rapid transit system from
Forty-second street. Manhattan. right
to Newark without a stop at Jersey
City. Besides the route from Forty
second street, Manhattan. We will have
one from Courtlandt street. This will
bring Newark within 20 minutes of the
very heart of Manhattan"
It is understood that the Pennsyl-
vania people do not care to take over
any property on the southern side of
Centre street. The company has, how
ever, talxenNover the McCarter property
on Park place, between the Amrican
Insurance building and.Proctor's Thea
tre The McCarter estate and w. G.
McAdoo, of the Hudson and Manhattan
tunnels, were at one time figuring on
extending that system to Newark and
using the McCarter property as a ter
minal.
In connection with the proposed rapid
transit system as planned by the Penn
sylvania Company the following infor-
nation has been given out by the gen.
eral officers of the company:
anticipating that the construction of
it's new lines in and around New York
city will do much toward solving the
transportation problem between New
ark and New York city, and that the
population of Newark will be greatly
increased by reason of the benefits re-
ceived from. the Pennsylvania railroads
New York tunnel extension, a plan. for
a new branch line to extend from Park
place, Newark, to Harrison was filed
today in the office of the secretary of
state at Trenton.
"The tracks from Harrison to Jersey
City will also be electrified and direct
track connection made with the. Hud-
son and Manhattan railroad. east of
Marion station. Jersey City.
"The construction and electrification
of this new line will provide a new
electric train service from Newark into
Jersey city and direct route into the
Church and Cortlandt streets terminal
of the Hudson and Manhattan railroad.
passengers from Newark, by trans
'ferring at the new station in Harrison,
can also go direct into the new Penn
svlyania station at Seventh avenue and
Thirty-first street. New York. as well
as to the seashore resorts and other
points on Long Island
.sThe trains from Park place station
will stop at HARRISON. so that passen-
gers. on through trains running direct,
to the new Pennsylvania station in New
York city. desiring to go down town
can transfer tofa train running direct
to Jersey City and Manhattan.
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