Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-01-19

Following the declaration of officials
Of the Pennsylvania railroad that they
are prepared to extend their rapid
transit service in this city at any time
they can be shown that such action
would be advantageous and profitable
to their corporation, Theodore 5. Fet-
finger, Advertising manager OF Hahne
& Co, himself a member OF the Clinton
Hill Improvement Association, which
is seeking a station for that section Of
the city, in an interview said:
.'Surely no one will say that | am
unfriendly to the southern end OF the
city or am not interested in its devei-
opinent and advancement; therefore no
one will charge that | an biased when
L make the assertion hat the citizens
of Clinton Hill who visited Mr.. Nc
Adoo recently and the South Broad
Street Merchants Association are not
reasoning clearly when they assume
that the location of the Pennsylvania
railroad cAdoo terminal at Saybrook
place will increase the alleged conges-
ton at Broad and Market streets and
will in any way be detrimental to the
development of any part of the city.
ITO begin with, the railroads are not
seeking to develop Newark or any part
of it, nor are they aiming to turn the
tide of business into any particular To-
cality. What they seem to have done
and what appeals TO many as the most
reasonable, feasible and logical course,
is to nave selected a route to the heart
of Newark following the line of least
resistance-not only the most economi-
cal route, but offering fewer obstacles
and disturbing less property than any
other route that has been suggested.
mo one should imagine for a mo-
mcnt that railroad men as astute as
those handling the great Pennsylvania
interests, and Mr.. McAdoo himself
have not gone into every phase of the
situation and decided after mature de-
liberation that Saybrook place was the
logical entrance to the city.
"Of course, If they were seeking to
benefit any particular business Sec
ton they might have planned a termi"
nal on Broad street or Market street,
in the midst of the present most con-
gested quarters. That railroads do not
build this way is evident from their
course in different cities; for instance,
iii the erection of their great New
York terminal in New York, in the
midst of the tenement house n fac
tory section, and in the location of a
station in North Philadelphia, where
passengers for Philadelphia on through
trains were compelled to disembark,
making Broad street station almost
strictly local in it's character.
Newark Must solve own Problems.
"As Mr.. McAdoo clearly stated, the
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that Newark would have to solve it's
own problems; hat the Pennsylvania
had chosen the Saybrook place termi-
nal as the most feasible because of it's
easy egress into the city, and that that
terminal would enable the McAdoo
Company to deliver passengers into
the heart of Newark, after which it
was up to the Public Service Corpora
ton to provide adequate distributing
facilities locally. Mr.. McAdoo also sug-
gested that If it be so desirable to have
connections with this terminal hat
would help simplify the local problems
it was up to the municipal government
or to Newark capitalists to provide
such connection.
TT must be plain to everyone that
the building of a subway to the Court
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tribute little, If anything. to the
volume of traffic through the McAdoo
tubes, since everybody living west or
south desiring to use these lines would
go to whatever terminal the company
chose to select.
II do not agree with many of my
friends on Clinton Hill hat the loca-
ton of the terminal at Saybrook place
would increase the congestion at Broad
and Market streets. A little thought
will prove. il anything. that the Say
brook place terminal is going to actual
ly solve the local transit problems for
some years to come, and that the build
ing of a subway may be indefinitely de-
layed, at least until such time as the
population warrants the enormous eX-
penditure sure to be involved.
Get out a NAL of Newark and study
1t. Count the ines that now converge
at Broad and Market streets and figure
into and out of the Market street sta