Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-09-27
OFF |C|AL TRIP ON
NE VI SHORT-L|NE
FIRST TIME TODAY
Regular Service to Manhattan
Transfer to Begin
Sunday.
RUNNING TIME WILL
BE- Is MINUTES TO n. Y.
Great improvement in Rapid
Transit a Boon to
Newarkers.

The first official trip on the new
Pennsylvania short line, to run from
the Hudson terminal. New York, to
Saybrook place, this city. was made
this morning by about 200 men, in
Gliding many officials of the Pennsyi-
Vania railroad and the Hudson and
Manhattan Railway Company. A few
feet beyond Manhattan transfer was
the destination of the party. Only up
to that point, just the other side of the
big donble-deck bridge is the road
completed The passenger service viii
commence 1890 Sunday morning.
The official schedule calls for run
ming time to the transfer of sixteen
minutes. The trip was made in fifteen
minutes 1t is expected that at first the
running time to Saybrook place will be
twenty minutes. but will be cut down
to 1S1s minutes within few weeks,
after the complete service is in opera
tion
Regular Service.
Beginning Sunday there will be
regular service between the Hudson
Terminal and Manhattan transfer, The
number of trains both ways will be
seventy on week days and ffty-two
Sundays. At present there is shuttle
train service of twenty -four per day.
The short line, which IL is hoped will
in two months connect Newark with
New York by a direct route, is the first
of a series of rapid transit lines to be
4 it,o tod w ha PanncNslNania and
Hudson and Manhattan companies.
Eventually the Jersey City terminal
may be abandoned, but not before there
is connection made with the New
England trains and bridge construct
ed over He'll Gate.
The road traversed by the new line
is as follows: From the terminal in
New York to Henderson street, Jersey
city, the old tracks are used.
From that point to where the trains
travel on the surface at Marion. near
the Waldo avenue roundhouse, new
tube has been built. From there as far
as the Manhattan Transfer the old
right of way of the Pennsylvania,
with the addition of new tracks here
and there is used. From the trans
fer" to Saybrook place, distance of
mile and a half, an entirely new
track Is used This takes the trains
over the viaduct and the big bridge.
Physically, the system will be ready
in about two months according to j.
It. O'Rourke, superintendent of trans
portation of the Hudson and Manhat-
tan lines If 1t were not for the legal
tangle over the right of way on the
Newark side, the Saybrook place sta
ton could be thrown open at the eX-
piration of that time.
steel Cars Used.
Steel cars throughout will be used.
AT first each train will be made up
of four cars The particular advan-
tage in running the trains to MaEAat-
tan Transfer lies in the fact that a
passenger on a through train may
change at the transfer" to a short
line train and go direct to New York.
At present he has to board shuttle
train and change to the tube trains
at Jersey city. The short line makes
direct all-rail service to New York
without change at Jersey City.
Beginning Sunday ten through trains
that now go to Jersey City will be
shifted to the uptown list. Five that
leave from Jersey 1AAS VIII oaGS w PNN
on the uptown schedule. At present
there are ffty-eight trains in and sixty
three out from the uptown station. The
new schedule viii make it sixty-eight
in and out.
The cost of operation and the rev.
enues will be divided between the Penn
sylvania and the Hudson and Manhat-
tan railroads. The "Pennsy'' will spend
and receive two-thirds of the moneys.
The cost of fare from Newark to New
York. when the line is completed has
not been announced as yet
Among the officials that were present
on the inspection trip this morning
were: Frank L. Sheppard, general su-
perintendent of the P. r. r.; j. B.
Fisher. superintc dent Of the New York
division; George c. Miller an engineer;
e. T Mander, passenger train master.