Evening journal., 1916-08-07
NEW Trolley line
NEARLY Completed
Residents Of PennSgrOve and
Other Powder Towns
Expect Service to
be Started Soon
SALEM. END OF
ROAD MUST VISIT

PENNSGROVB, N. j., Aug. Pros
pertty, which has had TO plod through
mud knee deep, or stumble about over
rosdways with a hundred holes and
pitfalls TO every block since 1t set
foot in this powder boom town, two
yours ago. is soon to have an easier
epas of 1t. Everything Is nearly, in
iTeIdiness for putting into operation
the much-talked-about trolley line in
course Of construction between this
place and Salem.
While the entire system is still a
good way from being completed, this
end of the line. over which most Of
the traffic is expected to run. has been
rushld to the point where It will be
possible to operate the cars from the
.own out as far as the DUPONT Pow
der Company's plant, No. g. al tho
extreme end Of the company's big res
ervation.
The arrival during the middle Of
this week Of eight new trolley cars by
freight, and the hum Of industry in
the making of track connections and
the stringing of feed-wires. revived
the hopes of foot-weary workmen and
residents Of the powder villages, who
have been waiting all summer for the
tropeys to start.
II was originally announced that
the line would be ready to start on
July /, but when that date rolled
around the system, even at this end,
where most of the work has been
done. was far from complete. Citi-
zens fully expected that they would
see the cars whizzing through the
streets here by August 1. but they
didn't. although their wait now will
he short. as ii is now only a question
of days, rather than weeks or months
when the welcome "ding-ding' of the
trolley gong will be heard IN the
land
Oficials Of the Salem e. Pennsgrove
Traction Company have announced
that they will put six cars. each with
a seating capacity of so passengers
not including strap-hangers. in opera
tion at the start between Pennsgrove
and the powder plants and villages
The cars will start from the foot oi
the pier Of the Wilson Ferry Line
and they will run through Pennsgrove
out to Carney's Point. Riverview anC
the cluster OF powder villages, five in
all. the bachelor camp at Plant No.
and on out to Plant No. 3, the tenn.
porary terminal. The fare for this
trip. a full two miles. will be five
cents. An all-night service will b'
maintained TO accommodate powder
workers in three separate shifts.
The tracks have been laid all tn,
way from here to the edge Of Penns
vile, while on the other end Of thu
line. at Salem, they have been laid II
the streets, the first trolley tracks il
the town. and the system is beinl
pushed to meet the tracks at Penns
vile. It will probably be severa
weeks before it will be possible L
run cars to Salem and even ther
there will have to be a break at thu
Penn's Neck bridge. which must b.
rebuilt before 1t will be strong enough
TO sustain a loaded trolley car.
Will be necessary to transfer passen
gers across the bridge until contem
plated work can be gotten under way
THIS bridge has presented one o
the serious obstacles TO the immediat
dirDot connection between the pow
der towns and the county seat. Tn
county and the trolley compan.
have agreed to share the cost Of re
building this span, and the RESPECTIVE
officials had gone so far as to approx
plans for the new structure. but tn
bids xere were far above those fig
urcd upon, due, the contractors ex
planned, to the stiff advance in struc
sFal 07eel work of all descriptions
Where the original estimate Of the en-
Einasrs was $4,000 the actual bid
his around the $4,000 mark. Neithe
ths trolley company nor the count
Deems to want to spend that muc
snoney for tho bridge just at this time
The matter is held under considera
ton The speedy building OF tn
bridge is urgent for the successfu
operation Of the trolley Nne, some q
she officials figure that they may b
able to save a few thousand dollar
~ rostponing the awards Of the cor
trants until next spring. when the
hope there may be reduction in tn
ost OF structural steel.
Power from Wilmington.
In the meantime. work is bein