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A25 Tha H.rold-Newi, Tuesday, March 7, 1972 100th Anniversary The trolleys scared the horses .1 DnJ of the On of the 1860s. first lunon 'i stores. It also took many riders to Palisades Amusement Park. Connecting with the Hudson River Line was another express line that started at the Broadway Bridge in East Paterson and ran to Suffern. Both the street cars, even the "HinkyDlnks" an the electric trolleys were heated, the former by wood or coal stoves, the latter by electric heaters.

The "Hinky-Dinks" were small street cars that ran in some towns on lines that had only one car and at most two pair of horses. of way and across, Its own bridges. It had the most attractive of all the trolley rides, passing the historic Areola Dam and windmill and speeding through the lush farmlands and woodlands In Bergen County. North Jerseyans took It and the Hudson River ferry to get to the Polo Grounds and the-Yankee Stadium, to meet or board the Albany Day Line and Night Line steamers, to take a Coney Island sail from 125th Street and to go shopping In the big New York In 1890-91, when riders from Passaic to Paterson reached Lakeview on the electric trolleys after a then-fast trip through Passaic and Acquackanonk, they would forced to transfer there to horse-drawn street cars for the remainder of the trip. This situation lasted about two years.

Then the Paterson line was electrified and the Hobart company absorbed the Passaic, Clifton, Garfield line. During the peak of the trolley era; there were five main jl wjitury New Jersey had its first street cars. They had caused little excitement, thf lew running being Just overgrown horse carriages operating on wooden rails to avoid those bumpy, rutty main streets. But the last electric trolley! That stirred the Imagination as nothing had since the coming of the railroads. It was on July 28, 1880 that the Passaic, Garfield and Clifton Electric Railway Co.

be? gan operating In Passaic the first electric street cars In all of New Jersey. At first, It had three cars. The company's name was not accurate at first, since the Bergen County Board of Freeholders would not allow the firm to use the Wall Street County Bridge into Garfield and the line did not yet enter Clifton. The fare was 5 cents from the Harrison Street terminus on Main Avenue to the Garfield bridge, the rails being on Main Avenue and Passaic Market Street, Paterson, from the Erie Railroad to Spruce Street. In addition to carrying passengers, the line also loaned its tracks to move railroad engines and passenger cars manufactured in Paterson plants to the Erie Railroad yards.

The first Paterson-to-Pas-salc street cat line was built In 1868 by the Paterson and Passaic Horse Railroad Co. It ran between the Erie stations in the two cities and charged an 8-cent fare. It went bank-. rupt in 1873 during the panic of that year. However, the company later was reorganized as the Paterson and Pas- saic Railroad.

The new firm was later absorbed with other lines into the Paterson Railway In which Garret A. Hobart was the moving spirit. Hobart and his associates reportedly paid (1,000,000 a huge sum in those days for the Paterson horse car line. Other mergers followed In the 1880s, which resulted In longer routes. Then came the electric trolley, which quickly replaced the horse-drawn street cars, even though some companies made the change reluctantly.

Fast trolley on Paterson-Newark run in Delawanna section of Clifton. lines: the Main Line from Paterson to Newark, the White Line, Paterson to Hoboken; the Red Linet Paterson to Hackensack; the Hudson River Line, Paterson to the 125th Street Ferry In Edgewater, and the Suffern Line, East Paterson to Suffern. The Red and White Lines were so called because of the color of their trolleys. The Hudson River Line, from 1908 to 1938, was one of the most popular of all trolley lines in the East. It was profitable for its original owners and for Public Service which purchased it.

Much of this "high-speefi" line ran in Bergen County along its own right We Join With' You to Celebrate Youur HMfch ANNIVERSARY Replica of Holland's Sub Housed at Paterson Museum Km MM We've keen servma our Street. More than persons paid fares that first day a Saturday and there were throngs of riders the next day also. There were the usual Inaugural ceremonies. Among the notables present were Thomas R. Watson, city council president and later Passaic city clerk; Police Chief William Hendry, Recorder Richard Morrell and Councilmen W.

H. Lord, Chris Huber and Edward Hogan. Power for the trolleys came from the Harrison Street powerhouse of the Passaic Electric Light, Heat and Power Co. The cars used a 500-volt direct current. The early days of the line were not uneventful.

Horses panicked at the sight of the horseless vehicles and operators often had to get off to YOU ONLY DO IT ONCE DO IT BEST ALUAUNUf.l SIDING 3500 ALUMINUM SIDING JOBS IN PAST 18 YEARS customers withibe BEST SINCE 1920 I N- PATERSON The Pater-son Museum is in possession of the bulk of John P. Holland's papers, correspondence, pencil sketches, blueprints and pictures connected with the development of his' submarine. The museum also has the original hull of the first submarine, which had been" removed from the bottom of the Passaic River by eight engineering students In, 1927. Another exhibit piece is a replica, made at the time of the recovery and showing the boat as it actually looked. Records show that Holland was in his submarine when it was first The native-born Irishman had been a teacher in St.

John's School after he came to Paterson In 1873 Historians also relate that Holland first got his inspira tion for the submarine from a Jules Verne novel. Holland's first craft measured 14 feet 6 inches in length. It was 3 feet wide and 2 feet 8 Inches deep. Its weight was 1,400 pounds. His first underwater craft was built in the Albany Street Iron Works in New York City, and the Job wes finished at the Todd Rafferty Shops in Paterson in 1878, after three years' work.

Holland made his first test runs on the Passaic River in 1878, and then let the boat sink to the bottom. He began work on an improved version, which also did not work successfully, and this one was. followed by another, called the Fenian Ram, the one which is on view in Paterson's West Side Park. The sub builder went on constructing underwater craft, each with more improvements as he went along, until finally the U. S.

Navy commissioned the "Holland" in 1900. Vie mush be COMMERCIAL STATIONERY' DRAFTING EQUIPMENT (216 MADISON SC PASSAIC CAU77r-6W4-S WE pEUVER, calm unruly animals, especially those being driven by women. There were also a few derailments when the tracks sank under the heavy weight of the laden trolleys in sections of the streets where city sewers had recently been laid. Former Mayor W. R.

Brown AWNINGS STORM WINDOWS ROOFING HAS HELPED BEAUTIFY THE AREA FOR 18 YEARS was president of the street car company, C. M. Rollins, treasurer, and Richard MorrelL nn secretary. All were directors with Freeholder George V. 1 1 of Acquackanonk (Clifton), Gilbert D.

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