Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1896 — Freight by Trolley Cars. [ARTICLE]

Freight by Trolley Cars.

A move has been made In Newark, N. J., which Is significant In view of the present changing condition of general freight service. A bread bakery which runs out fifty delivery wagons daily to points wjthin fourteen miles of the city finds that it can do much of Its freight delivery in a simpler and better and cheaper way. Eighteen of Its wagons are sent to Jersey City In the morning, loaded with hot bread, which is delivered to the locked boxes In front of tbs grocery stores before the stores are open. To save a drive of from fourteen to twenty miles a day for each of these wagons, the firm has made a contract with the local electric car company to run trolley freight cars from the bakery to a new delivery' depot In Jersey City. The cars will be run at an hour of the night when they will not Interfere in any way with passenger traffic. If the venture Is successful the firm proposes to run cars to more distant cities. On the other hand, the traction company Is now seeking to make similar contracts with the brewers of the city, who now deliver large quantities of beer in Hudson County and New Y’ork by wagons. It is but natural that the strongest pressure should be brought against this innovation, but under its franchise the company has the right to run freight cars. Should the night trolley freight service become general it will readily be seen what an important modification of city and suburban delivery traffic will follow. They Write Most Letters in English. Two-thirds of all the letters which pass through the postoffices of the world are written by and sent to people who speak English. Diamonds have been found in fifteen or twenty different localities In California. -■ 1 \