. Electric railway journal . tions ofthe Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Central Railroad of New York and the Lehigh ValleyRailroad, as well as the City Hall. The Market Street lines furnished service from Jer-sey City on the east to and through the city of Newarkto the Oranges (East Orange, Orange, West Orangeand South Orange), to Irvington, Hilton and Spring-field, besides operating through the large industrialterritory along the Passaic River and passing the Penn-sylvania Railroad station, the Court House and alsovarious amusement parks lying west of Broad andMarket Streets. Wh
. Electric railway journal . tions ofthe Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, the Central Railroad of New York and the Lehigh ValleyRailroad, as well as the City Hall. The Market Street lines furnished service from Jer-sey City on the east to and through the city of Newarkto the Oranges (East Orange, Orange, West Orangeand South Orange), to Irvington, Hilton and Spring-field, besides operating through the large industrialterritory along the Passaic River and passing the Penn-sylvania Railroad station, the Court House and alsovarious amusement parks lying west of Broad andMarket Streets. While the relief of the congestion described above,which was encountered at Broad and Market Streetsand to a less degree at other points in the business dis-trict of Newark, was, of course, the primary considera-tion in the development of the rerouteing plans, theterminal building itself had also for its object the hous-ing of the home offices of Public Service Corpora-tion of New Jersey, including the electric and gas de-. PUBLIC SERVICE RAILWAY REROUTEING VIEW FROM REAR OF TERMINAL ELEVATED FLOOR LOOKING TOWARD MULBERRY STREET July 29, 1916] ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL 175 partments, as well as the railway, and, in addition, itprovided a station for the heart of the Essex division,especially for those lines of a suburban or interurbancharacter. Of necessity, the terminal had to be locatedclose to the center of the city so that passengers mightreach their destinations as conveniently as under theold operation. The site selected fits the conditions ad-mirably, being but 975 ft. from Broad and MarketStreets, and covering the entire space between ParkPlace (which is only 200 ft. across a park from BroadStreet) and Mulberry Street, to which street weretransferred many of the lines which formerly operatedon Broad Street. The location is between the Hud-son & Manhattan tube station and the City Hall, andis likewise about equally distant from the Pennsyl- (g) Transfer of suburban or inter
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