. Electric railway journal . s about12,000 men. Its location isindicated in the lower right-hand corner of the accompanying map as theterminus of a new extension to the existing linesof the Public Service Railway. Two other impor-tant shipyards are those of the Foundation Com-pany and the Federal Shipbuilding Corporation,both located on the narrow tongue of land be-tween the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers at thehead of Newark Bay. These plants are near the LincolnHighway over which the railway companys double-track line to Jersey City passes. More than two-thirdsof the employees of the Submarin
. Electric railway journal . s about12,000 men. Its location isindicated in the lower right-hand corner of the accompanying map as theterminus of a new extension to the existing linesof the Public Service Railway. Two other impor-tant shipyards are those of the Foundation Com-pany and the Federal Shipbuilding Corporation,both located on the narrow tongue of land be-tween the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers at thehead of Newark Bay. These plants are near the LincolnHighway over which the railway companys double-track line to Jersey City passes. More than two-thirdsof the employees of the Submarine Boat Corporationlive either in New York or at some other place east ofthe Hudson River. The same is true of about 85 percent of the employees of the other two shipbuildingcompanies. The employees of these companies arecarried eastward over the Lincoln Highway and aredelivered either to the nearest terminals of the Hudson& Manhattan Railroad or to the ferries from whichthey are distributed to various points in Manhattan. PIG. 1—MAP OF NEWARK AND VICINITY and the other boroughs of the City of New York. Aswas noted before, no direct means of local transporta-tion was at first available to the employees of theSubmarine Boat Corporation, and until recently theirtransportation either directly to their homes or to theNewark terminal of the Hudson & Manhattan Railroad,has been dependent upon workmens trains operated overan extension of the Central Railroad of New Jersey,buses operated by the Public Service Railway, privatejitneys and a ferry operated in the morning and evening between the shipyarddocks and New the other two ship-yards are located near anexisting street railwayline, the loading of the4500 employees of theFoundation Company andthe 7500 employees of theFederal Shipbuilding Cor-poration in the open streetwas, as might be expected,a difficult problem involv-ing much confusion anddelay to the regular traf-fic. The problem of fur-nishing transportation tothese
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