Actions to Stop the Construction of a Trolley Line on Shore Road in 1899 and 1900

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In 1899 and 1900, as companies worked hard to cover the region with trolley tracks to improve mass transit, efforts were underway to develop a trolley line along Shore Road to move thousands of passengers to the recreational center and amusement park on Glen Island. Local homeowners fought the efforts valiantly. A brief article in the March 6, 1900 issue of the New-York Tribune described some of those efforts.

"A BILL MAKING NECESSARY THE CONSENT OF A MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS.

Assemblyman Cooley has introduced a bill to prevent the construction of a trolley road in any part of Pelham Road, in the village of Pelham Manor or the city of New-Rochelle, except with the consent in writing of a majority of the owners of property along the thoroughfare. A similar bill offered last year was adopted in the Assembly and failed in the Senate.

Assemblyman Cooley, it is understood, is acting on behalf of a number of prominent people who live in the road and desire to save it from being destroyed by the construction of a surface railroad. One of the results of the measure, if it be adopted, will be to prevent the New-York, Westchester and Connecticut Traction Company, or P. H. Flynn syndicate, from reaching Glen Island."

Source: A Bill Making Necessary the Consent of a Majority of the Property Owners, New-York Tribune, Mar. 6, 1900, p. 10, col. 2.

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