The New York herald., 1878-11-01
RAPID TRANSIT ISSUES.

THE IMPORTANT QUESTION OF FARES TO HAIR
LEM-CoNTINUED COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE
THIRD AVENUE ELEVATED RoAD-DxMAND
FOR TIE SECOND AVENUE LINE.
WIN the New York Elevated Railroad raise its fare
to Hariemf Is now one OF the most importan ques.
sions ths hundreds OF thousands who intend 10
avail shemselvs OF the faculties Of rapid transit
appears from statement made yesterday By Mr.
James A. Cowng, secretary and treasurer, that at the
next meeting OF tho Board OF Directors tho question
II 70 be decided Il 10 said that sharp dlersuc OF
opinion exist In the Board, while desire that
the fare be kept At ten and Eve respectively,
others strenuousy urge that the fu limit OF Law,
namely fifteen and seven cents, be charged. Mr.
Cowng, who has been with tho road from its incep.
tiop, and practical OF the req uroents
OF tho public Is decided In his advocacy OF leaving
the and ave csuss and several OF the d.
rectors have already been won over by him 10 that
position. It is considered certain tnat the receipts OF
company would greatly fall or II tho faro wore 70
be increased TO fftesn cents, that such policy
would generally be regarded suicidal ths inter.
ess OF the company ITSELF II has already been re-
peatedly stated, on good authority, that the New
York Elevated road--both east side and west side
branchcs-cost LILLE more lhan halt az much a. The
MetroDonlan road, and everybody complains that IL
with in uc,ent force Of ticket agents. brake
men, &c, IN order that the running expenses be
cut down 10 the last cent Az the the road
charges the same iares as tho Metropolitan road which
service for their money, under all these crcum.
s,ances It would be regarded outrage BY pubc
II the Now York Elevated road should sIll iurther
raise It's already high fares.
i#ffH VENTILATION rHK CARS.
A There 10 Id uch complaint Enong the patrons of tho
east side road at tho lack OF ventilation 10 tho cars
paritcuxry during the 'tv0 cent hours." wnen they
are crowded uS w.a h rosxns people ana wnon az ne
mosphere becomes literally poisonous. Frequently
tue Conductors are requested by the passengers 10
open tness top transoms and on tho plea OF being
bosy with the collection OF tickets they invariably re-
fuse TO need these requests In the presence tho
writo three sucn requests wore ads TO cepauctor
on Wednesday evening, and he turned deaf car TO
tho sntreatiss of the passengers. Upon inquiry az
the company's Office yesterday IL was found mat no
Instructions had been gwen this point, winch is
esseptal to the c0mioTI ot ABOUT thirty
thousand passcn gers-for OF the sixty thousand
daily patrons OF tho Third avenue road
about halt ride during the .shve cent hours.o
While tno Metropolitan road stations the
Third avenue has NO loss than nineteen, aud while
tho trains on ths nrst mako Iheir trips twenty
minutes, ana often In eighteen or nineteen, the latter
vary from twenty (which IS tho schedule timel
10 thIrtytnIse or thirty Ave minutes winch Is scme
times taken by tho commission trains running up
sake OF securing rapid tho east side as
well as to relieve The terrible overcrowding Third
serious accidon-lhe Second avenue line snould NJ
now taken in hand. IL Ii the opinion of sxpsrts
that this should be teree track road that express
trains could be run. S.t
SLOW PROGRESS ~ CHATHAM STREET
Tho iron columns arc now oeing slowly erected In
Chatham street, and very lew men have becn put 10
WORK TO construct this branch OF the road IL
Is now almost certain that tbis exceedingly
short branch will not bc opened wuhn me
first October l. then November !, aud, later on lie.
csmper Not u stroke OF work has Dosn done upon
inc terminus station a. fryon square. The plans
tho south iorry terminus station should nave boon
prepared six months ago, and yet .ney were only
two weeks ago submitted TO ths PARK Com tn isson.
ors for their approval Anything more
or more utterly inadequate for the needs Of the public
tnan the miserable c0pditon of this important ter
mnal station has probably not been known
IN the sntire history OF railroads, anu OF the
managers themselves admit that 10 simply disgrace.
fu. fnc work on the upper part Of the road. be-
tween Eighty fourth anu l04h streets, Is going on
with the dgnined sowncss characteristic of CON-
construction OF the sixth avenue road tremendoas
force oil men was employed at night In addition 70
tue regular day gangs, the Nov York Elevated
Company has been too economical TO employ q
single iaborer Al night to finish an i'm portsot
stntion or hurry on such urgently needed work as
Tor instance, the Chatham street branch. Tho duty
OF calling out the stations 10 entirely neasced
on many trains Of the Third avenue road. A de-
scription of an invention whicn the Metropolitan
company will probabIy adopt ior this purpose has
already Doen published In tue HERALD. Yesterday the
nvonior Mr. Bulcner gave an exemption al tho olco
OF the company whose scientific experts will shortly
pass upon ts merits.
.eW ssl UPTOWN IMPROVEMENTS at.#r
In consequence oi the building of tho Metropolitan
Railway to Eightythird street there has been great
acivny OF Iato near the line OF the road above the
Park, suoh real estate judges as Mayor Ely have
that this west side rogen above the Park now lilto
more than q wilderness, wiii soon bc But up with
spcct the Metropolitan ROAD has already created q
demand which seems TO bo Increasing every day and
promises 70 revoiutonize the upper part OF she long
neglected vest sdc OF ths city, a.d II 10 loudly hailed
by uptown residents and ali search Of low priced
houses Ia thesc hard times rs an Immense boon 20
the metropolis. .H