The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-01-08
RAPID TRANSIT.
Dissolution of the Last Injunction Against
the Elevated Railroad.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
Mr. Cyrus W. Field on 0ytrcrowded Cars and
Cheap Fares

Elevated halfway. was nlsny eiateu Jes'oi""y' az"
other for rapid transit, he exclaimed as he
showed The writer the notice OF the removal OF the IN
junction granted some time ago favor OF the Pacific
Hotel In Greenwich street.
"rhis the last injunction against rapid transit !"
Mr.. Field remarked sand no legal impeachment is now
IN our way throughout the entire city,"
~ have just given orders said Colonel Pelton, man
ager OF the road who had just concluded a CONFER
ence with Mr.. Field, ito put in the foundations IN
front Of the hotel directly"
Mr.. Field consented give all the Information
which he had in reference 10 the future prospects
and management of the Third and Ninth avenue
roads. He pretaced his statements by an emphatic
denial OF the complaint OF a workingman in tho
HERALD that the laborers employed on the road had
not been paid for long Mr. Field positively
declared that all tho men employed had been paid
thcr full wages up 40 the last moment" Said he-
ave have the money ready, and it would certainly
not DO IN our interest TO delay the payment"
ovERcRowDISG.
care the seats,on your Third avenue line to be par
titionod Off to prevent overcrowding, Mr.. Fied2"
II cannot tell as yet" Mr. Field responded, ''for
these are matters detail. Enough that We arc de-
termped adopt tho very best cars and locomotives
which can be invented TO make the road great pop
ular success We have offered prize OF ST. 600 Tor
the best design of locomotive ana 5000 for the best
three eminent bridge builders, and road nothing
but an iron bridge and of the chief engineers OF the
Erie Pennsylvania and New York Central as well as
the chief government engineer of Great Britain, for
our proposed structure as being the very best that
could possibly be invented tor tho purposes OF q
great popular rapid transit road. and, OF course We
mean to make the cars equally satisfactory. NO de-
sign, however has as yet been adopted"
sWno will decide upon this question:"
"rhe Board Of Directors, composed of thirteen
gentlemen all of whom ain sure have the success OF
the enterprise greatly at heart Will decide these mat
tiers by vote In regard the arrangement of seats
my idea s that the Is better than the Ion
giludinal--better for egress and ngress; but you
know 1t isn't popular in this country
.Will you allow passengers to staEd!'
"phere will BIZ necessity Tor II, Tor we shall run
trains and cars enough fully meet the demands OF
the traffic. You see, with our doIbe track road wo
shall be able 10 run trains OF I'VE cars each every
minute II necessary, each holding omlorLaoly
sixty persons This would make 800 passengers every
minute, while the Third avenue horse cars are only
started every fortyave seconds. with such carry
ing capacity there will DO no earthly necessity
for any overcrowdng."
.But would It be better 10 adopt rule that no
passengers shall be taken alter the cars are ia ~
"Well nrr inexorabe rule like this might give rise
20 much dissatisfaction. Suppose gentleman and
his vile waiting on stormy, bad night TO get on
u car The co Is room tor one but not for two Would
II not be ard 10 expect them 10 separatelhe iaay
taking the first tram and the gentleman the second
compel them both to wait Tor the secondly We
have been trying hard as possible TO carry out The
RUE on tho Ninth avenue road, and l myself
shut out only other day because the train full
This Is quito frequent occurrence on that road be-
cause we have no double track there but with our
double ira ok the Third avenue road there will DO
necessity for either shutting out anybody or car
rying any person, with rare exceptions Standing"
CHEAP CARS AND FARES.
"And how about the running OF the commission or
Ave cent c,rst'
sYou know already what the law requires to
do-namely to these cars from five 10 ha-past
seven A. NJ and five 10 seven +. ii. But my idea
would be to at least enc OF the cheap cars with
every train. During the above named hours wo might
run general or ten cent, car 10 every two cheap
cars and dulng the remainder OF the time We might
reverse tins ratio, carrying one cheap, or i've
cent car, to every two general or ten CENT cars. OF
course these Will be matter OF experiment, but the
HERALD may rest assured tlfat We all appreciate The
great necessity OF making our road popular oue.'
s.Is the Iaro OF leen cents TO the Harlem River
high one, considering that the horse cars Will carry
Tor SIX cents"
expect to have dinner ut Deimonico's as cneaply
III "A ten cent coffee and CAKE saloon. You must look
superiority OF comfort aud speed and tho
OF tine. The horse cars VIII take you to tho
Harlem River in one hour and forty minutes, and sub
5ect you TO the most wretched dlscomlorts. We
shall take you in less than hall that time in
cars that not crowded, that arc clearly
and thoroughly comfortable. Is the superiority
that servlc, worth nothing2 Look ut the
saving OF limo. Four hundred and llty thousand
passen gers ride the horse cars every day. ca!cu
late that rough average the rapid transit roads
viii daily each passenger ut least half an hour IN
time Here you have saving OF 10000 hours per
day-225, 000 valuable hours, to be spent either
BUSINESS leisure or amusement, ana certainly AN i'm.
portaut item In the economy OF great CITY like New
York"
OPENING THE THIRD AVENUE ROAD.
"When win your east sue road probably DO opened
.Thc first section be opened will DO that from the
Battery to Chatham square. This We hope 10 nave
ready III sixty days. say, by the 5lh or 10th oil
March. The next section TO be opened will be TO tho
Cooper Institute and then to the Grand Central Depot
BY the lst OF May-provded that the weather remains
favorabiewe hope TO be running trains to the Grand
Central DepoI, aud soon after TO tho PARK Before
the year 1878 Is over shall have trains
ning TO the Harlem R.ver.'
''And as TO the running tinoY"
'You cannot al present reach the Grand Central
Depot from the Battery ia less than tty minutes aud
the Park in less than an hour. Well, sec reason
why should not carry passengers to the
Grand Central Depot from The Battery from four
teen to sixteen minutes, aud 10 the Park Ia twenty
minutes My idea IS 10 let no train eiop AT every
station, but let different trains make different stops
Tram No l. Tor nstancc, should stop at stations Nos.
8, ., and SO on, ana train No = at stations Nos 2
4, q, and InN arrangement would greatly
every minute or two as We PROBABLY shalt, NOBODY
would he inconvebienced by being compelled to wait
dong Tor tram"
..Within Two months the double track win be com
pelod 70 Eighty first street, aud then you may aao
say that the Old part OF the be entirely
built rho new part down az lhe Battery ana beyond
street. Is iuCa stronger than the OH,
nrd TO euuoe us to carry heavier eaglncs and more
each the OLD portion OF The road VIII DO
brought up to our present standard of strength"
HOIST By THEIR OWN PICARD.
ssThc horse car companies presume, may be re-
garded assnully deieatodT
al hope 30. They have brought 1t on themselves.
They rendered their roads intolerablo 10 tho pubic
and refused TO supply remcay why, they could
oave built these roads themselves. Last summer,
when took hold ol this enterprise, proposed 10
them TO Jon Us building The elevated road anu 10
pntor inlo an arrangement which would have been
most COMPONENT 10 the puDc, ~ which ceraln TICK
RIA ts ued should DO good Don Cr the horse aud
The elevated. But they would have nothing to do
with any project looking 10 the relief OF the people
VII had been crying out for rapid transit for all these
ycars Thcy have brought this On themselves"
III suppose you Will run night trains on inc Third
avenuo llnoy" :. .
..Oh, Just give US The passengers 10 carry Mr.
Field excla med. cncrgctcaliy, land there VIII be no
bic about cars, cither day OF night II would DO
,ucldal policy the part OF The company 10 reject
INV norton OF the vast trallu which Will ofer tseif
m that i'm IN cnso line Tue road Will be p0pu
ar principles The company only wants Atari diyldend
M its capital understand that the Third
Avenue road last year paId eleven per cent ON Its
took and u BONUS of $300,0C0 or niteen per cent
q orc. 10 its bonahoders making p.ont oil twenty.
* per cent. And this on Their w1tcrcd capital, VI
III nm, insured not more than 100000 VAS