New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-17
TRAINS TO sIXTY-sEyENTH-sT

LARGE NUMBERS OF PASSENGERS on THE NEW
EAsT-sIDE TRAIEs-PLANs OF THE COMPANY.
Rapid transit on the east side is now fact
to sixty-seveDthst, which makes Of about five
miles and quarter from south Ferry, and about four
miles and half from the City Hall At $50 yesterday
morning trains began running above FOrtysecond-st.
to the terminus which opposite the depot OF the
Third Avenue Horse Railroad Company. Uptown resi-
dents welcomed the new in eastside travel by ber
ally patrOnizng the morning trains. At Sixty seventh
st. the engines changed from end to end Of incOm
ing trains with the facility witnessed the Metro
politan Elevated Road at the Central Park terminus
Starting with fair number Of passengers at Sixty
seventhst, each Third Avenue train picked up little
knot OF passengers at the stations in Fftynnth-st
(he Central Park statiOD), Fiythird, Forty
and Forty secOnd-sts This last station in Third-ave
was not completed on the down track when through
trans began running in the morning The stations at
Houston-sL, in the BOwery, and at Chathau-square
were opened yesterday. Trains can now be taken OF
every station on the line to sixtysevenths except
Eighteenth-st.
In the middle OF the Gay there was about much
business done by the through trains those running
TO the Forty-second Street Depot During commission
hours" from to in the evening, when the fare is
only cents the trains crowded the extension Of
the road for twenty-five blocks "a mile and quarter
affOrding a convenient cent rapid transit
ride 70 every eastside resident below Harlem.
To distinguish Grand Central Depot trains from the
the engine flies green Gag. Through trains made
ND Of three cars The statOnmsster cautions passen
gers by crying at the arrival Of each train For all
stations" or Only to Grand Central Depot" During
the hours when travel Is greatest the road is worked to
its utmost capacity with present facilities for starting
trains Half Of the trains 10 the Grand Central De-
Dot An interval Of two and one-hah minutes
separates Grand Central and through trains.
This gives train every five minutes for
the Grand Central Depot and slxty-seventh-st.
But below the depot Fortysecondst aud Thirdave.
both kinds Of trains practicable and make two and
half minutes service.
BENJAMIN Brewster. Of the most active members Of
the Board Of Directors Of the NewYork Elevated Rail-
way who supervision Of the practical working Of the
road, said yesterday:
81 know that the public Is impatient Of delay in the
completion, OF the eastde road but It does not fully
understand the difficulties under which labor, the
extent of our efforts to forward the work II is
kind Of enterprise all difficulties could not be Oreseen.
We ind that large share o. the trains must be operated
from above south Ferry. IL is physically impossible 10
make np trains there faster than IN two and half
minutes We are sending trains out OF tine South
Ferry Depot that rate but t doesn't meet the exgeD-
c,s Of travel during the evening nours nothing less
fbon donDle tins service WILL Trains must De dispatched
en- minute headway and ~ do this we are preparing 70
buId spur FranklnSquare, from Whch pOlnt Trains
will be dispatched just as rapidly as from
10 have trains start empty from Frankiin-square 70