The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1879-01-14

would probably discontinue the running Of trains
from Franklin square. With regard to the forty-sec
ond street trains that matter had been discussed again
and again. 1t was difficult to arrive at quite satisfac
tory conclusion in reference thereto The idea now
was to try the experiment. OF transfer at
street.
Mr.. Kicker then referred to the packing of the
trains with passengers in the morning aud evening"
and said as an illustration that all their trains dur
ing these hours could be filed at the Hanover square
and Fulton street stations just az fast 1t was pos
sble for the employees to I'LL them.
Mr.. Brewster said that he might mention, al an
illustration OF the difficulty of running trains
frequently that the company had two miles of
rolling stock. and the trouble to take of
that aud be able to run it with security eight and
DIRECTOR DAVID BOWS EXPLAINS
Mr.. David BOWS said that the directors intended
do SO. lie Thought that what they had accomplished
for the public i'll the short space of nine months
something to be wondered at. They were besecched
by the public to open the road to Harlem River and
they had done The doing of that the occasion
of "a great deal of their present trouble. But the
public had told the directors that ii they did open
the road to Harlem River by the 1st of January
the Legislature would be heard from. 1t
was unreasonable to- expect that the pas
sengers could be carried the road, with all the
requisite comforts and conveniences before the line
ready to give it to them. The public had forced
them to open to Harlem River before they quite
ready and these temporary Inconvenience were the
result The directors gave to the consideration of
the management OF the road not only their days but
their nights Also and met Sundays,
anxious they to bring the road to perfection.
He ha % IL he could M AM W IT three
oentlemen who would take all this trouble of his
shonIdcrs so that he MIGHT have no more of IT, The
directors had acted i'm thorough GOOD faith with the
nuhlc and no doubt should be entertained that thoy
xxouId make the road success i'm every particular
VICE PRESIDENT BISHOPS RESPONSE
Vice president Bishop said that he begged to assure
the deleyation and through them the public. that
the directors Thoroughly appreciated the suggestions
that had been made by them II was the intention OF
the Board to make the road success and to accom-
nI,sh that i'm such way that it should be satisfactory
20 the public in all it's details and it was the duty of
the directors to care for the public even il the de-
,nands made we're in the Judgment of the Board,
rather more than reasonable The road was laid out
by their engineers to carry 6OOOO passengers
a day They had been greatly surprised
by the amount of the traffic and as soon
"a il was seen what the traffic was thoy had
their terminal facilities and they were now laying
ont ten termmi on the line Ii this was found to
work then thew could start ten different trains stimuli
taneously along the line When the yard for tho
banking of rolling stock was ready then they would
be able to accumulate cars TO meet the extra travel ON
certain hours of the day 1t was impossible to take
care of two miles of rolling stock ON two or three
small sidinrs When their car depot ut Ninety ghth
street was Completed then the stock could be banked
mn and could be made ready to start right ON ~
oiiickly as was consistent with safety. It was
10 he Remembered that it took ut least sixty day
to get any piece of ironwork from the first moment
that the contractor received the first drawing
All the terminal facilities were now in the
hands OF contractors and when completed, would
he thourht be found very acceptable to the
public. AZ to the heating of the cars of which so