New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-24
BROOKLYN RAPID TRANSIT,
THE KINGS COUNTY ROAD TO OPEN.
OBSTACLES TO AN E,EvArED ROAD IN FuLroN-sr.
OVERCOME. ,e..


OBSTACLES TO AN E,EvArED ROAD IN FuLroN-sr
OVERCOME re
After nearly ten years OF persistent effort, and the
overcoming Of almost innumerable obstacles, rapid
in the chief thorpughfarc OF Brooklyn is at last
m accomplished fact The Kings County Elevated
road is ready for trains 70 begin to run from fuipn
Ferry and the Bridge through Fultonst to Nostrad-
ave. distance OF about three miles. Tho first train
viii start a. a. m. today In few weeks the road
will be extended to the former boundary between
Brooklyn and East New-York at Rockaway ave., fully
FIVE miles from the ferry. Although long delayed I'M
fits construction, this line of elevated road VIII
speedily the chief in the growing city be-
yond the Bridge. 1t seen long since that rapid
transit in Brooklyn follow the lines of travel
which the streetcar routes had predetermined, ana
that II was the inevitable destiny of Fuons to be-
come the main artery. Opposition of all sorts was
encountered the effort TO the right to con-
struct such a road but while the work was delayed,
IT. could not be stopped and at last the time has come
for putting the trains in operation, and hcnceforth
they will run regular schedule time.
When James Howell, now president OF the Bridge,
bee anne Mayor Of Brooklyn, in 1877 one of his hrst
actions was to appoint, under the law then recently
passed. Rapid Transit Commission, TO lay out routes
In such streets deemed desirable TO be used for
,uch purposes. Tho Brooklyn Elevated Railroad CON-
,any has been chartered two years before, to build In
rtan Streets of the main lines OF travel, under the
General Railroad Act and It had gone work without
tie necessity OF getting the consent of property
owners II manifest that 1t could not supply the
rad transit which the growth OF the city enforced tho
ned Of and the Commission laid out routes COW
egne almost the entire city, The chief Of these
In Futon-st, Myrtlc-ave, Broadway, Courtst. and
Frnklln-ave. No company willing to take up
fhework at first 1t required to get the consent
Of !, majority of the prUperty-owners In any street
befre the work could begin. but finally, in the win
ter Of 1s7s-'79, the Kings County Elevated Rail
way Company formed Judge Bond, formerly
Of Colorado and now active in the iron interests in the
sout of the principal promoters, and he in.
teresed number of Boston aid Brooklyn capitalists
In the scheme. IT TO be called the Bond road,
Just a the Brooklyn Company was known as the
Bruf1 lad, from w. Fonaine Bru who was Interested
in It. owing to the many legal delays the Brooklyn
Elevata Company got far ahead OF the Kings county
COMPANY and opened its road five years ago. and even
the Unhn Company, organized two years ago, and
which sought to smpplant the Kings County Company
IN Fultotst, has succeeded In opening branch In
Nyrte-av, while Fulton-st. has waited for its road
The structure Of the new road IS unique In elevated
systems u Is built with three longitudinal Orders
instead Of our and the result is that IT more easy
riding on hat accoInt 1t is also constructed OF oren
lattice workand has airy and graceful appearance
which, howeer, does not prevent its being more than
strong enouh to carry the load to- be put upon 1t.
Tho peculiar curves of FultoDst. and the angles at
which streets meet 1t made It necessary to have
the transverse girdes of especial shapes and greatly
added TO the est Of the structure No two grders In
the first two niles of the road are exactly alike.
in the sectol of the road already completed there
dozen stations, at the following points, starting
from Fulton Fery Sands-st for the Bridge, Clarkst
uptown and Ilary-st downtown, Court-st (up
town. and Westinghouse. downtown, boerum place
uptown and JS-st (downtowns Elm place (up
town and Dufildst (downtown), Flatbush-ave,
lafayette Cuaberand-st, Vanderbilt ave-, Grand
ave, Franklln-ave and Nostrand-ave. beyond the
latter point there VII be five stations when the road is
built The average distance between stations is &
quarter Of mile.
The stations little smaller than in this city,
but are large enough for practical Trains will
run alternately TO til Ferry and to the Bridge, the
former carrying gnas and the latter white
The road Is equipped Nth thirty locomotives and 100
Company and contain he latest ideas in cOnstruc
ton, and well lightd and ventilated. Every pos
slbe precaution TO Teer the operation of The road
safe and speedy has ban taken by General Manager
Gounde, who took to Brooklyn the experience he
gained under Colonel Rln on the Manhattan roads
In this city. The time etween the Bridge and Nos
trandave. Will be about Fenfy minutes, and the trains
70 Will be upon short eadway I'm the busy hours.
T1he fare is five cents. iuring the remainder of the
week, In order to ACCOMMODATE people going TO the
circus, shuttle trains will DO between NosraDd
and Sumner ayes, on the single track which is all
that has been completed ID that part Of the street.