New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-28
ETEr1rED EOiD "LOOPS.N

H. has long been question OF curious i'Oe'''
among psychologists why the managers OF the
elevated roads cannot see park without III
stantly feeling an oycrpowcrirg desire to build
a loop" in il. II is said that the managers oil
Ike elevated roads may bc seen in Battery Park
fitting about in the gray hours Of early dawn.
stalking out imaginary loops; and during the day
they stand on the platform Of South Ferry station
and gloat over the prospect, with ITS splendid
chances for loops II is alleged further that they
have been seen 10 cast longing eyes across the
porrow s.rip of water TO Governors Island, with
It's uncoualed loop facilities, though tins may he
an eXaqceration But certainly City Hal Park has
not escaped their greedy gaze and one OF their
fondest dreams is OF the time when one OF Their
cherished loops shall cnclrcle this park, around
which the 1hird-avc. trains shall fairy VIM
And as for Central Parll-it makes an elevated
road manager sick 10 look at it in It's wade cN-
panSc and all unloopcd That he is entirely DIS
interested in all Of his loop projects and working
solely for the good Of the people, the elevated man
agrr is ever free 10 maintain Loops VIII iaclll-
tate the haunting of trains and if he could but put
one little extra loop in Battery Park trains would
snccd M SiXth-avc so thick and fast that they
couldn't lie counted. But there has long been
a suspicion abroad that perhaps he Is not so dis
interested in the matter as he prctcnds, and that
il is the chcapncss at which parks come, II they
come at all, which attracts him. correspondent
calls our attention TO the splendid chances for
loops additional tracks, and so forth, AT the other
end Of the line, at nc-hundrcd-and-iity-iiit
and Eighth-avc ANA how much IT would assist
the moving Of trains especially during the busy
hours. if there were better facilities there.
At Observation-Disclosures id can truly be
said 10 the esteemed elevated managers that here,
40 pcnt-up Battery contracts your powers.
But the whole bouEdlcss ncighboghood Is yours
That is it. is theirs if they want to buy itthcre is
no park to be begged Baseball and athletic asso-
cations find no difficulty in obtaining all A'c
ruom they want for their widest throws and long
est runs But the elevated road confines itself to
as crowded quarters as il is compelled to occupy
at the battery and that there is an urgent demand
for "A loop or for more tracks or for something
any one can see for himself who will take the
trouble to 20 to Onc-hundrcd and-ifty-fffthst. III
the ncighbOrhOod Of o'clock. The tram rolls
along deliberately at a varying number of minutes
behind schedule time till it passes Oncthundrcd-
and forty.ffth-st. II is slow. bat it keeps moving
most Of the time. unless it. turns out to let one OF
the elevated roads most amusing frauds an " cX-
press" train, 20 past, anti 1t comes 10 ohe-
hundred and fifty -thIdSt., OF thcreabouts, when
great silence Gcsccnds upon everything. and tile
train pauses. The fireman pulls ms cap down over
his eyes, sticks his feet out OF the trent window
OF the cab and goes 10 sleep. The engineer leans
back clcyatcs his feet the lever OF the throttle
valve and SHORES clusiyry. The conductors come
into the cars sink into vacant seats and are also
soon in drcamland. The passengers swear, each
after his kind bat they cannot get out and walk to
the station. After from five 10 twenty minutes Of
this kind of relaxation, everybody wakes up. the
train clceps past the signal and up 10 the plat
FORM and the passengers get out and find that
connecting trains have gone or they walk to their
homes and find that dinner is cold. OF course
trains have not been going out with much, if
any, greater rapidity than they have been going
in, which, also OF course. makes them scarcer
down town, and helps that lack Of trains which
the DELIGHTFULLY."- ingenious managers would have
us believe comes wholly from the absurd and
unjus. refusal of the people to let them build
loop at the Battery
As we intimated, the most noticeable thing at
Ore Observation-Disclosures. it elbow room, and
by becoming possessed OF little of ii the company
could easily prevent any delay there, and thus
be able 20 ask with better grace for concessions at
the Battery.