New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-01-03
GREAT STREET CAR PLANS.
"A FIvE-CENT FARE 70 ALL PARTS OF TOWN
WHAT THE METROPOLITAN TRACTION COMPANY

WHAT THE METROPOLITAN TRACTION COMPANY
HOPES TO DO IN TIE NEAR FUTURE.
TIE Metropolitan Traction Company, which con-
trolls the Broadway street lines and also many con
Meeting surface railroads is making plans Tor eX-
tensive Improvements In Us service. ard before ohg
a person will be able 10 get from almost any place on
Manhattan Island to almost any other place on II for
five cents. weeks the company obtained
control OF the Belt Line. surrounding the city beow
Fifty nnth-st and crossing town through that street,
This line is essential part of the system which
the company is developing for it gives access to all
ferries and also furnishes opportunity for the bringing
of the cars Of the complnys cr0sstown lines 10 any
desired point along tn" waterfront. Al the east ana
west lines are connected by it, The company has
another plan Of importance Which II Is trying 10 carry
out that for a cable railroad In LcNlngtonave from
Twenty hir,-st. TO the Harlem River. !, will connect
with the Broadway line at Twrntythlrdst, ana cars
will run through from the Battery 20 the Harlem The
Broadway lire is also to be extended from Fitv-nn'h-
st. through Coumbusave. to one hundred and tcnth-St
TIE Metropolitan Traction Company now controls
the following lines: the broadway, the broadway ana
University Place. the broadway and Seventhave, the
Twenty -thirl-s, the Metropolitan Crosstown, from
Grand Street ferry to West Twenty third-s ferry
the Grand Street ferry and Forty-sccond-
st., the Duane and Chambers SITS. the Houston.
West Street and PavOnla Ferry, the Nint|aver 'he
sixtb-avc., and the Belt Line All these lines are
run In harmony with one another and transfers are
given at all connecting points.
Daniel 5. Lamont, In speaking Of the plans OF ue
company YESTERDAY said We have crossown fe'dciS
and reach every ferry that comes to this town
either side. and person who takes one OF our ours
anywhere will be landed almost anywhere else LOT
8 cents. With the Belt Line to connect other lines
we are going to 10 enabled to Improve our service
greatly. We Shall put line at Chambers-st ferry
and ut Desbrosses-st. ferry and strike broadway at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel. IT has hce Impossible ior
anybody to get to the ftnics from the hotel centre
without change Of cars. We are going to avoid mat.
Then we have cars running from Fortysccondst to
Thirty fourhst. down Broadway by the hotels ana
through Fourtconth-st. to Grand-St. ferry The
Bleecker-st. cars connect the brooklyn Bridge and
West Twenty -hird.st ferry passing Fiith-ave. ana
Twenty -thirdst. We have just secured permission
to have line of from Broadway and Fifty-nlnth-
st. through Fifty-nnth-st to Columhusave ana
under the elevated railroad to Observation-Disclosures
st. We shall run a cable line oil the way.
GIN Iexingtcn-ave. we have encountered opposi-
ton. We obtained the consent of property owners
and petitioned the Common Council Tor the right.
The sale OF the franchise was advertised Tor Deem
Der so, but the Third Avenue Railroad 'ohp''"H'
whose line we would parallel, has gone IN inc oo"'
and begun proceedings to try to prevent the SAFE "
The case Is now pending Property owners are
think anxious TO have build the line rather ,l'
the Third-ave people who have Qualiheo thelI''','
to build II they fail in their legal proceedings lot '
reason that people coud get on our car RI any pun.
in Lexington-avc and be cariied to any DINER p'l.
Of the city for single fare. believe trat we s4''"
obtain the franchise. II 50, will PIT cable lH'
from our broadway line. through Iweh'y-''i'u ~,
ana mn Lexington ave- to the Harlem. Then we VIII
run three lines OF in Broadway. one from NV
Battery to Central Park another from the B"''erN u
the Park and on through Fhy-ninth-st. ana ooia'.
fus.aye TO Onehundred and tenthst. ana the thru
M Broadway Twenty-tLirG-st. and LeAihe'ohaNo'
We shall try to have the best possible service lht
ears will run every half mrute will b. long ana
think double -decked, lighted by gas and heatcu Inv
question OF heat is a troublesome one. No nave Ho'
found an entirely satisfactory apparatus p"' are "a
perimentinG. The cable cars VIII be running y,
Apri l. Then no stoves will be needed, ana we VIII
have the summer to get the best Arrangement
think we shall use hot watcr
"We have been delayed by litigation over the Hons
tonst property, where one of our power houses s'u,
and also BY the Carnegie strike We may be oe!a!ed
In carving out our plans in Lexington-ave. There
and to One-hundrcd-and feminist. we shall use caOe
propulsion. Elsewhere Change OF power VIII De
made but the service will be improved as much as
possible on the Belt Line ana the crosstown roads
in the IorS Of the RAPID Transit Commission 1eyoqd
wishing ;nccess Rd ranS s, mere hSu Eo sor much
~ afe ~ business. The company had no Intention of
Scqairins further lines or entering into connection
on Si' the island ana meant to do tcat well. ,.
lamont aid that Tsculoqs stories had Geen
Street railroad syndicate in the 1t had olso been
said that Mr. Whitney and himself were IN hlg T AL
road syndicate, but that not true. Neither MI.
Whitney nor himself owned share OF stock IN any
street railroad company outside OF Ncw-Iork Ihe
EIkins- Widener people had large holdings with them
in the Metropolitan Traction Company, but they wore
not interested with the Elhins people In any OUTSIDE
lines. . c,., 49,.
The machinery IN the power house at Sixth-avc
and Ffcth-st. has been running for TWO days, ana
within ten days will be running by cable In upper
broadway as an experiment Probably before That
time the cable on the uptown circuit, from Thirty
sixth to Fifty ninthst.. will be H. The work at the
power house IS being done by q. W. McNuliy. con-
structng engineer, and F. L. Hart operating engineer.