New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-28
IT'S MISTAKE ADMITTED.
THE BROOKLYN ELEVATED ROAD GOES
PACK TO THE OLD METHOD OF
RUNNING TRAINS.
SERIOUS TROUBLE CAUSED ny TRYING TO BRING
TOO MANY PASSENGERS TO THE BRIpGE-
WAITING ANXIorsrY FOR TIE
COMPLETION OF THE NEW
BRIDGE STATION

BRIDGE STATION
At the time the Brooklyn Elevated Rail-
road Company decided to It's Ridge
wood and Myrtle-ave. trains to the Bridge.
Instead OF Fulton Ferry. The Tribune ex-
pressed the fear that the change would cause n
congestion OF travel az the Bridge and produce
trouble. SONY weeks after the change had been
made 1t pointed out the resulting difficulties and
showed ,hen necessity cf returning to the former
system. The truth has now been forced on the
minds Of the cornpanys officials. and last week they
decided to go back to the old method OF running
trains - all the Rilgewooc trains are now run
t. the ferry ana passengers by them going directly
=, the Bridge or 20 the city Hail or wishing 10
take the Tirh-ave. line hav" 10 transfer at
the Navy-st Stallion Of course those intending to
take the Bridge 10 Nev-York can 30 - by re-
naming OF the ferry trains. leaving them at
Washlngipn-st. and Nslki-g through the gallery
connecting with the I5riig. station. which was built
when the road hrst pa, In operation. This
means walk 81 block AMI haf but really Il
Is no, great de, further than Rtlge passengers
coming down by the Kings county Elevated have
- - - reach m" Bridge cars
II Is unqnesiionatly wise thing FOR the elevated
road ~ acknop ledge that ~ made mistake and go
back 60 the Old system. A. all trains hav" - rnn
Int, The bridge station and then out again over
m" same tracks. II l. easy to 80 ihai small in
croa.. IN the number Of trains would be source
In the week q, see the old s@ns In the old places
This SIDE for East New-York' and This Side for
FInh-avc." End ~ mention of the Rldgewood
trains :
An officer of the company said when asked nbou:
the chang. We'll. ~. found that the arrange
II ont vas not giving satisfnct on and - W. gave
Il ny The iact H. "" hay" no, room o hanfl"
orr trains At present We thought however. that
,he n.W bridge station would be completed sooner
and our new arrangement % running trains adopted
and We wanted to get The p"opl" educated boy means
- trans running TO the Bridge At least We ex-
pec'e1 20 ee' them accustomed 10 H. When The
Bridge station - completed shall run around
1t 10y means 81 loop iischarging passen-
gers at n" Sanls-st "nl ana loading again NJ the
iIIghsi end. then our trains VIII run ont at High
az and connect with the In" In Adam~-st ahOy.
that point Wien can 10 that Their wifi be no
dlnicilfv in running trains on one minutes head
way and tt.r' Viii BE- no changing % engines ana
running out on the sam" tracks the trains 90 In on.
The contracts are made for that work. but Of
course the time when We can 10 1t depends on the
work done by The bridgr people When ihey are
80 run trains In and out at that poin. while
our present station - removed and the road built
through 10 Fuon-st When all the work Is COIN
p.eed shall have excellent connections with me
Bridge ana De able to carry passengers with ease
/. - Rarton genera manager OF the BROOKLYN
elevated road. was asked whether the company con
temPaied running ~ trans ny e,ectiicV ne re-
piled YES that matter j. under considerations ana
presume we shall come t. that by-lnd- 3y Snch a
change. though. would Involve considriaDIe q.
penditure OF money. not only In the new equipment
For instance have nlnety-iiye engines. which
would become useless In that case But the tendency
OF things t. toward the usc OF electricity. and ex-
pect We shall adopt IT. 10 not believe we shall use
the trolley system hut electric motors rather though
am not prepared to say anything definitely on tina;
point \ high speed can be attained 10y that means,
and there would be smoke or clnders We coul1
run trains AT twenty miles an hour or even more.
suppose. Their" il also possibility mat W. snail
Introduce elevators AT our principal stations =, b."
run hv electricity. Then. of course, We shall hght
the stations with electric lights. am 'red Of the
Kerosene lamps. can assure You. ana am gi0d 10
say that this improvement VIII not walt for the
others In fact expect that electric lights VIII be
supplied a the stations In the next few months.
II is n matter OF record that the BROOKLYN Elc-
stations With electricity for five six years, but
it's patrons have thus far looked In vain Cor the
first step TO be taken toward doing away with the
oil lamps that have been In Qse at all stations.
large and small since the road was opened. II
/ is encouraging to hear from high official that
something I'm this direction ~ soon TO be done.
Tho other taked-of improvements VIII also be well
coined
The Kings County road il considering the OF
electricity as q motive power also. and 40 IL the
Brighton Beach Railroad. with which the Kings
County IL closely allied.
II Is certain that the elevated roads have got to
order 10 compete with the trolley lines which have
already drawn away much business from them.
General Manager Barton's idea is to run two-car
trains with electric motors at short intervals
throughout the day In order TO supply service
that will not keep passengers waiting for trains
longer than they now have 10 wait for cars the
surface roads.