New-York tribune., 1900-08-19
CARS TO MEET ALL NEEDS
METROPOLITAN STREET RAILWAY
PLANS NEW CONNECTIONS AND
CIRCUITOUS ROUTES.

President vreeIand OF the Metropolitan srrsse
Railway Company . contemplating number OF IN
pOrtant changes IN the running OF cars on the
Broadway. Sfxth-ave.. E1ghth-avs. and Columbus
ave. lines Not al OF President vreeIand's plans
are completed but at the present tine II = sx-
peced that The Canal-st terminal Of the 5xrh-ave.
and Eightn-avs. cars VIII De extended. and hat
the cars viii soon be running through CalaI-st. 70
Centre-st-. and thence south 70 the Brooklyn
Bridge. This extension win enable people from the
West Side 70 get 20 the Criminal Courts and ether
public buildings without changing cars or waking
from Broadway. as at present. and il viii enable
shoppers from Brooklyn to get car at the end OF
the Bridge for the dTygoods stores II the neighbor
hood OF Sixtn-ave. and Twenty -third-st The tern-
nal OF these two lines Is 70 be extended IN the
spring from Battery Place 20 the staten Island
ferry This viii Be done by extending the track
east In Battery Place and connecting u with the
Broadway track The Astor Place terminal of the
Second-ave. Fourth-ave. and Madison-ave lines
is 70 be connected with the Broadway line this fan
and when the motive power Is changed 20 elsc-
tricity the cars OF the two lines viii tho
South Ferry.
Another change decided upon is connection be-
tween the Broadway and Columbus-ave. tracks and
those OF the Forty-second-st- line at LOngacrs
Square At this point the Broadway and CoIuE1-
ous-ave cars turn into seventh-ave while ehe cars
OF the Forty-second-st- line turn into Broadway
and run north 70 Manhartanvfle- By connecting
the Broadway tracks with the other line Mr. Vres-
land secures at once a direct and short route 70
ColumbUs-ave-. saving the long turn into Fifty
thtrd-st- and westward into Sinth-avs MeanwhiIs
the Fifty-third-st- line is be extended east and
connected with the Sixth-ave line 50 that souns or
the cars may be over this route
The Third-ave. and Metropolitan systems are b.
ing connected at Sherman Square. where the An
sterdam-ave- line crosses the tracks OF the Forty
secont-st- road Another connection 10 being mads
AT One-hundred-and-twenty- -hfth-st- between ths
Arnsterda nl-ave line and the FOrcy-s -second-sr une
and within the next month the terminal o. the
AEnSIerCam-ave- Hne Is 70 be extended from One
hundred-an twentyfth-s st 20 the Fort Lee Ferry
one of the probable changes 70 be made also -
a short line running between ths Grand Central
station and the shopping district II this ldea y
carried out cars viii be from the Grand Cen
tral station through Forty -secondst 20 Lexington
would turn west 20 the TUenty-thi-d-st ferries e
the Pennsylvania and Erie railroads. Mr.. VresIar6
believes that a line OF this kind would relieve
greatly the cOngesJed condition OF the Fourth-ava
line south OF the Grand Central Station
II Is also likely that when the motive n
changed from horses 20 electricity the Ffrst-avs.
cars viii be turned into a street on the East SIDE
ana run to the Fort Lee Ferry the West Side,
thus furnishing an all Metropolitan crosstowu sys-
TEN N Harlem. and providing complete trausfsr
system with all OF the avenue trunk lines withoue
violating the terms OF the contract BY which the
Thtrd-ave. company bound Itself 20 transfer with
no other company but the Manhattan elevated sys-
tenn during the next five years
About fifteen miles OF horse car lines ars n -
changed TO electricity air power traction within
the next month The air power cars for ths
TWenty-eighth-st- and TTeuty-ninth-st- crOsstozu
lines have arrived, and ready % be put 20 USE
present week il is expected and the air cars VII
then be run on a regular schedule The stOraza
battery cars will be running on the Tfrry-fourrf,-
St Hne II IS expected, within the next two weeks.